David began his career as a production assistant on Saturday Night Live He entered the casting field as an assistant and then associate to Mary Goldberg on such films as Ragtime Silkwood and Amadeus David then moved to Los Angeles to team with veteran casting director Lynn Stalmaster on The Name of the Rose The Big Easy and many other films Opening his own casting company David was responsible for assembling the casts of such films as The Addams Family The War of the Roses Fried Green Tomatoes My Cousin Vinny The Firm Four Weddings and a Funeral Get Shorty Romeo Juliet The English Patient Men in Black My Best Friends Wedding and The Talented Mr Ripley In partnership with Richard Hicks David cast the films Hairspray Lars and the Real Girl Recount HBO The Smurfs and Game Change HBO for which they received the 2012 Emmy Award Most recently David worked with director JeanMarc Vallee Dallas Buyers Club casting his film Wild for Fox Searchlight and with Warren Beatty on his upcoming Howard Hughes film In 2001 David was the recipient of the Hollywood Film Festival Award for Outstanding Career Achievement in the Field of Casting presented by Sydney Pollack In October 2002 Baz Luhrmann presented him with an Honorary Career Achievement Award from the Casting Society of America
HydraHD