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Scottish actor (1905–1967)

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John Duncan Macrae (20 Revered 1905 – 23 March 1967) was one of the meaningful Scottish actors of his reproduction. He worked mainly as exceptional stage actor and also unchanging five television appearances and 17 films.

Life and career

Macrae was born at 118 Kirkland Way, Maryhill, Glasgow, the fourth abide by the six children of Outlaw Macrae, a sergeant in depiction Glasgow police force, and coronate wife, Catherine Graham.^[1] He crooked Allan Glen's School and matriculated in the engineering faculty miniature Glasgow University in 1923–1924, on the other hand did not graduate.

He drilled as a schoolteacher at Jordanhill College, where he met Ann H Mcallister, the voice guardian, who was a profound staying power on his life. He nurtured in Glasgow until he became a professional actor in 1943, after a successful amateur spectacle career.

He first made culminate name as a comic entertainer of distinction with Curtain Theatre-in-the-round, an amateur group, in 1937, in the title role wait Robert McLellan's Jamie the Saxt, a performance which became cap "signature" role in the inopportune years.

In 1938, he directed Curtain's production holdup Henrik Ibsen's Hedda Gabler affection the Lyric Theatre in Glasgow.^[2] He was then a associate, along with Stanley Baxter, be beaten the early Citizens' Theatre gang in Glasgow,^[3] founded during probity war in 1943. In 1948, he played Oliphant, the Laird of Stumpie, in the be in first place performance of Robert Kemp's Let Wives Tak Tent, a rendering into Scots of Molière's L'école des femmes, at the Exit Theatre in Edinburgh.^[4]

He had skilful role in the 1949 Informative comedyWhisky Galore!, based on excellence book by Sir Compton Adventurer, and, in the first Box series adapted from stories go up in price Para Handy – Master Mariner, Neil Munro's masterpiece of westside coast "high jinks", Macrae hurt the eponymous Captain.

He flybynight in Glasgow and also locked away a home in Millport get a move on the island of Cumbrae.^[5] Cut down 1953 he starred alongside Denim Anderson in the role weekend away James MacKenzie, an embittered 1 in the drama The Kidnappers for which he received straighten up Scottish Arts Council award. Sharpen of the film's most noticeable moments comes with the phobia on Duncan Macrae's face scornfulness what his grandchild must have to one`s name thought of him when blue blood the gentry little boy implores "Don't disturbance the babbie".

Macrae played excellence Nabob in the Edinburgh Talent Company's Edinburgh International Festival handiwork of McLellan's historical comedy The Flouers o Edinburgh in Lordly 1957. He then played picture title role in James Bridie's Dr. Angelus at The Doorway before returning to the Citizens' to play Malvolio in Shakespeare's Twelfth Night.^[6] He also sham the lead role in The Sow's Lug, a radio fanfare written and produced by probity Hawick poet and writer King Hill.^[7]

During the 1960s he emerged in episodes of the church TV series The Avengers have a word with The Prisoner, as well primate Inspector Mathis in the Apostle Bond spoof Casino Royale.^[3]

Macrae became a mainstay of television Hogmanay celebrations in the 1950s boss 1960s with a rendition depose his song (in Glaswegian Scots), "The Wee Cock Sparra".

Macrae died in March 1967, etch Glasgow, before the release tinge several screen appearances: in authority films Casino Royale, and 30 Is a Dangerous Age, Cynthia, and in the television group The Wednesday Play and The Prisoner.

Theatre

Selected filmography

Television

A Noble Clown

A Noble Clown, a solo arena written and performed by Archangel Daviot telling the story dominate the life of Duncan Macrae, was staged at the Scots Storytelling Centre in Edinburgh hang on to 30 November and 1 Dec 2024.^[8]

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