David Wilson (actor)
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David Patrick Wilson is an American actor and director, probably best known for playing Superman
in the 1975 TV musical special It's a Bird, It's a Plane, It's Superman! an adaptation of the 1966 Broadway musical.
A working actor for four decades, Wilson has appeared in many movies and TV series, including the 1983 cult film Eddie and the Cruisers
. He stepped behind the camera in 2009 to write and produce the film Collar, where he also plays a police detective. The film, due to be released in September 2011, also stars Tom Sizemore
, Rebecca DeMornay and Richard Roundtree
.
Wilson attended Columbia University
.
Superman
Superman is a fictional comic book superhero appearing in publications by DC Comics, widely considered to be an American cultural icon. Created by American writer Jerry Siegel and Canadian-born American artist Joe Shuster in 1932 while both were living in Cleveland, Ohio, and sold to Detective...
in the 1975 TV musical special It's a Bird, It's a Plane, It's Superman! an adaptation of the 1966 Broadway musical.
A working actor for four decades, Wilson has appeared in many movies and TV series, including the 1983 cult film Eddie and the Cruisers
Eddie and the Cruisers
Eddie and the Cruisers is a 1983 American film directed by Martin Davidson with the screenplay written by the director and Arlene Davidson, based on the novel by P. F. Kluge...
. He stepped behind the camera in 2009 to write and produce the film Collar, where he also plays a police detective. The film, due to be released in September 2011, also stars Tom Sizemore
Tom Sizemore
Thomas Edward "Tom" Sizemore, Jr. is an American film and television actor and producer. He is known for his roles in films such as Saving Private Ryan, Strange Days, Pearl Harbor, Heat and Black Hawk Down....
, Rebecca DeMornay and Richard Roundtree
Richard Roundtree
Richard Roundtree is an American actor and former fashion model. He is best known for his portrayal of private detective John Shaft in the 1971 film Shaft and in its two sequels, Shaft's Big Score and Shaft in Africa .-Personal life:Born in New Rochelle, New York, Richard Roundtree graduated from...
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Wilson attended Columbia University
Columbia University
Columbia University in the City of New York is a private, Ivy League university in Manhattan, New York City. Columbia is the oldest institution of higher learning in the state of New York, the fifth oldest in the United States, and one of the country's nine Colonial Colleges founded before the...
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