PRODUCER
THE PRODUCER
DAVID SHELDON - PRODUCER
A busy producer and screenwriter with credits on over 60 films, one of David Sheldon's first feature films, Grizzly, which he co-authored, and co-produced, is one of the most financially successful independent films in motion picture history, earning 52 times its cost. Grizzly was the top-grossing independent motion picture of the year (Variety). Distributed worldwide by Columbia Pictures, it broke box-office records in Japan and Germany, earned the highest rating on network television (ABC) and is a popular streaming and DVD movie.
He subsequently produced, directed and/or wrote Devil Times Five, The Guardian, Lovely but Deadly, Just Before Dawn, The Evil, Day of the Animals, The Manitou, and Sheba Baby, co-authored, produced and directed "Grizzly Adams: The Legend of Dark Mountain" which was screened at the Cannes Film Festival. He co-authored "Grizzly II: Revenge" in which George Clooney, Charlie Sheen, Laura Dern, Louise Fletcher and John Rhys-Davies appeared. He wrote and produced a reality series pilot for Twentieth Century-Fox Television.
He started his motion picture career as Director of Development for Lawrence A. Gordon (producer of 48 Hours, Field Of Dreams, and Die Hard) at American International Pictures (now Sony/MGM) where he was a production executive on such pictures as Dillinger, Sisters, Macon County Line, The Reincarnation of Peter Proud, Logan's Run, Walking Tall, Boxcar Bertha, Truck Turner, and The Last House on the Left. He subsequently went into partnership with producer Phil Feldman (Blue Thunder, The Toy, A Star is Born, and The Getaway).
Sheldon was producer and director at Gateway Playhouse, one of America's top ten summer theaters, in Bellport, Long Island, which he and Joyce Selznick operated in conjunction with Columbia Pictures as the Columbia Pictures Talent Farm. Between film and television projects, he has directed over 150 Broadway plays and musicals at the theater.* His productions have starred such actors as Robert Duvall, Geraldine Page, Gene Hackman, Ken Howard, and David Caradine. His outstanding work has been acclaimed in Newsweek and the New York Times.
Sheldon holds an MFA degree from Yale University, School of Drama as a writer and director, and has been a member of the Directors Unit at the Actors Studio in New York. He is author with Joan McCall of the bestseller When I Knew Al, a biography of Al Pacino and Ed De Leo, published by Harbor House.
A busy producer and screenwriter with credits on over 60 films, one of David Sheldon's first feature films, Grizzly, which he co-authored, and co-produced, is one of the most financially successful independent films in motion picture history, earning 52 times its cost. Grizzly was the top-grossing independent motion picture of the year (Variety). Distributed worldwide by Columbia Pictures, it broke box-office records in Japan and Germany, earned the highest rating on network television (ABC) and is a popular streaming and DVD movie.
He subsequently produced, directed and/or wrote Devil Times Five, The Guardian, Lovely but Deadly, Just Before Dawn, The Evil, Day of the Animals, The Manitou, and Sheba Baby, co-authored, produced and directed "Grizzly Adams: The Legend of Dark Mountain" which was screened at the Cannes Film Festival. He co-authored "Grizzly II: Revenge" in which George Clooney, Charlie Sheen, Laura Dern, Louise Fletcher and John Rhys-Davies appeared. He wrote and produced a reality series pilot for Twentieth Century-Fox Television.
He started his motion picture career as Director of Development for Lawrence A. Gordon (producer of 48 Hours, Field Of Dreams, and Die Hard) at American International Pictures (now Sony/MGM) where he was a production executive on such pictures as Dillinger, Sisters, Macon County Line, The Reincarnation of Peter Proud, Logan's Run, Walking Tall, Boxcar Bertha, Truck Turner, and The Last House on the Left. He subsequently went into partnership with producer Phil Feldman (Blue Thunder, The Toy, A Star is Born, and The Getaway).
Sheldon was producer and director at Gateway Playhouse, one of America's top ten summer theaters, in Bellport, Long Island, which he and Joyce Selznick operated in conjunction with Columbia Pictures as the Columbia Pictures Talent Farm. Between film and television projects, he has directed over 150 Broadway plays and musicals at the theater.* His productions have starred such actors as Robert Duvall, Geraldine Page, Gene Hackman, Ken Howard, and David Caradine. His outstanding work has been acclaimed in Newsweek and the New York Times.
Sheldon holds an MFA degree from Yale University, School of Drama as a writer and director, and has been a member of the Directors Unit at the Actors Studio in New York. He is author with Joan McCall of the bestseller When I Knew Al, a biography of Al Pacino and Ed De Leo, published by Harbor House.