Welcome to Duncan Putney's Page

Actor's contact info (email and phone or agent):

Cell: 401-935-1329
Email: Duncan@DuncanPutney.com

Actor's web site:

http://www.duncanputney.com

Actor's age range:

41-45, 46-50

Actor's Unions:

SAG-AFTRA, AEA

Actor's PHYSICAL TRAITS (use format on the "Before Applying" page)

Caucasian * Eyes: Blue * Hair: Dark Brown * Height: 6'-1" * Weight: 165 lbs. *
Excellent improv. skills, Ear & teleprompter, Current U.S. passport,
Driving (shift), Bicycling, Skiing Sail & powerboat, Accents & character voices,
Stage combat, Horseback riding, Bocce, Writer (Emmy Winner),
18th century historical military consultant,
Modern & black powder firearms (licensed),cannon (licensed),

Actor's Performance Skills:

Badminton, Bicycling-general, Boating - engine, Canoeing, Cycling, Driving - precision, Driving - car, Driving - stick shift-standard, Equestrian - general, Equestrian - Western, Firearms - pistols, Firearms - rifles, Fishing, Ice Skating, Jet Skier, Motor scooter, Rappelling, Shooting - revolver, Shooting - rifle, Shooting - skeet/trap, Snorkeling, Snow Skiing - general, Snow Skiing - cross country, Snowmobile, Stage Combat, Swimming - general ability, Teleprompter, Voices-characters

Recent acting experience (use the format on the Before Applying page):

FILM
"R.I.P.D." (Robert Schwentke, dir.) - Exec. at Window on 20th Flr. - Universal
"Brilliant Mistakes" (Paul Brighton, dir.) - Bernard - Salisbury Films
"The Final Shift" (John Depuw, dir) - Clarence - Wild Beagle Prod.
"The Town" (Ben Affleck, dir.) - FBI Agent - Warner Bros.
"Mystic River" (Clint Eastwood, dir.) - Solicitor in Car - Warner Bros.
"By the Sea" (Dean Barnes, dir.) - Eddie - Performance Partners
"Temps" (Gabrielle Burton, dir) - Bill - Five Sisters Production
"A Matter of Degrees" - Student - Back Beat Productions
"Mary Baker Eddy" - Book Seller - Reunion Productions
"Thoreau" - Elder #2 - Cook Ent.
"The Patriot" - American Officer - Sony Pictures
"The Crucible" - Danforth’s Footman - 20th Century Fox
"The Human Stain" - College Professor - Human Stain Prod. Ltd
"Disappearances" (Jay Craven, dir.) - Water Stunts - Border Run Productions
"Predisposed" (Phil Dorling, dir.) - Chloe's Dad - Ron Nyswaner Prod.

SHORT FILMS
"Ken’s Holliday" (Chris Isleib, dir) - Fr. O’Malley
"Silent Night" (Andy Hall, dir.) - Marty - HHS Productions
"Allegiance: The Legend of Issac Jones" - Thaddeus - Golden Ball Pictures
"Sole Mates" - VO Character Voices - DownCity Pictures

TELEVISION
"The Gilded Lilys" (Brian Kirk, dir) - Harry the valet - ABC (pilot)
"We Shall Remain" - Miles Standish - WGBH (PBS)
"Louis Brandeis" - Alfred Brandeis - Stuart Productions
"The War That Made America" - Major General - Spy Pond Prod.
"Africans in America" - Minstrel - WGBH (PBS)
"NOVA: The Radiation Lab" - Dr. Young - WGBH (PBS)
"Unsolved Mysteries" - WW II Pilot - Cosgrove/Meurer Prod.
"The Murder of Dr. Parkman" - Juror - Spy Pond Productions
"American Experience: Chicago" - Assassin - WGBH (PBS)
"American Experience: John Adams" - Servant #1 - WGBH (PBS)
"Blue Peter" - Presenter - BBC-TV

COMMERCIALS:
Coors Beer, Gillette Razors, Papa Gino's, CVS Pharmacies, Lay-Z-Boy, Chevy, Filene's Basement, Budweiser, Citizen's Bank, 99 Restaurants, Very Fine Juices, Bank Boston, Boston Bruins,

THEATRE
"View from the Bridge" - Rodolpho - Gloucester Stage Co.
"Moon for the Misbegotten" - Harder - New Repertory Theatre
"Improv. Theatre" - Ensemble (2 seasons) - U. S. I. T. L.
"Pegasus Clipped" - Arthur Bollard - New Play Café
"The Learning Curve" - Sean - New Works, NY
"Dark of the Moon" - Mr. Allen - The Rand Theatre
"Club Cabaret" - Ensemble - Theatre-by-the-Sea
"Death Comes to Us All Mary Agnes" - Martin - Univ. of Mass
"P.S. Your Cat is Dead" - Jimmy - Workshop Prod.
"A2Z Theatrical Prod." - Company Member

CORPORATE VIDEO
20 yeats of corporate video, on camera spokesperson, and vo experience including:
Fidelity Investments, Dunkin Donuts, TJ Maxx, Learnout & Hauspie,
Fleet Bank, Very Fine, Citizens Bank, Boston Financial, Ikon, Solid Works,
Miles Pharm., Intergity Interactive, Digital, Rhode Island Hospital, Softworks, TJ Max, John Hancock, CVS, Houghton Mifflin, and more.

Other work, hobbies, charities, etc. in which this actor is involved:

Duncan is an award winning screenwriter. His credits include a documentary film at the Smithsonian, "Partnership Runs Deep," that won two Gold Screen Awards in 2008, a community service campaign, "Canisters" that won a 2009 New England Emmy Award, and his screenplay "Icarus of Normandy" took top honors at the Going Green Film Festival in 2010 and a 3rd place win at the Woods Hole Film Festival in 2011. His screenplay "Old Hoss" was a finalist in the Spotlight on Rhode Island screenplay competition sponsored by the RI Film & TV Office. He created, wrote and directed, "Half Pint," produced by OCD Associates as a pilot for PBS.
He also serves on the board of the Rhode Island International Film Festival, receiving their Producers Circle Award in 2009 and is the creator of the Emmy winning 7DAYPSA competition, a national filmmaker competition with multiple Emmy nominations producing public service announcements for non-profits in cities across New England. He was honored with an Imaginnaire Award in 2013 from Imagine Magazine/Imagine Publishing.

VOICE ARTISTS ONLY [you must have a professinal demo to upload]: llustrative 1-word descriptions for this actor's voice (e.g. conversational, announcer, warm, etc.):

non regional with many accents and characters in his bag of tricks (including: Boston, Southern, English, Scottish, Irish, Canadian)