Donald Bernard Safran (January 17, 1930 – February 17, 2014) was an American film and television screenwriter, producer and marketing executive.
Their conversations were cited in the Warren Report, following John F. Kennedy's assassination in 1963 and Ruby's shooting of Lee Harvey Oswald.
[1][4][5] Safran also hosted a radio program, Night Scene on KRLD, during which he interviewed celebrities, and was one of the founders of the USA Film Festival.
[1][2][3] Safran served as vice president of publicity for Columbia Pictures and then as executive vice president of marketing for Rastar Productions, promoting such films as Biloxi Blues, Blue Thunder, Peggy Sue Got Married, Smokey and the Bandit and Steel Magnolias.
He later became a member of the Writers Guild of America and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.