Biography

David Dent was born on May 5, 1922 in Glasgow, Scotland, UK. He was a producer, known for Disobedient (1953), Stars in Your Eyes (1956) and My Wife's Lodger (1952). He was married to José Crayson. He died in 2020.

Son of Arthur Dent.

During the war years, he served in the 4th Hussars, Winston Churchill's old regiment.

Attended University College school before going to St Edmund Hall, Oxford, in 1940 to study jurisprudence. He graduated in 1947.

His father changed his surname to Dent after the picturesque village of that name in the Yorkshire Dales.