---
name: "David Hemingson"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/david-hemingson"
fi1m_id: "david-hemingson"
imdb_id: "nm0376003"
tmdb_id: 1224468
wikidata_id: "Q123486085"
roles: ["Writer"]
born: "26 July 1964"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "writer"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-24T05:42:10.710121+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 Hemingson

## Identity

David Hemingson

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/david-hemingson
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** david-hemingson
- **IMDb ID:** nm0376003
- **TMDB ID:** 1224468
- **Wikidata ID:** Q123486085
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Hemingson, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q123486085, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0376003/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1224468

Writer. Born 26 July 1964 in New Haven, Connecticut, USA.

## Details

- **Work:** Writer
- **Born:** 26 July 1964, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
- **Active:** 2005–present
- **Also known as:** David Heminson, Dave Hemingson
- **Academy Awards:** 1 Oscar nomination
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Hemingson, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q123486085, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0376003/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1224468

## Streaming the US now

- **Peacock:** [*The Holdovers*](https://film.one/film/the-holdovers.md) (81)

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## Biography

David Hemingson is an American writer and producer for film and television. Born on 26 July 1964 in New Haven, Connecticut, he graduated from Yale University and Columbia Law School in 1990. He initially worked as an entertainment lawyer before moving into television writing and producing.

His television credits include writing for *Just Shoot Me!* (1997) and *American Dad!*, creating the series *Whiskey Cavalier* (2019), and adapting *Kitchen Confidential* for television. He also served as a producer on several series.

Hemingson wrote and produced the 2023 film *The Holdovers*, directed by Alexander Payne. The screenplay earned him an Academy Award nomination for Best Original Screenplay.

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

## On Fi1m (1)

- *The Holdovers* (2023), Fi1m 81, Producer, Writer — [page](https://film.one/film/the-holdovers.md)

## Complete filmography (18)

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

- *The Holdovers* (2023), Writer, Producer — Fi1m 81, [page](https://film.one/film/the-holdovers.md)
- *Whiskey Cavalier* (2019), series, Writer, Executive Producer, Creator
- *The Catch* (2016), series, Writer
- *Don't Trust the B---- in Apartment 23* (2012), series, Executive Producer, Director
- *Traffic Light* (2011), series, Writer
- *The Deep End* (2010), series, Creator
- *Lie to Me* (2009), series, Consulting Producer
- *Kitchen Confidential* (2005), series, Producer, Creator
- *American Dad!* (2005), series, as Bartender (voice), Hercules / Distant Voices / Fedora Guy (voice) · Producer, Writer
- *Cracking Up* (2004), series, Producer
- *Angela Anaconda* (1999), series, Writer
- *Hercules* (1998), series, Story, Writer
- *101 Dalmatians Series* (1997), series, Writer
- *Pepper Ann* (1997), series, Writer
- *Just Shoot Me!* (1997), series, Producer, Writer
- *Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone*, series, Executive Producer
- *Untitled Alexander Payne Western*, Screenplay
- *An Unfinished Love Story: A Personal History of the 1960s*, Writer

## Awards

### Academy Awards — 0 won, 1 nominated

- 2024: Best Writing, Original Screenplay (nominated), for *The Holdovers*

*From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.*

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