David Hoberman Biography

Fast Facts

• Has been a board member of various charities, including the Starlight Starbright Foundation, the Anxiety Disorders Association of America, and the Los Angeles Free Clinic
• Started out in the entertainment business working in the mailroom at ABC
• Quote: "(On deciding which projects the studio should do): "For me, simply, if you look at all our films, they all end happily․ The trick is, what is the story and the journey and the characters that get you to that point․""
• Best known for creating and producing the TV series "Monk․"
• Founder and partner of Mandeville Films and Television, which has produced feature films with a total domestic box office gross of more than $1 billion since 1995
• As president of the Motion Picture Group of Walt Disney Studios, he was responsible for the development and production of all Disney, Touchstone, and Hollywood Pictures feature films, including "Pretty Woman" and "Dead Poets Society․"
• He is an associate professor in the Producers Program at UCLA's Graduate School
• The title character in "Monk," who suffers from obsessive-compulsive disorder, was partially inspired by his own battles with the disorder in his youth