Peter Duncan Biography
Peter Duncan is an English actor and television presenter. He was a Blue Peter broadcaster in the 1980s and produced a series of family trip programs from 1999 to 2005. He directed, produced, and starred in Jack and the Beanstalk, which will be released in national cinemas across the UK in 2020.
How old is Peter Duncan? – Age
He is 69 years old as of 3 May 2024. He was born in 1954 in Chelsea, London, United Kingdom.
Peter Duncan Family – Education
He attended the Italia Conti Academy of Theatre Arts, an independent stage school in London. Duncan finished his secondary school at the Hawes Down School for Boys in West Wickham, Bromley, London. He also studied at the Open University.
Peter Duncan Wife – Children
He has been married to Annie Francis since 1980. Duncan’s family also includes his wife Annie and their four children, Lucy, Katie, Georgia, and Arthur.
Peter Duncan Net Worth
He has an estimated net worth of £2.5million.
Peter Duncan Blue Peter
Duncan joined Blue Peter in 1980, and it was soon disclosed in a tabloid publication that he appeared naked in Michael Papas’ psychological horror picture The Lifetaker. In The Times, the BBC disputed that he was ever a porn performer. As late as 2007, the Daily Mirror still referred to the film as a “skin flick”. He ran the first London Marathon in 1981 (in 3 hours and 10 minutes) and returned in 1991, 2001, and 2012. His final run was slated for October 3, 2021.
Duncan joined Blue Peter twice, from 1980 to 1984 and again from 1985 to 1986, which was unusual. During his time on the show, he became linked with the type of reckless exploits popularised by John Noakes, which he maintained in his own spin-off series, Duncan Dares. One of his most memorable antics came in 1980, when the Blue Peter team sent him out on a rope swing to wipe the face of Clock Tower (Big Ben) without a safety belt, causing significant difficulty for the BBC. It is detailed in Richard Marson’s book Blue Peter 50th Anniversary. On February 20, 2007, Duncan received the highest Blue Peter Award – The Gold Badge. As Chief Scout of the Scout Association, he was granted this badge.
Peter Duncan Documentary
Between 1999 and 2005, Duncan directed and produced three travelogue documentary programs. Each series consisted of six episodes that followed his family on backpacking trips across the world. The first series, Travel Bug, followed a six-month tour around the world.The series, which was shot in 1999 while the children were between the ages of 7 and 13, aired on BBC1 for children. The third series, Chinese Breakaway, chronicled the family’s two-month backpacking trip in China in 2002. The series was broadcast on Five and Sky Travel.Duncan’s 13-year-old son served as the principal presenter in the third season, Arthur’s Trip to India (which broadcast on Five). A one-off program (Arthur’s trip to Jordan) followed his son into the heart of the Middle East.
Peter Duncan Career
Duncan’s initial profession was as a phase entertainer, showing up as Jim Hawkins in Fortune Island followed by two years at Sir Laurence Olivier’s Public Theater. His eminent TV jobs remember work for The Tomorrow Public, Space: 1999, Ruler Ash, Play for Now, Warship, Oranges and Lemons, and season 2 of Survivors. In films, he showed up as Francois in the sex parody On the Game (1974), the guitarist Kevin in Stardust (1974), Pack Nubbles in Mr Quilp (1975), the unfortunate Richard in The Lifetaker (1976), and in a concise job in the film Streak Gordon (1980), with his personality kicking the bucket following a couple of moments on screen. Duncan featured in an episode of the kids’ TV program Storybook Worldwide as a youthful expert in the story of ‘Cap O Surges’.
Duncan assumed driving parts in the BBC’s Above all else Soot as Kerry, and as Jimmy Carter in the 1977-1978 ITV kids’ TV series The Flockton Flyer. In the wake of leaving Blue Peter for all time in 1986, he got back to the stage, most eminently in Mike Stott’s Entertaining Particular and in the musicals Barnum, Me and My Young lady and The Card for which he was designated for an Olivier Grant for Best Entertainer in a Melodic. During the 1990s he showed up in various mimes, some of which he likewise delivered through his organization Here’s One I Made Before, including Robin Hood at the Lewisham (presently Broadway) Theater in South East London. He composed and coordinated the Oxford Playhouse emulate from 2006 to 2013 He played Charlie Harmony at Nottingham Playhouse in 2013 and Jack Firebrace in Birdsong in 2014 and 2015. He played Wilbur Turnblad in the visiting creation of Hairspray in 2015/16. Peter is right now filling the role of John Blondel in a two man spooky play When Haziness Falls, set in Guernsey. Duncan was delegated as the Scout Affiliation’s Central Scout, for a five-year residency from 5 September 2004 to July 2009.
In 2007, Duncan partook in the Channel 4 series The Games. He has composed and coordinated emulates for Oxford Playhouse and the Cheltenham Everyman. Until 2019, he created the emulate for the Beacon theater in Dorset. In 2007, he played Macduff in Macbeth at Officials Park Theater, London, and shot a narrative about the Scouts climbing Everest. His exclusive show Asinine and Hazardous showed up in the 2009 Edinburgh periphery. Duncan highlighted in Through the Keyhole for the third time on 26 January 2019.
In 2014, Duncan contended in BBC1’s aerobatic and bazaar show Tumble going out in the semi-last. He was designated for an ‘Offie’ for his exhibition in The Lady at the Recreation area Theater, London. Duncan laid out The Regular Experience Organization in 2015 which has some expertise in independent strolling occasions and extraordinary interest visits, especially in southeast Europe. He is a Benefactor of English Youth Music Theater. In 2020, he composed, delivered and coordinated Jack and the Beanstalk, an English film which had a public film discharge.