David Macmillan
David Graeme Salveson Macmillan is a Scottish actor and former advertising agent. After serving as an army officer, he trained at the Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art (1956–1958), where he won the Spotlight Award and the Margaret Rutherford Medal.
Career
Between 1958 and 1967, Macmillan played parts in repertory at Birmingham Alex (two years), Edinburgh Gateway and Edinburgh Lyceum, Glasgow Citizens, Harrogate, St. Andrews, Wimbledon, Richmond, Colchester, Salisbury and Belfast, among others. He has appeared in radio, in Children's Hour and The Archers. He made over fifty television appearances between 1960 and 1967, including eighteen episodes of Dr Finlay's Casebook (as Constable Dickie), ten episodes of The Flying Swan, eight episodes of The George Kidd Show, and episodes of Compact, The Saint, The Big Pull, The Other Man, and Gideon's Way.
He had a senior management career in recruitment advertising and marketing in London between 1967 and 1995, after which he returned to acting, appearing as Martin Dawson in Taggart (1996) and Dobson in Coming Home (1997). He has performed at the Chichester Festival Theatre[1] and in the West End at the Theatre Royal Haymarket as the valet "Lane" in Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest in 1999,[2] and at the Pitlochry Festival Theatre as Lord Loam in J. M. Barrie's The Admirable Crichton and as Arthur Winslow in Terence Rattigan's The Winslow Boy in 2001.
Acting career
Radio credits
- Children's Hour
- The Archers
Television credits
- The Big Pull (1962)...playing "Dr. Harding" (two episodes) (BBC - Terence Dudley)
- Dr. Finlay's Casebook (1962) (TV Series) (ten episodes)...playing "PC Dickie" (eighteen episodes) (BBC - Campbell Logan, Gerald Blake, Cedric Messina and Julia Smith)
- Studio Four (1962) in episode: "North Flight" (episode # 1.10) ... playing "Jeremy Sprig" (BBC Glasgow - James MacTaggart)
- William (TV series) (1962)... playing "George" in episode: "William and the Parrots" (episode # 1.5) (BBC - Leonard Chase)
- Compact ... playing Graeme Keith (one episode) (BBC - Hugh Munro)
- The Other Man (1964)...playing "Ryder" (Granada - Gordon Flemyng)
- The Flying Swan (1965) (ten episodes)
- No Thoroughfare ... playing "Carstairs" (BBC - James MacTaggart)
- Pack Up Your Troubles ... playing "The Police" (BBC Glasgow - James MacTaggart)
- Coming Home (1996)...playing "Dobson"...aka Heimkeh (Germany)...aka Rosamunde Pilcher - Heimkeh (Germany)
- Taggart (1997)...playing "Martin Dawson" in episode: "Apocalypse"
Theatre credits
- Uncle Harry by Thomas Job ... as "Uncle Harry" (Webber-Douglas)
- Claudia by Rose Franken ...as "David" (Webber-Douglas)
- The Duchess of Malfi by Webster ... as "Bosola" (Webber-Douglas)
- Charley's Aunt by Brandon Thomas ... as "Charley" (Salisbury)
- Doctor in the House by Ted Willis ... as "Simon Sparrow" (Belfast)
- Cat on a Hot Tin Roof by Tennessee Williams ... as "Brick" (Belfast)
- See How they Run by Philip King ...as "Lionel" (Harrogate)
- Ring for Catty (by Patrick Cargill ... as "John Rhodes" (Harrogate)
- The Gioconda Smile by Aldous Huxley ... as "Dr Libbard" (Harrogate)
- As Long as They're Happy by Vernon Silvaine ... as "John Bentley" (Harrogate)
- Dial M for Murder by Frederick Knott ... as "Max Halliday" (Harrogate)
- Epitaph for George Dillon by John Osborne ... as "Geoffrey Colwyn-Stuart" (Harrogate)
- The Baikie Charivari by James Bridie ... as "Robert Copper" (Edinburgh Festival - Glasgow)
- The Master of Ballantrae by R.L.Stevenson ... as "The Master of Ballantrae" (Edinburgh)
- Miracle at Midnight by Tom Fleming ... as "The Man" (Edinburgh)
- The Skin of Our Teeth by Thornton Wilder ... as "Mr Fitzpatrick" (Edinburgh)
- The Country Boy by John Murphy ... as "Curly" (Edinburgh)
- Not in the Book by Arthur Watkyn ... as "Timothy Gregg" (Birmingham Alex)
- Caught Napping by Geoffrey Lumsden ...as Gordon Wilding (Birmingham Alex)
- The French Mistress by Robert Munro ... as "Peter" (Birmingham Alex)
- Present Laughter by Noël Coward ... as "Roland Maule" (Birmingham Alex)
- Guilty Party by George Ross and Campbell Singer ... as "Stanley Littlefield" (Birmingham Alex)
- Rookery Nook by Ben Travers ... as "Harold Twine" (Birmingham Alex)
- An Ideal Husband by Oscar Wilde ... as "Lord Goring" (Birmingham Alex)
- Black Coffee by Agatha Christie ... as "Richard" (Birmingham Alex)
- On Approval by Frederick Lonsdale ... as "George, Duke of Bristol" (Richmond)
- Towards Zero by Agatha Christie ... as "Neville" (Richmond)
- The Rehearsal by Jean Anouilh ... as "Hero" (Richmond)
- Guilty Party ... as "Roy Morgan" (Richmond)
- Private Lives by Noël Coward ... as Victor (Richmond)
- The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde ... as "Lane" (Chichester)
- The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde ... as "Lane" (Theatre Royal Haymarket)
- The Admirable Crichton by J. M. Barrie ...as "Lord Loam" (Pitlochry Festival Theatre)
- The Winslow Boy by Terence Rattigan ... as "Arthur Winslow" (Pitlochry Festival Theatre)
References
- ↑ Wilton, Rob. "Chichester Festival Theatre", Theatricalia. Retrieved 19 December 2023
- ↑ "David Macmillan Actor Bio", Dress Circle. Retrieved 19 December 2023
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