David Hoberman

David Hoberman
David Hoberman
Born David Elliot Hoberman
Residence Los Angeles, California
Nationality American
Occupation Producer
Years active 1996–present
Height 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)
Television Monk
Board member of Starlight Starbright Foundation[1]
Anxiety Disorders Association of America[1]
Relatives Jethro Rothe-Kushel (cousin)

David Hoberman is an American film producer, best known as the co-creator and executive producer of the USA Network television series Monk.[2] He has produced over 100 films in his career.[3]

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Career

Hoberman began his show biz career with a mailroom job at the American Broadcasting Company, and later joined Norman Lear's Tandem Productions. In 1985, he joined the Walt Disney Studios as a film executive, and before that, he served as a talent agent at the International Creative Management.[1] He was president of the Motion Picture Group at Disney, and was responsible for production of all feature films under Walt Disney Pictures, Touchstone, and Hollywood Pictures.[2]

Hoberman co-founded Mandeville Films, an independent production company in 1994 along with Todd Lieberman, and in 2002, Hoberman re-formed Mandeville at Disney, after spending three years at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.[2] Since 2002, Mandeville has produced a number of films with Disney, like Bringing Down the House, Raising Helen, The Last Shot, The Shaggy Dog, Eight Below and Beverly Hills Chihuahua.[1]

He was the producer of Disney's live-action picture Honey, I Shrunk the Kids and the first ever stop-motion animated full-length feature, The Nightmare Before Christmas, which was directed by Tim Burton.[2]

Hoberman is a board member of the Starlight Starbright Children's Foundation and recently joined the Anxiety Disorder Association of America. He has been a visiting assistant professor with UCLA, and was a former board member of the Los Angeles Free Clinic.[2][3]

On October 4, 2011, David Hoberman was voted to be one of the Board of Trustees for Suffolk University in Boston, MA.

Monk

Hoberman, along with Andy Breckman, was the co-creator of the American comedy-drama detective mystery television series, Monk, and the protagonist of the series, Adrian Monk.

Monk was originally envisioned as a "more goofy and physical" Inspector Clouseau type of character.[4][5][6] However, Hoberman came up with the idea of a detective with obsessive-compulsive disorder.[4] This was inspired by his own bout with self-diagnosed obsessive-compulsive disorder; in a Pittsburgh Post-Gazette interview, he stated that, "Like Monk, I couldn't walk on cracks and had to touch poles. I have no idea why – but if I didn't do these things, something terrible would happen."[5]

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