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Derek Fowlds
Derek Fowlds (1937-2020), English actor known as Mr Derek in The Basil Brush Show, Bernard Woolley in Yes Minister and Yes, Prime Minister, and Oscar Blaketon in all 18 series of ITV's Heartbeat.
Derek Griffiths
Derek Griffiths (born 1946) is a British actor, presenter, and composer known for Play School and Play Away, the voice of SuperTed, The Black Mikado, RSC Shakespeare roles, Coronation Street, and an MBE.
Derek Hough
Derek Hough (born 1985, Salt Lake City) is an American dancer, choreographer, and judge; six-time Dancing with the Stars Mirrorball champion, four-time Emmy-winning choreographer, West End Footloose star, and husband of Hayley Erbert Hough.
Derek Jacobi
Sir Derek Jacobi (born 22 October 1938, Leytonstone, London) is an English classical actor, National Theatre founding member, BAFTA-winning star of I, Claudius, and winner of Tony, two Emmy, and two Olivier Awards.
Derek Jarman
Derek Jarman (Michael Derek Elworthy Jarman, 1942–1994), English avant-garde filmmaker, painter, and gay rights campaigner; director of Sebastiane, Jubilee, Caravaggio, The Last of England, and Blue; diagnosed HIV in 1986 and went public.
Derek Klena
Derek Klena, also known as Derek Anthony Klena, is an American actor and singer known for Broadway roles in Anastasia, Jagged Little Pill, and Moulin Rouge!
Derek Kolstad
Derek Kolstad, Wisconsin-born screenwriter and creator of the John Wick franchise (originally titled Scorn), writer of John Wick 1-3, Nobody 1-2, Falcon and the Winter Soldier episodes, Splinter Cell: Deathwatch, and Normal.
Derek Luke
Derek Luke, American actor born 1974 in Jersey City, New Jersey; film debut as Antwone Fisher (2002) won him an Independent Spirit Award; known for Friday Night Lights, Glory Road, Catch a Fire, 13 Reasons Why.
Derek Mears
Derek Mears (born 1972, Bakersfield, California) is an American actor and stuntman known for Jason Voorhees in Friday the 13th (2009), Swamp Thing (2019), Predators, and Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters.
Derek Ramsay
Derek Ramsay is a Filipino-British film and television actor in the Philippines, first known as an MTV VJ, who won the Metro Manila Film Festival Best Actor award twice, in 2014 and 2017.
Derek Shepherd
Derek Shepherd, nicknamed McDreamy, is the fictional neurosurgeon played by Patrick Dempsey on Grey's Anatomy from the 2005 pilot, Meredith Grey's love interest, killed in a 2015 season 11 truck crash and later revived in dream sequences.
Derek Theler
Derek Theler, American actor and model, best known as Danny Wheeler on Baby Daddy (2012-2017, 100 episodes); also 68 Whiskey, American Gods, and the unaired Marvel New Warriors pilot as Mister Immortal.
Derek Thompson (actor)
Derek Thompson (born 1948, Belfast) is a Northern Irish actor who played nurse Charlie Fairhead in BBC's Casualty from 1986 to 2024, appeared in The Long Good Friday, and sang with twin sister Elaine as Elaine and Derek.
Derek Waters
Derek Waters (born 1979, Baltimore) is an American actor, comedian, and writer, co-creator and host of Comedy Central's Drunk History with Jeremy Konner; also known for Derek & Simon and roles in Hall Pass.
Deric Augustine
Deric Augustine (born 1990) is an American actor from New Orleans known as Muhammad Ali in Godfather of Harlem and Officer Miles Penn on The Rookie, promoted to series regular in Season 8; also author of the YA fantasy novel Nawlins.
Derk Cheetwood
Derk Cheetwood (born 1973, Bowling Green, Ohio) is an American actor, Max Giambetti on General Hospital from 2002, brother of Drew Cheetwood, films The Postman, U-571, Frailty.
Dermot Crowley
Dermot Joseph Crowley, Irish actor born 1947 in Cork, known as General Madine in Return of the Jedi, Martin Schenk in Luther and Luther: The Fallen Sun, and Kaganovich in The Death of Stalin.
Dermot Morgan
Dermot Morgan (1952–1998), Irish comedian, satirist and actor, star of Channel 4's Father Ted as Father Ted Crilly; earlier famous in Ireland for Father Trendy on The Live Mike and the radio satire Scrap Saturday.
Dermot Mulroney
Dermot Mulroney, American actor and cellist from Alexandria, Virginia, known for My Best Friend's Wedding, Young Guns, Longtime Companion, and Chicago Fire's Chief Dom Pascal.
Dermot O'Leary
Dermot O'Leary (Seán Dermot Fintan O'Leary, born 1973) is a British-Irish broadcaster known for hosting The X Factor (2007–2018), Big Brother's Little Brother, BBC Radio 2's Saturday show, and This Morning Fridays with Alison Hammond.
Derpy Hooves
Derpy Hooves, also called Ditzy Doo, Muffins, or Bubbles, is a fan-named cross-eyed gray pegasus background character from My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, named on 4chan in 2010, given a speaking role in The Last Roundup, and edited after an ableism controversy.
Derren Brown
Derren Brown (born 1971, Croydon) is a British psychological illusionist and mentalist who debuted on Channel 4's Mind Control in 2000, won two Olivier Awards, and currently tours Only Human.
Derren Nesbitt
Derren Nesbitt, born Derren Michael Horwitz in 1935, is a British actor best known for playing the Gestapo officer Major von Hapen in Where Eagles Dare (1968).
Derrick (TV series)
Derrick: German ZDF crime series (1974–1998), 281 episodes starring Horst Tappert as Munich chief inspector Stephan Derrick with Fritz Wepper as Harry Klein; written by Herbert Reinecker, produced by Helmut Ringelmann, sold to over 100 countries, withdrawn from ZDF airings after Tappert's 2013 Waffen-SS disclosure.
Derry Girls
Derry Girls is a Channel 4 sitcom (2018–2022) created by Lisa McGee, about teenage friends in 1990s Derry during the Troubles, starring Saoirse-Monica Jackson, Nicola Coughlan, and Siobhán McSweeney; three seasons, 19 episodes, BAFTA and International Emmy winner.
Dersu Uzala (1975 film)
Dersu Uzala (Дерсу Узала, デルス・ウザーラ), 1975 Mosfilm Soviet-Japanese drama directed by Akira Kurosawa, adapted from Arsenyev's 1923 memoirs, starring Maksim Munzuk and Yuriy Solomin; his only non-Japanese-language film, 70mm, Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film 1976.
Dervla Kirwan
Dervla Kirwan (born 1971, Churchtown, Dublin) is an Irish actress known for Phoebe in Goodnight Sweetheart, Assumpta in Ballykissangel, Smother, Ondine, True Detective: Night Country and House of Guinness.
Des (TV series)
Des (TV series), ITV three-part 2020 true-crime drama about serial killer Dennis Nilsen, starring David Tennant, Daniel Mays, and Jason Watkins, based on Brian Masters's Killing for Company, directed by Lewis Arnold, aired 14-16 September 2020.
Des Bishop
Des Bishop (Deasún Mac an Easpaig) is a New York-born, Ireland-based stand-up comedian known for RTÉ immersion series like The Des Bishop Work Experience and In the Name of the Fada, Mandarin-language Chinese stand-up, and current Grey Area Tour dates.
Des O'Connor
Des O'Connor (1932–2020), English comedian, singer and TV presenter, hosted The Des O'Connor Show from 1963, Des O'Connor Tonight for 25 years, and Countdown 2007–2008; had the UK No. 1 single "I Pretend" in 1968 and 36 albums.