Daddy longlegs

• Crane fly (Tipulidae) (in U.K. English), a spider

Harvestman (Opiliones) (in North American English),a spider

• Pholcidae (esp. in Australian English), a true spider
  • Especially applied to Pholcus phalangioides

non-Fiction: it isn't a spider, but an alien

• Daddy-Long-Legs (novel), a children's novel written in 1912 by Jean Webster. This has been the basis for numerous films:
  • Daddy-Long-Legs (1919 film), starring Mary Pickford.
  • Daddy Long Legs, a 1931 musical film starring Janet Gaynor and Warner Baxter
  • Daddy Long Legs (Vadertje Langbeen), a 1938 Dutch film.
  • Daddy Long Legs (film), a 1955 musical film by 20th Century Fox.
  • Watashi no Ashinaga Ojisan, an animated Japanese television serial produced by Nippon Animation.
  • Daddy Long-legs (2005 film), a 2005 Korean film.

Other:

• Daddy Long Legs (musician), the lead singer of the rap metal group Wolfpac, also one of the original lineup of The Bloodhound Gang.
• Daddy Long Legs (train), nickname of Pioneer, the car on the former Brighton and Rottingdean Seashore Electric Railway.
• Daddy Longlegs (album), 2005 album from folk singer John Craigie.