Duncan Preston

AKA:
2.114

1946-08-11

Bradford, West Yorkshire, England, UK

Biography

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Cast RolesCast Roles Played = {61}

Hal

1984-01-29 2.5

Scandalous

An investigative reporter following an espionage story goes to London and gets involved with murder, scam artists and rock concerts. ...
Genre :Comedy

Angus

1979-02-02 7.3

Macbeth

Macbeth is a 1978 videotaped version of Trevor Nunn's Royal Shakespeare Company production of the play by William Shakespeare. Produced by Thames Television, it features Ian McKellen as Macbeth and Ju ...
Genre :Drama, TV Movie

Grandpa Jim

2006-12-26 6.1

After Thomas

Television film adaptation of the true story ("A Friend Like Henry" by Nuala Gardner) of a young autistic boy and his extraordinary friendship with his dog, Thomas. ...
Genre :Drama

Sergeant

2004-10-15 5.6

Five Children and It

The Psammead is an 'it', an ancient, ill-tempered sand-fairy with a spider-shaped body, bat-like ears, and snail-like eyes. It is grumpy but has the power to grant one wish a day, which must be made b ...
Genre :Adventure, Fantasy, Family

Police Car Driver

1980-03-16 6.1

A Nightingale Sang In Berkeley Square

An American ex-con who is trying to go straight is persuaded to be the inside man for an audacious bank job in central London. ...
Genre :Crime, Comedy, Action

Mr. Clifford

2006-03-13 7

Acorn Antiques: The Musical

Acorn Antiques: The Musical! is the all-singing, all-dancing and fully overalled stage version of the beloved TV spoof. The triumphant West End production brought together Julie Walters (Mrs Overall) ...
Genre :Comedy

Jim

1994-09-11 7.5

Pat and Margaret

Unexpected events occur when Pat, a glamorous British-born star of American soaps, returns home to plug her auto-biography on television and meets, for the first time since they were teenagers, Margar ...
Genre :Drama, Comedy, TV Movie

Stranger

1981-01-01 7

Say No to Strangers

A short film to warn children of sexual predators. ...
Genre :Documentary

Clifford

1987-12-18 7.5

Acorn Antiques

Starring Victoria Wood, Julie Walters, Celia Imrie, Duncan Preston, with the snobby continuity announcer played by Susie Blake, Acorn Antiques was a mini soap opera set in a shop on the outskirts of M ...
Genre :Comedy

Jim

1981-08-08 6

Happy Since I Met You

A play by Victoria Wood. Frances is 28, single and happy, despite ritual interrogation from her family as to why she's not married. Then she meets Jim, and finds she has decisions to make. ...
Genre :Drama, Romance, TV Movie

Fred Harston

1983-01-24 0

The Maze

A couple move to a country estate that turns out to be haunted. ...
Genre :TV Movie, Mystery, Drama

Sophie's Dad

2014-11-14 4.519

Nativity 3: Dude, Where's My Donkey?!

This Christmas the pupils of St Bernadette's and their much-loved, madcap teacher Mr. Poppy are back for their biggest adventure yet involving fantastic flashmobs, excitable elves, Christmas carols an ...
Genre :Comedy, Family

Groom

1975-01-07 6

Night Is the Time for Killing

Film starring Judy Geeson, James Smilie, Charles Gray, Alister Williamson ...
Genre :Mystery, Horror, TV Movie

Kevin's Dad #1

1999-12-27 7.5

Harry Enfield Presents Kevin's Guide to Being a Teenager

Kevin the Teenager (Harry Enfield) presents this guide to those years of acne, angst and, of course, hating your parents, ably assisted by his best mate, Perry (Kathy Burke). All the basic topics are ...
Genre :Comedy

Sgt Wilson

1999-01-01 2

Milk

Forty-five-year-old Adrian has been living with his mother Lucy and running their Wiltshire dairy farm all his adult life. When Lucy unexpectedly dies of a heart attack, a rogue's gallery of family me ...
Genre :Comedy

Gerald

1987-01-01 7

Gentry

Gerald and Susannah, an affluent young couple, inspect a shabby town house for sale. Gerald has plans to renovate it and sell it on for a big profit. But their expedition quickly turns into a nightmar ...
Genre :Drama, TV Movie, Comedy, Thriller

1992-12-25 5.5

Victoria Wood's All Day Breakfast

A television comedy special broadcast on BBC One on Christmas Day 1992. Sketches, stand-up comedy and songs combine to create the latest daytime show to be hosted by a popular husband-and-wife team. T ...
Genre :TV Movie, Comedy

Weatherman

1979-08-12 6.7

Porridge

Times are hard for habitual guest of Her Majesty Norman Stanley Fletcher. The new prison officer, Beale, makes MacKay look soft and what's more, an escape plan is hatching from the cell of prison godf ...
Genre :Comedy, Crime

Ged

2015-10-01 5.5

Howl

When passengers on a train are attacked by a creature, they must band together in order to survive until morning. ...
Genre :Horror

Club Member (Uncredited)

1984-12-14 6.836

A Passage to India

Cultural mistrust and false accusations doom a friendship in British colonial India between an Indian doctor, an Englishwoman engaged to marry a city magistrate, and an English educator. ...
Genre :Drama, Adventure, History

Self

2020-11-30 0

Victoria Wood In Her Own Words

A look back at the life and work of one of Britain's greatest comediennes, featuring interviews with those who worked alongside Victoria. ...
Genre :Documentary, Comedy

Ralph Campbell

1986-01-01 0

Buddy

Buddy (1986) is a BBC schools drama, based on the novel of the same name by Nigel Hinton. It was shown as part of the social studies strand. It starred Wayne Goddard as Buddy Clark, a teenager dealing ...
Genre :Drama, Family

Jim (archive footage, uncredited)

2003-03-30 0

Thora Hird Tribute

Friends, colleagues and fans, including Julie Walters, Jonathan Ross, Norman Wisdom, Keith Barron and Victoria Wood, pay tribute to Dame Thora Hird, who died in 2003 at the age of 91. ...
Genre :Comedy

Stan Meadowcroft

1998-11-12 7.4

dinnerladies

Dinnerladies is a BBC sitcom written by and starring Victoria Wood that chronicles the antics of a group of workers in a canteen in the north of England. Bren tries to maintain a semblance of order in ...
Genre :Comedy

J.F. Kennedy

1997-02-20 6.5

Chalk

A British television sitcom set in a comprehensive school named Galfast High. Two series written by Steven Moffat were broadcast on BBC1 in 1997. Like his earlier sitcom Joking Apart, it was produced ...
Genre :Comedy

1972-10-16 4.2

Emmerdale

The lives of several families in the Yorkshire Dales revolve around a farm and the nearby village. With murders, affairs, lies, deceit, laughter and tears, it's all there in the village. ...
Genre :Soap, Drama

Jonathan Haslam

1989-04-14 7

Surgical Spirit

Surgical spirit is a British situation-comedy television series starring Nichola McAuliffe and Duncan Preston that was broadcast from 14 April 1989 through to 7 July 1995. It was written by Annie Bruc ...
Genre :Comedy

Tommy Tanner

1992-04-10 7.1

Heartbeat

Set during the 1960s in the fictional North Yorkshire village of Aidensfield, this enduringly popular series interweaves crime and medical storylines. ...
Genre :Crime, Drama, Comedy

1985-01-11 7.6

Victoria Wood: As Seen on TV

Victoria Wood: As Seen on TV is a British sketch comedy series created by and starring comedian Victoria Wood with Julie Walters, Celia Imrie, Duncan Preston, Susie Blake and Patricia Routledge. The s ...
Genre :Comedy

Moose Magnusson

1987-02-24 4

Hardwicke House

Hardwicke House is a 1987 British sitcom produced by Central Independent Television for ITV. Seven spisodes were made, but the series was so poorly received that only the first two were transmitted. ...
Genre :Comedy

1982-01-01 7

Wood and Walters

Wood and Walters is a British BAFTA nominated comedy sketch show starring Julie Walters and Victoria Wood for Granada Television and written entirely by Wood. The show was short-lived, with just one p ...
Genre :Comedy

2018-09-20 7

Emmerdale 1918

Marking 100 years since the end of the First World War, Emmerdale 1918 uncovers the incredible untold stories of real Yorkshire men and women from the unique perspective of the cast of one of Britain’ ...
Genre :Documentary

Captain Lewis (voice)

1989-11-16 7.5

Victoria Wood

Victoria Wood was a series of six one-off situation comedies written by and starring Victoria Wood in 1989, who took a break from sketches, two years after her very successful and award winning series ...
Genre :Comedy

Tommy

2009-05-18 7.1

Moving On

Moving On is a British television series set in contemporary Britain consisting of standalone dramas all sharing the theme of someone going through some kind of change in their life and moving on. ...
Genre :Drama

John Rutter

2003-01-19 7.6

The Royal

Follows the staff and patients of a Yorkshire cottage hospital in the 60s, embroiled in tangled love lives and bitter power struggles. ...
Genre :Drama

DS Todd

1985-02-19 4.146

EastEnders

The everyday lives of working-class residents of Albert Square, a traditional Victorian square of terrace houses surrounding a park in the East End of London's Walford borough. ...
Genre :Soap, Drama, Crime

Douglas Homer

1989-01-16 7.5

Press Gang

The activities of the staff at The Junior Gazette, a children's weekly newspaper produced by a group of school pupils. ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama

Martin Wilson

1993-05-10 6.1

Peak Practice

Peak Practice is a British drama series about a GP surgery in Cardale — a small fictional town in the Derbyshire Peak District — and the doctors who worked there. It ran on ITV from 10 May 1993 to 30 ...
Genre :Drama

Paul

1981-10-18 6.7

Bergerac

Jim Bergerac is a detective sergeant in The Foreigners Office who likes to do things his own way. While dealing with his own personal demons Bergerac has a knack of finding trouble, and sometimes cau ...
Genre :Drama

Doug Potts

1972-10-16 4.2

Emmerdale

The lives of several families in the Yorkshire Dales revolve around a farm and the nearby village. With murders, affairs, lies, deceit, laughter and tears, it's all there in the village. ...
Genre :Soap, Drama

Jacques Gavain

1977-09-07 7.5

Secret Army

World War II drama about covert organisation Lifeline helping allied airmen escape after being shot down in occupied Europe, working with the Resistance and hiding from the Gestapo. ...
Genre :Drama, War & Politics

William Fleming

1997-03-23 7.503

Midsomer Murders

The peacefulness of the Midsomer community is shattered by violent crimes, suspects are placed under suspicion, and it is up to a veteran DCI and his young sergeant to calmly and diligently eliminate ...
Genre :Crime, Drama, Mystery

DI Johnny Campbell

1996-02-21 7.5

Silent Witness

A team of exceptional forensic pathologists and scientists investigate heinous crimes and use their skills to catch the people responsible. ...
Genre :Crime, Drama

Don Foster

1992-04-10 7.1

Heartbeat

Set during the 1960s in the fictional North Yorkshire village of Aidensfield, this enduringly popular series interweaves crime and medical storylines. ...
Genre :Crime, Drama, Comedy

Sep Gibbons

1978-01-08 7.8

All Creatures Great and Small

The trials and misadventures of the staff at a country veterinary office in Yorkshire. James Herriot, a young animal surgeon, moves to a small Yorkshire town to begin his first job. ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama

Prison Guard

1977-09-07 7.5

Secret Army

World War II drama about covert organisation Lifeline helping allied airmen escape after being shot down in occupied Europe, working with the Resistance and hiding from the Gestapo. ...
Genre :Drama, War & Politics

Floor Manager

1987-09-13 7.4

The New Statesman

The New Statesman is a British sitcom of the late 1980s and early 1990s satirising the Conservative government of the time. ...
Genre :Comedy

Self - Participant

2011-10-24 5

Celebrity Antiques Road Trip

Antiques experts accompany celebrities on a road trip around the UK searching for treasures and competing to make the most money at auction ...
Genre :Talk

Colin Cooper

1997-03-23 7.503

Midsomer Murders

The peacefulness of the Midsomer community is shattered by violent crimes, suspects are placed under suspicion, and it is up to a veteran DCI and his young sergeant to calmly and diligently eliminate ...
Genre :Crime, Drama, Mystery

Heinrich von Erlichshausen

1984-04-28 7.6

Robin of Sherwood

Robin of Sherwood was a British television series, based on the legend of Robin Hood. Created by Richard Carpenter, it was produced by HTV in association with Goldcrest, and ran from 1984 to 1986 on t ...
Genre :Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Drama, Action & Adventure

Karl Drake

1977-12-30 7.5

The Professionals

The lives of Bodie and Doyle, top agents for Britain's CI5 (Criminal Intelligence 5), and their controller, George Cowley. The mandate of CI5 was to fight terrorism and similar high-profile crimes. ...
Genre :Action & Adventure, Crime, Drama

Fireman

1982-01-08 7.6

Shine on Harvey Moon

Shine on Harvey Moon! is a British comedy-drama series made by Central Television for ITV from 8 January 1982 to 23 August 1985 and briefly revived in 1995 by Meridian. This generally light-hearted s ...
Genre :Drama

Kevin's Dad

1994-11-04 7.1

Harry Enfield and Chums

Harry Enfield, Kathy Burke, Paul Whitehouse and others take on an array of oddball characters and old-time favorites in this sketch comedy show. ...
Genre :Comedy

Colin Pinkerton / 'The Magnificent Colin'

2002-04-21 8.5

Born and Bred

In the 1950s at the fictional Lancashire village of Ormston, a father and son, both doctors, navigate the challenges of running a cottage hospital under the newly established National Health Service. ...
Genre :Drama

Mr Braithwaite

1981-10-23 6.1

That's My Boy

That's My Boy is a British sitcom produced by Yorkshire Television for ITV from 1981 to 1986. It stars Mollie Sugden as Ida Willis, who takes a job as a housekeeper for her son, whom she gave up for a ...
Genre :Comedy

2011-11-11 0

Comedy Blaps

Comedy Blaps is Channel 4's vehicle for piloting comedy online. Some pilots consist of a single short, whereas others consist of a few shorts. ...
Genre :

Hugo Lawrence-Batley

2023-10-13 5.8

The Good Ship Murder

Former police detective Jack Grayling, pursuing his dream of becoming a cabaret singer on a luxury Mediterranean cruise ship, investigates a series of murders on board with the help of the ship's firs ...
Genre :Mystery, Drama, Crime

PC Fred Pooley

1973-06-04 0

Hunters Walk

Hunters Walk – devised by Dixon of Dock Green creator Ted Willis – was about crime on a smaller – but no less dramatic – scale, and featured a police force in the fictional Midlands town of Broadstone ...
Genre :Crime, Drama

Self

2018-03-14 9

Dinnerladies Diaries

In 1998 Victoria Wood put pen to paper and wrote her multi-award-winning comedy, dinnerladies. Twenty years on this documentary takes a look back at what it was like working on this well-loved sitcom. ...
Genre :Documentary, Comedy

Pugmire

1988-02-21 7

Noble House

Despite its impressive history and reputation, the international trading company Struan's is in trouble. Overextended by the previous management, new tai-pan Ian Dunross has had to issue public stock ...
Genre :Drama, Mystery, Crime

2022-06-29 0

Remembers…

What are the secrets of our favourite TV shows? Famous names from both sides of the camera reflect on making some of the most popular and influential programmes of all time. ...
Genre :Documentary, Talk