With over 30 years of entertainment industry experience, David Stanley’s background encompasses a unique combination of creative, business, management, and legal positions, working for or with virtually every broadcast and cable network, major studio and independent production/distribution company, agency and law firm.

Stanley began his training as a civil litigation attorney.  Later in his career he abandoned the corporate hierarchy to join what was Armstrong & Hirsch as a transactional entertainment attorney, handling all of the day-to-day legal affairs for several independent television production companies.  He returned to the practice of law in 2005 to be Of Counsel and later Chair of the Entertainment Transactions Practice Group at a large Los Angeles law firm and most recently became Of Counsel to Weissmann Wolff Bergman Coleman Grodin & Evall LLP, where he represents independent television production companies, on and behind-the-camera talent and executives, as well as major corporate production and broadcast entities in connection with the creation, development, production and exploitation of television and other media properties. 

As a business executive, Stanley’s extensive professional history has included stints at NBC, MGM/UA, Metromedia and Lorimar Television where he served as Executive Vice President overseeing the business and financial needs of a dozen network primetime series including “Dallas” and “Falcon Crest” and the sitcoms “Perfect Strangers,” “Full House” and “Family Matters,” as well as the original Telepictures incarnations of “The People’s Court,” “Love Connection,” and countless other network and syndicated pilots and series.  He later went on to become Senior Vice President of Warner Bros., Inc. before forming Stone Stanley Entertainment in 1990, one of the most prolific, long-lasting independent production companies in television history, producing dozens of original pilots and series, including over 2500 episodes of television.

As a creative executive, Stanley has amassed a slate of extensive and diverse Executive Producer credits that has firmly established him as one of television’s leading independent producers of Alternative Programming, including the long-running “Shop ‘til You Drop” on PAX, and “Legends of the Hidden Temple” the CableACE Award-Winning kids’ game show currently airing on Nickelodeon’s Games and Sports.  Other noteworthy Stone Stanley Entertainment credits include “Fame,” for NBC; “Popstars,” for the WB; “Loveline,” for MTV; “Winning Lines” for CBS; “Bobcat’s Big Ass Show” for FX; “I Can’t Believe You Said That!” for FOX Family Channel; and “Fun House” for FOX Kids Network, and several of the record-selling Jane Fonda exercise videos. 

His eclectic background also includes having served as the elected Mayor of the City of Hidden Hills, California, and composed, performed, and produced much of the music for Stone Stanley Entertainment productions.

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