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Dick Cusack
Dick Cusack (Richard John Cusack, 1925-2003), American advertising executive turned Emmy-winning documentarian, screenwriter of The Jack Bull, character actor, and father of actors John, Joan, Ann, Bill, and Susie Cusack.
Dick Emery
Dick Emery (Richard Gilbert Emery) was an English comedian and star of the BBC sketch show The Dick Emery Show (1963–1981, 18 series, about 17 million viewers), creator of Mandy, Lampwick, Hettie, and the catchphrase "Ooh, you are awful... but I like you!".
Dick Gautier
Dick Gautier (Richard Gautier, 1931-2017), American actor and comedian; original Broadway Conrad Birdie in Bye Bye Birdie (1961 Tony nominee), Hymie the Robot on Get Smart, Robin Hood in When Things Were Rotten, voice of Serpentor and Transformers characters, and caricaturist-author.
Dick Powell
Dick Powell (Richard Ewing Powell, 1904–1963), American singer, actor, producer, and director; Warner Bros. musical star of 42nd Street, film noir lead in Murder, My Sweet, and president of Four Star Television.
Dick Sargent
Dick Sargent (Richard Stanford Cox, 1930–1994), American actor, second Darrin Stephens on ABC's Bewitched 1969–1972 after Dick York; films included Operation Petticoat; came out gay on National Coming Out Day 1991; died of prostate cancer.
Dick Van Dyke
Dick Van Dyke (born 1925, West Plains, Missouri) is an American actor and comedian of Rob Petrie in The Dick Van Dyke Show and Bert in Mary Poppins; Tony, Grammy, five Emmy winner, still active at 100.
Dick Van Patten
Dick Van Patten (Richard Vincent Van Patten, 1928-2015), American actor famous as dad Tom Bradford on ABC's Eight Is Enough (1977-1981); child Broadway performer, star of CBS's Mama, Mel Brooks film actor, Natural Balance pet food co-founder.
Dick York
Dick York (1928-1992), American actor, original Darrin Stephens on ABC's Bewitched 1964-1969 and Bertram Cates in Inherit the Wind; left the sitcom over a back injury and later ran Acting for Life for the homeless.
Didi Conn
Didi Conn (Edith Bernstein, born 1951, Brooklyn) is the American actress who played Frenchy in Grease (1978) and Grease 2, also known for Benson, Shining Time Station, and Grease: Live!.
Diedrich Bader
Diedrich Bader (Karl Diedrich Bader, born 1966) is an American actor and voice actor, known as Oswald on The Drew Carey Show, Lawrence in Office Space, Rex in Napoleon Dynamite, and Batman in Batman: The Brave and the Bold and Harley Quinn.
Diego Klattenhoff
Diego Klattenhoff (born 1979, French River, Nova Scotia) is a Canadian actor known as Mike Faber in Homeland and FBI Agent Donald Ressler in The Blacklist (2013-2023), plus Mean Girls and Pacific Rim.
Dieter Laser
Dieter Laser (1942-2020), German stage and film actor; German Film Award in Gold 1975 for John Glückstadt; reporter Tötges in The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum; Dr. Josef Heiter in The Human Centipede (2009).
Dikran Tulaine
Dikran Tulaine, also Dikrane Tulaine, is a British-American actor and director born 1956 in London to an Armenian father and English mother, known for recurring roles in The Blacklist, The Walking Dead, and The Night Agent and for stage work at the National Theatre.
Dileep Rao
Dileep Rao (born 1973) is an American actor known as Rham Jas in Drag Me to Hell, Yusuf in Inception, and Dr. Max Patel in the Avatar films, with stage and TV credits.
Dilin Döğer
Dilin Döğer (Dilîn Döğer), Turkish actress born 1995 in Diyarbakır; Hacettepe English Linguistics graduate. Known as Zeynep in O Kız, Süreyya Hatun in Selahaddin Eyyubi, and Zerrin Albora in Kanal D's Uzak Şehir.
Dimitri Leonidas
Dimitri Leonidas (Shane Leonidas), English actor born 1987 in Brent, London; known for Tormented, Centurion, The Monuments Men, Riviera, Foundation (Hober Mallow), and Those About to Die (Scorpus).
Dina Merrill
Dina Merrill (Nedenia Marjorie Hutton, 1923–2017), American actress, heiress, and philanthropist, daughter of Marjorie Merriweather Post and E.F. Hutton; starred in Desk Set, Operation Petticoat, and BUtterfield 8, and later co-owned RKO Pictures.
Dina Meyer
Dina Meyer (born 1968) is an American film and television actress from Queens, New York, known for Dizzy Flores in Starship Troopers, Barbara Gordon in Birds of Prey, Detective Allison Kerry in the Saw films, and roles in Johnny Mnemonic, Dragonheart, and Star Trek: Nemesis.
Dinah Manoff
Dinah Manoff, American actress and director (born 1956 or 1958), Tony winner for I Ought to Be in Pictures; played Marty in Grease and Carol Weston on Empty Nest (1988–1995).
Dinah Sheridan
Dinah Sheridan (1920-2012), English actress, star of Genevieve (1953) and The Railway Children (1970) as Mrs Waterbury; retired 1954 after marrying Rank head Sir John Davis, returned to screen in 1970.
Dini Schatzmann
Dini Schatzmann (Dini Azan Schatzmann), Malaysian actor born 1994 of Malay-Swiss heritage; known for Marry Me Senorita, The Hotel, Malbatt: Misi Bakara, and Blood Brothers; married to Janna Nick since 2023.
Dino Fetscher
Dino Fetscher is a Welsh actor, born 1988 in Cardiff, trained at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama. Known for Banana, Paranoid, Humans, an Olivier-nominated The Normal Heart, Foundation's Glawen Curr, and Fool Me Once's DC Marty McGregor.
Dino Shafeek
Dino Shafeek (Gholam D. Shafeek, 1930–1984) was a Bangladeshi-born British comedy actor, Char Wallah Muhammed in It Ain't Half Hot Mum (56 episodes) and Ali Nadim in Mind Your Language (29 episodes), active 1967–1983.
Diogo Morgado
Diogo Morgado (born 1981, Lisbon) is a Portuguese actor, director, and writer, the "Hot Jesus" of The Bible and Son of God, known for Laços de Sangue, CSI: Cyber, The Messengers, and directing O Lugar dos Sonhos.
Diona Reasonover
Diona Reasonover (born 1992, Detroit) is an American actor and writer, the Kasie Hines forensic scientist on CBS's NCIS since Season 15, also a WGA-nominated writer and Periodic Talks podcast co-host.
Diora Baird
Diora Baird, American actress and former model born 1983 in Miami, known for Wedding Crashers, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning, Playboy August 2005 cover, and Cobra Kai's Shannon.
Dipo Ola
Dipo Ola (born 1994, Ibadan, Nigeria) is a British actor, writer, and director trained at the Oxford School of Drama, known for DI Russell Carter in Ludwig, Baba in We Hunt Together, and Douglas Hylton in Landscapers.
Dirk Benedict
Dirk Benedict (born Dirk Niewoehner, 1945, Montana) is an American actor known as Lieutenant Starbuck in Battlestar Galactica (1978–79) and Templeton "Faceman" Peck in The A-Team (1983–87), also a stage actor, director, and author.
Dirk Blocker
Dirk Blocker (born 1957, Hollywood) is an American character actor, son of Bonanza star Dan Blocker, best known as Detective Michael Hitchcock on Brooklyn Nine-Nine (2013-2021, 153 episodes), with film roles in Poltergeist, Starman, and Short Cuts.
Dirk Bogarde
Dirk Bogarde (Derek Jules Gaspard Ulric Niven van den Bogaerde, 1921–1999), English actor and writer: 1950s Rank matinee idol, star of Victim, The Servant, Death in Venice; twice BAFTA Best Actor, knighted 1992, memoirist and novelist.