AKA William A. Duncan

Born: 16-Dec-1879
Birthplace: Dundee, Scotland
Died: 8-Feb-1961
Location of death: Hollywood, CA
Cause of death: unspecified
Remains: Buried, Inglewood Park Cemetery, Inglewood, CA

Gender: Male
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Actor

Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Silent film actor

Acted and directed in films from the Selig Polyscope Company and later Vitagraph, becoming one of the top performers in silent westerns. He retired in 1925. He may have come out of retirement in the 1930s to appear in Hopalong Cassidy and other westerns (and we have him listed here as such), but film historian Ephraim Katz claims that is in fact a different William Duncan (1874-1945).

Wife: Edith Johnson (m. 1921, until his death)

    FILMOGRAPHY AS DIRECTOR
    Vengeance -- and the Woman (24-Dec-1917)

    FILMOGRAPHY AS ACTOR
    Texas Rangers Ride Again (13-Dec-1940)
    The Farmer's Daughter (15-Feb-1940)
    Law of the Pampas (3-Nov-1939)
    The Frontiersmen (16-Dec-1938)
    Bar 20 Justice (24-Jun-1938) · Buck Peters
    Thunder Trail (22-Oct-1937)
    Hopalong Rides Again (20-Aug-1937)
    Three on the Trail (14-Apr-1936)
    Vengeance -- and the Woman (24-Dec-1917)

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