Dustin Diamond

To my generation Dustin Diamond will always be Screech, and that's both his blessing and his curse. Carrying one oddball character from child actor through more than a decade of Saved by the Bell spinoffs is a strange kind of endurance most performers never face. He later veered into directing and even pro wrestling, which I read as a restless man trying to outrun a single role. He never quite escaped it, and the later years were rocky, but I find something honest in that struggle. Losing him at 44 in 2021 felt far too soon.

Name (English)

Dustin Diamond

Name (Japanese)

ダスティン・ダイアモンド

Reading

だすてぃん・だいあもんど

Born

January 7, 1977 – February 1, 2021

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Capricorn / Snake

Origin

San Jose, California, United States

Occupation

actor / film director / pornographic actor / television actor / professional wrestler

Motto

Private

• Xhttps://x.com/dustindiamond
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%80%E3%82%B9%E3%83%86%E3%82%A3%E3%83%B3%E3%83%BB%E3%83%80%E3%82%A4%E3%82%A2%E3%83%A2%E3%83%B3%E3%83%89

Tags

• California
• actor
• film director
• pornographic actor

Last updated

2026-06-02

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.