David Sherwin

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David Sherwin
Born
David Sherwin-White

24 February 1942
Oxford, Oxfordshire, England, UK[1]
Died8 January 2018(2018-01-08) (aged 75)
United Kingdom
OccupationScreenwriter
LanguageEnglish
NationalityEnglish
CitizenshipEngland
EducationTonbridge School
GenreScreenwrting, memoir
Notable worksif....
O Lucky Man!
Britannia Hospital
SpousesGay Conolly (????-1974)
Monika Hayden (1977-2017)[1]
Children2[1]
RelativesA. N. Sherwin-White (father)

David Sherwin-White (24 February 1942 – 8 January 2018)[1] was a British screenwriter best known for his collaborations with director Lindsay Anderson and actor Malcolm McDowell on the films if.... (1968) (for which Sherwin was nominated for a BAFTA Award for Best Screenplay), O Lucky Man! (1973) and Britannia Hospital (1982).

Sherwin attended Tonbridge School, which provided much of the inspiration for the content of if.....

In 1996, Sherwin published a memoir, Going Mad in Hollywood: And Life with Lindsay Anderson, (Andre Deutsch) Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).. A film of the memoir was planned by the director Michael Winterbottom, with Malcolm McDowell cast as Anderson, but never materialised.[2]

He was the son of Oxford historian A. N. Sherwin-White.[3]

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