Peter Duncan (actor)
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Peter Duncan (born May 3, 1954) is a British actor and television presenter, best known as a former presenter of Blue Peter.
A graduate of the Italia Conti Academy stage school, Duncan began his television career as a child actor, appearing in series such as a BBC dramatisation of Treasure Island, Survivors, the serial King Cinder and the ITV children's science fiction series The Tomorrow People. He also had an extremely brief role in the film Flash Gordon, with his character dying after just eleven seconds on screen.
He joined Blue Peter in 1980, and shortly afterwards it was revealed in a tabloid newspaper that Duncan had previously performed nude love scenes in the adult thriller film The Lifetaker (1975). Although this revelation was an embarrassment to the BBC, they accepted that as he had done this before Blue Peter and probably needed the money he earned, it would not - and did not - affect his tenure on Blue Peter.
Unusually, Duncan did two stints with Blue Peter, being on the team from 1980 to 1984, and again from 1985 to 1986. During his stay with the programme, he became associated with the kind of daredevil stunts previously popularised by John Noakes, and these continued in his own spin-off series, Duncan Dares. After leaving permanently in 1986, he returned to the stage, most notably in the musical Barnum.
In 2004, Duncan was appointed as the 9th Chief Scout for The Scout Association in the UK, for five years from 5 September 2004.
Most recently, he starred in and directed Cinderella at New Wimbledon Theatre in South London. He appeared on BBC1's Through the Keyhole on 15 March 2006, and took part in the Channel 4 series The Games, that same year.
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| Preceded by: Christopher Wenner |
Blue Peter Presenter No. 12 1980-84 |
Succeeded by: Michael Sundin |
| Preceded by: Michael Sundin |
Blue Peter Presenter No. 12 (again) 1985-86 |
Succeeded by: Caron Keating |
