Duncan Regehr

Regehr was born in Lethbridge, Alberta, and raised in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, to a British-born mother, Dorothy Mary (née Mulkern), and a Russian father, Peter Regehr, who was an artist.{{cite web|url=http://www.newworldzorro.com/presskitinfo/regehr.html|title=Duncan Regehr's Biography|website=www.newworldzorro.com|accessdate=4 September 2018}}{{cite news |last=Chamberlain |first=Adrian |date=16 January 2016 |title=Beginnings, endings and birth of a new style for Victoria artist |url=https://www.timescolonist.com/beginnings-endings-and-birth-of-a-new-style-for-victoria-artist-1.2152664 |work=Times Colonist |access-date=5 September 2018 }} He was active in broadcasting at age 14, when he was host of a teenager-oriented talk show on the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC). As a high school student, he figure-skated in ice shows. He received early acting instruction at the Bastion Theater School in Victoria.{{cite news |last1=Hill |first1=Michael E. |title=Duncan Regehr/Flynn's Look-Alike |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/tv/1985/01/20/duncan-regehrflynns-look-alike/d5d24a23-c373-4eb7-bf8c-0586413683b6/?noredirect=on |accessdate=5 September 2018 |newspaper=The Washington Post |date=January 20, 1985 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180905011831/https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/tv/1985/01/20/duncan-regehrflynns-look-alike/d5d24a23-c373-4eb7-bf8c-0586413683b6/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.a76bb45dc6cd |archive-date=5 September 2018}}

After numerous appearances in Canadian theatre, television (e.g., in the family TV show Matt and Jenny on the Wilderness Trail),{{cite news |title=Fantasy-Adventure Series To Begin |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/23451289/the_leafchronicle/ |work=The Leaf-Chronicle |date=February 20, 1983 |location=Tennessee, Clarksville |page=44|via = Newspapers.com|accessdate = September 4, 2018}} {{Open access}} and notable roles on radio for the CBC, he and his wife, Catherine, moved to Los Angeles, California, where he began to develop his work in film. Shortly after arriving, he was hired to play villain Prince Dirk Blackpool in the short-lived 1983 fantasy-comedy series Wizards and Warriors opposite Jeff Conaway's Prince Erik Greystone.{{r|etvs|page1=1187}} He went on to star in many more US television films, including the 1984 television mini-series The Last Days of Pompeii, as Lydon, the gladiator;{{cite news |title=Duncan Regehr stars as gladiator in 'Last Days of Pompeii' |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/23449667/duncan_regehr/ |work=Longview News-Journal |date=April 29, 1984 |location=Texas, Longview |page=34-H|via = Newspapers.com|accessdate = September 4, 2018}} {{Open access}} as Errol Flynn in the 1985 CBS film My Wicked, Wicked Ways, based on the autobiography of Flynn; and on the science fiction series V as the Visitor military leader Charles.{{cite book|last1=Terrace|first1=Vincent|title=Encyclopedia of Television Shows, 1925 through 2010|date=2011|publisher=McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers|location=Jefferson, N.C.|isbn=978-0-7864-6477-7|page=1134|edition=2nd}} He also starred in the 1982 mini-series The Blue and the Gray as Captain Randolph. In 1987, Regehr portrayed a dynamite-slinging Count Dracula in the film The Monster Squad.

In 1989 he starred as the villain in The Banker, which also starred Jeff Conaway.

One of Regehr's best-known roles to date was in Zorro as Don Diego De La Vega and his alter ego, the swashbuckling hero, Zorro.{{r|etvs|page1=1214}} Regehr portrayed the masked hero for 88 episodes on The Family Channel from 1990 to 1993.

Regehr has also made numerous TV guest appearances. He was a guest actor on Cybill, Murder, She Wrote, Hotel and the seventh-season Star Trek: The Next Generation episode "Sub Rosa" as Ronin, a ghost who falls in love with Beverly Crusher. He also appeared in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine as Shakaar Edon.

Regehr has been painting and drawing since childhood. 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, Europe, and the United States.{{cite book |last=Amos |first=Robert |date=2007 |title=Artists in Their Studios: Where Art is Born |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gjlsIq2vsfIC |publisher=TouchWood Editions |page=103 |isbn=9781894898584 }} His work is found in 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.{{Citation needed|date=September 2008}} 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 2000 by the Royal Canadian Academy of Art for his outstanding artistic achievements.{{cite web|url=http://rca-arc.ca/who-we-are/members/members-since-1880/|title=List of members « Royal Canadian Academy of Arts|website=rca-arc.ca|accessdate=4 September 2018|archive-date=4 May 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190504000403/http://rca-arc.ca/who-we-are/members/members-since-1880/|url-status=dead}}

On November 10, 2008, Regehr was awarded the honorary degree of Doctor of Fine Arts by the University of Victoria, in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. Some of his art works are also displayed in art galleries in the region.{{Cite web |last=Warren |first=Michael |title=Duncan Regehr R.C.A. |url=http://www.madronagallery.com/artists/duncan-regehr |access-date=2022-11-30 |website=Madrona Gallery |date=9 February 2014 |language=en-US}}

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