Alan MacNaughtan

Alan MacNaughtan
MacNaughtan in the Avengers Born 4 March 1920
Bearsden, Dunbartonshire ScotlandDied 29 August 2002
Other name(s) Alan MacNaughton Years active In TV and film: 1954-1999

Alan MacNaughtan (4 March 1920 - 29 August 2002) was a British actor, born in Bearsden, Dunbartonshire, Scotland. An experienced Old Vic, West End and Broadway actor, he became active in television and certain films between 1954 and 1999.

Television career

MacNaughtan played many guest roles in ITC productions of the 1960s and 1970s including The Avengers, The Baron, "The Maze" (ATV/ITC, 1966), Department S, "Who Plays the Dummy?" (ATV/ITC, 1969), The Saint, and The Professionals, "A Stirring of Dust" (LWT/Avengers Mark 1, 1978), again for Clemens and Albert Fennell. He also played Major Brenan, a deceptive MI5 agent in The Ghost Talks (Randall and Hopkirk Deceased) in 1969 opposite Kenneth Cope. MacNaughtan's sharp blue eyes and features meant that he often played a villain in such ITC series.

However MacNaughtan played the role of Sir Geoffrey Wellingham in The Sandbaggers and he portrayed an acerbic, elderly teacher in the school-set serial To Serve Them All My Days (BBC, 1981).

His last role was an appearance in Kavanagh QC in 1999.

Films

In films, he made few appearances but starred alongside Dirk Bogarde's as his disapproving brother-in-law in the then controversial Basil Dearden Victim (film) (1961). He made a small appearance in the 1970 film Patton.

Offstage he was a friend of actor Alec McCowen,

MacNaughtan died of cancer on 29 August 2002, aged 82.