David Clark Lee born 1950 is an American television producer director and writer His bestknown works are Cheers and Frasier Lee grew up in Claremont California and went to college at the University of Redlands He cowrote and coproduced The Jeffersons and Cheers with Peter Casey for respectively six and four years He and Casey cocreated Wings and Frasier alongside the late David Angell under the Grub Street Productions He produced revival productions of Broadway musicals including South Pacific starring Brian Stokes Mitchell and Reba McEntire CanCan and Camelot He cowrote a newly revised script of CanCan alongside Joel Fields when he was reviving the old musical Lee has been nominated eighteen times for Primetime Emmy Awards he won nine out of those nominations He also won the Directors Guild Award the Golden Globe Award Producers Guild Award GLAAD Media Awar