David Swift
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
- The Philco Television Playhouse (1948)
- The Storyteller (1988)
- The Wonderful World of Disney (1954)
- Winston Churchill: The Wilderness Years (1981)
- Good Neighbor Sam (1964)
- Pollyanna (1960)
- How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying (1967)
- Recreating Pollyanna's America (2002)
- Hamlet at Elsinore (1964)
- Pollyanna: The Making of a Masterpiece (2002)
- Gossip from the Forest (1979)