Derek Daniel Du Chesne is an American Actor, Producer, Stunt Performer, and Writer. Derek grew up in a small farm town 30 miles North of Green Bay, Wisconsin. He wanted become a marine biologist before studying screenwriting. Derek has played opposite Michael C. Hall and Julia Stiles (Dexter), Esai Morales & Raymond Cruz (Los Americans), Bruce Willis (Mauraders), and Robert DeNiro (Heist). Marauders premieres July 2nd, 2016 with Bruce Willis, Christopher Meloni, Adrian Grenier, Lydia Hull, & Derek Du Chesne.
Derek Duzan is known for Tug (2010) and A Christmas Hero (2020).
Derek Estlin Purvis (born November 27, 1972) is an American screenwriter, film director, producer, executive producer and entrepreneur. In a career spanning two decades, he has financed, produced or directed 13 films of various genres. Purvis was born in Pittsfield, Massachusetts to Joanna Alioto, of Sicilian descent, and Doug Purvis, of Scottish descent. At the age of 5, his mother moved him and his sister to Holderness, New Hampshire. Purvis spent the next decade growing up in rural New Hampshire, among the mountains and lakes. In 1980, the major motion picture "On Golden Pond" was filmed in his hometown. Having spent the summer watching the film being shot from the marine patrol boat, Purvis became fascinated with the art and process of filmmaking. A career pursuit he would never waiver from.
Derek Evanick was born on June 28, 1981 in the USA. He is known for Fish Hooks (2010), Despicable Me (2010) and The Lorax (2012).
Derek graduated from NKU and after a year of touring with ArtReach: A Division of The Children's Theatre of Cincinnati he wrote/directed/produced his first film, "The King of Bloody Fookin' Britain." While the film was in post, he made his TV debut in the BET hit series, "Being Mary Jane" as the eager Veteran PA, Hopper.
Derek Ezenagu is known for The Fifth Element (1997), Dying of the Light (2014) and Strike (2017).
Derek Ford (born 6 September 1932 in Tilbury, Essex - died 19 May 1995) was a British film director and writer, most famous for exploitation films such as The Wife Swappers (1970), Keep It Up, Jack (1974) and Diversions (1976), which was also filmed in a hardcore version. Ford began as a writer in collaboration with his brother Donald Ford (died 1991), originally for radio before progressing to television (The Saint (1962), Adam Adamant Lives! (1966)) and film (The Yellow Teddy Bears (1963), A Study in Terror (1965)). Ford's first foray into directing, "Los Tres Que Robbaran Una Banco" (1961), made in Spain in 1961, was an unhappy experience; however, around the same time he entered the exploitation field when he was asked to re-edit and film additional sequences for a Swedish sex film called Svenska flickor i Paris (1962), eventually released as "Paris Playgirls". Ford's directing career began proper in the late 1960s when he entered into partnership with producer Stanley A. Long, resulting in three films including the massively successful "The Wife Swappers", released in America as "The Swappers" with the tag line, "Remember when all the guy next door wanted to borrow was your lawnmower?". Ford's early 1970s films were mainly shot in London and Maldon, Essex, where he lived, while hardcore scenes meant for the European versions of his films were shot in secret at his own house, with his wife Valerie M. Ford acting as co-director and assistant. Interviewed in the book "Keeping the British End Up", fellow director Ray Selfe referred to Ford as "a male nymphomaniac", and themes of swinging, wife swapping and outwardly respectable people living double lives run throughout Ford's work. In the 1970s the two most well-known Ford films in America were Groupie Girl (1970) and Diversions (1976), starring Heather Deeley, which premiered in the Kips Bay area of Manhattan and was nominated for best foreign film by the Adult Film Association of America. In Italy he directed Proibito erotico (1978), while back in England he quit as the director of Dont Open Till Christmas (1984). In the mid-'80s he attempted to find more mainstream work and dissociate himself from his past, but what little work came his way would drag him back to exploitation film. He directed For Members Only (1960) in Italy in 1985, in which (returning to the themes of "The Wife Swappers") a group of Italian women join a "dare club", and co-directed a horror film in Sweden called Blood Tracks (1985), which also features a brief cameo role from Ford as a location scout for a rock video (his only other known acting role is as "Circus Santa Claus" in "Don't Open Till Christmas"). He was also involved in writing a never-made softcore sitcom called "Park Lane". Ford's final film, The Urge to Kill (1989), starring Peter Gordeno and Sarah Hope-Walker, has never been released, although clips from it appear in the documentary "The Wild, Wild World of Dick Randall". At the close of the 1980s, with the impending recession of the early 1990s on the horizon and no work, Ford decided to opt for a quieter life and put his ideas on paper. Leaving the film business behind him for good, he attempted a second career as an author, writing two books. His experience in the world of "B" movies along with his connections in the business reflected on the theme and setting for both books. The two books were "Panic on Sunset" (1989) and "The Casting Couch" (1990) ("the true story of broken dreams, disillusionment and fallen idols"). "Panic on Sunset" concerns George Schapner, the stressed-out manager/agent of Velma Torraine, a vamp of the silent screen whose heavy Brooklyn accent spells the end of her career as the "talkie" era approaches. A visit to a Hollywood whorehouse specializing in celebrity lookalikes provides George with an unlikely solution to their problem. "The Casting Couch" was a collaborative effort with agent Alan Selwyn, and is credited under the joint pseudonym "Selwyn Ford". Confusingly, the book portrays Selwyn Ford as an actual person. A third book, "Bella", about actress Bella Darvi and her married lover, Hollywood mogul Darryl F. Zanuck, was never completed. Ford died after a heart attack in a branch of WH Smith. According to Stanley Long's recent biography, Ford was almost penniless at the time of his death.
Derek Forestier is known for Making Fun (2022).
London-born character actor Derek Fowlds came to the fore on television as 'Mr. Derek', straight man to the children's puppet Basil Brush (succeeding Rodney Bewes in that capacity), then as private secretary and political advisor Bernard Woolley, diligently keeping the reins on obtuse British Cabinet Minister Jim Hacker (Paul Eddington) in Yes Minister (1980), and, finally, as retired police sergeant -- turned pub proprietor -- Oscar Blaketon during the entire 18-year run of Heartbeat (1992). Having done his national service in the RAF, Fowlds based the Blaketon character on a drill instructor, commenting "I just cut my hair shorter, slicked it back and shouted a lot and Oscar was born." In his youth, Fowlds aspired to becoming a footballer. He first tried acting in school plays as a bit of a lark. "Just for kicks" he later decided to pursue the profession more seriously, trained at RADA and debuted on stage in a 1961 production of "The Miracle Worker" at London's Wyndham Theatre. Thereafter, he popped up in the occasional motion picture but was considerably more prolific on the small screen where he regularly alternated between comedy and drama. Early on, he played the lead in his own short-lived detective series, Take a Pair of Private Eyes (1966). His autobiography "A Part Worth Playing" was released in 2015.
Derek Freda is known for Metro (1997), Bad Grandpa (2013) and Action Point (2018).