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CAST
DUNCAN FRASER as GEORGE RIVERS
Duncan Fraser plays Gibsons lawyer George Rivers, Scott’s estranged father and Katt Reynard’s chief tool in her scheme to appropriate Molly’s Reach, in The New Beachcombers.
Duncan Fraser is an ex-professional soccer player who holds a degree in Psychology from Manchester University. During his twenties, he packed up his manual typewriter and set out to see the world in the great ’60s search for self. Having traveled to over 50 countries within six years, Duncan's odyssey took him to the Middle East and South America, and he subsidized his adventures with a string of extremely unusual jobs. He lived on an Israeli kibbutz on the Golan Heights, where he guarded equipment on the Israel-Jordan border. He's been shot, bombed, torched and holed up in an Algerian prison because of his Israeli ties. He also taught English Literature in Bogota, Colombia and smuggled fruit in North Africa. It was while teaching in Colombia, South America that Fraser turned his hand to acting with "The Bogota Players," a group he helped form. He moved to Canada, working in the mines in Sudbury, Ontario, before settling in White Rock, British Columbia.Although he never trained professionally, Fraser has an impressive credit list including leading roles in the feature films Betrayed Anne Wheeler’s,x recently wrapped MOW, and The Core, which will shortly go into theatrical release, K-9: P.I., The Snow Queen; Octupus 2: River of Fear; The Miracle of the Cards; Bad Faith; The Claim; The Guilty; Wrongfully Accused; and Seven Years in Tibet. Television series credits include recurring starring roles in Hope Island and as Detective Inspector Regan in Da Vinci’s Inquest, a role that earned him a Gemini Award-nomination. Fraser’s guest starring roles include the televison series: So Weird; First Wave; Dead Man’s Gun; Stargate SG-1; and The Sentinel.
Earlier credits for Fraser include: Needful Things; Unforgettable; Wrongfully Accused; Andre; The Reflecting Skin; Watchers, and Overnight (which won him a 1996 Genie Award nomination); Captains Courageous (which was nominated for a 1998 Gemini Award), Sweet Dreams, To Brave Alaska, Call of the Wild and Diana Kilmury: Teamster Zack Denny on the television series Bordertown and was a regular character on Hawkeye, Horsemen, The Heights, Northwood, and Madison.
Keenly interested in the Theatre, Fraser served as the Artistic Director of the Nanaimo Summer Theatre for three years and has extensive stage credits. He won a Jessie Award for his performance in The Idler and also directed, produced and co-wrote The Dunsmuir Trilogy.
Fraser divides his time between Los Angeles and Vancouvcer, where he has lived since 1974, and his favorite past-times include golfing, fishing, traveling, and writing.
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