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David Burke (British actor)
David Burke (1934-2026), English character actor, played Dr Watson opposite Jeremy Brett in Granada's The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1984-85) and originated Niels Bohr in Frayn's Copenhagen; distinct from the American actor David Burke of The Tick.
David C. Glasser
David C. Glasser (David Clayton Glasser, born 1971) is an American film executive and producer, CEO and co-founder of 101 Studios, producer of Taylor Sheridan's Yellowstone.
David Callaham
David Elias (Dave) Callaham, born 1977, Fresno, California, is an American screenwriter known for Doom, The Expendables, Godzilla, Wonder Woman 1984, Shang-Chi, and Across the Spider-Verse, and creator of Jean-Claude Van Johnson.
David Campbell (composer)
David R. Campbell (born 1948, Toronto) is a Canadian-American arranger, orchestrator, conductor and film composer with arrangements on 425 gold or platinum albums, film credits on Brokeback Mountain and Tarzan, and is Beck's father.
David Canary
David Canary, born David Hoyt Canary, was an American actor recognized for playing the twins Adam and Stuart Chandler on All My Children and for winning five Daytime Emmys.
David Carradine
David Carradine (1936–2009), American actor, eldest son of John Carradine; starred as Kwai Chang Caine in Kung Fu (1972–75) and as Bill in Tarantino's Kill Bill films; died in Bangkok.
David Caruso
David Caruso (born 1956) is a retired American actor known as Det. John Kelly on NYPD Blue and Lt. Horatio Caine on CSI: Miami (2002-2012, 232 episodes); he left NYPD Blue for a failed film career and now works as an art dealer.
David Cassidy
David Cassidy (1950-2017), American singer and actor, Keith Partridge on ABC's The Partridge Family 1970-1974; early-1970s teen idol whose fan club exceeded Elvis's and the Beatles'; died of organ failure in Fort Lauderdale.
David Castañeda
David Castañeda (born 1989, Los Angeles) is a Mexican-American actor known for Diego Hargreeves in Netflix's The Umbrella Academy (2019–2024), Sicario: Day of the Soldado, Most Dangerous Game, and Ballerina.
David Caves
David Caves is a Northern Irish actor from Belfast, best known as forensic scientist Jack Hodgson in BBC's Silent Witness since 2013; trained at St Andrews and LAMDA, with stage roles for the RSC and films Jackie and Ironclad: Battle for Blood.
David Charvet
David Charvet (David Franck Guez), French-born actor and singer born 1972 in Lyon, played Matt Brody on Baywatch and Craig Field on Melrose Place, then recorded three French pop albums including David Charvet (1997), selling over 2.5 million albums.
David Chase
David Chase (born David Henry DeCesare, 1945) is the American writer-producer-director who created HBO's The Sopranos (1999-2007), after a long network career on The Rockford Files, I'll Fly Away, and Northern Exposure.
David Conrad
David Crawford Conrad, born 1967 in Pittsburgh, is an American actor known as Jim Clancy on Ghost Whisperer (2005-2010), Broadway's The Deep Blue Sea, Wedding Crashers, and Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.; he has lived in England since 2018.
David Copperfield (1999 film)
David Copperfield (1999) is a two-episode BBC/WGBH television miniseries of Dickens's novel, directed by Simon Curtis from Adrian Hodges's screenplay, first shown 25 December 1999, starring Daniel Radcliffe as young David, Maggie Smith, and Bob Hoskins.
David Corenswet
David Packard Corenswet (born 1993, Philadelphia) is an American actor and Juilliard graduate who plays Clark Kent/Superman in James Gunn's 2025 DC Studios film Superman, after roles in The Politician, Hollywood, Pearl, and Twisters.
David Costabile
David Costabile (born 1967, Washington, D.C.) is an American character actor known as Wags on Billions, Gale Boetticher on Breaking Bad, Daniel Hardman on Suits, and Klebanow on The Wire; Tufts and NYU Tisch MFA trained.
David Croft (TV producer)
David Croft (1922-2011), born David John Sharland, was a British comedy writer and producer who co-created BBC sitcoms Dad's Army, Are You Being Served?, It Ain't Half Hot Mum, Hi-de-Hi! and 'Allo 'Allo! with partners Jimmy Perry and Jeremy Lloyd; OBE 1978, BAFTA Special Award 2008. Not the Sky Sports F1 commentator of the same name.
David Cronenberg
David Paul Cronenberg (born 1943, Toronto) is a Canadian director and novelist, principal originator of body horror, director of Shivers, The Fly, Crash, A History of Violence, and Crimes of the Future, Companion of the Order of Canada.
David Dastmalchian
David Dastmalchian is an American character actor and comics writer from Kansas, known for The Dark Knight, the Ant-Man films, Dune, Oppenheimer, and the lead in Late Night with the Devil; he writes Count Crowley and Creature Commandos and plays M. Bison in Street Fighter.
David Dawson (actor)
David Robert Dawson (born 1982, Widnes, Cheshire) is an English RADA-trained actor, King Alfred in The Last Kingdom and Patrick in My Policeman; distinct from David S. Dawson and the choreographer.
David DeLuise
David DeLuise (David Dominick DeLuise, born 1971, Burbank, California) is an American actor and director, son of Dom DeLuise; known as Jerry Russo in Wizards of Waverly Place, Pete Shanahan on Stargate SG-1, and Bug Pollone on 3rd Rock from the Sun.
David Dencik
David Dencik (Karl David Sebastian Dencik, born 1974, Stockholm) is a Swedish-Danish actor; breakthrough as Veronica in En soap (2006), later Gorbachev in Chernobyl and a Bond villain in No Time to Die.
David Denman
David Denman (born 1973) is an American actor, a Juilliard-trained character player known as Roy Anderson on The Office, and for Mare of Easttown, Brightburn, Rebel Ridge, and Peacemaker's Keith Smith.
David Dhawan
David Dhawan, born Rajinder Dhawan in 1955, is an Indian film director known as Bollywood's top comedy director, with hits like Aankhen and Coolie No. 1.
David Dickinson
David Dickinson (born David Gulesserian, 1941) is an English antiques dealer and TV presenter, original host of BBC's Bargain Hunt (2000-2004) and ITV's Dickinson's Real Deal (from 2006), known for catchphrases like "cheap as chips".
David Dixon (actor)
David Dixon (born 1947, Derby, England) is an English actor and screenwriter, best known as Ford Prefect in the 1981 BBC Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy; also Ariel in The Tempest (1980), distinct from other David Dixons.
David Duchovny
David William Duchovny (born 1960, New York City) is an American actor, novelist, and singer-songwriter known for Fox Mulder on The X-Files and Hank Moody on Californication, with two Golden Globes, four novels, and four albums.
David E. Kelley
David E. Kelley, born 1956 in Waterville, Maine, is an American TV writer-producer and former Boston lawyer behind L.A. Law, Picket Fences, The Practice, Ally McBeal, Boston Legal, and Big Little Lies.
David Earl (actor)
David Earl (David Geoffrey Earl), British actor-comedian known as Brian Gittins; played Kev in Derek and Brian in After Life; co-wrote and starred in Brian and Charles (Sundance 2022, BAFTA-nominated).
David Eigenberg
David Eigenberg (born 1964, Manhasset, New York) is an American character actor; played Steve Brady on Sex and the City and firefighter Christopher Herrmann on NBC's Chicago Fire since 2012.