Duncan Peter Regehr (born October 5, 1952) is a Canadian writer, multi-media artist, and film and television actor. He has also been a figure skater, an
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boxing contender, and a classically trained Shakespearean stage actor in his native Canada, before heading to Hollywood in 1980.
Regehr was born in Lethbridge, Alberta and raised in
Victoria, British ColumbiaVictoria is the capital city of British Columbia, Canada. Located on the southern tip of Vancouver Island, Victoria is a major tourism destination seeing more than 3.65 million visitors a year who inject more than one billion dollars into the local economy. Victoria is a cruise ship port where...
,
CanadaCanada is a country occupying most of northern North America, extending from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west and northward into the Arctic Ocean...
. His mother, Dorothy Mary (nee Mulkern), was UK-born and his father, Peter Regehr, was a
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-born artist..
Duncan Peter Regehr (born October 5, 1952) is a Canadian writer, multi-media artist, and film and television actor. He has also been a figure skater, an
OlympicThe Olympic Games are a major international event of summer and winter sports, in which thousands of athletes compete in a wide variety of events. The Games are currently held every two years, with Summer and Winter Olympic Games alternating. Originally, the ancient Olympic Games were held in...
boxing contender, and a classically trained Shakespearean stage actor in his native Canada, before heading to Hollywood in 1980.
Biography
Regehr was born in Lethbridge, Alberta and raised in
Victoria, British ColumbiaVictoria is the capital city of British Columbia, Canada. Located on the southern tip of Vancouver Island, Victoria is a major tourism destination seeing more than 3.65 million visitors a year who inject more than one billion dollars into the local economy. Victoria is a cruise ship port where...
,
CanadaCanada is a country occupying most of northern North America, extending from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west and northward into the Arctic Ocean...
. His mother, Dorothy Mary (nee Mulkern), was UK-born and his father, Peter Regehr, was a
RussiaRussia , officially known as both Russia and the Russian Federation , is a country in northern Eurasia . It is a semi-presidential republic, comprising 83 federal subjects...
-born artist.. After numerous appearances in Canadian theatre, television (e.g., in the family TV show
Matt and Jenny on the Wilderness Trail 1850), and notable roles on radio for the Canadian Broadcast Corporation, he and his wife, Catherine, moved to Los Angeles,
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, where he began to develop his work in film. Shortly after arriving, he was hired to play the villain, Prince Dirk Blackpool, opposite
Jeff ConawayJeffrey "Jeff" Conaway is an American actor, best known for his roles in the movie Grease, and the US TV series Taxi and Babylon 5. He has also directed direct-to-video features....
's, Prince Erik Greystone in the short-lived 1983 fantasy/comedy series
Wizards and WarriorsWizards and Warriors was a CBS television series from 1983, starring Jeff Conaway, Julia Duffy, Walter Olkewicz, Duncan Regehr, and Clive Revill. Only eight one hour episodes were made of this offbeat fantasy-comedy. The series was created by Don Reo for Warner Bros...
. He went on to star in many more US television films, including the 1984 television mini-series
Last Days of Pompeii, as Lydon, the gladiator; as
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in the 1985 CBS film,
My Wicked, Wicked Ways based on the autobiography of Flynn; and on the
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series
V as the Visitor military leader Charles. He also starred in the 1982 mini-series
The Blue and the GrayThe Blue and the Gray is a television miniseries that first aired on CBS in three installments on November 14, November 16, and November 17, 1982. Set during the American Civil War, the series starred John Hammond, Stacy Keach, Lloyd Bridges, and Gregory Peck as President Abraham Lincoln...
as Captain Randolph. In 1987, Regehr was cast in the role of Count Dracula in the film
The Monster SquadThe Monster Squad is a comedy/horror film written by Shane Black and Nicholas Hill and directed by Fred Dekker . It was released by Tri-Star Pictures on August 14, 1987...
, which has since become a sentimental cult favorite and was re-released in a two-disc 20th Anniversary DVD in 2007.
One of Regehr's best-known roles to date was in
New World ZorroZorro was an early 1990s television series featuring Duncan Regehr playing the character of Zorro. Regehr portrayed him for 88 episodes on The Family Channel from 1990 to 1993...
as Don Diego de La Vega and his alter ego, the swashbuckling hero, Zorro. Regehr portrayed the masked hero for 88 episodes on
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's Family Channel from 1990 to 1993.
Other well-known roles include numerous TV guest appearances. He was guest actor on
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,
Murder, She WroteMurder, She Wrote was an American television mystery series starring Angela Lansbury as mystery writer and amateur detective Jessica Fletcher. The series aired for twelve seasons from 1984 to 1996 on the CBS network. It was followed by four TV films and a spin-off series, The Law & Harry McGraw...
,
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and the seventh-season
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episode "Sub Rosa" as Ronin, a
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who falls in love with
Beverly CrusherCmdr. Beverly Crusher, M.D. , played by actress Gates McFadden, was a character on the Star Trek: The Next Generation TV show and subsequent films. She was a regular character in the show for all but the second of its seven seasons.During the character's absence in the second season, the character...
. He also appeared in
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as Bajoran First Minister Shakaar Edon,
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' lover.
Less known about Duncan Regehr is that he has been painting and drawing since childhood. An accomplished and exceedingly successful artist, Regehr first exhibited his artwork in 1974 at the Stratford Festival in Ontario. The following year he showed at the Yorkville Art Center in Toronto. Since then, he has had numerous exhibitions in Canada, the USA, Britain and Europe. His work is found in important collections worldwide, including the Jilin Collection (China), The Kunsthallen (Copenhagen), Focus on the Masters Archives for the Getty Museum (USA), and the Syllavethy Collection of Scotland (GB). Regehr's automonograph,
The Dragon's Eye: An Artist's View, received international acclaim and was lauded by art critics and literary reviewers as a book of visual and poetic excellence. In 1996 he won the American Vision Award of Distinction in the Arts, and was granted the lifetime appellation 'Royal Canadian Artist' with honours in the year 2000 by the Royal Canadian Academy of Art for his outstanding artistic achievements.
On November 10, 2008 Duncan Regehr was awarded the honorary degree of
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by the
University of VictoriaThe University of Victoria is the second oldest degree granting university in British Columbia. This medium-sized university is located in Greater Victoria, British Columbia, Canada with an enrollment figure of more than 19,000 students. The campus is famous for its prestige, beautiful gardens...
, in
Victoria, British ColumbiaVictoria is the capital city of British Columbia, Canada. Located on the southern tip of Vancouver Island, Victoria is a major tourism destination seeing more than 3.65 million visitors a year who inject more than one billion dollars into the local economy. Victoria is a cruise ship port where...
,
CanadaCanada is a country occupying most of northern North America, extending from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west and northward into the Arctic Ocean...
. Some of his art work are also displayed in art galleries in the region.
He lives and works out of studios in the United States and Canada. His art and Curriculum Vitae may be viewed on his website.
Filmography
- The Strange Case of DJ Cosmic (2008)
- The Room At The End Of The Hall (2007)
- Presumed Dead (2006)
- Secret Lives (2005)
- Flying Virus
Flying Virus is a 2001 American-Brazillian horror film written and directed by Jeff Hare, which starred Gabrielle Anwar and Rutger Hauer. Anwar plays a journalist who uncovers a government conspiracy to release virus-carrying killer bees....
(2001)
- Krocodylus (2000)
- Air Bud: World Pup
-Plot:Teenager Josh Framm's mother, Jackie, has just married her veterinarian boyfriend, Patrick Sullivan. Josh and his best friend, Tom Stewart, have just made their school's soccer team when their coach reveals that their team will become co-ed...
(2000) (V)
- Timemaster (1995)
- Zorro
Zorro was an early 1990s television series featuring Duncan Regehr playing the character of Zorro. Regehr portrayed him for 88 episodes on The Family Channel from 1990 to 1993...
(1990-1993) as Don Diego de la Vega/Zorro
- The Banker (1989)
- Earth Star Voyager
Earth*Star Voyager is the name of a science fiction television movie shown on the Wonderful World of Disney in 1988. The show aired as a two-part pilot, but was never picked up for a series and has not been released on DVD, although a fan base for the pilot has grown over the years.-Cast and...
(1988)
- The Monster Squad
The Monster Squad is a comedy/horror film written by Shane Black and Nicholas Hill and directed by Fred Dekker . It was released by Tri-Star Pictures on August 14, 1987...
(1987, Count DraculaCount Dracula is a fictional character, the titular antagonist of Bram Stoker's 1897 Gothic horror novel Dracula. Some aspects of his character may have been inspired by the 15th century Romanian voivode, Vlad III the Impaler...
)
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