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 |
Alistair Duncan, also credited as Alastair Duncan, was an English actor.
Duncan was accepted at the age of 16 into the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art In London.
Duncan had a long career in performance, particularly in Australia. He appeared in numerous theatre roles starting in 1952' [1] 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 . [2]
Duncan was chairman of Australian Theatre for Young People when its first committee was formed in 1963 [3] He became the director of the Marian Street Theatre later in his career. [4]
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 | 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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