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Don Gordon (actor)

Don Gordon (Donald Walter Guadagno, 1926-2017), American character actor, Emmy-nominated for The Defenders, best known as Steve McQueen's frequent co-star in Bullitt, Papillon, and The Towering Inferno.

Don Grady

Don Grady (Don Louis Agrati, 1944-2012) was an American actor and musician: a 1957-58 Mouseketeer, Robbie Douglas on My Three Sons (1960-72), drummer of Yellow Balloon, and composer of the Phil Donahue theme.

Don Hany

Don Hany (born 1975) is an Australian actor of Hungarian and Iraqi heritage, known for Zane Malik in East West 101 (2010 Silver Logie winner), Offspring, Serangoon Road, Healing, Neighbours, and The Survivors.

Don Hastings

Don Hastings (born 1934), full name Donald Francis Michael Hastings, American actor: the Video Ranger on Captain Video (DuMont, 1949-55) and Dr. Bob Hughes on As the World Turns from October 1960 to 2010; also wrote for the series.

Don Hertzfeldt

Don Hertzfeldt, American independent animator of Bitter Films, maker of Rejected, It's Such a Beautiful Day, and the World of Tomorrow trilogy; twice Oscar-nominated stick-figure auteur.

Don Johnson

Don Johnson (born 1949 in Flat Creek, Missouri) is an American actor known for Miami Vice (1984–1989) and starring in and executive producing Nash Bridges.

Don Knotts

Don Knotts (Jesse Donald Knotts, 1924-2006), American comic actor from Morgantown, West Virginia; won five Emmys as Deputy Barney Fife on The Andy Griffith Show, later Ralph Furley on Three's Company.

Don LaFontaine

Don LaFontaine (Donald Leroy La Fontaine, 1940-2008) was the American 'movie trailer guy' voice actor known for 'In a world...'. He voiced about 5,000 trailers and 350,000 commercials, was called Thunder Throat and the Voice of God, and is honored by the SAG-AFTRA Don LaFontaine Voiceover Lab.

Don Messick

Don Messick (Donald Earl Messick, 1926-1997), American voice actor and Hanna-Barbera mainstay; original voice of Scooby-Doo (1969-1996), also Boo Boo, Astro, Papa Smurf, Muttley, and Dr. Benton Quest.

Don Most

Don Most (Donny Most, born 1953, Brooklyn) is an American actor, director, and singer best known as Ralph Malph on Happy Days (1974–1984), later directing indie films and performing swing music.

Don Murray (actor)

Don Murray (Donald Patrick Murray, 1929-2024), American actor Oscar-nominated for his debut in Bus Stop (1956) opposite Marilyn Monroe; later starred in Advise and Consent, The Outcasts, Knots Landing, and Twin Peaks.

Don Novello

Don Novello (born 1943) is an American comedian and writer, creator of SNL's Father Guido Sarducci and author of The Lazlo Letters as alter ego Lazlo Toth, plus the Olympia Cafe sketch and Atlantis voice work.

Don S. Davis

Don S. Davis (Don Sinclair Davis, 1942-2008) was an American character actor, Army captain, and painter, known as General Hammond on Stargate SG-1 and Major Garland Briggs on Twin Peaks.

Don Siegel

Don Siegel (Donald Siegel, 1912-1991), American film director of Riot in Cell Block 11, Invasion of the Body Snatchers, Dirty Harry, and Charley Varrick; Warner Bros. montage chief turned independent genre director and Clint Eastwood's mentor.

Don Stark

Don Stark (Donald Stark, born 1954, New York City) is an American character actor, best known as Bob Pinciotti on all eight seasons of That '70s Show (1998–2006), also Hit the Floor, Star Trek roles, and Green Book.

Don Stroud

Don Stroud (Donald Lee Stroud, born 1943, Honolulu) is an American character actor, surfer, and musician known for villain roles in over 100 films including Coogan's Bluff, Bloody Mama, The Buddy Holly Story, Licence to Kill, and Django Unchained.

Don Swayze

Don Swayze (Donald Carl Swayze, born 1958, Houston, Texas) is an American character actor, younger brother of Patrick Swayze, known for Carnivàle, True Blood, Criminal Minds, and the 2025 lead role in All Saints Day.

Don Warrington

Don Warrington (born 1952, Trinidad; birth name Don Williams) is a British actor known for Philip in Rising Damp (1974-1978), Commissioner Selwyn Patterson in Death in Paradise since 2011, and Talawa's 2016 King Lear; MBE 2008.

Dónal Finn

Dónal Finn (born 1995) is an Irish actor from Dromina, County Cork, a LAMDA graduate known for playing Mat Cauthon in The Wheel of Time, Orpheus in West End Hadestown, and James Moriarty in Guy Ritchie's Young Sherlock.

Donal Logue

Donal Logue (born 1966, Ottawa) is a Canadian actor known for The Tao of Steve (Sundance Special Jury Prize), Grounded for Life, Terriers, and Harvey Bullock in Gotham.

Donald Crisp

Donald Crisp (George William Crisp, 1882-1974), British-born Hollywood character actor and director, Oscar winner for How Green Was My Valley (1941), Griffith stock company member, Lassie films patriarch.

Donald Faison

Donald Faison (born 1974, New York City) is an American actor known as Dr. Christopher Turk on Scrubs (2001-10) and Murray in Clueless (1995) and its TV spin-off; in 2026 he reprised Turk and executive produced ABC's Scrubs revival.

Donald Glover

Donald Glover, known musically as Childish Gambino, is an American actor, writer, rapper, and singer. He created and starred in Atlanta, winning two Emmy Awards in 2017.

Donald Moffat

Donald Moffat (1930–2018) was a British-born American character actor known for playing Garry in The Thing (1982) and Lyndon B. Johnson in The Right Stuff (1983).

Donald P. Bellisario

Donald P. Bellisario (born August 8, 1935, Cokeburg, Pennsylvania) is an American television producer, writer and director, Marine Corps veteran, creator of Magnum, P.I., Quantum Leap, JAG, and NCIS, and namesake of Penn State's Bellisario College of Communications.

Donald Sinden

Sir Donald Sinden (1923-2014), English actor of stage, film, and television; RSC Shakespearean (Lear, Malvolio, Benedick), Rank films of the 1950s, sitcoms Two's Company and Never the Twain; CBE 1979, knighted 1997.

Donald Sumpter

Donald Sumpter is an English actor, born in 1943, known for playing Maester Luwin in Game of Thrones and Detective Inspector Morell in The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo.

Donald Sutherland

Donald Sutherland (1935–2024), Canadian actor of M*A*S*H, Klute, Don't Look Now, Ordinary People, JFK, and President Snow in The Hunger Games; never Oscar-nominated, honorary Oscar 2017.

Donisha Prendergast

Donisha Rita Claire Prendergast (born 1984) is a Jamaican actress, filmmaker, and activist, granddaughter of Bob and Rita Marley, known for RasTa: A Soul's Journey, Akilla's Escape, and writing Threads of Us.

Donna Douglas

Donna Douglas, stage name of Doris Smith, American actress (1932 or 1933 to January 1, 2015) who played Elly May Clampett on The Beverly Hillbillies (1962–1971), starred in Twilight Zone's "Eye of the Beholder" and with Elvis Presley in Frankie and Johnny (1966).