---
name: "David Berenbaum"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/david-berenbaum"
fi1m_id: "david-berenbaum"
imdb_id: "nm1183854"
tmdb_id: 54051
wikidata_id: "Q3703104"
roles: ["Writer"]
born: "7 August 1970"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "writer"
average_over: 0
updated: "2026-10-05T03:15:28.273209+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# David Berenbaum

## Identity

David Berenbaum

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/david-berenbaum
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** david-berenbaum
- **IMDb ID:** nm1183854
- **TMDB ID:** 54051
- **Wikidata ID:** Q3703104
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Berenbaum, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3703104, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1183854/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/54051

Writer. Born 7 August 1970 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.

## Details

- **Work:** Writer
- **Born:** 7 August 1970, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Berenbaum, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3703104, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1183854/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/54051

## Biography

David Berenbaum is an American screenwriter. He was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and graduated from New York University's Tisch School of the Arts before moving to Los Angeles in the mid-1990s to pursue screenwriting.

His credits include the 2003 films *Elf* and *The Haunted Mansion*, *Zoom* (2006), *The Spiderwick Chronicles* (2008), and *Strange Magic* (2015). He was also hired to write a sequel to *Mrs. Doubtfire*, though the project was cancelled following Robin Williams's death in 2014.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com, radiotimes.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Elf* (2003), Fi1m 75, as Office Co-Worker — [page](https://film.one/film/elf.md)

## Complete filmography (8)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Elf: The Musical* (2017), Original Film Writer
- *Strange Magic* (2015), Screenplay
- *Elf: Buddy's Musical Christmas* (2014), Characters
- *The Spiderwick Chronicles* (2008), Screenplay
- *Zoom* (2006), Screenplay
- *The Haunted Mansion* (2003), Screenplay
- *Elf* (2003), Office Co-Worker, Writer — Fi1m 75, [page](https://film.one/film/elf.md)
- *Fuzzy Towers*, Producer

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