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Deathstalker (1983 film)

Deathstalker (1983) is a Roger Corman-produced sword-and-sorcery film directed by James Sbardellati, starring Rick Hill, Barbi Benton, and Lana Clarkson, shot in Argentina for about $500,000, spawning three sequels and a 2025 remake.

Deathstalker (2025 film)

Deathstalker (2025) is a Canadian sword-and-sorcery film written and directed by Steven Kostanski, a reimagining of Roger Corman's 1983 cult film, starring Daniel Bernhardt with Patton Oswalt voicing Doodad, released October 10, 2025, and holding a 90% Rotten Tomatoes score.

Deathstroke: Knights & Dragons

Deathstroke: Knights & Dragons is a 2020 DC animated project, planned as a 12-episode CW Seed series but released as an R-rated direct-to-video movie starring Michael Chiklis as Slade Wilson, directed by Sung Jin Ahn and written by J.M. DeMatteis.

Deathtrap (film)

Deathtrap (1982) is Sidney Lumet's film of Ira Levin's Broadway comedy-thriller, starring Michael Caine, Christopher Reeve, and Dyan Cannon; a playwright plots murder to steal a student's script, released by Warner Bros. on 19 March 1982.

Deathwatch (2002 film)

Deathwatch (Czech: Mrtva hlidka) is a 2002 British-German WWI horror-war film, M.J. Bassett's directorial debut, starring Jamie Bell and Andy Serkis as soldiers stalked by an unseen evil in a German trench.

Deauville American Film Festival

Deauville American Film Festival (Festival du Cinéma Américain de Deauville), annual September festival in Deauville, France, founded 1975 by Lionel Chouchan and André Halimi, showcasing Hollywood and independent American films with the Grand Prix and Prix d'Ornano-Valenti.

Debashree Roy (দেবশ্রী রায়)

Debashree Roy, also known as Debasree Roy, is an Indian actress known for her work in Bengali cinema, with more than forty awards including the National Film Award for Best Actress for Unishe April.

Debbi Morgan

Debbi Morgan (Deborah Morgan), born 1956 in Dunn, North Carolina, is an American actress famous as Angie Baxter Hubbard on All My Children, a Daytime Emmy winner also known for Eve's Bayou, Power, and her memoir The Monkey on My Back.

Debbie Allen

Debbie Allen (Deborah Kaye Allen, born 1950, Houston) is an American actress, dancer, choreographer, director, and producer known for Lydia Grant in Fame, A Different World, Grey's Anatomy, the Debbie Allen Dance Academy, and a 2025 honorary Oscar; not the actress of A Murder in Oakland (2025).

Debbie Dingle

Debbie Dingle (Deborah Dingle, née Jones) is a fictional Emmerdale character played by Charley Webb 2002-2021, daughter of Charity and Cain Dingle, mother of Sarah and Jack, later written out to Australia.

Debbie Does Dallas

Debbie Does Dallas (1978) is a Golden Age pornographic film directed by Jim Clark, starring Bambi Woods, famous for the Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders trademark suit and its 1987 public-domain status.

Debbie Downer

Debbie Downer is slang for a person who dampens a group's mood with negative comments, popularized by Rachel Dratch's SNL character debuting May 1, 2004 at Disney World, written with Paula Pell, with sad trombone.

Debbie Fiderer

Deborah "Debbie" Fiderer, formerly DeLaGuardia, is the fictional executive secretary to President Bartlet on NBC's The West Wing, played by Lily Tomlin from 2002 to 2006; she was hired after being fired for recommending Charlie Young.

Debbie Grayson

Debbie Grayson (Deborah Grayson) is Invincible's mother and Omni-Man's wife in Robert Kirkman and Cory Walker's Image Comics series, a powerless human real estate agent; first seen in 2002, she is voiced by Sandra Oh in the expanded TV adaptation.

Debbie Lee Carrington

Debbie Lee Carrington (Deborah Lee Carrington, 1959-2018), American little-person actress and stuntwoman born in San Jose; ewok in Return of the Jedi, Thumbelina in Total Recall, Alien Father in Men in Black, Chucky's stunt double.

Debbie Matenopoulos

Debbie Matenopoulos (Thespina "Despina" Matenopoulos, born 1974) is a Greek-American TV host, original co-host of The View (1997-1999), later E!, The Insider, and Home & Family, cookbook author, and October 2026 informal candidate for U.S. ambassador to Greece.

Debbie McGee

Debbie McGee (Debra Ann McGee, born 1958) is an English TV, radio and stage performer, Royal Ballet School-trained dancer, and widow-assistant of magician Paul Daniels; first female Magic Circle member (1991), Strictly 2017 runner-up.

Debbie Reynolds

Debbie Reynolds (Mary Frances Reynolds, 1932-2016), American actress, singer, and dancer; MGM musical star of Singin' in the Rain and Oscar-nominated The Unsinkable Molly Brown; mother of Carrie Fisher; Las Vegas hotel owner and Hollywood memorabilia collector.

Debbie Rowe

Debbie Rowe (Deborah Jeanne Rowe, born 1958), former nurse at Dr. Arnold Klein's Beverly Hills dermatology office, Michael Jackson's 1996-2000 wife and mother of Prince and Paris Jackson; testified in his 2005 and 2013 trials, later lived privately in Palmdale, California.

Debby Ryan

Debby Ryan, full name Deborah Ann Ryan, is an American actress and singer born in 1993, known for Disney's The Suite Life on Deck and Jessie and Netflix's Insatiable.

Debi Derryberry

Debi Derryberry (Deborah Sue Greenberg), American voice actress born 1960 in Indio, California; voice of Jimmy Neutron, Draculaura, Coco Bandicoot, and Zatch Bell, plus children's musician and author of Voice Over 101.

Debi Diamond

Debi Diamond, stage name of Debra Ann Lester (born 1965), American adult film actress and producer active 1983-1995 and 2009-2011, XRCO and AVN Hall of Fame member, founder of Debi Diamond Films; distinct from the Chicago radio host and the Januries musician of the same name.

Debi Mazar

Debi Mazar, born 1964 in Queens, New York, is an American actress known for Goodfellas, Entourage's Shauna Roberts, and Younger's Maggie Amato, and for her friendship with Madonna, whom she met at Danceteria.

Deborah Ann Woll

Deborah Ann Woll (born 1985, Brooklyn) is an American actress known as Jessica Hamby in True Blood and Karen Page in Daredevil, The Defenders, The Punisher, and Daredevil: Born Again, plus tabletop gaming series Relics and Rarities and Children of Éarte.

Deborah Chow

Deborah Chow is a Canadian director and showrunner from Toronto who directed The High Cost of Living (2010), two episodes of The Mandalorian, and all six episodes of Obi-Wan Kenobi (2022), becoming the first woman to direct live-action Star Wars.

Deborah Findlay

Deborah Findlay is an English stage and screen actress born 1947 in Surrey. Known for Top Girls, the Olivier-winning Stanley, Tony-nominated The Children, and Ruth Defoe in The Split.

Deborah Foreman

Deborah Foreman (Deborah Lynn Foreman), American actress born 1962 in Montebello, California; star of Valley Girl (1983) as Julie Richman opposite Nicolas Cage, April Fool's Day (1986) dual lead, ShoWest Most Promising New Star 1986; retired from acting in 1991 to teach yoga and Pilates.

Deborah Frances-White

Deborah Frances-White is a London-based Australian-British comedian, author, screenwriter, and podcaster, best known as co-creator and host of the feminist comedy podcast The Guilty Feminist, launched in 2016.

Deborah Kara Unger

Deborah Kara Unger (also billed Deborah Unger), Canadian actress born in Vancouver, trained at Australia's NIDA; known for Crash (1996), The Game (1997), Payback, Sunshine, White Noise, and Silent Hill's Dahlia Gillespie.

Deborah Kerr

Deborah Kerr (born 1921), Scottish-born film and stage actress, CBE, star of The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp, Black Narcissus, From Here to Eternity, and The King and I; six Best Actress Oscar nominations without a win, honorary Academy Award 1994, BFI Fellowship 1986.