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David Swift

Writer, director David Swift is best known as the creator of the TV series Mr. Peepers starring Wally Cox, How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, and for writing and directing the two films that made Hayley Mills a teenage star: Pollyanna (1960) and The Parent Trap (1961).


Aliases
  • Bud Swift
  • Dave Swift
English
  • Born In Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
  • Born July 27, 1919
  • Died December 31, 2001
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Director

Episode The Wonderful World of Disney
The Parent Trap (2-hour)
1976
Episode Camp Runamuck
Camp Runamuck
1965
Movie How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying 1967
Episode Camp Runamuck
Rabbits of the World Unite
1965
Episode Playhouse 90
No Time at All
1958
Episode Camp Runamuck
I'm in Luv with Your Beautiful Limpid Eyes, But I Can't Marry You Because You're a Cow
1965
Episode Camp Runamuck
Today is Parent's Day
1965
Episode Camp Runamuck
Spiffy Quits (1)
1965
Episode Wagon Train
The Juan Ortega Story
1958
Episode Camp Runamuck
Spiffy Quits (2)
1965
Episode Playhouse 90
The Dungeon
1958
Episode Climax!
The Volcano Seat
1958
Movie The Parent Trap 1961
Movie The Interns 1962
Episode Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Murder Me Twice
1958
Episode The Rifleman
The Angry Gun
1958
Episode The Wonderful World of Disney
Pollyanna (1)
1963
Movie Pollyanna 1960
Episode Barney Miller
Thanksgiving Story
1977
Movie Good Neighbor Sam 1964
Episode Barney Miller
The Tunnel
1977
Movie Under the Yum-Yum Tree 1963
Movie Love Is a Ball 1963
Episode Barney Miller
Bugs
1977

Writer

Movie The Parent Trap 1998
Episode The Wonderful World of Disney
The Parent Trap (2-hour)
1976
Episode Wagon Train
The Vincent Eaglewood Story
1959
Episode Camp Runamuck
Camp Runamuck
1965
Episode Camp Runamuck
Rabbits of the World Unite
1965
Movie Foolin' Around 1980
Episode Playhouse 90
No Time at All
1958
Movie How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying 1967
Episode Camp Runamuck
Fraternize
1965
Episode The Rifleman
The Safe Guard
1958
Episode Goodyear Television Playhouse
October Story
1951
Episode Camp Runamuck
I'm in Luv with Your Beautiful Limpid Eyes, But I Can't Marry You Because You're a Cow
1965
Episode Goodyear Television Playhouse
The Copper
1951
Episode Camp Runamuck
Say, You're A Bleeder Aren't You?
1965
Episode Camp Runamuck
They're Not Making Hurricanes Like They Used To
1965
Episode The Philco Television Playhouse
Segment
1952
Episode Camp Runamuck
Slaughter
1965
Episode Camp Runamuck
Today is Parent's Day
1965
Episode Goodyear Television Playhouse
I Was Stalin's Prisoner
1951
Movie So You Want to Be a Detective 1948
Episode Studio One
The Star-Spangled Soldier
1956
Episode Wagon Train
The Juan Ortega Story
1958
Episode Camp Runamuck
Spiffy Quits (2)
1965
Episode Climax!
The Volcano Seat
1958
Episode The Philco Television Playhouse
A Man's Game
1952
Movie The Parent Trap 1961
Episode The Philco Television Playhouse
Routine Assignment
1951
Movie The Interns 1962
Episode The Wonderful World of Disney
Pollyanna (1)
1963
Episode The Wonderful World of Disney
Pollyanna (2)
1963
Movie Pollyanna 1960
Episode Rawhide
Incident at Alabaster Plain
1959
Movie Good Neighbor Sam 1964
Episode The Philco Television Playhouse
Operation: Airlift
1951
Movie Love Is a Ball 1963
Episode Camp Runamuck
Building
1966
Movie Under the Yum-Yum Tree 1963
Episode Arnie
Arnie (Pilot Episode)
1970
Movie Candleshoe 1977
Episode The Philco Television Playhouse
Ephraim Tutt's Clean Hands
1951
Episode Studio One
No Tears for Hilda
1951

Producer

Movie Grampians Wonderland 1958
Movie How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying 1967
Movie Good Neighbor Sam 1964