Duncan Lookalikes

Neanderthal Man

2007-10-26T07:34:00.000-05:00

Ricky Wilson

2007-10-22T08:41:00.001-05:00

Date: Tue, 09 Oct 2007 17:42:38 -0500
From: Richard Gowan
Subject: Duncan, fatter.

And singing for the Kaiser Chiefs.

David Hyde Pierce (again)

2007-09-22T09:10:00.000-05:00

Date: Sat, 22 Sep 2007 08:34:03 -0500
From: "Adam Tuck"
Subject: Old Duncan in New Pose Shocker

Hey

Hope Hawaii went well - I'm assuming you're back now, unless you took time out to post a Dave-a-like, which seems unlikely (I'd noticed that one too, it's uncanny).

The attached pic has been mentioned before by other people, but hasn't yet appeared on the site. It's not a new Duncan - in fact it's pretty much the oldest Duncan out there, the source of this whole community - but it's a classic Duncan lookalike striking a classic Duncan pose, and so worthy of posting, I propose.

Adam

Stoltz, Spader, Green

2007-08-14T16:05:00.000-05:00

Date: Thu, 09 Aug 2007 06:10:48 -0500
From: "Hugo Godwin"
Subject: duncans

Hi Tom,

Hope you’re well!

[non Duncan-related material deleted. TP]

I have come across some Duncans that I wanted to pitch…what do you think??

Eric Stoltz [who has of course appeared in these pages once already. TP]

James Spader

Seth Green

Hugo Godwin

Struan Rodger

2007-07-27T14:29:00.000-05:00

Now I've long believed Struan Rodger, detective-series regular and voice of the Face of Boe in Dr. Who, to be an excellent Duncan lookalike. Here's a blurry still of him from good old Edge of Darkness.

Here are a couple more images that are better pictures, but less Duncanish.

Michael Bay

2007-07-12T09:56:00.000-05:00

Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2007 22:29:19 -0500
From: Richard Gowan
Subject: Duncan in Disguise

He made Transformers, we went to see it... Michael Bay is Rugged Duncan:

Michael Caine

2007-07-10T08:11:00.000-05:00

Now this new photo of Duncan suggests an obvious likeness that I can't believe hasn't appeared in these pages before.

David Willis

2007-06-13T15:14:00.000-05:00

I'd like to submit the BBC overseas correspondent David Willis, who is to Ocean's 13 as Duncan was to Cambridge Spies.

Robert Zoellick

2007-05-30T08:31:00.000-05:00

Date: Tue, 29 May 2007 21:06:05 -0500
From: Richard Gowan
Subject: Goodbye Wolfowitz, hello er... Duncan?
To: Tom Perrin

Uh-oh, look who got to take over the World Bank:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/6702943.stm

A correction

2007-04-13T10:33:00.000-05:00

A long time ago now I referred to a particular picture as "a random old man called Duncan Thomas." Turns out this is none other than the Civil War Brevet General Thomas Duncan. He makes a brief and quite funny appearance in An Autobiography of Buffalo Bill:

While we were at Fort McPherson, General Augur and Brevet-Brigadier-General Thomas Duncan, colonel of the Fifth Cavalry, paid us a visit for the purpose of reviewing our command. The men turned out in fine style, and showed themselves to be well-drilled soldiers. Next the Pawnee scouts were reviewed. It was amusing to see them in their full uniform. They had been supplied with the regular cavalry uniform, but on this occasion some of them had heavy overcoats, others large black hats with all the brass accoutrements attached; some were minus trousers and wore only breech-clouts. Some had regulation pantaloons, but only shirts. Part of them had cut the breech of their pantaloons away, leaving only the leggings. Still others had big brass spurs, but wore no boots nor moccasins. But they understood the drill remarkably well for Indians.

Here he is in his true context. No relation to Duncan, though, I don't suppose.

Don Imus

2007-04-13T10:12:00.000-05:00

[Lest there is confusion, this should explain. TP.]

Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2007 09:50:56 -0500
From: Richard Gowan
Subject: Duncan scandal

Now, this will confuse your UK audience, and I'm not sure it's even as big a story in Chicago as it is in NYC, but the Don Imus scandal has rendered us a true good honest Duncan - none of this futzing around with horses.

A Horse

2007-04-10T20:59:00.000-05:00

The weird thing is how much this horse does look like Duncan. I think it's the hair. [TP]

Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2007 13:06:17 -0500
From: Harry Perrin
Subject: duncan

Hey Tom,

I reckon this horse looks like duncan.

Harry.

Bryan Adams

2007-04-02T12:29:00.000-05:00

Date: Sat, 31 Mar 2007 08:53:00 -0500
From: Richard Gowan
Subject: Duncan of 69

If Elizabeth is allowed Bon Jovi, I hereby submit:

Ethan Stiefel

2007-03-20T08:19:00.000-05:00

Harry proposes Ethan Stiefel, star of teen ballet movie Center Stage. Incidentally, he rides this motorbike on stage in the ballet he choreographs during the film. Take that, stuffy classical mores!

Gordon Ramsay

2007-03-13T08:42:00.000-05:00

[Another Duncan. They always appear in packs. Like wolves.]

Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2007 08:35:57 -0500
From: "Richard McKinley"
Subject: Duncan

Hi Tom,

[Non Duncan-related material deleted]

2) Surely: http://www.speakerscorner.co.uk/uploaded/images/Gordon_Ramsey_m.JPG

R

Eric Stoltz

2007-03-13T08:16:00.000-05:00

So I was watching a made-for-cable biopic of Ayn Rand the other day, and I thought its dashing male lead looked a little like Duncan.

Long shot?

Dunkleosteus

2006-11-29T08:46:00.000-06:00

Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2006 08:28:42 -0600
From: Adam Tuck
Subject: Guardian Unlimited: The first king of the beasts

A Duncan lookalike? Only by name [perhaps not -- I have added this nice picture of a ginger Dunkleosteus. TP], and tentatively so, but still, I haven't contributed for a while.
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To see this story with its related links on the Guardian Unlimited site, go to http://www.guardian.co.uk

The first king of the beasts
Ian Sample, science correspondent
Wednesday November 29 2006
The Guardian

Meet Dunkleosteus, a four tonne, 10-metre, armour-plated fish that was arguably the first king of the beasts. The monster fish cruised the oceans 400m years ago, preying on creatures much larger than itself, its blade-like fangs adept at tearing its quarry in two.

Using fossilised skull remains, scientists have built up a biomechanical model of the fish's powerful jaw and surrounding musculature and reveal today that it had the strongest bite of any fish ever to exist.

Philip Anderson's team at the University of Chicago found that the predator's jaws snapped shut with a force of more than five tonnes. The jaws were articulated by a unique mechanism based on four rotational joints working in harmony, they report in the Royal Society journal, Biology Letters, today.

Dunkleosteus was the first known large predator, pre-dating the dinosaurs. It belonged to a diverse group of armoured fish, placoderms, that dominated the oceans in the Devonian period between 360m and 415m years ago. Its formidable bite allowed it to feast on other armoured aquatic animals, including primitive sharks and smaller creatures protected by bone-like casings.

"Dunkleosteus was able to devour anything in its environment," said Dr Anderson. The bladed jaws, which enabled the beast to take on prey much larger than its mouth, is a feature sharks did not develop until 100m years later.

Mark Westneat, curator of fishes at the Field Museum in Chicago added: "The most interesting part of this work for me was discovering that this heavily-armoured fish was both fast during jaw opening and quite powerful during jaw closing. This is possible due to the unique engineering design of its skull and different muscles used for opening and closing. And it made this fish into one of the first true apex predators seen in the vertebrate fossil record."

Michael Howe

2006-11-09T08:38:00.000-06:00

Duncan lookalike or thinly disguised advertisement? I guess I'll let it pass. Just don't anybody send in that Duncan looks like some Cialis, or a hot stock tip. TP

Date: Thu, 09 Nov 2006 05:58:50 -0600
From: Harry Perrin
Subject: Duncan?

I reckon Michael Howe looks like Duncan (but I realise that I haven't seen Duncan for ages, and have forgotten what he looks like. My views on the matter are based on a lookalike website and are thus somewhat apocryphal).

Anyhow, Michael Howe can currently be seen at London's Novello Theatre, in Footloose, playing Reverend Shaw Moore, the over-zealous preacher who bans dancing inside the town limits of Bomont. (Must end 11 November).

Harry.

Steven Waddington

2006-11-08T08:15:00.000-06:00

Date: Wed, 08 Nov 2006 03:59:48 -0600
From: "Hugo Godwin"
Subject: Re: photo

Tom

For years I have been trying to find a Duncan lookalike and think I've
finally found one - Steven Waddington. His picture is on
http://www.sherryweb.com/steven/.

Is the lookalike page still running? I hope so!!

Hugo

Daryl Hall (of Hall & Oates)

2006-11-03T15:27:00.000-06:00

Can you tell that we've been watching VH1's Greatest Songs of the '80s?

Jon Bon Jovi

2006-11-03T15:25:00.000-06:00

Elizabeth suggests Jon Bon Jovi -- it must be the flyaway strawberry-blond hair.

My Celebrity Look-alikes

2006-11-03T09:13:00.000-06:00

This was done with myheritage.com, which I can't believe we didn't find before. I especially like Axl Rose -- which surprises me, since I vaguely remember someone (Richard Gowan?) suggesting it before, and me being unconvinced. How wrong I was. TP

Date: Wed, 01 Nov 2006 05:19:54 -0600
From: Harry Perrin
Subject: Duncan

Hey Tom,

You should copy and paste this into your journal.

Harry.

David Bowie

2006-11-03T09:11:00.000-06:00

Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2006 15:12:09 -0600
From: Richard Gowan
Subject: Which came as some surprise...

OK, he doesn't actually look like Duncan, but it's striking that he still looks more like Duncan than one would have thought possible...

Jon Culshaw

2006-11-03T09:09:00.000-06:00

Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2006 18:34:34 -0500
From: "Richard McKinley"
Subject: Duncan

Tom,

If this Iron chef chappy passes muster as a Duncan, then surely Jon Culshaw must get a look in:

Richard

Bobby Flay

2006-10-20T20:43:00.000-05:00

The Food Network's Bobby Flay, here using an oversize blender on Iron Chef…

Onion Person

2006-05-05T17:23:00.000-05:00

A Duncan-a-like who doesn't so much look like Duncan as sound a bit like him: here.

Hunky Duncan

2006-04-08T16:38:00.000-05:00

Date: Tue, 04 Apr 2006 16:45:47 -0500
From: Richard Gowan
Subject: Hunky Duncan

Tom,

Are you aware of the Axe "Gamekillers" ad series, featuring people who ruin your, er, game - including a hunky Duncan:

R.

Philip Seymour Hoffman

2006-02-17T18:00:00.000-06:00

From: EalingTragedy
Subject: [Rambling Thomas] 2/13/2006 04:41:16 AM

Phillip Seymour Hoffman. Now, I saw Capote the other day and thought 'You know, from some angles he looks just like a rotund Duncan, but it's a bit tenuous'. But the picture on redandproud is taken from just one of those angles.

[I wonder about this one. Here is the picture in question. Judge for yourself. TP]

Charles Dance

2006-02-17T17:58:00.000-06:00

Date: Mon, 13 Feb 2006 18:41:52 -0500
From: Richard Gowan
Subject: Duncan long-shot, but it grows on you...

That Bloke off Game On

2006-02-10T16:02:00.000-06:00

Matthew Cottle is his name.

John le Mesurier

2006-02-10T15:55:00.000-06:00

Long overdue for posting, in my view:

Some Guy

2006-02-03T09:23:00.000-06:00

Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 06:11:55 -0800
From: "Adam Tuck"
Subject: New Duncan

Plucked fresh from the unexpected soil of an advert for The Onion's
personals column.

--
Adam Tuck

Conan O'Brien

2006-01-16T15:38:00.000-06:00

Surely the first time two Duncan Lookalikes have ever been posted in one day (cause for celebration, no?):

Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2006 12:14:29 -0800 (PST)
From: UK plc
Subject: [Rambling Thomas] 1/16/2006 02:14:57 PM

How about Conan O'Brien, especially in the following picture:

Surely at the head of the pack in the Duncan lookalike stakes!

It's uncanny

2006-01-16T08:23:00.000-06:00

Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2006 11:24:25 +0000
From: Richard McKinley
Subject: William H Macy

Mary's call; a Duncan Lookalike:

Kevin Bacon

2005-10-06T08:46:00.000-05:00

Date: Wed, 05 Oct 2005 14:29:46 -0400
From: Richard Gowan
Subject: Six Degrees of Duncan

Is this really not on your blog? [It is now.]

Not bad, not bad

2005-10-04T15:10:00.000-05:00

Date: Mon, 3 Oct 2005 18:54:27 -0700
From: mark whelan
Subject: duncan lookalike

Hi Tom, hope you are well. I found this picture and thought that it
would be a nice addition to your blog. haha

[Am I right in thinking this is Stephen Merchant? Tom.]

--
Kind regards,

Mark Whelan MA

Pete Zorn (Richard Thompson's mandolin player)

2005-08-18T07:58:00.000-05:00

Date: Sun, 14 Aug 2005 18:15:59 -0400
From: Richard Gowan
Subject: Pete Zorn

Am I just imagining this? [I fear so. Tom]

Toby Stephens

2005-08-14T14:28:00.000-05:00

Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2005 17:25:40 -0400
From: Richard Gowan
Subject: Oddly enough, one of Duncan's favorite actors

...is off to Bollywood. With Duncan's haircut. I submit:

2005-08-05T12:47:00.000-05:00

Excellent work.

Date: Thu, 4 Aug 2005
From: "Adam Tuck"
Subject: RE: Doctor Jude

Ah, but I have finally found a hard-boiled detective who really does fit the
bill: David Caruso, a.k.a. Horatio Caine from CSI: Miami.

A Duncan Writes

2005-08-03T13:49:00.000-05:00

Date: Tue, 02 Aug 2005
From: "Duncan Thomas"
Subject: Doctor Jude

If only for his sartorial homage to It's All Perrin's Fault in the
forthcoming Christmas special of Doctor Who, I humbly
submit Doctor no. 10, David Tennant, as a lookalike...

All right, he doesn't look that much like me. But, if other people can
submit Dr Zaius, I think I can be allowed this.

Of course, the eleventh Doctor will bear a much closer resemblance to yours
truly... It is my destiny.

However, Richard Gowan responds:

That looks nothing like you. At all. And considerably less like you than, for example, Vincent Price.

I submit the following in Duncan's defence. Look at the cheeky grin.

Duncan in history

2005-06-17T17:38:00.000-05:00

Richard points out a lookalike that Harry claims also bears resemblance to Duncan. If this is true, it means Duncan was bred artificially to be both brilliant and psychotic by Nazi scientists, before gaining high rank in the FBI and bringing about the impeachment of a president. And we thought he just taught schoolchildren and ate Rice Krispie squares.

Me Tarzan, You Duncan

2005-04-26T16:31:00.000-05:00

Richard Gowan suggests what must surely be a shoe-in.

Yet More Duncans

2005-04-22T10:10:00.000-05:00

Richard McKinley suggests another ecclesiastical Duncan, Corpus's own James Lawson:

Duncan Namesakes

2005-04-22T10:07:00.000-05:00

A whole new category, started by Richard Gowan. A random old man called Duncan Thomas, and, from the files of the Rutherford County Police "Sex Register", Thomas E. Duncan (the anti-Duncan (©Adam Tuck)):

But this one doesn't seem to resemble Duncan at all. Must have got in by accident.

Is Duncan God's representative on earth?

2005-04-20T08:43:00.000-05:00

"Benedictions to the new Duncan-a-like" claims Chloe. What do we think? Others are less sure. Now perhaps if they'd made another man Pope...

Spot Duncan...

2005-01-08T13:39:00.000-06:00

John Sessions told Duncan he looked like Kenneth Branagh, you know.

Sideshow Bob's brother, Cecil. Kind of a cheat, since he is played by David Hyde Pierce.

Niles from Frasier (David Hyde Pierce)

Peter Davison. Not only played the Doctor, but in addition managed to attract Joanna Kanska in A Very Peculiar Practice, thus also attracting Duncan's lifelong envy.

Elton John, looking rough.

Mark Gatiss, also playing the Doctor. I sense a theme.

Agatha Christie's HICKSON.

Ron Howard, back in the days when he had hair. Duncan's hair, in fact.

Charles Kennedy (is the one on the left). The fox looks quite like Duncan too, though. Boom Boom!

David McCallum. "Sapphire! Take Time Back!"

Persuasive Roger Moore.

Martin Chambers, the Pretenders' drummer.

Camp witch Anne Robinson.

Useless Thundercat sidekick Snarf.

Anne Widdecombe, looking ravishing.

Intelligent ape Dr Zaius.

Bill Nighy. He was very good in State of Play. Less so in Shaun of the Dead.

The man himself -- or is it?