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name: "Daniel Dietrich"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/daniel-dietrich"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "21 October 1941"
died: "1 September 2015"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
updated: "2026-09-16T21:15:50.916879+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
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# Daniel Dietrich

Actor. Born 21 October 1941 in Chester Springs, Pennsylvania, USA. Died 1 September 2015.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 21 October 1941, Chester Springs, Pennsylvania, USA
- **Died:** 1 September 2015

## Biography

Daniel Dietrich was an American actor. He appeared in a small number of films in the early 1970s, including *Fleshpot on 42nd Street* (1972) as Billy and *Malatesta's Carnival of Blood* (1973) as Malatesta.

He is best known for his role as Dan Givens in George A. Romero's *Dawn of the Dead* (1978). Dietrich was born on 21 October 1941 in Chester Springs, Pennsylvania, and died on 1 September 2015 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

*Sources: imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Dawn of the Dead* (1978), Fi1m 86, as Dan Givens — [page](https://film.one/film/dawn-of-the-dead.md)

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