Duncan Preston

Q: Has Duncan Preston won any awards?

Duncan Preston has received nominations for various awards, including the Royal Television Society Awards, though he has not won any major accolades.

Q: When did Duncan Preston start his acting career?

Duncan Preston began his acting career in the early 1970s, appearing in various stage productions before transitioning to television and film.

Q: What is Duncan Preston's most successful film?

While he has had many notable roles, 'One for the Road' (2023) is among his recent successful films, gaining attention for its engaging storyline.

Q: What is known about Duncan Preston's personal life?

Duncan Preston has been married to Gail Preston since 1993, and they have two children together, maintaining a relatively private family life.

Q: What is Duncan Preston's estimated net worth?

Duncan Preston's estimated net worth is around $1 million, reflecting his successful career in acting across various mediums.

Q: What are some milestones in Duncan Preston's filmography?

Key milestones include his roles in 'Dinnerladies', 'One for the Road', and numerous theatrical performances that have established his reputation in the industry.

Q: Is Duncan Preston involved in any charitable activities?

Duncan Preston has participated in various charitable events and performances, supporting causes related to the arts and community welfare.

Known for

Howl (2025)

2025 / Drama / 16mins

Daisy and Lila are best friends. At a suburban house party, shifting desires and tough choices force them to reconsider their place in the...

A Passage to India (1984)

IMDb 7.3 / 10

1984 / Action, Adventure / 164mins

Set during the period of growing influence of the Indian independence movement in the British Raj, the story begins with the arrival in India...

Name

Duncan Preston

Height

6 ft 1 in (1.85 m)

Born

11 March 1948, Kingston upon Hull, England

Spouses

Gail Preston (1993–present)

Children

2 children

Parents

George Preston, Mary Preston

Estimated Net Worth

$1 million

Year	Title	Character	Rating
2023	TV The Good Ship Murder Former police detective Jack Grayling, pursuing his dream of becoming a cabaret singer on a luxury Mediterranean cruise ship, investigates...	Hugo Lawrence-Batley	TMDB 5.9 / 10
2022	TV Remembers… What are the secrets of our favourite TV shows? Famous names from both sides of the camera reflect on making...	Unknown character	Not rated
2020	Movie Victoria Wood In Her Own Words A look back at the life and work of one of Britain's greatest comediennes, featuring interviews with those who worked...	Self	Not rated
2018	TV Emmerdale 1918 Marking 100 years since the end of the First World War, Emmerdale 1918 uncovers the incredible untold stories of real...	Self - Narrator	TMDB 7.0 / 10
2018	TV Dinnerladies Diaries In 1998 Victoria Wood put pen to paper and wrote her multi-award-winning comedy, dinnerladies. Twenty years on this documentary takes...	Self	TMDB 9.0 / 10
2015	Movie Howl When passengers on a train are attacked by a creature, they must band together in order to survive until morning.	Ged	TMDB 5.6 / 10
2014	Movie Nativity 3: Dude, Where's My Donkey?! This Christmas the pupils of St Bernadette's and their much-loved, madcap teacher Mr. Poppy are back for their biggest adventure...	Sophie's Dad	TMDB 4.5 / 10
2013	TV Tipping Point: Lucky Stars Ben Shephard hosts the quiz show in which three celebrities take on an extraordinary machine in the hope of winning...	Self - Contestant	TMDB 7.5 / 10
2011	TV Comedy Blaps Comedy Blaps is Channel 4's vehicle for piloting comedy online. Some pilots consist of a single short, whereas others consist...	Unknown character	Not rated
2011	TV Celebrity Antiques Road Trip Antiques experts accompany celebrities on a road trip around the UK searching for treasures and competing to make the most...	Self - Participant	TMDB 6.0 / 10
2009	TV Moving On Moving On is a British television series set in contemporary Britain consisting of standalone dramas all sharing the theme of...	Tommy	TMDB 7.4 / 10
2006	Movie After Thomas Television film adaptation of the true story ("A Friend Like Henry" by Nuala Gardner) of a young autistic boy and...	Grandpa Jim	TMDB 6.1 / 10
2006	Movie Acorn Antiques: The Musical Acorn Antiques: The Musical! is the all-singing, all-dancing and fully overalled stage version of the beloved TV spoof. The triumphant...	Mr. Clifford	TMDB 8.0 / 10
2004	Movie Five Children and It The Psammead is an 'it', an ancient, ill-tempered sand-fairy with a spider-shaped body, bat-like ears, and snail-like eyes. It is...	Sergeant	TMDB 5.6 / 10
2004	TV Murder in Suburbia Murder in Suburbia was a British detective drama that ran for two series in 2004 and 2005. Detective Inspector Kate...	Walter Archer	TMDB 7.6 / 10
2003	Movie Thora Hird Tribute Friends, colleagues and fans, including Julie Walters, Jonathan Ross, Norman Wisdom, Keith Barron and Victoria Wood, pay tribute to Dame...	Jim (archive footage, uncredited)	Not rated
2003	TV The Royal Follows the staff and patients of a Yorkshire cottage hospital in the 60s, embroiled in tangled love lives and bitter...	John Rutter	TMDB 7.8 / 10
2002	TV Born and Bred In the 1950s at the fictional Lancashire village of Ormston, a father and son, both doctors, navigate the challenges of...	Colin Pinkerton / 'The Magnificent Colin'	TMDB 9.0 / 10
1999	Movie Harry Enfield Presents Kevin's Guide to Being a Teenager Kevin the Teenager (Harry Enfield) presents this guide to those years of acne, angst and, of course, hating your parents,...	Kevin's Dad #1	TMDB 8.0 / 10
1999	Movie Milk Forty-five-year-old Adrian has been living with his mother Lucy and running their Wiltshire dairy farm all his adult life. When...	Sgt Wilson	TMDB 4.0 / 10
1998	TV dinnerladies Dinnerladies is a BBC sitcom written by and starring Victoria Wood that chronicles the antics of a group of workers...	Stan Meadowcroft	TMDB 7.4 / 10
1997	TV Midsomer Murders The peacefulness of the Midsomer community is shattered by violent crimes, suspects are placed under suspicion, and it is up...	William Fleming	TMDB 7.5 / 10
1997	TV Midsomer Murders The peacefulness of the Midsomer community is shattered by violent crimes, suspects are placed under suspicion, and it is up...	Colin Cooper	TMDB 7.5 / 10
1997	TV Chalk A British television sitcom set in a comprehensive school named Galfast High. Two series written by Steven Moffat were broadcast...	J.F. Kennedy	TMDB 7.1 / 10
1996	TV Silent Witness A team of exceptional forensic pathologists and scientists investigate heinous crimes and use their skills to catch the people responsible.	DI Johnny Campbell	TMDB 7.6 / 10
1994	TV Harry Enfield and Chums Harry Enfield, Kathy Burke, Paul Whitehouse and others take on an array of oddball characters and old-time favorites in this...	Kevin's Dad	TMDB 7.3 / 10
1994	Movie Pat and Margaret Unexpected events occur when Pat, a glamorous British-born star of American soaps, returns home to plug her auto-biography on television...	Jim	TMDB 7.7 / 10
1993	TV Peak Practice Peak Practice is a British drama series about a GP surgery in Cardale — a small fictional town in the...	Martin Wilson	TMDB 6.5 / 10
1992	Movie Victoria Wood's All Day Breakfast A television comedy special broadcast on BBC One on Christmas Day 1992. Sketches, stand-up comedy and songs combine to create...	Unknown character	TMDB 6.0 / 10
1992	TV Heartbeat Set during the 1960s in the fictional North Yorkshire village of Aidensfield, this enduringly popular series interweaves crime and medical...	Tommy Tanner	TMDB 7.2 / 10
1992	TV Heartbeat Set during the 1960s in the fictional North Yorkshire village of Aidensfield, this enduringly popular series interweaves crime and medical...	Don Foster	TMDB 7.2 / 10
1989	TV Victoria Wood Victoria Wood was a series of six one-off situation comedies written by and starring Victoria Wood in 1989, who took...	Captain Lewis (voice)	TMDB 8.0 / 10
1989	TV Surgical Spirit Surgical spirit is a British situation-comedy television series starring Nichola McAuliffe and Duncan Preston that was broadcast from 14 April...	Jonathan Haslam	TMDB 7.8 / 10
1989	TV Press Gang The activities of the staff at The Junior Gazette, a children's weekly newspaper produced by a group of school pupils.	Douglas Homer	TMDB 7.5 / 10
1988	Movie Sun Child This movie was incredibly touching. The story revolves around a young girl "Em" (played by Laura Goodwin). The movie opens...	Unknown character	TMDB 8.5 / 10
1988	TV Noble House Despite its impressive history and reputation, the international trading company Struan's is in trouble. Overextended by the previous management, new...	Pugmire	TMDB 7.0 / 10
1987	Movie Acorn Antiques Starring Victoria Wood, Julie Walters, Celia Imrie, Duncan Preston, with the snobby continuity announcer played by Susie Blake, Acorn Antiques...	Clifford	TMDB 7.5 / 10
1987	TV The New Statesman The New Statesman is a British sitcom of the late 1980s and early 1990s satirising the Conservative government of the...	Floor Manager	TMDB 7.4 / 10
1987	TV Hardwicke House Hardwicke House is a 1987 British sitcom produced by Central Independent Television for ITV. Seven spisodes were made, but the...	Moose Magnusson	TMDB 5.2 / 10
1987	Movie Gentry Gerald and Susannah, an affluent young couple, inspect a shabby town house for sale. Gerald has plans to renovate it...	Gerald	TMDB 7.0 / 10
1986	Movie Buddy Buddy (1986) is a BBC schools drama, based on the novel of the same name by Nigel Hinton. It was...	Ralph Campbell	Not rated
1985	TV EastEnders The everyday lives of working-class residents of Albert Square, a traditional Victorian square of terrace houses surrounding a park in...	DS Todd	TMDB 4.2 / 10
1985	TV Victoria Wood: As Seen on TV Victoria Wood: As Seen on TV is a British sketch comedy series created by and starring comedian Victoria Wood with...	Unknown character	TMDB 7.9 / 10
1984	Movie A Passage to India Cultural mistrust and false accusations doom a friendship in British colonial India between an Indian doctor, an Englishwoman engaged to...	Club Member (Uncredited)	TMDB 6.8 / 10
1984	TV Robin of Sherwood Herne the Hunter picks Robin of Loxley as his successor in his mission to support the oppressed. Robin builds his...	Heinrich von Erlichshausen	TMDB 7.6 / 10
1984	Movie Scandalous An investigative reporter following an espionage story goes to London and gets involved with murder, scam artists and rock concerts.	Hal	TMDB 4.7 / 10
1983	Movie The Maze A couple move to a country estate that turns out to be haunted.	Fred Harston	Not rated
1982	TV Shine on Harvey Moon Shine on Harvey Moon! is a British comedy-drama series made by Central Television for ITV from 8 January 1982 to...	Fireman	TMDB 7.7 / 10
1982	TV Wood and Walters Wood and Walters is a British BAFTA nominated comedy sketch show starring Julie Walters and Victoria Wood for Granada Television...	Unknown character	TMDB 7.6 / 10
1981	TV That's My Boy That's My Boy is a British sitcom produced by Yorkshire Television for ITV from 1981 to 1986. It stars Mollie...	Mr Braithwaite	TMDB 6.6 / 10
1981	TV Bergerac Jim Bergerac is a detective sergeant in The Foreigners Office who likes to do things his own way. While dealing...	Paul	TMDB 6.7 / 10
1981	Movie Happy Since I Met You A play by Victoria Wood. Frances is 28, single and happy, despite ritual interrogation from her family as to why...	Jim	TMDB 8.0 / 10
1981	Movie Say No to Strangers A short film to warn children of sexual predators.	Stranger	TMDB 7.0 / 10
1980	Movie A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square An American ex-con who is trying to go straight is persuaded to be the inside man for an audacious bank...	Police Car Driver	TMDB 6.0 / 10
1979	Movie Porridge Times are hard for habitual guest of Her Majesty Norman Stanley Fletcher. The new prison officer, Beale, makes MacKay look...	Weatherman	TMDB 6.8 / 10
1979	Movie Macbeth Macbeth is a 1978 videotaped version of Trevor Nunn's Royal Shakespeare Company production of the play by William Shakespeare. Produced...	Angus	TMDB 7.5 / 10
1978	TV All Creatures Great and Small The trials and misadventures of the staff at a country veterinary office in Yorkshire. James Herriot, a young animal surgeon,...	Sep Gibbons	TMDB 7.8 / 10
1977	TV The Professionals The lives of Bodie and Doyle, top agents for Britain's CI5 (Criminal Intelligence 5), and their controller, George Cowley. The...	Karl Drake	TMDB 7.6 / 10
1977	TV Secret Army World War II drama about covert organisation Lifeline helping allied airmen escape after being shot down in occupied Europe, working...	Prison Guard	TMDB 7.7 / 10
1977	TV Secret Army World War II drama about covert organisation Lifeline helping allied airmen escape after being shot down in occupied Europe, working...	Jacques Gavain	TMDB 7.7 / 10
1975	Movie Night Is the Time for Killing Film starring Judy Geeson, James Smilie, Charles Gray, Alister Williamson	Groom	TMDB 6.0 / 10
1973	TV Hunters Walk Hunters Walk – devised by Dixon of Dock Green creator Ted Willis – was about crime on a smaller –...	PC Fred Pooley	Not rated
1972	TV Emmerdale The lives of several families in the Yorkshire Dales revolve around a farm and the nearby village. With murders, affairs,...	Unknown character	TMDB 4.3 / 10
1972	TV Emmerdale The lives of several families in the Yorkshire Dales revolve around a farm and the nearby village. With murders, affairs,...	Doug Potts	TMDB 4.3 / 10