Dan De Luca

Dan DeLuca is an American actor, writer, and filmmaker who studied acting at the Herbert Berghof Studio in New York and is best known for playing Dr. David Parenti in the fourth season of HBO's The Wire. He also had roles in Veep and House of Cards. His work behind the camera includes co-directing and producing Eco-Teens Save the World, directing Two-Minute Heist, and writing, producing, and serving as second unit director on Crazy Eights (2006). With Ken Arnold he wrote and produced The Night Watchmen (2017), A Comedy of Horrors Volume 1, and A Town Called Purgatory, the horror Western they co-wrote and in which he starred, which screened at film festivals in 2024. His awards include Best Actor and Best Director at the 2009 NYIIFF Festival, Best Performance at the 2014 ZED Film Festival, and feature prizes for On the Wing. He is also a novelist, writing the Horror Detective series Marchetti & Walsh: The Dark Files.