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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

Deathstroke (Slade Wilson) is a DC Comics mercenary and assassin created by Marv Wolfman and George Pérez, debuting in The New Teen Titans #2 (1980) as Deathstroke the Terminator, with superhuman abilities from an experimental military process.

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.

Deb Never

Deb Never, American LA-based singer-songwriter from Spokane, Washington; grunge-emo-hip-hop blend; BROCKHAMPTON "No Halo" vocalist; EPs House on Wheels, Where Have All the Flowers Gone?; debut album ARCADE (2026, Giant Music).

DeBarge

DeBarge, the Grand Rapids, Michigan family R&B group (El, Bunny, Mark, James, Randy DeBarge) signed to Motown via Jermaine Jackson and Switch; 1980s hits "Time Will Reveal" and "Rhythm of the Night."

DeBarge family

The DeBarge family of Grand Rapids, Michigan, produced the funk band Switch (Bobby, Tommy) and the 1980s Motown R&B group DeBarge (El, Randy, Mark, Bunny, James), known for "Rhythm of the Night" and "Time Will Reveal."

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.

Débat

The débat is a medieval French literary genre of verse dialogues in which speakers argue opposing views before a judge, flourishing from the early 12th century.

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 Gibson

Debbie Gibson (born 1970, Brooklyn) is an American singer-songwriter-producer and actress, the late-1980s teen pop star behind Out of the Blue and Electric Youth, and the youngest artist to write, produce, and perform a Billboard Hot 100 No. 1, "Foolish Beat".

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 Harry

Debbie Harry (born 1945, Miami, Florida) is the American lead vocalist and songwriter of new wave band Blondie, co-founded 1974 with Chris Stein; four U.S. No. 1 hits including "Rapture," the first rap No. 1, plus solo albums and acting.

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.

Debbie Sledge

Debbie Sledge (Debra Edwina Sledge, born 1954, Philadelphia) is an American vocalist, founding member and vocal director of Grammy-nominated Sister Sledge, now leading Sister Sledge ft. Sledgendary with her children and recording jazz albums with Niels Lan Doky.

Debbii Dawson

Debbii Dawson (Deborah Dawson), American singer-songwriter from Minnesota, AGT season 17 (2022) contestant, RCA-signed artist behind EPs Learning, How To Be Human, and Where Have All The Good Men Gone?.

Debby Boone

Debby Boone (Deborah Anne Boone, born 1956) is an American singer, daughter of Pat Boone, whose 1977 debut single "You Light Up My Life" spent 10 weeks at No. 1 and won her the Best New Artist Grammy; later country, Christian, and Broadway work.

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.

Debenhams

Debenhams was a British department store chain founded in 1778 at 44 Wigmore Street, London, and Britain's largest department store group at its peak with 178 stores. Its physical stores closed in May 2021; Boohoo owns the brand, now Debenhams Group, an online marketplace.