What is David Silverman?
{{Infobox Writer | name = David Silverman | image =David Silverman in 2007-cropped.JPG | imagesize = | caption = | pseudonym = Pound Foolish, David 'Dry Bones' Silverman, David A. Silverman, Demonic David Silverman, The Tell-Tale Silverman | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1957|03|15}} | birth_place = [[New York (state)|New York]] | death_date = | death_place = | occupation = Television/movie writer and director | nationality = American | period = | genre = Comedy | subject = | movement = | debut_works = | influences = | influenced = | signature = | website = | footnotes = }} '''David Silverman''' (born 15 March 1957 in [[New York City]], [[New York (state)|New York]]) is an [[Animation|animator]] and [[screenwriter|writer]]. He is best known for [[movie director|directing]] many [[episode]]s of the [[animation|animated]] [[television programme|television series]] ''[[The Simpsons]]'', where he would go on to be the supervising director of animation for several years, as well as animating on all of the original Simpsons ''[[The Simpsons shorts|Tracey Ullman shorts]]''. ==Other websites== * [http://www.interviewinghollywood.com/david-silverman.html David Silverman 2007 Video interview with InterviewingHollywood.com] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071010063221/http://www.interviewinghollywood.com/david-silverman.html |date=2007-10-10 }} * {{imdb name | id = 0798899 | name = David Silverman }} * [http://cagle.msnbc.com/hogan/interviews/silverman.asp An interview with David Silverman] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20051130094202/http://cagle.msnbc.com/hogan/interviews/silverman.asp |date=2005-11-30 }} * [http://www.apbspeakers.com/themes/DefaultView/SpeakerPages/David%20Silverman.aspx APB Speaker page info] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071013035405/http://www.apbspeakers.com/themes/DefaultView/SpeakerPages/David%20Silverman.aspx |date=2007-10-13 }} * [http://www.snpp.com/other/interviews/silverman98.html The Simpsons Archive interview] {{Webarch