David Rayfiel

David Rayfiel (September 9, 1923 – June 22, 2011) was an American screenwriter and frequent collaborator of director Sydney Pollack. 2Life Rayfiel was born in Brooklyn, New York and educated at Brooklyn College. His father was congressman Leo F. Rayfiel. In 1950 he married television screenwriter Lila Garrett. He and Garrett had daughter Eliza before divorcing in 1953. He married actress Maureen Stapleton in 1963, divorcing in 1966. He married his third wife, Lynne Schwarzenbek, in 1987. In 1958 he had a house built at Day, New York, which has come to be known as the David Rayfiel House, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2009. 2Death Rayfiel died of heart failure, on June 22, 2011, in Manhattan, New York. He was survived by his widow, Lynne, and his daughter, Eliza, wife of actor Eric Robert