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David Simkins is an American screenwriter and television producer. His first produced screenplay was for the film ''
Adventures in Babysitting ''Adventures in Babysitting'' (also known as ''A Night on the Town'' in certain countries) is a 1987 American teen comedy film written by David Simkins and directed by Chris Columbus in his directorial debut. It stars Elisabeth Shue, Keith C ...
'' in 1987. He has written for and produced television shows such as ''
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'', '' Blade: The Series'', '' Dark Angel'' and ''
Warehouse 13 ''Warehouse 13'' is an American science fiction television series that originally ran from July 7, 2009, to May 19, 2014, on the Syfy network, and was executively produced by Jack Kenny and David Simkins for Universal Cable Productions. Des ...
''.


Early life and education

Simkins grew up in
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. He attended Clay High School, where, in 1973, he start being active in the production of the
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-sponsored comedy series '' Beyond Our Control''. Simkins learned the basics of television production on the series, which was broadcast locally on
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. After graduating high school in 1977, he studied film and broadcasting at
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, earning a bachelor's degree in 1982.


Career

He moved to
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, and got his first job at Sandy Howard Productions answering phones, and later reviewing and budgeting film scripts. Simkins told The South Bend Tribune, "That's where I learned how scripts were written … I learned how they came up with a budget." He later worked for a short period of time as a development executive for
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. He has been an active writer and producer for television since his involvement with ''
The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr. ''The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr.'', often referred to as just ''Brisco'' or ''Brisco County'', is an American weird western television series created by Jeffrey Boam and Carlton Cuse. It ran for 27 episodes on Fox from August 27, 199 ...
'' (1993–1994). In 2022, Simkins was hired as coordinator and facilitator for the "Study Away: LA" program, a semester internship program for Rochester Institute of Technology's School of Film and Animation (SOFA).


Filmography

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Children of the Corn "Children of the Corn" is a short story by Stephen King, first published in the March 1977 issue of '' Penthouse'', and later collected in King's 1978 collection ''Night Shift''. The story has been adapted into several films, spawning a horror ...
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Adventures in Babysitting ''Adventures in Babysitting'' (also known as ''A Night on the Town'' in certain countries) is a 1987 American teen comedy film written by David Simkins and directed by Chris Columbus in his directorial debut. It stars Elisabeth Shue, Keith C ...
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The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr. ''The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr.'', often referred to as just ''Brisco'' or ''Brisco County'', is an American weird western television series created by Jeffrey Boam and Carlton Cuse. It ran for 27 episodes on Fox from August 27, 199 ...
, TV Movie , Producer , - , style="white-space: nowrap; text-align:center", 1993 – 1995 , The Krypton Factor , TV Series , Technical supervisor , - , style="white-space: nowrap; text-align:center", 1995 – 1996 , Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman , TV Series , {{unbulleted list, Writer, Creativity Consultant , - , style="white-space: nowrap; text-align:center", 1997 – 1998 ,
Spy Game ''Spy Game'' is a 2001 action thriller film directed by Tony Scott and written by Michael Frost Beckner and David Arata. The film stars Robert Redford and Brad Pitt as CIA operatives entangled in a covert rescue mission during the final day ...
, TV Series , {{unbulleted list, Writer, Supervising producer , - , style="white-space: nowrap; text-align:center", 1998 ,
Mercy Point ''Mercy Point'' is an American Science fiction on television, science fiction medical drama, created by Trey Callaway, David Simkins, and Milo Frank, which originally aired for one season on United Paramount Network (UPN) from October ...
, TV Series , {{unbulleted list, Writer, executive producer , - , style="white-space: nowrap; text-align:center", 1998 – 1999 , Vengeance Unlimited , TV Series , {{unbulleted list, Creator and Writer, Co-executive producer, Executive consultant , - , style="white-space: nowrap; text-align:center", 1999 – 2004 ,
Charmed ''Charmed'' is an American fantasy drama television series created by Constance M. Burge and produced by Aaron Spelling and his production company Spelling Television, with Brad Kern serving as showrunner. The series was originally broadc ...
, TV Series , {{unbulleted list, Writer and teleplay, Consulting and co-executive producer , - , style="white-space: nowrap; text-align:center", 2000 ,
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, TV Series , Co-executive producer , - , style="white-space: nowrap; text-align:center", 2007 ,
The Dresden Files ''The Dresden Files'' is a series of contemporary fantasy/Mystery fiction, mystery novels written by American author Jim Butcher. The first novel, ''Storm Front (The Dresden Files), Storm Front''—which was also Butcher's writing debut—was p ...
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Alien Raiders ''Alien Raiders'' is a 2008 American science fiction horror film, starring Carlos Bernard, Rockmond Dunbar and Mathew St. Patrick. The film is Ben Rock's first feature film as a director. The film was produced by Daniel Myrick, John Shiban, and ...
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Warehouse 13 ''Warehouse 13'' is an American science fiction television series that originally ran from July 7, 2009, to May 19, 2014, on the Syfy network, and was executively produced by Jack Kenny and David Simkins for Universal Cable Productions. Des ...
, TV Series , {{unbulleted list, Teleplay writer, Executive producer{{Cite news, title=Warehouse 13 — TV Review, first=Randee, last=Dawn, date=6 July 2009, page=, website=Hollywood Reporter, url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-reviews/warehouse-13-tv-review-93334, language=en, access-date=12 November 2023, archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230530144900/https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-reviews/warehouse-13-tv-review-93334, archive-date=30 May 2023, url-status=live{{Cite news, title=First Look: Steampunk Gadgets Go Wild in "Warehouse 13", first=, last=, date=18 June 2009, page=, website=Wired (www.wired.com), url=https://www.wired.com/2009/06/first-look-steampunk-gadgets-go-wild-in-warehouse-13, language=en, access-date=12 November 2023, archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230722031256/https://www.wired.com/2009/06/first-look-steampunk-gadgets-go-wild-in-warehouse-13, archive-date=22 July 2023, url-status=live , - , style="white-space: nowrap; text-align:center", 2010 – 2011 ,
Human Target The Human Target is the name of two characters in American comic books published by DC Comics. The first is Fred Venable, while the second is private investigator and bodyguard Christopher Chance who assumes the identities of clients targeted by a ...
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, TV Mini Series , {{unbulleted list, Story writer, Supervising producer , - , style="white-space: nowrap; text-align:center", 2016 , '' Powers'' , TV Series , {{unbulleted list, Writer, Co-executive producer , - , style="white-space: nowrap; text-align:center", 2016 ,
Adventures in Babysitting ''Adventures in Babysitting'' (also known as ''A Night on the Town'' in certain countries) is a 1987 American teen comedy film written by David Simkins and directed by Chris Columbus in his directorial debut. It stars Elisabeth Shue, Keith C ...
, TV Movie , {{unbulleted list, Writer, Story, co-producer , - , style="white-space: nowrap; text-align:center", 2018 , ''Deprivers'' (in development{{Cite web, title=Deprivers, date=, page=, website=IMBd (www.imdb.com), url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8690898/?ref_=nm_knf_t_1, language=en, access-date=12 November 2023, archive-url=https://archive.today/20231112095758/https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8690898/?ref_=nm_knf_t_1, archive-date=12 November 2023, url-status=live) , TV Series , Writer{{Cite news, title=MarVista Entertainment Inks Production Agreement With Robyn Snyder’s Front Row Films; Sets 15 Projects In Development, first=Denise, last=Petski, date=29 May 2018, page=, website=
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