Editing David Lander (section)

==Early life==
'''David Leonard Landau''' was born on June 22, 1947, in [[Brooklyn]], New York, the youngest son of two Jewish schoolteacher parents, Stella (Goldman) and Saul Landau.<ref name=NYT>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/06/obituaries/david-l-lander-dead.html|title=David L. Lander, Squiggy on 'Laverne & Shirley,' Dies at 73|first=Anita|last=Gates|newspaper=The New York Times|date=December 7, 2020}}</ref>

Lander decided to become an actor when he was 10. He studied at the [[High School of Performing Arts|High School for the Performing Arts]] and continued at [[Carnegie Mellon University|Carnegie Tech]] and [[New York University]].<ref name="NMSS">{{cite web |title=David "Squiggy" Lander |url=http://www.nationalmssociety.org/Get-Involved/Personal-Stories/Ambassadors-Familiar-Faces/David-Squiggy-Lander |website=National Multiple Sclerosis Society |access-date=March 4, 2019 |archive-date=March 6, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190306111704/https://www.nationalmssociety.org/Get-Involved/Personal-Stories/Ambassadors-Familiar-Faces/David-Squiggy-Lander |url-status=dead }}</ref> It was in high school he took the stage name of David Lander, which he would later legally adopt, after a classmate "borrowed" his real name to register with an actors' union.<ref name=NYT/>