David Sherwin

This article is about the screenwriter and author. For the professional wrestler, see Goldie Rogers.

David Sherwin-White (24 February 1942 – 8 January 2018)^[1] was a British screenwriter best known for his collaborations with director Lindsay Anderson and actor Malcolm McDowell on the films if.... (1968) (for which Sherwin was nominated for a BAFTA Award for Best Screenplay), O Lucky Man! (1973) and Britannia Hospital (1982).

David Sherwin
Born	David Sherwin-White 24 February 1942 Oxford, Oxfordshire, England, UK[1]
Died	8 January 2018(2018-01-08) (aged 75) United Kingdom
Occupation	Screenwriter
Language	English
Nationality	English
Citizenship	England
Education	Tonbridge School
Genre	Screenwrting, memoir
Notable works	if.... O Lucky Man! Britannia Hospital
Spouses	Gay Conolly (????-1974) Monika Hayden (1977-2017)[1]
Children	2[1]
Relatives	A. N. Sherwin-White (father)

Sherwin attended Tonbridge School, which provided much of the inspiration for the content of if.....

In 1996, Sherwin published a memoir, Going Mad in Hollywood: And Life with Lindsay Anderson, (Andre Deutsch) ISBN 978-0-233-98966-2. A film of the memoir was planned by the director Michael Winterbottom, with Malcolm McDowell cast as Anderson, but never materialised.^[2]

He was the son of Oxford historian A. N. Sherwin-White.^[3]