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Date of Birth

3 July 1937, Buffalo, New York, USA

Birth Name

David Lee Shire

Spouse

Didi Conn	(11 February 1984 - present) 1 child
Talia Shire	(29 March 1970 - 1978) (divorced) 1 child

Trivia

Ex-son-in-law of Carmine Coppola and Italia Coppola. Ex-brother-in-law of Anton Coppola, August Coppola and Francis Ford Coppola.

Father of Matthew Shire (born in 1975) and David Shire (born in 1992).

Along with lyricist, Richard Maltby Jr., he composed several Broadway and off-Broadway musicals including Baby (1983), Starting Here, Starting Now (1977), Closer Than Ever (1989) and Big (1996) (based on the Tom Hanks film Big (1988)).

Brother-in-law of Richard Bernstein.

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