David Swift
- Writing
- July 27, 1919 · Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
- December 31, 2001
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia David "Dave" Swift (July 27, 1919 – December 31, 2001) was an American screenwriter, animator, director, and producer. He is best known for writing the screenplay for the 1967 film How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying. Swift also worked as an animator and filmmaker at The Walt Disney Studios where he adapted the story of Pollyanna for the screen and wrote and directed The Parent Trap (1961).
Known for
Filmography
- Pollyanna: The Making of a Masterpiece · Self
- Recreating Pollyanna's America · Self
- The Parent Trap · Screenplay
- The Storyteller · King
- The Hugga Bunch · Writer
- Winston Churchill: The Wilderness Years · Professor Lindemann
- Foolin' Around · Writer
- Gossip from the Forest · General Groener
- $weepstake$ · Director
- Candleshoe · Screenplay
- The Love Boat · Writer
- Eight Is Enough · Director
- Barney Miller · Director
- Arnie · Director, Writer
- How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying · Elevator Operator (uncredited), Director
- Camp Runamuck · Executive producer, Writer
- Şeker Gibi Kızlar · Writer
- Good Neighbor Sam · TV Director (uncredited), Producer
- Hamlet at Elsinore · Player King
- Under the Yum Yum Tree · Director, Screenplay
- Grindl · Creator
- Love is a Ball · Screenplay, Director
- The Interns · Director, Writer
- The Parent Trap · Director, Screenplay
- Pollyanna · Fireman (Uncredited), Director
- The Third Man · Story, Teleplay
- Rawhide · Writer
- The Rifleman · Writer, Director
- No Time at All · Screenplay, Director
- Alcoa Theatre · Writer, Teleplay
- Wagon Train · Writer
- Playhouse 90 · Director, Screenplay
- Alfred Hitchcock Presents · Director
- Norby · Creator
- The Wonderful World of Disney · Fireman (uncredited), Director
- Climax! · Director
- General Electric Theater · Teleplay, Director
- The Ford Television Theatre · Teleplay
- Mister Peepers · Producer, Creator
- Goodyear Television Playhouse · Writer
- Studio One · Writer
- The Philco Television Playhouse · Writer
- So You Want to Be a Detective · Story
- So You Want to Be a Gambler · Story
- The Nifty Nineties · Animation
- Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs · Animation