David Sherwin
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) ISBN 978-0-233-98966-2. 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]
References
[edit]- ^ Gilbey, Ryan (2 February 2018). "David Sherwin obituary". The Guardian. Retrieved 3 February 2018.
- ^ Gilbey, Ryan (2 February 2018). "David Sherwin obituary". The Guardian. Retrieved 17 September 2022.
- ^ "Sherwin-White, David". Tonbridge School. Retrieved 20 December 2023.
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