---
name: "David Sherwin"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/david-sherwin"
fi1m_id: "david-sherwin"
imdb_id: "nm0792773"
tmdb_id: 97164
wikidata_id: "Q5239737"
roles: ["Writer"]
born: "24 February 1942"
died: "8 January 2018"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "writer"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-17T21:31:02.149214+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 Sherwin

## Identity

David Sherwin

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/david-sherwin
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** david-sherwin
- **IMDb ID:** nm0792773
- **TMDB ID:** 97164
- **Wikidata ID:** Q5239737
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Sherwin, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5239737, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0792773/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/97164

Writer. Born 24 February 1942 in Oxford. Died 8 January 2018.

## Details

- **Work:** Writer
- **Born:** 24 February 1942, Oxford
- **Died:** 8 January 2018
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Sherwin, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5239737, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0792773/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/97164

## Streaming the US now

- **Pluto TV:** [*if....*](https://film.one/film/if-1968.md) (82)

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## Biography

David Sherwin (1942–2018) was a British screenwriter. Educated at Tonbridge School and briefly at Oxford, he is best known for his screenplays for three films directed by Lindsay Anderson and starring Malcolm McDowell as Mick Travis: *if....* (1968), *O Lucky Man!* (1973) and *Britannia Hospital* (1982). The first of these originated from an earlier script, *Crusaders*, which Sherwin wrote with John Howlett.

Sherwin received a BAFTA nomination for the screenplay of *if....*. He also contributed uncredited rewrites to *Sunday Bloody Sunday* (1971) and wrote the television film *Wet Gold* (1984). In 1996 he published the memoir *Going Mad in Hollywood: And Life with Lindsay Anderson*.

*Sources: screenonline.org.uk, theguardian.com, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *if....* (1968), Fi1m 82, Screenplay — [page](https://film.one/film/if-1968.md)

## Complete filmography (5)

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

- *From Candy to Cocaine* (1986), Editor
- *Wet Gold* (1984), Writer
- *Britannia Hospital* (1982), Writer
- *O Lucky Man!* (1973), Writer, Producer
- *if....* (1968), Screenplay — Fi1m 82, [page](https://film.one/film/if-1968.md)

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© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL. Canonical: https://film.one/person/david-sherwin