Duncan Roy

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Duncan Roy
Born (1960-07-08) 8 July 1960 (age 65)
Whitstable, Kent, England
Occupation(s) Film director, film producer

Duncan Roy (born 8 July 1960) is an English film director and producer, script writer, art director and television personality. [1]

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Early life

Roy was born on 8 July 1960, in Whitstable, Kent, England to Frances Elizabeth Spark and Kuros Khazaei. From the age of 2 he was raised by his mother and stepfather, David W. Roy in Whitstable.

Career

Roy was a subject of Robin Soans's play, Life After Scandal in 2007. He has also been the subject of a BBC Radio 4 documentary. In 1985, Roy worked at the Richard Demarco Gallery in Edinburgh. While there, he organized art tours for the gallery to Germany and Poland with Joseph Beuys and Tadeusz Kantor. It was at this time that he met Jay Jopling, one of the subjects of his autobiographical documentary Whitstable.

Roy's 2002 film AKA is based on his personal [2] experience beginning in 1979 when he headed for Paris, leaving Roy behind and reinventing himself as Lord Anthony Rendlesham.

"As Anthony Rendlesham, I didn't have to clutter my head with all the stories of my family, the terrible times. I could be clean, simple, grand. I was everything I wanted to be." [3]

Personal life

Starting 1 November 2009, Roy appeared on VH1's Sex Rehab with Dr. Drew , [4] [5] [6] a reality television series about treating sexual addiction. [7] In early 2012, The Independent reported that Roy battled with cancer and had a tumor removed. [8]

On 19 October 2012 a class action suit [9] was filed by Roy and five others as class representatives as and on behalf of immigrants in L.A. County Jail detained without opportunity to post bail. Roy was detained for 89 days. [10] Roy's Los Angeles bail bondsman Morris Demayo, who worked on getting him bailed out, recalls “The minute he got arrested, it was one weird incident after another. The jailer basically said 'We have an ICE hold, so we can't accept the bond.' There was just a runaround." [11] The suit was joined by the ACLU among other groups. [12]

Awards

AKA

Filmography

References

  1. ↑ "Duncan Roy". Movies & TV Dept. The New York Times . 2014. Archived from the original on 24 April 2014.
  2. ↑ "aka-director-duncan-roy-is-queer-outrageous-and-quite-possibly-brilliant". indiewire.com . Retrieved 19 September 2025.
  3. ↑ Caroline Roux The Guardian, Saturday 21 September 2002
  4. ↑ Behar, Joy (4 November 2009). "'Addicted to Sex' segment/01". THE JOY BEHAR SHOW. Transcripts.CNN.com . Retrieved 19 September 2025. VH1`s "Sex Rehab with Dr. Drew." And two sex addicts who participated in the VH1 show: British film director Duncan Roy and Playboy Playmate Nicole Narain.
  5. ↑ Pierce, Harrison. "Duncan Roy Joins Dr. Drew for Sex Rehab | Good Sex". Advocate.com. Archived from the original on 4 June 2011. Retrieved 19 June 2011.
  6. ↑ "Sex Rehab With Dr. Drew". latimes.com . Archived from the original on 2 November 2009. Retrieved 4 September 2013.
  7. ↑ "Sex Rehab with Dr. Drew › Full Episodes". VH1. 9 November 2009. Archived from the original on 24 June 2013. Retrieved 4 September 2013. episode 102
  8. ↑ The film director, the ex-lovers' tiff, and a brush with the law that came straight out of Kafka Guy Adams, The Independent, 18 February 2012
  9. ↑ "Duncan Roy: Director Trapped in Men's Central Jail". www.aclusocal.org American Civil Liberties Union of Southern California . 5 April 2012. Retrieved 19 September 2025.
  10. ↑ "British film director imprisoned in California jail for 84 days". The Independent . 19 October 2012. Retrieved 19 September 2025.
  11. ↑ "duncan-roy-jail-director-trapped". LA Weekly. Archived from the original on 8 May 2013. Retrieved 21 March 2013.
  12. ↑ U.S.D.C. Central Division [ permanent dead link ], Case #:CV12-9012-RG, Filed October 19, 2012
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