美国电影演员，生于马耳他。早年在英国和美国从事广播和舞台演唱，30年代初期进入电影界，在影片中多演出反面人物。代表作有《绝代艳后》、《荡妇姬黛》等。
David Janssen was born David Harold Meyer in 1931 in Naponee, Nebraska, to Berniece Mae (Graf) and Harold Edward Meyer, a banker. He was of German, and some Swiss-German and Scottish-Irish, descent. David took the surname of his stepfather, Eugene Janssen.
Hugh O'Brian had the term "beefcake" written about him during his nascent film years in the early 1950s, but he chose to avoid the obvious typecast as he set up his career.
