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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 Lowery (director)

David Lowery (born 1980) is a Wisconsin-born, Dallas-based American film director and editor; features include St. Nick, Ain't Them Bodies Saints, Pete's Dragon, A Ghost Story, The Green Knight, Peter Pan & Wendy, and Mother Mary.

David Lynch

David Lynch (1946–2025), American filmmaker and painter from Missoula, Montana; director of Eraserhead, Blue Velvet, Mulholland Drive, and Twin Peaks, three-time Best Director Oscar nominee, Palme d'Or winner, died January 2025.

David Lynch Compound

The David Lynch Compound, David Lynch's Hollywood Hills estate on Senalda Road, is a 2.3-acre five-parcel creative compound with a 1963 Lloyd Wright house, Lost Highway filming locations, Asymmetrical Productions offices, sold 2026 for $13 million.

David Lynch filmography

The David Lynch filmography covers the work of American filmmaker David Lynch (1946–2025), who directed nine features from Eraserhead (1977) to Inland Empire (2006) and created Twin Peaks.

David Lyons (actor)

David Lyons (actor), born 1976 in Melbourne, is an Australian actor and NIDA graduate known as Dr. Simon Brenner on ER, Vince Faraday in The Cape, Bass Monroe in Revolution, and Brian Abbott in The Beast in Me; not the British actor David Lyon.

David Mackenzie (director)

David Hugh Mackenzie (born 1966, Corbridge, England) is a Scottish director and Sigma Films co-founder; known for Young Adam, Starred Up, Oscar-nominated Hell or High Water, Outlaw King, Relay, and Fuze.

David Mamet

David Mamet is an American playwright and director known for his stylized use of vernacular speech. He won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1984 for Glengarry Glen Ross.

David Marciano

David Marciano (born 1960, Newark, NJ) is an American character actor known as Ray Vecchio in Due South, Steve Billings in The Shield, and Virgil in Homeland.

David Margulies

David Margulies (1937-2016) was an American character actor known as Mayor Lenny Clotch in Ghostbusters (1984, 1989), lawyer Neil Mink on The Sopranos, and Roy Cohn in Angels in America on Broadway.

David Mazouz

David Mazouz (David Albert Mazouz) is an American actor born 2001 in Los Angeles, known for playing young Bruce Wayne on Fox's Gotham (2014-2019, 100 episodes) and Jake Bohm on Touch; Stanford 2023 graduate.

David McCallum

David McCallum (1933-2023), Scottish-born American actor, played Illya Kuryakin on The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (1964-68) and Donald "Ducky" Mallard on NCIS (2003-23); also recorded 1960s instrumental albums and wrote a 2016 crime novel.

David McIntosh (Gladiators)

David McIntosh (Gladiators), born 1985 in Wigan, England, is a former Royal Marines Commando who played Gladiator Tornado on the 2008-2009 Sky 1 revival, later appearing on Celebrity Big Brother, Bromans, and completing the 250 km Desert Ultra.

David Mendenhall

David Mendenhall (born 1971, Oceanside, California) is an American actor and attorney; a 1980s child star of General Hospital, Over the Top, and The Transformers: The Movie (Daniel Witwicky), later a producer.

David Michôd

David Michôd (born 1972, Sydney) is an Australian film director, screenwriter, and producer known for Animal Kingdom, The Rover, War Machine, The King, and the 2025 Christy Martin biopic Christy.

David Milch

David Milch (born 1945) is an American TV writer and creator of NYPD Blue and Deadwood, an Emmy-winning Hill Street Blues writer known as Milchspeak, now writing with Alzheimer's.

David Mitchell (comedian)

David Mitchell (born 1974, Salisbury) is a British comedian, actor, and writer, one half of Mitchell and Webb with Robert Webb. Known for Peep Show's Mark Corrigan, That Mitchell and Webb Look (BAFTA 2007), Would I Lie to You? team captain since 2007, Upstart Crow, and the BBC hit Ludwig (2024).

David Morrissey

David Morrissey (born 1964) is an English actor from Liverpool, trained at the Everyman Youth Theatre and RADA, known for The Deal, State of Play, Blackpool, and the Governor in The Walking Dead; also a director and producer, married to Esther Freud.

David Morse

David Morse (born 1953, Massachusetts) is an American character actor known for St. Elsewhere's Dr. Jack Morrison, The Green Mile, House (Emmy nomination), John Adams, and a Tony-nominated stage career.

David Moscow

David Moscow (David Raphael Moscow, born 1974, New York City) is an American actor, producer, and director known for Big (1988), Newsies (1992), Honey (2003), and the reality series From Scratch.

David Naughton

David Walsh Naughton (born 1951, Hartford, Connecticut) is an American actor and singer, star of An American Werewolf in London (1981), the 1979 hit "Makin' It", and the Be a Pepper Dr Pepper ads; brother of actor James Naughton.

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 Nelson (actor)

David Oswald Nelson (1936–2011), American actor, director, and producer; elder son of Ozzie and Harriet Nelson, played himself on The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet (1952–1966) and later directed and produced films and television.

David Niven

David Niven (1910–1983), British film actor, soldier and memoirist; also known for The Moon's a Balloon. Goldwyn contract 1935, Oscar for Separate Tables, Pink Panther, Casino Royale's Sir James Bond, died at Château-d'Oex.

David Nixon (magician)

David Porter Nixon (1919-1978) was an English magician and television personality, star of What's My Line?, It's Magic, David Nixon's Magic Box and The David Nixon Show, and the first partner of Basil Brush.

David Nutter

David Nutter (born 1960) is an American TV director nicknamed "the pilot whisperer", with 17 of 19 pilots picked up to series including Smallville and Arrow, three Emmys, and Game of Thrones episodes including the Red Wedding.

David O. Russell

David O. Russell: American director of Spanking the Monkey, Three Kings, The Fighter, Silver Linings Playbook, and American Hustle; three straight Best Picture nominees, 25 Oscar nods, and repeated on-set conflict controversies.

David O. Selznick

David O. Selznick (1902–1965) was an American film producer who founded Selznick International Pictures and helped build a starmaking roster by bringing Ingrid Bergman and Alfred Hitchcock to Hollywood.

David O'Doherty

David O'Doherty (born 1975, Dublin) is an Irish musical comedian, author, and TV host, winner of the 2008 Edinburgh Comedy Award for Let's Comedy and writer of the Danger Is Everywhere children's books.

David O'Hara

David Patrick O'Hara (born 1965, Glasgow) is a Scottish character actor known for Stephen in Braveheart, Fitzy in The Departed, Mr. X in Wanted, and Albert Runcorn in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows; distinct from other people named David O'Hara.