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Sandra Kay Duncan (born February 20, 1946) is an American actress, comedian, singer and dancer, of stage and television. She is known for her performances in the Broadway revival of Peter Pan and in the sitcomThe Hogan Family. Duncan has been nominated for three Tony Awards, two Emmy Awards, and two Golden Globe Awards.

Early life[edit]

Duncan was born in Henderson, Texas, to Sylvia (1922–1997) and Mancil Ray Duncan (1921–1994), on February 20, 1946. She and her sister Robyn were raised in Tyler, Texas, near Henderson.^[1]

Career[edit]

She started her entertainment career at age 12, working in a local production of The King and I for $150 a week.^[2] In the late 1960s, Duncan was an unknown actress in Los Angeles when she was selected for a part in a commercial for United California Bank (later First Interstate Bank and subsequently merged with Wells Fargo), portraying a bank teller who finds it impossible to pronounce the Greek name of customer 'Nicholas H. Janopaparopoulos', despite several tries. She then apologetically asks, 'Do you mind if I just call you 'Nick'?'^[3] In 1968, she spent a brief time acting in the soap opera Search for Tomorrow.

In 1970, she was named one of the 'most promising faces of tomorrow' by Time magazine. Also that year, she starred in the Broadway revival of The Boy Friend, for which she received favorable reviews. Duncan made her feature film debut co-starring opposite Dean Jones in the Walt Disney family comedy The Million Dollar Duck. She was then cast as 'Amy Cooper' in the Paramount film version of Star Spangled Girl, based on the Broadway play by Neil Simon. Both movies performed poorly at the box office. In autumn 1971, Duncan starred as 'Sandy Stockton' in the CBS sitcom Funny Face. The program was put on the Saturday night prime-time schedule between All in the Family and The New Dick Van Dyke Show. Critics dismissed the show, but praised Duncan, especially the TV Guide columnist Cleveland Amory, who described her as 'a wonderful comedienne'.^{[This quote needs a citation]}

Meanwhile, shortly after the premiere, Duncan underwent surgery to remove a benign brain tumor behind her left optic nerve. As a result, she lost vision in the eye, but it was not replaced with a prosthetic eye, as some urban myths claim. She lost vision in her left eye, but because the eye still tracked with her right eye, Duncan and her doctors elected to leave her natural eye in place. Though Duncan's recovery from the operation was rapid, CBS suspended production on the show until the following year, after the 12th installment had been filmed; the original series pilot served as the 13th (and final) episode. At first, Nielsen ratings for Funny Face were low, ranking in the lower 50s; eventually, they climbed up to #17, and it was deemed the best-liked new show of that television season. For all her efforts, Duncan received a nomination for an Emmy Award for 'Outstanding Continued Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Comedy Series'. In September 1972, the program returned as The Sandy Duncan Show, with a revised format and new writers; it also had a new time slot, on Sunday at 8:30 p.m. Critical reaction to the show was similar to that for Funny Face, but without the strong Saturday night lead-in of All in the Family, the ratings sank. After 13 episodes, CBS cancelled the series. In 1976, Duncan played the title role in a TV musical adaptation of Pinocchio, which featured Danny Kaye as 'Geppetto' and Flip Wilson as 'the Fox'. She also guest-starred in a first-season episode of The Muppet Show where, contrary to common misconception, she was not the first to be karate-chopped by Miss Piggy, but she did share a raucous moment recollecting 'The Banana Sketch' with Fozzie Bear. Next, for her performance as 'Missy Anne Reynolds' in the miniseries Roots, she earned another Emmy nomination. It was then that she went back to Broadway for many years. In 1979, her run as the title role in Peter Pan won her many accolades. She also had replacement roles in My One and Only and Chicago.

Duncan was nominated for a Tony Award three times: in 1969, as 'Featured Actress (Musical)' in Canterbury Tales; in 1971, as 'Best Actress (Musical)' in The Boy Friend; and in 1980, as 'Best Actress (Musical)' in Peter Pan.

In 1972, an animated version of Duncan (who contributed her own voice) appeared in 'Sandy Duncan's Jekyll and Hyde', an episode of the CBS Saturday morning cartoon The New Scooby-Doo Movies. In 1976, she guest-starred on The Six Million Dollar Man and The Bionic Woman playing the role of Gillian in 'The Return of Bigfoot' episodes. She was also the guest star in a first-season episode of The Muppet Show in that year.

In 1978, she starred in Disney's The Cat from Outer Space alongside Ken Berry, Harry Morgan and Roddy McDowall. From the mid-1970s through the '80s, Duncan was the commercial spokesperson for the introduction of Nabisco's Wheat Thins crackers.

In 1981, she voiced Vixey in The Fox and the Hound. In 1984, she starred in a song and dance review called 5-6-7-8...Dance! at Radio City Music Hall and provided voice work for the My Little Pony television special Rescue at Midnight Castle as Firefly and Applejack. From 1986 to 1987, she reprised her role as Firefly in the My Little Pony 'n Friends TV series. In 1987, she joined the cast of NBC's Valerie's Family (previously known as Valerie, later to be retitled The Hogan Family) after Valerie Harper was dismissed from the sitcom. Duncan starred as the matriarch's sister-in-law, Sandy Hogan, who moved in with her brother Mike (Josh Taylor) and his three sons to help raise the family after Valerie Hogan's death. Duncan remained with the series through its cancellation in 1991 (the final season of which aired on CBS). In 1988, she worked on the first three Barney and the Backyard Gang children's videos. Duncan was asked to take part in the Barney & Friends television series, but declined the offer.^[4] In 1991, she voiced Peepers the mouse in the Don Bluth film Rock-a-Doodle. In 1994, she voiced Queen Uberta in the Richard Rich film The Swan Princess.

In 2003, she appeared in the rotating cast of the Off-Broadway staged reading of Wit & Wisdom.^[5] In May 2008, she performed one of the lead roles in the musical No, No, Nanette; a production of the City Center's annual Encores! series in New York City. In April 2009, she performed the lead role in the play Driving Miss Daisy at Casa Mañana Theatre in Fort Worth, Texas. In September 2009, she played the lead role in Tennessee Williams' play The Glass Menagerie at the Mountain Playhouse in Jennerstown, Pennsylvania. She has also been in many travelling stage productions, including The King and I.

On February 12, 2016, Duncan stepped into the role of Madame du Maurier in the Broadway production of Finding Neverland.^[6] On February 17, the show's producers announced that she would take a temporary leave of absence due to family obligations.^[7]

Personal life[edit]

She met singer-actor Bruce Scott (born Bruce Scott Zaharaides) during the Off-Broadway production of Your Own Thing, and they were married in September 1968. Their divorce, finalized in October 1972,^[8] was caused by tensions resulting from Duncan's success and rise to stardom. Duncan told People magazine in 1979 that 'It was very threatening to Bruce.'^[9]

Her second marriage was to Dr. Thomas Calcaterra on January 10, 1973; it lasted until 1979. Duncan met Calcaterra when he was a consulting surgeon on her brain tumor surgery, after which they began dating.^[9] This marriage also failed, according to Duncan, because of the demands of her nightclub act that she toured with in 1978 and her refusal to stay at home and try to be a good 'doctor's wife'.^[9]

Since July 21, 1980, she has been married to Don Correia. They have two sons, Jeffrey (born October 5, 1982) and Michael (born March 19, 1984). She and her husband live in New York City.

Her father, Mancil Ray Duncan, died on December 22, 1994, and her mother died on December 23, 1997.

Taylorville, Illinois (near Springfield) named a street in her honor, 'Sandy Duncan Drive'. Her character on Funny Face and The Sandy Duncan Show, Sandy Stockton, is from Taylorville.

Filmography[edit]

• Midnight Cowboy (1969) (uncredited)
• The Million Dollar Duck (1971)
• Star Spangled Girl (1971)
• Pinocchio (1976 TV movie)
• Christmas in Disneyland (1976 TV movie)
• The Cat from Outer Space (1978)
• The Fox and the Hound (1981) as Vixey (voice)
• Parade of Stars (1983 TV movie)
• My Little Pony (1984 TV movie) (voice)
• My Boyfriend's Back (1989 TV movie)
• Rock-a-Doodle (1991) as Peepers (voice)
• Miracle on Interstate 880 (1993 TV movie)
• The Swan Princess (1994) as Queen Uberta (voice)
• The Swan Princess: Sing Along (1998 short) as Queen Uberta (voice)
• Never Again (2001)
• G Spots? (2001 short)

Television and video[edit]

• Search for Tomorrow (cast member in 1964)
• Bonanza, episode 'An Earthquake Called Callahan', as Angeline (1971)
• The Sandy Duncan Show (1971–1972)
• The New Scooby-Doo Movies (1972)
• Family Theatre: Married Is Better (1974)
• Sandy in Disneyland (1974)
• The Sandy Duncan Special (1974)
• The Bionic Woman (1976)
• Pinocchio (1976)
• The Six Million Dollar Man (1976)
• The Muppet Show (1976)
• Roots (1977) (miniseries)
• The Love Boat (1977)
• The Funny World of Fred and Bunni (1978) (unsold pilot)
• My Little Pony: Rescue at Midnight Castle (1984) (voice)
• My Little Pony (cast member from 1986–1987) (voice)
• Act II (1987) (unsold pilot)
• The Hogan Family (cast member from 1987–1991)
• Barney & the Backyard Gang (cast member in three episodes in the summer of 1988: A Day at the Beach, The Backyard Show, Three Wishes)
• My Boyfriend's Back (1989)
• Miracle on Interstate 880 (1993)
• Law & Order (1995), Season 6, Episode 6, 'Paranoia', as Shelly Kates
• Ka-Ching! (TV series) (2008)
• Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (2014, 2015), two episodes as Judge Virginia Farrell
• Scooby-Doo and Guess Who? (2020)

Theater[edit]

• The King and I (1958)
• Billion Dollar Baby (1961)
• South Pacific (1962)
• Show Boat (1963)
• Apollo and Miss Agnes (1963)
• My Fair Lady (1964)
• The Sound of Music (1964)
• Brigadoon (1965)
• The Music Man (1965)
• Carousel (1966)
• Peter Pan (1966)
• The Sound of Music (1967)
• Finian's Rainbow (1967)
• Life With Father (1967)
• Wonderful Town (1967)
• The Ceremony of Innocence (play) (1968)
• Your Own Thing (1968)
• Canterbury Tales (1969)
• Love Is a Time of Day (1969)
• The Boy Friend (1970)
• Vanities (1976)
• Peter Pan (1979–1981)
• 5-6-7-8... Dance! (1984)
• My One and Only (1985–1986)
• Waitin' in the Wings (1986)
• Chicago (1996–1997)
• Jubilee (1998)
• Two for the Show (1999)
• The Witches of Eastwick (1999) (reading)
• Anything Goes (2002)
• The Fourth Wall (2002)^[10]
• The Grass Harp (2003)
• The King and I (2004)
• Mame (2006)
• Mud Donahue's Eccentric Son (2007)
• No, No, Nanette (2008)
• Driving Miss Daisy (2009)
• The Glass Menagerie (2009)
• Driving Miss Daisy (2014)
• Finding Neverland (2016)
• Love Letters (2018)

References[edit]

1. ^'Mancil R. Duncan'. Tyler Courier-Times. Friday, December 23, 1994. p. 6, section 1.
2. ^Brennan, Patricia (June 26, 1988). 'Sandy Duncan: 'The Hogans' and Her Own'. The Washington Post. p. 7. Retrieved 2017-08-28.
3. ^Sandy Duncan – United California Bank Commercial on YouTube
4. ^Luna, Amy (March 22, 2002). 'In 'Second Glance,' It's Sandy Duncan'. Hartford Courant. Retrieved 2017-08-28.
5. ^'Wit & Wisdom Tickets, News and Information ArcLight Theatre'. Theatermania.com. Retrieved 2012-12-14.
6. ^Gordon, Jessica Fallon (February 13, 2016). 'Photo Coverage: Pan is Back! Sandy Duncan Takes Her First Bows in Finding Neverland'. Broadwayworld.com. Retrieved 2016-03-07.
7. ^'Official: Sandy Duncan Takes Temporary Leave from FINDING NEVERLAND for 'Family Obligations''. Broadwayworld.com. February 17, 2016. Retrieved 2016-03-07.
8. ^'Sandy Duncan Gets Divorce'. Lodi News-Sentinel. United Press International. October 19, 1972. p. 7.
9. ^ ^abcLangdon, Dolly (September 3, 1979). 'After a Brain Tumor and Two Failed Marriages, Sandy Duncan Is Flying High Again'. People.
10. ^Hopkins, Philip (November 13, 2002). 'The Fourth Wall'. TheaterMania. Retrieved May 1, 2016.

External links[edit]

• Sandy Duncan on IMDb
• Sandy Duncan at the TCM Movie Database
• Sandy Duncan at the Internet Broadway Database
• Sandy Duncan at the Internet Off-Broadway Database

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