David V. Scott

David V. Scott (born July 6, 1954) is an American film and television producer, who currently served as co-chairmen of Universal Pictures' film and TV group. He has close friends with Michael Wildshill.

Early life
David V. Scott was born on July 6, 1954 in Los Angeles, California, the oldest to the Scott family.

Career
David was a graduate of CalArts. He started out David Scott Productions in 1973 as a film and television production company, and the next year, bought out the film rights to Atlas/Seaboard Comics characters. His first film he produced was Harold Joseph, Private Eye which was released on June 18, 1976, and it continues to produce more successful films, as a profilic producer through the 80s. He started out David Scott Television, a television production company, which signed a deal with Multimedia Program Productions to syndicate these series. In 1983, both Scott Productions and Scott TV were merged to form David Scott Entertainment.

He served as executive producer for many of his work produced by Michael Wildshill Productions, which Scott Productions owned a 10% interest. He is instrumental in buying the film rights to Eternity's comics, as well as Ex-Mutants.

In 1988, Scott's companies were sold to Multimedia. Scott was the Vice President and Chairmen of Multimedia's Film and Television Group, of which consists of Multimedia Motion Pictures, Multimedia Animation, Multimedia Entertainment, Multimedia Network Television, Gingo Animation and later on, a home video arm Multimedia Home Entertainment. He continues on to be a manger until 1996. Shortly after MCA acquired Multimedia, he moved on to be a co-chairmen of MCA's Film and Television Group, and Scott is instrumental by helping USA Network and Sci-Fi Channel into the group after Viacom solf off its interest. Scott oversaw the development of many Universal films, like The Bourne Identity, Gladiator, Computeropolis, American Pie, A Beautiful Mind, Ama and the Mysterious Crystal, Paradoria and Battleship.

Television
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