David Fisher was created by screenwriter Alan Ball and is one of the main characters of the HBO television drama series Six Feet Under which aired for five seasons. He was portrayed by actor Michael C. Hall. David is a repressed, gay funeral director and is the Fisher family's adult middle child who struggles to keep their business, so filled with death, alive.BiographyDavid James Fisher was born to parents Ruth and Nathaniel Fisher Sr. on January 20, 1969. He grew up alongside his older brother Nate and years later became the Fisher family's middle child when their much younger sister Claire came along. Outside of the home, as children, Nate was protective of David when kids would pick on him at school for being sort of an outcast, but inside of the Fisher and Sons funeral home, David was the strong one when it came to being in a room with dead bodies. Nate didn't want to be a part of the family business and left the family's home in California to move to Seattle. David felt abandoned by his big brother and then, at the age of twenty, took on the huge burden of being responsible for helping their father run Fisher and Sons, setting aside his own goal of becoming a lawyer. Eleven years after David joined the family business, while the family was gathered back at home for Christmas, Nathaniel Sr. died suddenly when his car was hit by a bus. It was at this time that David's story and his life began to unfold.David Fisher, on the outside, appears very reserved and conservative. He is a handsome man, often seen wearing suits, and is a regular attendee of St. Bartholomew's Church. He handles his encounters with the grieving families who show up to Fisher and Sons funeral home with class, dignity, and respect. Even in the basement of the home where the bodies of the deceased are embalmed and prepared for viewings, David demands that people be respectful in the way they speak and act around the corpses because he holds such a high reverence for the work he does. But David, on the inside, can't stand himself because he is ashamed of being gay. There is another side to him that is dying to get out and when his father dies, that traumatic event becomes the catalyst for David to start making some changes inside himself.After Nathaniel Sr. died, Ruth asked Nate if he would stay with the family for a few extra days before returning to Seattle. As it turned out, Nate stayed for good and began assisting David with the business, still doing whatever he could to stay as far away from the bodies as possible. David and Nate worked out a lot of issues with each other and as a little time passed, the always-closeted David finally got up the courage to tell his family that he is gay. Little by little, David begins to let loose and explore what he's been missing while he's been hiding who he is all his life.David has a boyfriend. David's boyfriend is a strong, attractive police officer named Keith Charles. They tried to be apart at times, but their connection was too strong to allow them to separate for too long. David and Keith love each other and together start facing down their own, personal demons. Somewhere along the way they also learn how to be more open and honest with each other which brings them even closer together. They decide that they would like to start a family of their own which leads them to adopt two boys who are brothers named Durrell and Anthony. Taking care of the boys proves to be challenging, but with time, a bond develops and the four of them become a true family unit.Just when things are starting to feel comfortable for David, he becomes the victim of a brutal carjacking. David picks up a hitchhiker, thinking he's doing a good deed, but the young man terrorizes and tortures him. He pulls a gun on David and forces him to withdraw four hundred dollars from an ATM to give to him. He ties David up in the back of the van after having dumped the body David was transporting out onto the dark road. David manages to untie the ropes, get away, and hide, but the guy finds him. He forces David to drive the van again. Before the night ends, David is forced to smoke crack. He is severely beaten. He has gasoline poured all over him and is forced to close his mouth around the barrel of a gun. With David's eyes closed, as he is waiting to die, scenes from his life flash through his head. Later, after he survives this terrifying night, he says that he couldn't find anything to hold on to- showing just how insecure he felt in that moment.Following David's attack, he suffers from severe post traumatic stress, seeing his attacker everywhere he looks. He says that he feels like everyone is going to humiliate and murder him. One day while out at a bar, David's stress overcomes him and he attacks another patron. This sets a legal battle in motion, but the situation is eventually resolved. David decides to confront his attacker after identifying him in a line-up at the police station. He didn't want to feel like a doormat anymore.While David is still recovering from the attack, his brother Nate, who had been diagnosed with AVM a few years earlier, dies. David does his best to hold it together so that he can prepare Nate's body for burial and work out the funeral arrangements, but ultimately, he feels lost without his big brother. He now, more than ever, cannot escape from the thought of his own mortality. At Nate's funeral, David begins to speak in front of the mourners but cannot finish what he wants to say because he is so overpowered by grief and fear. At Nate's burial site, David refuses to get out of his car until his mother goes to him and says that she will wait for him until he does. The two of them walk to the burial site together where the family and close friends then bury Nate's body.After some time passes, David and Keith have a wedding and are married. They also become proud grandparents. David will lose his mother and, sadly, after many years together, Keith will be shot and killed while working security for his own business; Charles Security Company. But David will enjoy a lot of good times in his life both with Keith and while in remembrance of him.David Fisher, who had once been forced to step down as deacon of his church after coming out as a gay man, takes pride in singing with the gay men's chorus and goes on to perform in several local theater productions before he will finally pass away while sitting on a bench in Echo Park at the age of seventy-five. As he goes, the last thing he will see will be a vision of Keith as a young man running in the park, catching a football. This was the image that he finally allowed himself to hold on to before letting go.David Fisher will rest in peace.David Fisher1969-2044 Show less «