---
name: "David Obst"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/david-obst"
fi1m_id: "david-obst"
imdb_id: "nm0643550"
tmdb_id: 961214
wikidata_id: "Q17489838"
roles: []
born: "1 January 1946"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-10-03T03:59:39.424806+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 Obst

## Identity

David Obst

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/david-obst
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** david-obst
- **IMDb ID:** nm0643550
- **TMDB ID:** 961214
- **Wikidata ID:** Q17489838
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Obst, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q17489838, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0643550/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/961214

Writer. Born 1 January 1946.

## Details

- **Born:** 1 January 1946
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Obst, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q17489838, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0643550/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/961214

## Streaming the US now

- **Netflix:** [*Cover-Up*](https://film.one/film/cover-up.md) (80)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Biography

David Obst is an American writer, producer and former journalist. He managed Dispatch News Service in Washington, D.C., in the late 1960s and helped distribute Seymour Hersh's reporting on the My Lai massacre.

Obst later worked as a literary agent and wrote or produced several films, including *Revenge of the Nerds* (1984), *The Whoopee Boys* (1986) and *Johnny Be Good* (1988). He appears as himself in the 2025 documentary *Cover-Up*.

*Sources: imdb.com, independent.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Cover-Up* (2025), Fi1m 80, as Self - Dispatch News — [page](https://film.one/film/cover-up.md)

## Complete filmography (3)

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

- *Johnny Be Good* (1988), Writer
- *The Whoopee Boys* (1986), Writer, Executive Producer
- *Revenge of the Nerds* (1984), Executive Producer

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