Alastair Duncan (actor, born 1926)
Alistair Duncan, also credited as Alastair Duncan, was an English actor.
Alastair Duncan | |
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Born | 1926 |
Died | 3 August 2005 78–79) | (aged
Education | Royal Academy of Dramatic Art |
Occupation | Actor |
Years active | 1952/1953, 1959–2002 |
Biography
Duncan was accepted at the age of 16 into the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, he had a long career in performance. Particularly with his association with Australia, including playing Puck in Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream to largely but not exclusively school student audiences at the Theatre Royal in Adelaide in 1951/2. He starred in the Australian Broadcasting Commission radio series "Dr Paul" as a voice actor,[1] and performed in New York Broadway in the play Under Milk Wood.[2] Later in his career he appeared in the television soap opera Home and Away and became the director of the Marian Street Theatre.[3]
Duncan also appeared in numerous theatre roles starting in 1952[4]
Filmography
Film
Title | Year | Role | Type |
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1959 | Lady in Danger | Andy Meade | TV movie |
1959 | A Tongue in Silver | TV movie | |
1961 | La Boheme | TV movie | |
1961 | The Big Client | Dave Mason | TV movie |
1962 | Land of Smiles | Sou-Chong | TV movie |
1962 | Funnel Web | Paul Charlton | TV movie |
1964 | The Four-Poster | Michael | TV movie |
1964 | I Have Been Here Before | Dr Gortler | TV movie |
1969 | Voyage Out | Eddy | TV movie |
1971 | Demonstrator | Ted Pacard | |
1972 | The Survivor | TV movie | |
1972 | The Money Game | TV movie | |
1972 | Robinson Crusoe | Voice | Animated TV movie |
1972 | The Prince and the Pauper | Animated TV movie | |
1972 | Yeoman and the Guard | TV movie | |
1972 | Travels of Marco Polo | Voice | Animated TV movie |
1972 | The Virgin Fellas | Hoffnung | Animated TV movie |
1973 | Around the World in Eighty Days | Phileas Fogg (voice) | Animated TV movie |
1973 | Kidnapped | Voice | Animated TV movie |
1973 | The Swiss Family Robinson | Voice | Animated TV movie |
1973 | The Black Arrow | Voice | Animated TV movie |
1973 | The Gentlemen of Titipu | Voice | Animated TV movie |
1975 | The Mysterious Land | Voice | Animated TV movie |
1975 | Ivanhoe | Voice | Animated TV movie |
1976 | The Africans | Narrator | TV movie |
1977 | A Journey to the Center of the Earth | Voice | TV movie |
1977 | Moby-Dick | Voice | Animated TV movie |
1978 | From the Earth to the Moon | Voice | Animated TV movie |
1979 | The First Christmas | Voice | TV short film |
1982 | Heatwave | American Speaker | Feature film |
1983 | On the Run | Mr. Jabert | Feature film |
1984 | The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn | Jim (voice artist) | Animated TV movie |
1984 | Fast Talking | School Inspector | Feature film |
1984 | A Test of Love | Hopgood | |
1985 | 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea | Voice | Animated TV movie |
1988 | Classic Adventure Stories: Robinson Crusoe | Film | |
1991 | The Emperor's New Clothes | Voice | Animated TV movie |
1996 | The Hunchback of Notre Dame | Voice | Animated TV movie |
1996 | Camelot | Voice | Animated TV movie |
Television
Title | Year | Role | Type |
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1953 | El Alamein | Uncredited | |
1960 | Stormy Petrel | Various | TV miniseries |
1962 | The Patriots | TV miniseries | |
1963 | Time Out | Interviewer | TV series |
1964 | A Season in Hell | Paul Verlaine | TV miniseries |
1963-64 | Tribunal | Interviewer | TV series |
1968 | Hunter | Tamas Spivak/Marriott | TV series |
1968 | Contrabandits | 3 roles | TV series |
1969 | I've Married A Bachelor | Joe Garibaldi | TV series |
1969 | Riptide | Harry | TV series |
1969 | Division 4 | Jack Parsons | TV series |
1970 | The Link Men | TV series | |
1967-71 | Homicide | Various - 4 roles | TV series |
1972 | Number 96 | Vernon Saville | TV series |
1972 | Elephant Boy | Jaffne | TV series |
1976 | Shannon's Mob | TV series | |
1981 | Holiday Island | Tom Ballantyne | TV series |
1981-83 | Cop Shop | 2 roles | TV series |
1982-83 | A Country Practice | Mr. Bourke | TV series |
1987 | Vietnam | Ambassador Anderson | TV miniseries |
1988 | Rafferty's Rules | Rex Jacobi | TV series |
1988 | The Dirtwater Dynasty | Doctor | TV miniseries |
1988 | True Believers | Sir William Owen | TV miniseries |
1991 | Ring of Scorpio | Mr. Watts | TV miniseries |
1992 | Six Pack | Meir | TV series |
1995 | Echo Point | Magistrate | TV series |
1993-98 | Australia's Most Wanted | Narrator | TV series |
1998 | A Difficult Woman | Honour De Grasse | TV miniseries |
1990 / 2002 | Home and Away | Antonio Lucini / Judge Williamson | TV series |
Theatre
Title | Year | Role | Type |
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1951-52 | A Midsummer Night's Dream | Puck | Theatre Royal, Adelaide |
Under Milk Wood | Broadway |
References
- "Dr Paul (Episode 4626) – Grace Gibson Productions Radio Serial". National Film and Sound Archive. Retrieved 12 October 2021.
- "Alistair Duncan "Under Milk Wood" (Oct 15, 1957 – Nov 16, 1957)". Internet Broadway Database. Retrieved 12 October 2021.
- Nunn, Judy (3 August 2005). "The voice that took listeners on a magical journey". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 12 October 2021.
- "Alastair Duncan".