Duncan Lamont(1918-1978)

Duncan Lamont began his career in the 1940's in Waterfront Women (1950) and Quentin Durward (1955), then went to Hollywood for Mutiny on the Bounty (1962). Returning to Britain, he went into what he later remembered as one of his happiest roles, opposite Margaret Rutherford in Murder at the Gallop (1963). He once described himself as a 'heavy with a capacity for light villainy', though he was never really a bad villain. While he was sometimes on the right side of the law, he nevertheless tended to end up dead or defeated. Television work took him to America for appearances in such as The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp (1955), Hawaiian Eye (1959), and The Alaskans (1959), while British credits included Z Cars (1962), Danger Man (1960), and Dixon of Dock Green (1955).