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D. B. Weiss

D. B. Weiss (Daniel Brett Weiss, born 1971) is an American TV writer and producer who co-created and showran HBO's Game of Thrones (2011–2019) with David Benioff and later Netflix's 3 Body Problem (2024) with Alexander Woo.

D. B. Woodside

D.B. Woodside (David Bryan Woodside), American actor born 1969 in Queens, New York; Yale School of Drama MFA known for Principal Wood in Buffy, Wayne Palmer in 24, Amenadiel in Lucifer, and Erik Monks in The Night Agent; distinct from the psychiatrist D. Blake Woodside.

D. J. Caruso

D. J. Caruso (Daniel John Caruso Jr., born 1965, Norwalk, Connecticut) is an American director of thrillers and action films: The Salton Sea, Disturbia, Eagle Eye, I Am Number Four, xXx: Return of Xander Cage ($347M+ worldwide), Mary, and the upcoming A Visit to Grandpa's with Anthony Hopkins.

D. J. Cotrona

D.J. Cotrona (Donald Joseph Cotrona, born 1980) is an American actor known as Flint in G.I. Joe: Retaliation, Seth Gecko in From Dusk Till Dawn: The Series, and Super Hero Pedro in Shazam!, later co-writing Fight or Flight.

D. L. Hughley

D.L. Hughley (Darryl Lynn Hughley, born 1963) is an American stand-up comedian, actor, and radio host, original host of BET's ComicView, star of The Hughleys, one of The Original Kings of Comedy, and a Peabody-winning political commentator.

D. Ramanaidu (దగ్గుబాటి రామానాయుడు)

D. Ramanaidu (Daggubati Ramanaidu, దగ్గుబాటి రామానాయుడు), 1936–2015, Indian film producer, founder of Suresh Productions, Guinness record holder with 150+ films in 13 languages, Dadasaheb Phalke and Padma Bhushan awardee, and Bapatla MP.

D. V. V. Danayya

D. V. V. Danayya (Dasari Veera Venkata Danayya, born 1961) is a Telugu cinema producer, founder of DVV Entertainments, known for Desamuduru, Naayak, and producing S. S. Rajamouli's record-setting RRR (2022).

D. W. Griffith

D. W. Griffith (1875–1948), American silent-film pioneer; directed 450-plus Biograph shorts and The Birth of a Nation (1915), first American blockbuster, whose racism made him film history's most contested director.

D. W. Moffett

D. W. Moffett (Donald Warren Moffett, born 1954) is an American stage, film, and television actor known for The Normal Heart, Friday Night Lights' Joe McCoy, Switched at Birth's John Kennish, Traffic, and as SCAD's film department chair.

D.A.R.Y.L.

D.A.R.Y.L. (Data Analysing Robot Youth Lifeform) is a 1985 Paramount science fiction family film directed by Simon Wincer, starring Barret Oliver as an android boy with a computer brain who escapes military destruction and returns to his foster parents.

D.C. Young Fly

D.C. Young Fly (John Whitfield, born 1992, Atlanta) is an American comedian, rapper, actor, and podcast host known for Wild 'N Out, the 85 South Show podcast, and albums Curb Music, Trap Soul, and Fly Womack.

D.E.B.S. (2004 film)

D.E.B.S. (2004) is Angela Robinson's 91-minute American spy-spoof romantic comedy, also known as a lesbian cult classic, about SAT-recruited agents whose leader Amy falls for villainess Lucy Diamond; a $3.5M film that grossed about $96,800 theatrically.

D.Gray-man (TV series)

D.Gray-man (ディー・グレイマン) is a Japanese dark-fantasy anime adapted from Katsura Hoshino's Weekly Shōnen Jump manga, running 103 episodes on TV Tokyo from 2006 to 2008, followed by D.Gray-man Hallow.

D.Gray-man (ディーグレイマン)

D.Gray-man (ディーグレイマン, Dグレ) is Katsura Hoshino's dark fantasy manga serialized since 2004, now quarterly in Jump SQ.RISE; 29 volumes, over 24 million copies, anime in 2006 and 2016.

D.O.A.

D.O.A. (1950), also called Dead on Arrival, is an American film noir directed by Rudolph Maté in which poisoned accountant Frank Bigelow investigates his own murder; a public-domain National Film Registry selection remade in 1969 and 1988.

D.P. (TV series)

D.P. (디피), or Deserter Pursuit, is a 2021-2023 Netflix Korean drama directed by Han Jun-hee, adapted from Kim Bo-tong's webtoon D.P. Dog Days, starring Jung Hae-in and Koo Kyo-hwan as soldiers hunting army deserters; it won best drama at the 58th Baeksang Arts Awards.

D'Angelo Barksdale

D'Angelo Barksdale is a fictional mid-level drug dealer in HBO's The Wire, played by Lawrence Gilliard Jr.; nephew of kingpin Avon Barksdale, acquitted of murder in the series' opening episode, later imprisoned, and killed in season two's "All Prologue."

D'Arcy Carden

D'Arcy Carden (née D'Arcy Beth Erokan, born 1980) is an American actress and comedian, Emmy-nominated as Janet on The Good Place, also known for Barry, A League of Their Own, and Broadway's The Thanksgiving Play.

D'Bari

The D'Bari ("asparagus people") are a Marvel Comics alien race created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby in Avengers #4 (1964); their planet D'bari IV was destroyed by the Dark Phoenix in X-Men #135 (1980), and they appear as antagonists in the 2019 film Dark Phoenix.

D'oh!

D'oh! is Homer Simpson's interjection of dismay in The Simpsons, adapted by voice actor Dan Castellaneta from James Finlayson's Laurel and Hardy grunt, recorded in dictionaries since 1945 and in the OED since 2001.

D'Pharaoh Woon-A-Tai

D'Pharaoh Woon-A-Tai (born 2001, Toronto) is a Canadian Oji-Cree actor, Bear Smallhill in Reservation Dogs and Ray in Warfare (2025); first Indigenous lead comedy actor Emmy nominee (2024).

D'Urville Martin

D'Urville Martin (1939–1984), American actor and director of 1970s blaxploitation films; played Rev. Rufus in Black Caesar and Toby in the Black Charley films, and directed Rudy Ray Moore's Dolemite (1975), also playing Willie Green.

D'Vana Tendi

D'Vana Tendi is the Orion Starfleet science officer, voiced by Noël Wells, in Star Trek: Lower Decks; a former Syndicate pirate called the Mistress of the Winter Constellations aboard the U.S.S. Cerritos.

D/o Prasad Rao: Kanabadutaledu

D/o Prasad Rao: Kanabadutaledu (D/o ప్రసాద్ రావు: కనబడుటలేదు), Telugu ZEE5 crime thriller web series, 27 Feb 2026, six episodes, directed by Poluru Krishna, starring Rajeev Kanakala, Udaya Bhanu, and Vasanthika.

D&E Media

D&E Media, or DukeDollars, is an American pornographic film company based in New Jersey. It is known for series like Facial Abuse and Ghetto Gaggers.

D2: The Mighty Ducks

D2: The Mighty Ducks, also known as D2 Mighty Ducks, is a 1994 American sports comedy film directed by Sam Weisman and starring Emilio Estevez.

D23 (Disney)

D23 is The Walt Disney Company's official fan club, also called D23: The Official Disney Fan Club, launched in 2009 under Bob Iger. Known for its biennial Anaheim Ultimate Disney Fan Event, Gold membership tiers, and retired Disney twenty-three magazine.

D3: The Mighty Ducks

D3: The Mighty Ducks (1996) is the third film in Disney's hockey trilogy, directed by Robert Lieberman, in which the Ducks attend Eden Hall Academy under new coach Ted Orion and face the varsity team; it grossed $22,955,097 domestically.

D50 (film)

D50 is the production title of Raayan (ராயன்), a 2024 Tamil action crime drama written, directed by, and starring Dhanush, his 50th film and second directorial venture, produced by Sun Pictures with A. R. Rahman's music, released 26 July 2024 and winner of the National Film Award for Best Tamil Film.

Da 5 Bloods

Da 5 Bloods is Spike Lee's 2020 Netflix war drama, co-written with Kevin Willmott, following four Black Vietnam veterans (Delroy Lindo, Clarke Peters, Norm Lewis, Isiah Whitlock Jr.) returning to Vietnam for their squad leader's remains and buried gold.