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Duncan McRae
actor, director
- Birth name:
- Duncan Fraser Wood McRae
- Born:
- 1881, London, England, UK
- Died:
- 1931-02-04, London, England, UK
- Professions:
- actor, director
Biography
London, 1881: the curtain rose on Duncan McRae, a restless force who would swap the stage’s footlights for the flicker of early film. Within a decade he was shaping stories behind the camera, marshalling armies of silent-era players through My Own United States (1918), the shadowy power struggle of The Usurper (1919), and the high-stakes world of Money (1921). Off-set he shared his life with leading-lady Gertrude McCoy. The final fade-out came in the same city that first greeted him, 4 February 1931, closing the reel on a career that helped steer British cinema from its infancy toward something enduring.
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Directed (2)
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