David Arnott

American actor and screenwriter

David Arnott
Born	1963 (age 60–61) California, United States
Nationality	American
Occupation(s)	Actor, screenwriter, musical composer

David Arnott (born 1963) is an American actor,^[1] screenwriter^[1] and musical composer^[2] living in Southern California. Among his credits, Arnott co-wrote Last Action Hero, and starred in The Last Man with Jeri Ryan. David is a member of the legendary "Pad O' Guys" screenwriting group, including Shane Black and Fred Dekker,^[3] and is the son of banjo player Peter R. Arnott. He also provided additional voices in Happy Feet Two and Finding Dory.

Arnott also appeared as "Cal Evans" in the 1995 UPN sitcom Pig Sty. He also appeared in a 1992 television remake of the classic film, "Christmas in Connecticut" directed by Arnold Schwarzenegger. This gives Arnott the probably unique distinction of both having written for, and having been directed by Schwarzenegger.

David is also a board game enthusiast, and can be seen on GameNight!, a YouTube web series in which he and 2-4 other participants play different designer board games.^[4]

Partial filmography

Amazing Stories (1986) (Umpire) (Magic Saturday)
You Again? (1986) (Dirk) (Sports Fantasy)
House II: The Second Story (1987) (Banana)
The Facts of Life (1987) (Nick Drexler) (Rumor Has It)
Three Fugitives (1989) (Bank teller)
Day by Day (1989) (Fantasy David Gannon) (The Reunion)
Freddy's Nightmares (1989) (Michael Bowman) (1 episode)
CBS Summer Playhouse (1989) (Kevin Nesbite) (B-Men)
Shannon's Deal (1990) (Bushman) (Hitting Home)
The Adventures of Ford Fairlane (1990) (Club Guy)
Doctor Doctor (1990) (Ken the Usher) (1 episode)
Career Opportunities (1991) (Voiceover)
Timebomb (1991) (Stan)
Christmas in Connecticut (Crazed Director)
Mad About You (1992) (Lester) (Met Someone)
Crisscross (1992) Chris Cross
The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles (1993) (Clifford) (1 episode)
The Second Half (1993) (Ed) (1 episode)
Little Big League (1994) (Little League Manager)
Murphy Brown (1995) (Secretary 78) (1 episode)
The Spooktacular New Adventures of Casper (Voice) (1997) (1 episode)
Code Name Phoenix (Sasha) (2000)
Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within (2001) (Additional voices)
Final Fantasy X (2001) (Additional voices)
Imagine That (2002) (Dr. Testosterone) (The Macho Therapist)
The Last Man (2002) (Alan)
ER (2006) (Clivus) (Graduation Day)
Happy Feet Two (2011) (Additional Voices)
Good Luck Charlie (2010-12) (Mitch) (3 episodes)
Finding Dory (2016) (Additional voices)
Sing (Additional voices)
Lucha Underground (2017-18) (Benjamin Cook) (3 episodes)
Wish Dragon (2021) (Additional voices)

References

^ ^a ^b Fandango
^ Curtainup.com
^ Entertainment Weekly
^ BoardGameGeek's Game Night, Episode 15

External links

David Arnott at IMDb

Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Screenplay

1980s

Bronte Woodard and Allan Carr – Can't Stop the Music (1980)
Frank Yablans, Frank Perry, Tracy Hotchner, and Robert Getchell – Mommie Dearest (1981)
Robin Moore and Laird Koenig – Inchon (1982)
John Kershaw, Shawn Randall, and Ellen Shephard – The Lonely Lady (1983)
John Derek – Bolero (1984)
Sylvester Stallone, James Cameron, and Kevin Jarre – Rambo: First Blood Part II (1985)
Willard Huyck and Gloria Katz – Howard the Duck (1986)
Jonathan Reynolds and Bill Cosby – Leonard Part 6 (1987)
Heywood Gould – Cocktail (1988)
Eddie Murphy – Harlem Nights (1989)

1990s

Daniel Waters, James Cappe, and David Arnott – The Adventures of Ford Fairlane (1990)
Steven E. de Souza, Daniel Waters, Bruce Willis, and Robert Kraft – Hudson Hawk (1991)
Blake Snyder, William Osborne, and William Davies – Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot (1992)
Amy Holden Jones – Indecent Proposal (1993)
Tom S. Parker, Jim Jennewein, Steven E. de Souza, and various others – The Flintstones (1994)
Joe Eszterhas – Showgirls (1995)
Andrew Bergman – Striptease (1996)
Eric Roth and Brian Helgeland – The Postman (1997)
Joe Eszterhas – An Alan Smithee Film: Burn Hollywood Burn (1998)
Jim Thomas, John Thomas, S. S. Wilson, Brent Maddock, Jeffrey Price, and Peter S. Seaman – Wild Wild West (1999)

2000s

Corey Mandell and J. David Shapiro – Battlefield Earth (2000)
Tom Green and Derek Harvie – Freddy Got Fingered (2001)
George Lucas and Jonathan Hales – Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones (2002)
Martin Brest – Gigli (2003)
Theresa Rebeck, John Brancato, Michael Ferris, and John Rogers – Catwoman (2004)
Jenny McCarthy – Dirty Love (2005)
Leora Barish and Henry Bean – Basic Instinct 2 (2006)
Jeffrey Hammond – I Know Who Killed Me (2007)
Mike Myers and Graham Gordy – The Love Guru (2008)
Ehren Kruger, Alex Kurtzman, and Roberto Orci – Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (2009)

2010s

M. Night Shyamalan – The Last Airbender (2010)
Steve Koren, Adam Sandler, and Ben Zook – Jack and Jill (2011)
David Caspe – That's My Boy (2012)
Steve Baker, Ricky Blitt, Will Carlough, Tobias Carlson, Jacob Fleisher, Patrik Forsberg, Will Graham, James Gunn, Claes Kjellstrom, Jack Kukoda, Bob Odenkirk, Bill O'Malley, Matthew Alec Portenoy, Greg Pritikin, Rocky Russo, Olle Sarri, Elizabeth Wright Shapiro, Jeremy Sosenko, Jonathan van Tulleken, and Jonas Wittenmark – Movie 43 (2013)
Darren Doane and Cheston Hervey – Saving Christmas (2014)
Kelly Marcel – Fifty Shades of Grey (2015)
Chris Terrio and David S. Goyer – Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016)
Tony Leondis, Eric Siegel, and Mike White – The Emoji Movie (2017)
Niall Leonard – Fifty Shades Freed (2018)
Lee Hall and Tom Hooper – Cats (2019)

2020s

Tomasz Klimala, Barbara Białowąs, Tomasz Mandes, and Blanka Lipińska – 365 Days (2020/21)
Joe DiPietro and David Bryan – Diana: The Musical (2021)
Andrew Dominik – Blonde (2022)
Rhys Frake-Waterfield – Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey (2023)