When David Woodrow Hataway was born on October 1, 1938, in New York, his father, Woodrow, was 25 and his mother, Evelyn, was 21. He married Antje Korte on December 1, 1968, in Los Angeles, California. They had two children during their marriage. He died on November 11, 2025, in La Palma, California, at the age of 87.