Alan MacNaughtan
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| Alan MacNaughtan | |
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 MacNaughtan in the Avengers |
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| Born | 4 March 1920 Bearsden, Dunbartonshire  Scotland |
| Died | 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.
[edit] 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.
[edit] 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.
