David Evans (August 7, 1893 – May 20, 1966) was a British screenwriter and novelist. He entered the British film industry during the 1930s where he worked on a number of quota quickies. During the 1940s he was employed on several more prestigious films such as Terence Fisher's Portrait from Life (1948). From the mid-1950s he switched to the United States working on a final screenplay Strange Intruder (1956) before switching to television.