Talk:David Freedman

Multiple similar subjects with same name

There have been several David Freedmans and two of them worked as gag writers. The first is quite dead now but when he was alive he worked on films like Ziegfeld Follies. The second worked with Danny Baker, Lee Hurst and in a writing partnership with Alan Gilbey. He still lives and works in the UK where he writes, script edits, directs and produces within the ever struggling but always busy UK animation industry. He has worked on shows as various as Mr Hell, Bounty Hamster, Foxbusters, Bob & Margaret, Legend Of The Dragon and King Arthur's Disasters. His blog is http://www.sling-shot.biz/ The above comment was left by an anonymous editor (82.26.196.173) on 5 March 2006

There is an article on the person you mentioned, David Freedman (screenwriter). It was started in 2010, long after you wrote the comment. Dovid (talk) 16:40, 5 August 2022 (UTC)

Identification as Romanian

Hi,

Although I had never heard of David Freedman before, I wrote "Romanian-born American playwright" instead of the previous "Romanian playwright", because I think it's ridiculous to say about a guy born in 1898 and emigrated in 1900, when he was 2 (!!!) that he was "Romanian" (not to mention the fact that he was Jewish and from a territory that in 1898 belonged to Russia).

Quatrocentu 22:41, 18 April 2007 (UTC)

More sources

There's plenty out there, and teh article is lacking sources for much of its material.

NYT piece on his funeral - https://www.proquest.com/docview/101679531/64EFAD3065914EB8PQ/1?accountid=196403

NYT obituary - https://www.proquest.com/docview/101769246/64EFAD3065914EB8PQ/2?accountid=196403

NYT profile from earlier in the year he died - https://www.proquest.com/docview/101903774/64EFAD3065914EB8PQ/3?accountid=196403

A quick Newspapers.com seacrh gets:

https://www.newspapers.com/image/416609600/?terms=david%20freedman&match=1 - this one is pretty funny

https://www.newspapers.com/image/839891473/?terms=david%20freedman&match=1

https://www.newspapers.com/image/577808359/?terms=david%20freedman&match=1 - article on intelligence, mentions his son

https://www.newspapers.com/image/839890677/?terms=david%20freedman&match=1

https://www.newspapers.com/image/543854112/?terms=%22david%20freedman%22&match=1 - Earliest ention I can find, the story isn't important (he gave a toast at a wedding), but it identifies him as an author

https://www.newspapers.com/image/59980611/?terms=david%20freedman&match=1 - bizarre tongue in cheek, possibly witha yiddishism

https://www.newspapers.com/image/839689999/?terms=david%20freedman&match=1

https://www.newspapers.com/image/414686813/?terms=david%20freedman&match=1 - small Mendel, Inc.

https://www.newspapers.com/image/418095488/?terms=david%20freedman&match=1

https://www.newspapers.com/image/57575482/?terms=david%20freedman&match=1 - big Mendel, Inc. plus My LIfe is in Your Hands

https://www.newspapers.com/image/577787312/?terms=david%20freedman&match=1

https://www.newspapers.com/image/576219241/?terms=david%20freedman&match=1 - anothe tongue in cheek bizarro

https://www.newspapers.com/image/418289606/?terms=david%20freedman&match=1

https://www.newspapers.com/image/414545005/?terms=david%20freedman&match=1 - great story about Freedman and Eddie Cantor's enoucter with the recently retired Herbert Hoover

https://www.newspapers.com/image/576285591/?terms=david%20freedman&match=1

https://www.newspapers.com/image/416623476/?terms=david%20freedman&match=1 - interesting one as they have the same brief mention twice on the same page

https://www.newspapers.com/image/416774148/?terms=david%20freedman&match=1

https://www.newspapers.com/image/556450861/?terms=david%20freedman&match=1 - Russian translation and popularity

https://www.newspapers.com/image/577532093/?terms=david%20freedman&match=1

https://www.newspapers.com/image/557222994/?terms=david%20freedman&match=1 - book review for Mendel Marantz

https://www.newspapers.com/image/57574483/?terms=david%20freedman&match=1 - Cantor purchases rights to Mendel Marantz

Dovid (talk) 16:03, 5 August 2022 (UTC)