In all, Mr. Winters has produced and directed over 200 television shows and TV movies that include: Once Upon A Wheel starring Paul Newman, Doctor Jekyll and Mr. Hyde starring Kirk Douglas, Raquel starring Raquel Welch, Bob Hope and John Wayne, The London Bridge starring Tom Jones and Elliot Gould, The Ann-Margret Show starring Ann-Margret, Dean Martin and Lucille Ball, Rolling On The River starring Kenny Rogers, Timex All-Star Swing Festival starring Duke Ellington, Count Basie, Ella Fitzgerald and Benny Goodman. Mr. Winters then teamed up with Diana Ross
and staged and created for Diana the famous two World
Tours culminating with a command performance for
president Ronald Reagan at New York City's Metropolitan
Opera House. David and Diana also worked together on two Diana
Ross TV Specials, after which he created,
directed and choreographed the Alice Cooper rock
spectacular World Tour and motion picture Welcome
to My Nightmare. His next production was the motion picture Fanatic in which David produced, directed, wrote, and co-starred. For this film he won the Paris Film Festival Award, the Los Angeles Golden Scroll Awards, the Sitges Film Festival Award, and a nomination by the Hollywood Academy of SciFi, Fantasy and Horror as the best international film of the year - only to lose out to Mel Gibson's The Road Warrior. Following this, Mr. Winters partnered with John Peters and Peter Guber to produce the video program, Yoga Moves with Universal/MCA, and with Playboy Magazine for the CBS videos of Girls of Rock 'N' Roll. Mr. Winters then decided to place all of his energy into independent motion pictures. He produced and directed Thrashin', a modern West Side Story on skateboards. He originally cast an unknown at the time, Johnny Depp, as the lead, but the investors would not accept Mr. Depp. For the soundtrack of Thrashin' he first introduced such unknown rock bands as Meatloaf, The Bangles, The Red Hot Chili Peppers and All The Fine Young Cannibals. Every group went on to have No.1 worldwide hits. The Red Hot Chili Peppers appear in the film in a live musical sequence. |
