David Shaber

Writer

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. David Shaber (1929 - November 4, 1999) was an American screenwriter and theatre producer, best known for writing The Warriors, Nighthawks and The Hunt for Red October Shaber was born and raised in Cleveland, Ohio, and abandoned a pre-med education for the Yale Drama School. He wrote and produced plays, and also wrote forty commissioned screenplays, eight of which were made into feature films, in the 1970s and 1980s. In the 1990s, he taught advanced screenwriting at Columbia University in New York City. He died of an aneurysm on November 4, 1999, aged 70. Description above from the Wikipedia article David Shaber, licensed under CC-BY-SA,full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

01-01-1929

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Capricorn

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Total Films

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Cleveland, Ohio, United States

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01-01-1929

Birthday

Capricorn

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Genres

Total Films

Also Known As (male)

Cleveland, Ohio, United States

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Flight of the Intruder

U.S. Navy pilot Lt. Jake Grafton and his bombardier buddy, Lt. Cmdr. Virgil Cole, are two soldiers embedded in the Vietnam War growing frustrated by the military's constraints on their missions. Despite the best efforts of their commanding officer, Cmdr. Frank Camparelli, to re-engage them, this disillusioned pair decide to take the war effort into their own hands with an explosive battle plan that could well get them court-martialed.

5.6

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1991

Rollover

An Arab oil organization devises a plan to wreck the world economy in order to cause anarchy and chaos.

5.1

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1981

Rollover

An Arab oil organization devises a plan to wreck the world economy in order to cause anarchy and chaos.

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1981

Nighthawks

When one of Europe's most lethal terrorists shows up in New York, an elite undercover cop is assigned to take him down by any means necessary.

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1981

Those Lips, Those Eyes

A small-town star helps a young apprentice land the girl of his dreams.

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1980

Last Embrace

Secret agent Harry Hannan suffers a mental breakdown when a botched mission in Mexico results in the death of his wife. He is sent to a mental asylum, after which he eventually returns to work. But, once again, he begins to doubt his sanity when he receives a bizarre death threat written in Hebrew. Not knowing which of his colleagues wants to kill him, Hannan teams up with pretty young college student Ellie Fabian to attempt to unravel the mystery.

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1979

The Warriors

Prominent gang leader Cyrus calls a meeting of New York's gangs to set aside their turf wars and take over the city. At the meeting, a rival leader kills Cyrus, but a Coney Island gang called the Warriors is wrongly blamed for Cyrus' death. Before you know it, the cops and every gangbanger in town is hot on the Warriors' trail.

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1979

Such Good Friends

Julie Messinger, a repressed woman, grapples with her hidden passions when a routine hospital visit for her husband, Richard, spirals into chaos. As secrets unravel, her quest for authenticity clashes with societal expectations.

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1971