Duncan Macrae
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Duncan Macrae (August 20, 1905-March 23, 1967) was born in Glasgow and attended Allan Glen's School. Macrae was a Scottish actor and comedian with a glaikit (Scots word for naïve or clueless) mannerism.
He was a member of the early Citizens Theatre company in Glasgow.
He had a role in the 1949 Ealing comedy Whisky Galore!, based on the book by Sir Compton Mackenzie, and in the first TV series of created by Neil Munro's masterpiece of west coast "high jinks", Para Handy - Master Mariner, he played the eponymous Captain. He had a home in Millport on the island of Cumbrae.[1]
During the 1960s he appeared in episodes of the cult TV series The Avengers and The Prisoner, and as Inspector Mathis in the Bond spoof Casino Royale.
Macrae became a mainstay of television Hogmanay celebrations in the 1950s and 1960s with his rendition of the traditional song (in Scots language), The Wee Cock Sparra.
[edit] References
- ^ Scottish Daily Record. Millport.(Town of the Week). Retrieved on December 10, 2005.
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