David Stanley Kernan (23 June 1938 – 26 December 2023) was an English actor, best known as an interpreter of the songs of Stephen Sondheim.

[3][4] He also made two appearances on BBC TV's long running Edwardian Old Time Music Hall variety show, The Good Old Days, in the 1970s and 80s.

Kernan made his television debut singing with Millicent Martin on the BBC current affairs series Tonight.

He played the role of Captain Charles Hammond, the young lover of Lady Marjorie Bellamy, in the episode "Magic Casements".

Kernan also had small roles in two episodes of The Avengers, as an amateur radio enthusiast and chess player in "Never, Never Say Die" and, in a scene-stealing turn, as a foot fetishist shoe designer who, in the shuddering throes of repressed ecstasy, moulds Mrs. Peel’s left foot in plaster of Paris, in "Quick Quick, Slow Death".

Kernan co-starred as Mr Kodaly opposite Robin Ellis in the 1980s television version of the popular Christmas musical She Loves Me.

Kernan also had small roles in several films, including Gaolbreak (1962), Mix Me a Person (1962), Farewell Performance (1963), Zulu (1964), Otley (1968), Up the Chastity Belt (1971) and Carry On Abroad (1972).