Born thirty years too late to star in the big-budget Hollywood swashbucklers that would have suited him best, Canadian actor Duncan Regehr nonetheless cut quite a dashing figure in TV costume adventures. Regehr's first regular series work was as Prince Dirk Blackpool in the 1983 sword-and-sorcery briefie Wizards and Warriors. His breakthrough role was the part of Errol Flynn in the 1985 TV-movie adaptation of Flynn's racy autobiography My Wicked Wicked Ways. Regehr persisted in Flynn-like derring-do as star of the 1990 cable TV series Zorro. Duncan Regehr's other significant television credits include the role of extraterrestrial "visitor" Charles in the sci-fi series V (1984-85), and the part of Sheriff Pat Garrett in the 1989 TNT feature film Gore Vidal's Billy the Kid.
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- Had his own radio program when he was 16.
- Was formerly a champion figure skater and Olympic boxing contender.
- Received classical Shakespearean stage training in Canada before leaving for Hollywood in 1980.
- Is the author of a number of books of paintings, drawings and poetry, such as Dragon's Eye: An Artist's View, and Presence: Other Selves, Other Lives, Other Loves, Other Souls.
- One of his best-known roles was Don Diego De La Vega and his alter ego, the swashbuckling hero, Zorro, on the Zorro series which ran for 88 episodes from 1990 to 1993.
- Is also an accomplished artist with several of his artworks hanging in significant private collections and exhibited internationally.