David L. Wolper was born on January 11, 1928 in New York City, New York, USA as David Lloyd Wolper. He was a producer, known for L.A. Confidential (1997), Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (1971) and Imagine: John Lennon (1988). He was married to Gloria Hill, Dawn Richard and Toni Carroll. He died on August 10, 2010 in Beverly Hills, California, USA.

Filmography

• Roots 30th Anniversary Edition — Creator
• The Mists of Avalon — Executive Producer
• 1999To Serve and Protect — Executive Producer
• A Will of their Own — Executive Producer
• 1998Terror in the Mall — Executive Producer
• 1997L.A. Confidential — Executive Producer
• 1996Surviving Picasso — Producer
• 1995Murder in the First — Executive Producer
• 1995Prince for a Day — Executive Producer
• 1994Without Warning — Executive Producer
• Alex Haley's Queen — Executive Producer
• 1993Fatal Deception: Mrs. Lee Harvey Oswald — Producer
• 1993The Flood: Who Will Save Our Children? — Executive Producer
• 1992Bed of Lies — Executive Producer
• 1991Dillinger — Executive Producer
• 1991Here's Looking At You, Warner Bros. — Executive Producer
• 1990The Plot to Kill Hitler — Executive Producer
• 1990When You Remember Me — Executive Producer
• 1988Roots: The Gift — Executive Producer
• Biography — Creator
• Napoleon and Josephine: A Love Story — Producer
• 1987The Betty Ford Story — Executive Producer
• North and South — Executive Producer
• Television
• 1984His Mistress — Executive Producer
• The Mystic Warrior — Executive Producer
• The Thorn Birds — Executive Producer
• 1982Murder Is Easy — Executive Producer
• 1981The Man Who Saw Tomorrow — Executive Producer
• 1981This Is Elvis — Executive Producer
• 1980The Scarlett O'Hara War — Executive Producer
• 1980The Silent Lovers — Executive Producer
• 1980This Year's Blonde — Executive Producer
• Roots: The Next Generations — Executive Producer
• 1976Collision Course: Truman vs. MacArthur — Executive Producer
• 1976Victory at Entebbe — Executive Producer
• 1975I Will Fight No More Forever — Executive Producer
• Get Christie Love! — Producer
• Lincoln — Executive Producer, Creator
• 1973The 500 Pound Jerk — Executive Producer
• 1973Visions of Eight — Producer
• 1973Wattstax — Executive Producer
• 1972King, Queen, Knave — Producer
• 1972One Is a Lonely Number — Executive Producer
• 1971The Hellstrom Chronicle — Producer
• 1971Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory — Producer
• 1970I Love My Wife — Executive Producer
• 1969If It's Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium — Executive Producer
• 1969The Bridge at Remagen — Producer
• 1968The Devil's Brigade — Producer
• 1968The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich — Executive Producer
• 1967China: The Roots of Madness — Producer
• 1966The Making of the President: 1964 — Producer
• 1965The Incredible World of James Bond — Producer
• 1965The Teen-Age Revolution — Producer
• 1964Four Days In November — Executive Producer
• 1961Hollywood: The Golden Years — Director
• 1959The Race for Space — Writer, Director

Appearances as themselves (7)

• 2024Remembering Gene Wilder — Self (archive photo)
• 2021Becoming Cousteau — Self (voice) (archive sound)
• 2002Remembering Roots — Self
• 2001Pure Imagination: The Story of 'Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory' — Self
• 1992Color Adjustment — Self
• Film '72 — Self
• Bambi — Self