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David Clark Lee

Director, Writer, Producer, Actor, Additional Credits
David Clark Lee (born 1950) is an American television producer, director, and writer. His best-known works are Cheers and Frasier.

Lee grew up in Claremont, California, and went to college at the University of Redlands. He co-wrote and co-produced The Jeffersons and Cheers with Peter Casey for, respectively, six and four years. He and Casey co-created 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, Can-Can, and Camelot. He co-wrote a newly revised script of Can-Can 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

Known For

  • Frasier
  • Cheers
  • The Jeffersons
  • Wings
  • Everybody Loves Raymond
  • Frasier (2023)

David Clark Lee Filmography

2000
Titus (TV Series)
1999
Stark Raving Mad (TV Series)
1998
Encore! Encore! (TV Series)
1997
Fired Up (TV Series)
1996
1995
Almost Perfect (TV Series)
1993
Frasier (TV Series)
1990
Wings (TV Series)

1993
Frasier (TV Series)
1990
Wings (TV Series)
1982
Cheers (TV Series)
1975
The Jeffersons (TV Series)

2020
Conspiracy World · as Executive Producer
1998
Encore! Encore! (TV Series) · as Executive Producer
1993
Frasier (TV Series) · as Executive Producer
1990
Wings (TV Series) · as Executive Producer
1975
The Jeffersons (TV Series)

1982
Cheers (TV Series) · as Bar Patron

2023
Frasier (2023) (TV Series) · as Original Series Creator
1998
Encore! Encore! (TV Series) · as Created By
1982
Cheers (TV Series) · as Supervising Producer

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