David Kentish (4 September 1923 – 14 April 1963) was a British artist, stage actor producer, and television documentary maker.
David was educated at Bryanston School and trained as an artist under Sir Cedric Morris and Arthur Lett-Haines at the East Anglian School of Painting and Drawing, together with his school friend Lucian Freud and Bettina Shaw-Lawrence.
David was the younger brother of the operatic tenor John Kentish. Another of his siblings was the actor Elizabeth Kentish.
David was also an actor, and acting and stage management gradually took over his life. In New York, on Broadway, he acted in King Henry IV Part 1 & Part II and in Oedipus Rex (1946) and was the production stage manager for Lawrence Olivier on Anthony and Cleopatra (1951) and Venus Observed (1952) amongst many other productions.
In the late 1950s and early 1960s he worked for Associated-Rediffusion Television producing, writing and editing documentaries such as those for Out of Step with Daniel Farson and the long-running series This Week.