Hamish Clark


Hamish Clark is a Scottish actor and entertainer. He has performed as a supporting actor on stage, film, television and radio. Clark is best known as the kilt-wearing Duncan McKay in the BBC TV series Monarch of the Glen which was set entirely in Scotland.
After growing up in Broughty Ferry, Dundee, Clark attended the University of Edinburgh. While at university he studied English literature and performed with the Edinburgh University Theatre Company and the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. He later attended the Welsh College of Music & Drama in Cardiff studying drama as a postgraduate. Before becoming a professional actor, he worked as a clerk in an Edinburgh insurance company. Clark moved to London in 1995 where he pursued a full time career in acting in both dramatic and comic roles and in 1999 was cast as Duncan McKay in Monarch of the Glen. Clark is well recognizable as the face of various advertising campaigns such as that for Vodafone and Budget Direct. In May 2002 he opened the Strathspey Railway's extension to Broomhill which had previously been used as Glenbogle Railway Station in Monarch of the Glen.

Filmography

  • Holby City as Ken Davies
  • White Island as Stuart
  • Arrested Development as Band Leader
  • Liz & Dick Alan Williams
  • Rab C. Nesbitt as Simon Bird
  • Time Machine: Rise of the Morlocks as Patterson
  • The Decoy Bride as Angus
  • The Hour, guest presenter
  • After the Rain as Yvan
  • Small Fish as Marcus
  • Blessed as The Green Planet Man
  • The Only Boy For Me as Gary
  • Monarch of the Glen as Duncan McKay
  • Piggy Bank as Karl
  • Martha, Meet Frank, Daniel and Laurence aka The Very Thought of You as Sven
  • Sentimental Education as Rufus
  • Bring Me the Head of Mavis Davis as John
  • My Wonderful Life as Roger Graham
  • ''Doctor Who''

    Theatre

  • The Albatross 3rd & Main by Simon David Eden at The Park Theatre, London as Gene
  • The Agent by Martin Wagner at The Old Red Lion Theatre, London as Alexander
  • Donkeys' Years by Michael Frayn at the Comedy Theatre, London as Quine
  • Phallacy by Carl Djerassi at New End Theatre, Hampstead as Otto

    Other media

  • Dixon of Dock Green as Andy Crawford
  • The Last Vampire by Willis Hall
  • ''The Royal Game''

    Advertisements

  • Budget Direct – Insurance Solved as Detective Sarge in a TV advertising and print media campaign
  • Historic Scotland TV advertising
  • Speak Up For Broadband Highlands & Islands of Scotland Regional development board, TV advertising
  • Vodafone , TV advertising & printed media advertising campaign
  • Brand brewery a subsidiary of Heineken

    Personal life

Clark was brought up in the Broughty Ferry area of Dundee, at some remove from his great-great-grandfather, a shipwright and his wife was a jute-mill worker. His ancestors worked on an orchard near Perth.