{{Short description|American actor, writer, and producer (1944–2018)}} {{Infobox person | name = David Landsberg | image = Cropped_Photo_of_David_Landsberg.jpg | caption = | birth_name = | birth_date = {{Birth date|1944|9|3}} | birth_place = | death_date = {{Death date and age|2018|8|5|1944|9|3}} | death_place = | occupation = | years_active = | spouse = | website = }}
'''David Landsberg''' (September 3, 1944 – August 5, 2018) was an American actor, writer, and producer. He was sometimes credited as '''Dave Landsburg'''. He both acted in and co-wrote several comedies throughout the 1980s.
==Early life== David Landsberg was born in [[Brooklyn]], [[New York City]], [[New York (state)|New York]].<ref name= HR-obit /> His parents were Arthur and Sylvia Lansberg, who had two sons, David and his older brother Joseph.<ref name= newsday>{{cite news| url= https://www.newsday.com/entertainment/tv/david-landsberg-obituary-e46086| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20180809185524/https://www.newsday.com/entertainment/tv/david-landsberg-obituary-1.20378179| url-status= live| archive-date= August 9, 2018| work= [[Newsday]]| title= David Landsberg, actor, screenwriter, producer, dies at 73| first=Frank| last= Lovece| date= August 10, 2018| access-date= April 16, 2019}}</ref> David attended [[Plainedge High School]] in [[North Massapequa, New York]],<ref name= HR-obit>{{Cite news|url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/david-landsberg-dead-cpo-sharkey-actor-cosby-writer-was-73-1132698| title= David Landsberg, 'CPO Sharkey' Actor and 'Cosby' Writer, Dies at 73|last= Barnes|first=Mike| work= [[The Hollywood Reporter]]|date= August 8, 2018|access-date= April 20, 2020| language= en}}</ref> and attended what was [[Hofstra College]] for two years before serving in the [[Signal Corps]] of the US Army [[Vietnam War|in Vietnam]] from 1966 to 1968.<ref name= newsday /> He graduated from the [[University of Maryland]] in 1970 with a degree in business and marketing.<ref name= HR-obit />
==Career== Landsberg co-starred and co-wrote the 1986 action-comedy ''[[Detective School Dropouts]]'' with [[Lorin Dreyfuss]]. In 1987 they teamed up again for ''[[Dutch Treat]]''. Both films flopped at the [[box office]].{{cn| date= April 2019}} He acted in the films ''[[Shoot the Moon]]'' with [[Albert Finney]] and [[Diane Keaton]], ''[[Loose Shoes]]'' with [[Bill Murray]], ''[[Love at First Bite]]'' with [[George Hamilton (actor)|George Hamilton]] and [[Arte Johnson]], and ''[[Skatetown, U.S.A.]]'' with [[Patrick Swayze]] and [[Dorothy Stratten]].
His television credits include a regular role on NBC's ''[[C.P.O. Sharkey]]'' and the voice of Woody on [[Hanna-Barbera]]'s animated series ''[[Buford and the Galloping Ghost|The Buford Files]]'', as well as guest-starring roles on ''[[The Love Boat]]'', ''[[Fantasy Island]]'', ''[[Eight Is Enough]]'', and ''[[Hart to Hart]]'', as well as the voice for Mr. Griff in the [[Playhouse Disney]] series ''[[Stanley (2001 TV series)|Stanley]]''.
Landsberg was an executive producer and writer on such series as ''[[Cosby (TV series)|Cosby]]'', ''[[Herman's Head]]'', ''[[Daddy's Girls (1994 TV series)|Daddy's Girls]]'',<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.variety.com/review/VE1117903148?refCatId=32| title= Daddy's Girls - TV Reviews| last= Sandler| first= Adam| date= September 21, 1994|work=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]|url-status= dead| archiveurl= https://web.archive.org/web/20121108202955/https://variety.com/review/VE1117903148?refCatId=32| archive-date= November 8, 2012| accessdate= April 16, 2019}}</ref> and ''[[Love Boat: The Next Wave]]''.
In 2010, he wrote the screenplay for ''Sex Tax: Based on a True Story''.
==Personal life and death== Landsberg was married to Jean Hunt from 1966 until their divorce in 1987.<ref name= newsday /> They had a daughter, Caryn O'Neill and a son, Daniel Landsberg.<ref name= newsday /><ref name= HR-obit />
Landsberg died at age 73<ref name= newsday /> on August 5, 2018, at [[Cedars-Sinai Medical Center]] in [[Los Angeles]] from complications that arose from surgery for [[esophageal cancer]] and is interred at [[Riverside National Cemetery]] in [[Riverside, California]].<ref name= HR-obit />
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== *{{IMDb name|id=0485126}} *{{Rotten Tomatoes person|1008721-david_landsberg}} {{Authority control}}
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