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David Slade
David Slade (born 1969) is a British film and TV director behind Hard Candy, 30 Days of Night, Twilight: Eclipse, Breaking Bad, Hannibal, American Gods, and Black Mirror's Bandersnatch and Metalhead; distinct from Slade Wilson, David Spade, and the band Slade.
David Soul
David Soul (David Richard Solberg, 1943–2024) was an American-British actor and singer, Hutch in Starsky & Hutch (1975–79) and the voice of "Don't Give Up on Us" and "Silver Lady", later a London stage and TV performer.
David Spade
David Spade (born 1964), American comedian and actor, SNL cast member 1990-1996, star of Tommy Boy, Joe Dirt, and Grown Ups, co-host of the Fly on the Wall podcast with Dana Carvey.
David Steinberg
David Steinberg (born 1942, Winnipeg) is a Canadian comedian, director, and Order of Canada member known for Smothers Brothers sermons, Tonight Show guest hosting, and directing Seinfeld, Friends, and Curb Your Enthusiasm.
David Strathairn
David Strathairn (born 1949, San Francisco) is an American character actor, Oscar-nominated as Edward R. Murrow in Good Night, and Good Luck., an Emmy winner for Temple Grandin, and a longtime John Sayles collaborator.
David Strickland
David Strickland (1969-1999), American actor, also known as Todd Stities on NBC's Suddenly Susan; played Steve Montgomery in Forces of Nature; distinct from voice actor David L. Strickland of Poppy Playtime.
David Suchet
Sir David Suchet (born 1946) is a British actor, LAMDA-trained and an RSC alumnus, famous for playing Agatha Christie's Hercule Poirot in 70 ITV episodes from 1989 to 2013, plus stage roles like Iago and Lady Bracknell.
David Sutcliffe
David Sutcliffe (born 1969, Saskatoon) is a Canadian former actor, best known as Christopher Hayden on Gilmore Girls (2001–2007) and in Cracked and Proof; he retired from acting in 2019 to practice somatic psychotherapy.
David Tennant
David Tennant, born David John McDonald in 1971 in Bathgate, Scotland, is a Scottish actor known as the Tenth and Fourteenth Doctor in Doctor Who, DI Alec Hardy in Broadchurch, Kilgrave in Jessica Jones, and Crowley in Good Omens.
David Thewlis
David Thewlis (born David Wheeler, 1963, Blackpool) is an English actor, writer, and director; Cannes best actor winner for Naked (1993), Remus Lupin in the Harry Potter films, Emmy-nominated for Fargo, and author of two novels.
David Threlfall
David Threlfall (born 1953, Burnage, Manchester) is an English actor and director, Olivier and RTS Award winner, famed as Smike in the RSC's Nicholas Nickleby and as Frank Gallagher in Channel 4's Shameless.
David Tom
David Tom (Charles David Tom, born 1978) is an American actor, Emmy-winning Billy Abbott on The Young and the Restless (1999–2002, 2014), twin of Nicholle Tom, brother of Heather Tom, also of Pleasantville and Swing Kids.
David Tomlinson
David Tomlinson (1917-2000), English character actor, George Banks in Disney's Mary Poppins, also The Love Bug and Bedknobs and Broomsticks; RAF veteran, Disney Legend 2002, distinct from the Canadian actor of the same name.
David Troughton
David Troughton (born 1950, London), English RSC actor and son of Second Doctor Patrick Troughton; known for Bob Buzzard in A Very Peculiar Practice, Richard III, and The Archers.
David Visentin
David Visentin (born 1965, Toronto) is a Canadian realtor and HGTV personality, co-host of Love It or List It since 2008 with Hilary Farr and later Page Turner; licensed agent since 1987.
David Wain
David Wain (born 1969, Shaker Heights, Ohio) is an American director, writer, actor and comedian of The State and Stella, known for Wet Hot American Summer, Role Models, Childrens Hospital and Netflix Wet Hot series.
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.
David Walliams
David Walliams (born David Edward Williams, 1971) is an English comedian, actor, and children's author, co-creator of Little Britain with Matt Lucas, a former Britain's Got Talent judge, and author of over 60 million children's books, dropped by HarperCollins in 2025.
David Warner (actor)
David Warner (1941–2022), English stage and screen actor, RSC Hamlet of 1965; known for villains in The Omen, Time Bandits, Tron, and Titanic; Emmy winner for Masada. Not the Australian cricketer of the same name.
David Wayne
David Wayne (Wayne James McMeekan, 1914–1995), American stage, film, and TV character actor; two-time Tony winner for Finian's Rainbow and Teahouse of the August Moon; Mad Hatter on Batman; distinct from the country singer and younger filmmakers of the same name.
David Wenham
David Wenham names a British New Testament scholar (born 1945), Wycliffe Hall and Trinity College Bristol, author of Paul: Follower of Jesus or Founder of Christianity?, and an Australian actor (born 1965) who played Faramir in The Lord of the Rings.
David White (actor)
David White (Daniel David White, 1916–1990) was an American character actor and WWII Marine veteran, trained at the Pasadena Playhouse, famous as Larry Tate on ABC's Bewitched (1964–1972). Distinct from actor-producer David A.R. White.
David Williamson
David Williamson (born 1942) is an Australian playwright and screenwriter, widely described as Australia's most commercially successful playwright, whose plays include The Removalists and Don's Party.
David Wilmot (actor)
David Wilmot is an Irish actor from Dublin, Tony-nominated as Padraic in The Lieutenant of Inishmore, IFTA winner for Intermission, known for The Guard, Calvary, Ripper Street, Black Sails, Station Eleven, and Hamnet; distinct from the 1929–2022 American actor of the same name.
David Woiwod
David Woiwod is an Australian television presenter and journalist who co-hosts Weekend Sunrise on the Seven Network, after five years as 7NEWS US Bureau Chief.
David X. Cohen
David X. Cohen (born David Samuel Cohen, 1966) is an American TV writer, Harvard physics graduate and UC Berkeley computer science master's, co-creator of Futurama with Matt Groening and former Simpsons writer; four-time Emmy winner who adopted the initial X for Writers Guild registration.
David Yates
David Yates (born 1963, St Helens, Merseyside) is a British director of the final four Harry Potter films and all three Fantastic Beasts films, after acclaimed British television work including State of Play and Sex Traffic.
David Yost
David Harold Yost (born 1969, Council Bluffs, Iowa) is an American actor and producer, the original Blue Ranger Billy Cranston in Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, who left citing harassment, later produced TV, and returned for 2023's Once & Always and Cosmic Fury.
David Zaslav
David Zaslav (born 1960) is the American media executive who led Discovery Communications from 2007, created Warner Bros. Discovery by merging with WarnerMedia in 2022, ran it through cost cuts, and sold it to Paramount Skydance in 2026 for a roughly $600 million payout.
David Zayas
David Zayas (born 1962, Ponce, Puerto Rico) is a Puerto Rican-American actor, ex-NYPD officer and Air Force veteran, known as Angel Batista in Dexter and Enrique Morales in Oz, later in Gotham, The Bear, and Dexter: Resurrection.