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Biography of Duncan MacRae - Actor
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Duncan MacRae (August 20,1905-March 23,1967) was born in Glasgow. MacRae was a Scotland|Scottish actor and comedian with a glaikit (Scots word for naïve or clueless) mannerism. He had a role in the 1949 Ealing Studios|Ealing comedy Whisky Galore!, based on the book by Sir Compton Mackenzie, and in the first TV series of Neil Munro's masterpiece of west coast "high jinks" - Para Handy - master mariner - played the eponymous Captain.

