Born May 15 (one source says March 15), 1943, in Toronto, Ontario, Canada; son of Milton (a writer and editor) and Esther (a pianist; maiden name, Sumberg) Cronenberg; married Margaret Hindson (divorced); remarried; wife's name, Carolyn (a homemaker); children: (first marriage) Cassandra; (second marriage) two children. Education: Attended University of Toronto, beginning in 1962. Avocational Interests: Cars and auto racing. Addresses: Office: David Cronenberg Productions, 217 Avenue Rd., Toronto, Ontario M5R 2J3, Canada. Agent: Michael Marcus, Creative Artists Agency, 9830 Wilshire Blvd., Beverly Hills, CA 90212.

SCREENPLAYS

• (And director) Stereo, Emergent, 1969.
• (And director) Crimes of the Future, Emergent, 1970.
• (And director) They Came from Within (also known as The Parasite Murders, Shivers, and Frissons), Trans-American, 1975.
• (And director) Rabid (also known as Rage), New World, 1976.
• (And director) Fast Company, Topar, 1978.
• (And director) The Brood, New World, 1978.
• (And director) Scanners, AVCO-Embassy, 1979.
• (And director) Videodrome, Universal, 1983.
• (With Charles Edward Pogue; and director) The Fly (based on a story by George Langelaan), Paramount, 1986.
• (With Norman Snider, and director) Dead Ringers (adapted from the novel Twins by Bari Wood and Jack Geasland), Twentieth Century-Fox, 1988.
• (And director) Naked Lunch (adapted from the novel by William S. Burroughs), Twentieth Century-Fox, 1992.
• (With David Henry Hwang, and director) M. Butterfly (based on the play by Hwang), Warner Bros., 1993.
• (And director)Crash (adapted from the novel by J. G. Ballard), Fine Line, 1997.

• Cronenberg on Cronenberg, edited by Chris Rodley, Knopf (Toronto), 1992.

Screenwriter and director of the short film Transfer, 1966; also director of the short film From the Drain, 1967.