---
name: "Donovan Leitch"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/donovan-leitch"
fi1m_id: "donovan-leitch"
imdb_id: "nm6230258"
tmdb_id: 58141
wikidata_id: "Q552470"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "16 August 1967"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 2
average_fi1m_score: 75
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 2
updated: "2026-10-02T21:46:50.327135+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."
---

# Donovan Leitch

## Identity

Donovan Leitch

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/donovan-leitch
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** donovan-leitch
- **IMDb ID:** nm6230258
- **TMDB ID:** 58141
- **Wikidata ID:** Q552470
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donovan_Leitch_(actor), https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q552470, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm6230258/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/58141

Actor. Born 16 August 1967 in London, England, UK.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 16 August 1967, London, England, UK
- **Active:** 1989–2005
- **Also known as:** Donovan Leitch Jr.
- **Average Fi1m score:** 75, as actor, over 2 titles
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 1980s 82 (1), 2000s 68 (1)
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donovan_Leitch_(actor), https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q552470, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm6230258/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/58141

## Streaming the US now

- **Amazon Prime Video:** [*Glory*](https://film.one/film/glory.md) (82)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Biography

Donovan Leitch (born Donovan Jerome Leitch, also credited as Donovan Leitch Jr.) is an English-born American actor and singer. He was born on 16 August 1967 in London and is the son of singer-songwriter Donovan and the brother of actress Ione Skye.

Leitch began acting in the 1980s with film roles including a dancer in *Breakin' 2: Electric Boogaloo* (1984), Paul Taylor in *The Blob* (1988), Capt. Charles Fessenden Morse in *Glory* (1989), and Brian Woods in *Cutting Class* (1989). He later appeared as Gerard Malanga in *I Shot Andy Warhol* (1996) and had guest roles in television series such as *21 Jump Street* (1987), *Sex and the City* (1998) and *Grey's Anatomy* (2005). He has also performed as a musician, including as a member of the bands Camp Freddy and Nancy Boy.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (2)

- *Grey's Anatomy* (2005), Fi1m 68, as Rick Friart — [page](https://film.one/tv/greys-anatomy.md)
- *Glory* (1989), Fi1m 82, as Capt. Charles Fessenden Morse — [page](https://film.one/film/glory.md)

## Complete filmography (33)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Habit* (2021), as News Anchor · Producer
- *Grey's Anatomy* (2005), series, as Rick Friart — Fi1m 68, [page](https://film.one/tv/greys-anatomy.md)
- *Girls Club* (2002), series, Actor
- *Birds of Prey* (2002), series, as Malcolm
- *Last Party 2000* (2001), Director, Producer
- *The Job* (2001), series, Actor
- *Men Make Women Crazy Theory* (2000), Actor
- *Cherry* (1999), as Eddie
- *Love Kills* (1999), as Dominique
- *The '60s* (1999), as Neal Reynolds
- *The '60s* (1999), series, as Neal Reynolds
- *Sex and the City* (1998), series, as Baird Johnson
- *One Night Stand* (1997), as Kevin
- *Big City Blues* (1997), as Donovan
- *The Size of Watermelons* (1997), as Patrick
- *I Shot Andy Warhol* (1996), as Gerard Malanga
- *Cityscrapes: Los Angeles* (1996), as Troy
- *Bed, Bath and Beyond* (1996), Actor
- *Jack the Bear* (1993), as Grad Student
- *Dark Horse* (1992), as J.B. Hadley (as Donovan Leitch)
- *Gas Food Lodging* (1992), as Darius
- *For the Very First Time* (1991), Actor
- *Cityscrapes* (1990), as Nate
- *Glory* (1989), as Capt. Charles Fessenden Morse — Fi1m 82, [page](https://film.one/film/glory.md)
- *Cutting Class* (1989), as Brian Woods
- *The Blob* (1988), as Paul Taylor
- *And God Created Woman* (1988), as Peter Moran
- *The In Crowd* (1988), as Del
- *21 Jump Street* (1987), series, as Mike Pratt
- *The Abduction of Allison Tate* (1986), as Martin Stubbs
- *Breakin' 2: Electric Boogaloo* (1984), as Dancer
- *It's Your Move* (1984), series, as Boy
- *Alice* (1976), series, Actor

## Gallery

- ![Donovan Leitch at Hollywood Life Magazine’s 7th Annual Breakthrough Awards (2007)](https://film.one/media/person/119579/gallery-6653d14ee350.jpg) Donovan Leitch at Hollywood Life Magazine’s 7th Annual Breakthrough Awards (2007) — lukeford.net, CC BY-SA 2.5, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c6/Donovan_Leitch_Jr.JPG?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Donovan Leitch](https://film.one/media/person/119579/gallery-f1daa15ee96e.jpg) Donovan Leitch — derivative work: Tabercil (talk)
Donovan_Leitch_Jr.JPG: lukeford.net, CC BY-SA 2.5, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9b/Donovan_Leitch_Jr_adjusted.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)

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