David Hempstead

{{Infobox person | name = David Hempstead | birth_date = {{birth date|1909|10|02}} | birth_place = Salt Lake City, Utah, United States | death_date = {{death date and age|1983|01|09|1909|10|02}} | death_place = Los Angeles County, California, United States | occupation = Film producer }}

'''David Hempstead''' (October 2, 1909 - January 9, 1983) was an American film producer known for ''None but the Lonely Heart'' (1944), ''The Sky's the Limit'' (1943), directed by Edward H. Griffith,{{sfn|Reid|2005|p=131}} and ''Joan of Paris'' (1942), directed by Robert Stevenson.{{sfn|Reid|2005|p=45}}<ref>{{cite web |url=https://itunes.apple.com/us/artist/david-hempstead/574007140 |title=David Hempstead |work=iTunes |publisher=Apple Inc. |access-date=26 July 2018}}</ref> He co-wrote the script of ''Hell and High Water'' (1954) alongside Jesse Lasky.<ref>{{cite book |last=Gordon |first=Marsha |title=Film Is Like a Battleground: Sam Fuller's War Movies |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=l3quDQAAQBAJ&pg=PA278 |publisher=Oxford University Press |year=2017 |page=278 |isbn=9780190269753}}</ref>

He produced with RKO and worked alongside Milton Holmes.<ref>{{cite book |last=Slide |first=Anthony |author-link=Anthony Slide |title="It's the Pictures That Got Small": Charles Brackett on Billy Wilder and Hollywood's Golden Age |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wtDXBQAAQBAJ&pg=PA180 |publisher=Columbia University Press |date=16 December 2014 |page=180 |isbn=9780231538220}}</ref> He also produced ''Village Tale'' (1935), directed by John Cromwell and written by Allan Scott.<ref>{{cite book |last=Nott |first=Robert |title=The Films of Randolph Scott |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LnONAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA43 |publisher=McFarland Publishing |date=5 May 2014 |page=43 |isbn=9781476610061 |editor-first=Max |editor-last=Evans}}</ref>

==Filmography== ===Producer=== * ''The King and Four Queens'' (1956) * ''Portrait of Jennie'' (1948) * ''None But the Lonely Heart'' (1944) * ''Tender Comrade'' (1943) * ''The Sky's the Limit'' (1943) * ''Mr. Lucky'' (1943) * ''Flight for Freedom'' (1943) * ''Joan of Paris'' (1942) * ''Kitty Foyle'' (1940) * ''It Could Happen to You'' (1939) * ''Just Around the Corner'' (1938) * ''Straight Place and Show'' (1938) * ''Hold That Co-ed'' (1938) * ''Little Miss Broadway'' (1938) * ''Happy Landing'' (1938) * ''Ali Baba Goes to Town'' (1937) * ''Village Tale'' (1935) * ''Murder on a Honeymoon'' (1935)

===Writer=== * ''Hell and High Water'' (1954) * ''Finishing School'' (1934) * ''Little Women'' (1933) * ''Manhattan Tower'' (1932)

===Director=== * ''Banjo on My Knee'' (1936)

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==Bibliography== * {{cite book |last=Reid |first=John Howard |title=Hollywood Gold: Films of the Forties and Fifties |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qnjZXuE0kqUC&q=David+Hempstead&pg=PA131 |publisher=Lulu.com |year=2005 |pages=258 |isbn=9781411635241}}

==External links== * {{IMDb name|0376179}}

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