Alastair Duncan | |
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Born | 1926 |
Died | 3 August 2005 (aged 79) [1] |
Education | Royal Academy of Dramatic Art |
Occupation | Actor |
Years active | late 1940s-2002 |
Alastair Duncan, (1926 - 3 August 2005) [1] also credited as Alistair Duncan, was an English-born actor, playwright, producer and director. He was best known for his work as an actor in radio, but also in theatre and television in series and TV movies, both in his native England, Australia and the United States. [1]
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Duncan was accepted in to the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art at the age of 16, before joining the British army, which saw him posted to various international locations,whilst with the army he served with the entertainment unit He worked for the BBC reportory company after being demobilised.
He had a long career in performance, particularly in Australia. He appeared in numerous theatre roles starting in 1951. [2] He played Puck in Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream to largely but not exclusively school student audiences at the Theatre Royal in Adelaide in 1951/1952. He performed in Broadway, New York in the play Under Milk Wood . [3]
Duncan was chairman of Australian Theatre for Young People when its first committee was formed in 1963 [4] He became the director of the Marian Street Theatre later in his career. [1]
He starred in the Australian Broadcasting Commission radio series Dr Paul as a voice actor. [5] Later in his career, Duncan appeared in the television soap opera Home and Away . [6]
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 | A Season in Hell | Paul Verlaine | 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 | Voice | Animated TV movie |
1972 | Yeoman and the Guard | TV movie | |
1972 | Travels of Marco Polo | Voice | Animated TV movie |
1972 | The Virgin Fellas | Hoffnung (voice) | 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) | 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 |
Title | Year | Role | Type |
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1953 | El Alamein | Uncredited | |
1960 | Stormy Petrel | Various | TV miniseries |
1962 | The Patriots | Captain Robinson | 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 |
Title | Year | Role | Type |
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1951-52 | A Midsummer Night's Dream | Puck | Theatre Royal, Adelaide |
1957 | Under Milk Wood | Mog Edwards, The Guide Book, Lord Cut-Glass, Utah Watkins | Broadway |
1962 | Beyond the Fringe | Phillip Street Theatre | |
1964 | Season In Hell | Paul Verlaine | ABC Television Studios |
1965 | Two Plays (in rehearsal) | Independent Theatre | |
1965 | The Representative | University of NSW Old Tote Theatre | |
1965 | The Fire on the Snow (in rehearsal) | Independent Theatre | |
1966 | The Deadly Game | Independent Theatre | |
1966 | A Far Country | Independent Theatre | |
1966 | Luv | Phillip Street Theatre | |
1974 | The Chinese Prime Minister | Actor (also director) | Marian Street Theatre |
1975 | Irma La Douce | Marian Street Theatre | |
1975 | The Cool Duenna | Actor (also director) | Marian Street Theatre |
1976 | The Formation Dancers | Actor (also director) | Marian Street Theatre |
1976 | Cole | Actor (also director) | Marian Street Theatre |
1980 | The Breadwinner | Charles | Marian Street Theatre |
Title | Year | Role | Type | |
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1965 | The Servant of Two Masters | Director | Hurstville Civic Centre, Mosman Town Hall, Parramatta Town Hall & Killara Soldiers Memorial Hall | |
1968 | The Runaway Steamboat | Director | Australia Hall, Adelaide | |
1968 | The Dragon's Holiday | Director / playwright | Phillip Street Theatre & Westfield Hornsby | |
1968 | The Emperor's Nightingale | Adaptor / director | Phillip Street Theatre | |
1969 | The Barber and the Donkey | Playwright | Westfield Hornsby | |
1969 | Treasure Island | Director | University of NSW Parade Theatre | |
1969 | Dick Whittington | Director / music & lyrics | University of NSW Parade Theatre | |
1970 | The Prince and The Firebird | Director | University of NSW Parade Theatre | |
1971 | Remarkable Handcart | Director | University of NSW Parade Theatre | |
1971 | The Mystery of Stanley Barlingbone | Playwright | University of NSW Parade Theatre | |
1972 | Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Sailor | Director / playwright | University of NSW Parade Theatre | |
1972 | Blop Goes the Weazel | Director | University of NSW Parade Theatre | |
1973 | The Dragon's Holiday | Playwright | Bailey Hall, Chatswood | |
1973 | The Emperor's Nightingale | Adaptor | Bailey Hall, Chatswood | |
1973 | The Dragon, The Donkey and The Nightingale | Adaptor / director / playwright | Bailey Hall, Chatswood | |
1973 | Blithe Spirit | Director | Playhouse Canberra | |
1974 | Cowardy Custard | Director | Playhouse Canberra & Marian Street Theatre | |
1974 | Don't Listen Ladies! | Director | Marian Street Theatre | |
1974 | Home and Beauty | Director | Marian Street Theatre & Playhouse Canberra | |
1974 | The Chinese Prime Minister | Director (also actor) | Marian Street Theatre | |
1975 | Semi-Detached | Director | Marian Street Theatre | |
1975 | The Cool Duenna | Director (also actor) | Marian Street Theatre | |
1975 | The Sunshine Boys | Director | Marian Street Theatre | |
1975 | On Monday Next | Director | Marian Street Theatre | |
1976 | I Do! I Do! | Director | Marian Street Theatre | |
1976 | The Formation Dancers | Director (also actor) | Marian Street Theatre | |
1976 | Dry Run | Director | Marian Street Theatre | |
1976 | Cole | Director (also actor) | Marian Street Theatre | |
1976 | Getting On | Director | Marian Street Theatre | |
1977 | Something's Afoot | Director | Marian Street Theatre | |
1977 | The Happy Hunter | Director | Marian Street Theatre | |
1977 | Away Match | Director | Marian Street Theatre | |
1977 | A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum | Director | Marian Street Theatre | |
1978 | Edith Piaf | Director | Marian Street Theatre | |
1978 | Journey's End | Director | Marian Street Theatre | |
1978 | What Every Woman Knows | Director | Marian Street Theatre | |
1978 | A Lad 'n' His Lamp | Director | Marian Street Theatre | |
1979 | Ten Times Table | Director | Marian Street Theatre | |
1979 | Fanny | Director | Marian Street Theatre | |
1979 | The Druid's Rest | DIrector | Marian Street Theatre | |
1979 | Seesaw | Dialect Coach | Marian Street Theatre | |
1980 | Rum for your Money | Director | Marian Street Theatre | |
1980 | Shock! | Director | Marian Street Theatre | ] |
1980 | Family Circles | Director | Marian Street Theatre | |
1980 | Kiss Me, Kate | Director | Marian Street Theatre |
Title | Year | Role | Type |
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1952 | Jemmy Green in Australia | Jemmy | ABC Radio Sydney |
1979 | Amphitryon 38 | Mercury | ABC Radio Sydney |
1979 | The Fire on the Snow | Narrator | ABC Radio Sydney |
1979 | A Wicked Pack of Cards | Sheik Kamal | ABC Radio Sydney |
1979 | What Price Glory? | Captain Flagg | ABC Radio Sydney |
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