Editing David Geffen (section)

{{Short description|American media proprietor (born 1943)}}
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{{Infobox person
| name               = David Geffen
| image              = David Geffen.jpg
| caption            = Geffen in 1973
| education          = [[Santa Monica College]] (no degree)
| birth_name         = David Lawrence Geffen
| birth_date         = {{birth date and age|1943|02|21}}
| birth_place        = New York City, U.S.
| death_date         = 
| death_place        = 
| occupation         = {{hlist|Entrepreneur|record executive|film producer|media proprietor}}
| title              = Founder of 
{{plainlist|
* [[DreamWorks SKG]]
* [[DreamWorks Records]]
* [[Asylum Records]]
* [[Geffen Records]]
* [[The Geffen Film Company|Geffen Pictures]]
* [[DGC Records]]}}
| spouse             = {{marriage|Donovan Michaels|2023|2025|reason=divorced}}
| relatives          = 
}}

'''David Lawrence Geffen''' (born February 21, 1943)<ref>Tom King, ''The Operator: David Geffen Builds, Buys, and Sells the New Hollywood'', p. 12, Broadway Books (New York 2001).</ref> is an American film producer, record executive, and [[media proprietor]]. In music, he co-founded [[Asylum Records]] with [[Elliot Roberts]] in 1971 before founding [[Geffen Records]] in 1980, [[DGC Records]] in 1990, and co-founding [[DreamWorks Records]] (with [[Mo Ostin]], Michael Ostin and [[Lenny Waronker]]) in 1996. In film, he founded [[the Geffen Film Company]] in 1982 and co-founded [[DreamWorks SKG]] (with [[Steven Spielberg]] and [[Jeffrey Katzenberg]]) in 1994.