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David Sheffield

Writer, Actor, Producer, Additional Credits
David Sheffield is an American comedy writer best known for his writing on Saturday Night Live and the screenplays for Coming to America and The Nutty Professor all written in collaboration with Barry W. Blaustein.

Known For

  • Coming to America
  • Nutty Professor II: The Klumps
  • The Nutty Professor
  • Police Academy 2: Their First Assignment
  • Coming 2 America
  • Boomerang
  • Police Academy 3: Back in Training
  • Police Academy 4: Citizens on Patrol
  • The Honeymooners
  • Saturday Night Live

David Sheffield Filmography

2021
Coming 2 America · as Screenplay
2005
2000
1996
The Nutty Professor · as Screenplay
1992
Boomerang · as Screenplay
1989
1988
Coming to America · as Screenplay
1987
CBS Summer Playhouse (TV Series) · as Screenplay
1985
1975

2000
Nutty Professor II: The Klumps · as Man In Bathroom
1988
Coming to America · as Man In Line
1975
Saturday Night Live (TV Series) · as Bar Patron (uncredited)

1992
Boomerang · as Co-Producer
1989
What's Alan Watching? · as Co-Producer

2025
Being Eddie · as Self
2019
The Movies That Made Us (TV Series) · as Self - Writer
2005

1988
1987
1986
1975
Saturday Night Live (TV Series) · as Supervising Producer

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