Alistair Duncan, also credited as Alastair Duncan, was an English actor.

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

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, and performed in New York Broadway in the play

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. Later in his career he appeared in the television

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and became the director of the

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. Duncan also appeared in numerous theatre roles starting in 1952

Filmography

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* * English stage actors Australian stage actors Australian film actors Australian television actors English film actors English television actors 20th-century English actors 1926 births 2005 deaths {{england-film-actor-stub