Duncan Roy
{{Short description|English film director and producer}}
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Duncan Roy (born 8 July 1960) is an English film director and producer, script writer, art director and television personality.{{cite news|title=Duncan Roy|url=https://www.nytimes.com/movies/person/238507/Duncan-Roy/biography|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140424222105/http://www.nytimes.com/movies/person/238507/Duncan-Roy/biography|url-status=dead|department=Movies & TV Dept.|work=The New York Times|date=2014|archive-date=2014-04-24}}
Early life
Roy was born on 8 July 1960, in Whitstable, Kent, England to Frances Elizabeth Spark and Kuros Khazaei. From the age of 2 he was raised by his mother and stepfather, David W. Roy in Whitstable.
Career
Roy was a subject of Robin Soans's play, Life After Scandal in 2007. He has also been the subject of a BBC Radio 4 documentary. In 1985, Roy worked at the Richard Demarco Gallery in Edinburgh. While there, he organized art tours for the gallery to Germany and Poland with Joseph Beuys and Tadeusz Kantor. It was at this time that he met Jay Jopling, one of the subjects of his autobiographical documentary Whitstable.
Roy's 2002 film AKA is based on his personal experience beginning in 1979 when he headed for Paris, leaving Roy behind and reinventing himself as Lord Anthony Rendlesham.
"As Anthony Rendlesham, I didn't have to clutter my head with all the stories of my family, the terrible times. I could be clean, simple, grand. I was everything I wanted to be."Caroline Roux The Guardian, Saturday 21 September 2002
Personal life
Starting 1 November 2009, Roy appeared on VH1's Sex Rehab with Dr. Drew,{{cite web |last=Pierce |first=Harrison |url=http://www.advocate.com/printArticle.aspx?id=100053 |title=Duncan Roy Joins Dr. Drew for Sex Rehab | Good Sex |publisher=Advocate.com |accessdate=2011-06-19 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110604023527/http://www.advocate.com/printArticle.aspx?id=100053 |archivedate=2011-06-04 }}{{cite news| url=http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/la-et-sexaddiction31-2009oct31,0,4403749.story |title=Sex Rehab With Dr. Drew |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20091102081847/http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/la-et-sexaddiction31-2009oct31,0,4403749.story |archivedate=2009-11-02 |accessdate=4 September 2013}} a reality television series about treating sexual addiction.{{cite web |url=http://www.vh1.com/video/sex-rehab-with-dr-drew/full-episodes/episode-2/1625684/playlist.jhtml |publisher=VH1 |date=November 9, 2009 |title=Sex Rehab with Dr. Drew › Full Episodes |quote=episode 102 |url-status=dead |accessdate=4 September 2013 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130624162910/http://www.vh1.com/video/sex-rehab-with-dr-drew/full-episodes/episode-2/1625684/playlist.jhtml |archivedate=24 June 2013 }} In early 2012, The Independent reported that Roy battled with cancer and had a tumor removed.[https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/the-film-director-the-exlovers-tiff-and-a-brush-with-the-law-that-came-straight-out-of-kafka-7079812.html The film director, the ex-lovers' tiff, and a brush with the law that came straight out of Kafka] Guy Adams, The Independent, 18 February 2012
On 19 October 2012 a class action suit was filed by Roy and five others as class representatives as and on behalf of immigrants in L.A. County Jail detained without opportunity to post bail. Roy was detained for 89 days. Roy's Los Angeles bail bondsman Morris Demayo, who worked on getting him bailed out, recalls “The minute he got arrested, it was one weird incident after another. The jailer basically said 'We have an ICE hold, so we can't accept the bond.' There was just a runaround."{{Cite web |url=http://www.laweekly.com/2012-04-05/news/duncan-roy-jail-director-trapped/2/ |title=LA Weekly |access-date=21 March 2013 |archive-date=8 May 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130508013044/http://www.laweekly.com/2012-04-05/news/duncan-roy-jail-director-trapped/2/ |url-status=dead }} The suit was joined by the ACLU among other groups.[https://www.scribd.com/doc/110550860/Roy-v-L-A-County-Complain U.S.D.C. Central Division]{{Dead link|date=October 2022 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}, Case #:CV12-9012-RG, Filed October 19, 2012
Awards
;AKA
- 2002 L.A. Outfest
- Won – Audience Award
- 2002 Miami Gay and Lesbian Film Festival
- Won – Jury Award
- 2002 Seattle Lesbian & Gay Film Festival
- Won – Jury Award
- 2002 Copenhagen Gay & Lesbian Film Festival
- Won – Audience Award
- 2003 BAFTA Awards
- Nominated – Carl Foreman Award for the Most Promising Newcomer
- 2002 British Independent Film Awards
- Nominated – Douglas Hickox Award
- 2002 Emden International Film Festival
- Nominated – Emden Film Award
Filmography
- The Picture of Dorian Gray (2006)
- Method (2004)
- AKA (2002)
- Clancy's Kitchen (1996)
- Jackson: My Life... Your Fault (1995)
References
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External links
- [http://www.duncanroy.com Official site]
- {{IMDb name|0747003}}
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Category:English film directors
Category:20th-century English LGBTQ people
Category:British LGBTQ film directors
Category:People from Whitstable