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David Lonsdale
David Lonsdale, born in 1973, is an English actor recognized for his role as David Stockwell in the television series Heartbeat, which aired from 1993 to 2009.
David Neilson
David Neilson (born 1949, Loughborough) is the English actor who has played Roy Cropper on ITV's Coronation Street since 19 July 1995; trained at the Central School of Speech and Drama, he also directed theatre, taught at RADA, and won the 2014 British Soap Award for Best Actor and the 2025 Outstanding Achievement Award.
David Platt (Coronation Street)
David Platt is a fictional Coronation Street character born on screen on Christmas Day 1990 to Martin Platt and Gail Tilsley, played by Jack P. Shepherd since 2000; known for the Richard Hillman canal ordeal, teenage villainy, the 2018 male rape storyline, and later life with Kylie and Shona.
David Rossi
David Stephen Rossi, BAU senior profiler on Criminal Minds (2007– ), played by Joe Mantegna, introduced to replace Jason Gideon; named for the real LAPD sergeant of the Simpson trial.
David S. Pumpkins
David S. Pumpkins, Tom Hanks's unexplained pumpkin-suited SNL character with two skeleton sidekicks, debuted in "Haunted Elevator" (October 22, 2016), spawned a 2017 animated NBC special, a 2022 return, and Halloween-costume fame.
David Wallace (The Office)
David Wallace is a fictional executive in The Office, played by Andy Buckley, CFO of Dunder Mifflin from 2005 to 2009, founder of Suck It (sold to the US Military for $20 million), and CEO after buying the company from Sabre in 2012.
Davood Ghadami
Davood Ghadami (داود قدمی), English actor born 1982 in Harlow, Essex; played Kush Kazemi in EastEnders 2014-2021, Eli Ebrahimi in Holby City 2021-2022, and competed in Strictly Come Dancing 2017.
Davros
Davros is the fictional Chief Scientist of the Kaleds in Doctor Who, creator of the Daleks, first seen in Genesis of the Daleks (1975); played by Michael Wisher, David Gooderson, Terry Molloy, and Julian Bleach, and redesigned as able-bodied in 2023.
Dawn Summers
Dawn Summers is a fictional character in Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Buffy's younger sister, created by Joss Whedon and played by Michelle Trachtenberg (2000–2003). Introduced in season 5 as a retcon, she is revealed to be the mystical Key made human by monks to hide her from the hellgod Glory.
Dawson Leery
Dawson Leery (Dawson Wade Leery) is the title character of the WB teen drama Dawson's Creek (1998-2003), played by James Van Der Beek: a Spielberg-obsessed aspiring filmmaker in Capeside, Massachusetts, based on creator Kevin Williamson's youth.
Dawson's Creek
Dawson's Creek: American teen drama created by Kevin Williamson, aired on The WB 1998–2003, six seasons, 128 episodes, set in fictional Capeside, Massachusetts, starring James Van Der Beek, Katie Holmes, Joshua Jackson, and Michelle Williams.
Day 5
Day 5 is an American post-apocalyptic drama web series produced by Rooster Teeth, set after a sleep epidemic in which falling asleep causes death; it ran from 2016 to 2017.
Day and Night (白夜追凶)
Day and Night (白夜追凶) is a 2017 Youku 32-episode Chinese crime web drama directed by Wang Wei, starring Pan Yueming as twin brothers who swap identities day and night; Douban 8.9, Netflix-distributed, with 2024 sequel 白夜破晓.
Daya Jethalal Gada
Daya Jethalal Gada, or Dayaben, is the Gujarati homemaker character in the sitcom Taarak Mehta Ka Ooltah Chashmah (2008), played by Disha Vakani; wife of Jethalal, Garba-loving, catchphrase "Hey Ma! Mataji!", absent from the show since 2020.
Dayaa
Dayaa (2023) is a Telugu-language crime thriller web series directed by Pavan Sadineni, a Disney+ Hotstar adaptation of the Bangladeshi show Taqdeer, starring J. D. Chakravarthy as a freezer van driver who finds a journalist's body in his van; 8 episodes, IMDb 6.2.
Daybreak (2019 TV series)
Daybreak (2019 TV series), Netflix post-apocalyptic comedy-drama based on Brian Ralph's graphic novel; created by Aron Eli Coleite and Brad Peyton; 10 episodes, TV-MA, canceled December 2019 after one season.
Days Gone Bye (The Walking Dead)
Days Gone Bye is the 2010 pilot of AMC's The Walking Dead, written and directed by Frank Darabont, adapting Robert Kirkman's comic opening; it drew 5.3 million viewers, AMC's largest original-series premiere, and was Darabont's only directing credit on the show.
Days of Our Lives
Days of Our Lives (DOOL): American daytime soap opera set in Salem, following the Horton, Brady, DiMera, Kiriakis, and Hernandez families; premiered on NBC November 8, 1965, aired 15,000+ episodes, and streams exclusively on Peacock since 2022.
Days of Our Lives: Beyond Salem
Days of Our Lives: Beyond Salem is a Peacock limited-series spin-off of the soap opera Days of Our Lives, two five-episode chapters (September 2021, July 2022) following Salem characters on jewel-theft mysteries abroad, developed by Ron Carlivati.
DC Animated Universe
DC Animated Universe (DCAU), also called Timmverse or Diniverse: shared continuity of DC animated series from Batman: The Animated Series (1992) to Justice League Unlimited (2006), created under Bruce Timm and Paul Dini, distinct from the later DCAMU and Tomorrowverse.
DC Super Hero Girls
DC Super Hero Girls is a DC Comics franchise presenting female DC heroes and villains as teens: a 2015-2018 YouTube web series set at Super Hero High with Mattel toys, and a 2019 Lauren Faust Cartoon Network reboot set at a regular Metropolis high school.
DC Super Hero Girls (TV series)
DC Super Hero Girls (2019 TV series), the Lauren Faust reboot of the 2015 web series, is a Cartoon Network animated action-comedy following teen Wonder Woman, Supergirl, Batgirl, Zatanna, Green Lantern, and Bumblebee in Metropolis.
DCI Banks
DCI Banks: British ITV crime drama (2010–2016, 32 episodes, five series) adapted from Peter Robinson's Inspector Banks novels, starring Stephen Tompkinson, Andrea Lowe, and Caroline Catz; cancelled by ITV in November 2016.
Dead Boy Detectives (TV series)
Dead Boy Detectives is a 2024 Netflix supernatural comedy-drama, 8 episodes, developed by Steve Yockey from DC's Sandman comics characters by Gaiman, Wagner, and Jones III; starring George Rexstrew and Jayden Revri, premiered April 25, 2024, cancelled August 30, 2024 after one season.
Dead Dead Demon's Dededede Destruction
Dead Dead Demon's Dededede Destruction (デッドデッドデーモンズデデデデデストラクション) is Inio Asano's 2014-2022 Shogakukan manga, 12 volumes, about Tokyo life under an alien mothership; adapted in 2024 as two films and an 18-episode series.
Dead Hot
Dead Hot is a 2024 British six-part comedy thriller created by Charlotte Coben for Prime Video, set in Liverpool, starring Bilal Hasna and Vivian Oparah as friends investigating the disappearance of Peter.
Dead Like Me
Dead Like Me is a 2003–2004 Showtime comedy-drama created by Bryan Fuller, also known for Wonderfalls, about grim reapers in Seattle. Ellen Muth plays George Lass, an 18-year-old killed by a falling Mir toilet seat who becomes a reaper; two seasons, 29 episodes, plus a 2009 film.
Dead Mountain
Dead Mountain (Перевал Дятлова, Pereval Dyatlova) is an eight-part 2020 Russian historical thriller series dramatizing the 1959 Dyatlov Pass incident, directed by Fedorovich, Nikishov, and Kostomarov, split into investigation and hiker story lines.
Dead of Summer (TV series)
Dead of Summer: 2016 Freeform supernatural horror drama by Adam Horowitz, Edward Kitsis, and Ian Goldberg, set at Camp Stillwater in 1989; 10 episodes, canceled after one season.
Dead Ringers
Dead Ringers: David Cronenberg's 1988 psychological horror film with Jeremy Irons as twin gynecologists Elliot and Beverly Mantle, based on the Marcus twins and the novel Twins; remade as a 2023 Rachel Weisz Prime Video series.