Duncan Henderson, the Oscar-nominated producer of Peter Weir’s Grasp and Commander: The Far Facet of the World, a longtime DGA nationwide board member and recipient of the guild’s Frank Capra Achievement Award, has died of pancreatic most cancers. He was 72.
Henderson was Oscar-nominated within the Greatest Image class in 2004 for Grasp and Commander. The veteran producer, unit manufacturing supervisor and assistant director had served constantly on the DGA nationwide board since 2005, profitable eight consecutive elections.
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“It’s tough to overstate how a lot Duncan meant to the DGA and his fellow members,” DGA president Lesli Linka Glatter stated Thursday. “His love for his guild and its members shone brightly by way of his excellent management and 16 years of service as a board member, as a longstanding member of the Western AD/UPM Council, together with a time period as Council chair, and five-time member of the DGA Negotiations Committee. Moreover, Duncan was proud to offer again to the group that helped usher him into the business and the guild, serving as a trustee on the DGA-Producer Assistant Administrators Coaching Program since 2004. Our ideas are with Duncan’s spouse Michele, his youngsters Jessica, Ian, Fiona and Ivy, and his many colleagues and associates. He can be deeply missed.”
Henderson had a prolific profession in movie with credit together with the DGA Award-nominated Grasp and Commander and Useless Poets Society; Wolfgang Petersen’s The Excellent Storm and Outbreak; Chris Columbus’ Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone and Residence Alone 2; Joseph Kosinski’s Oblivion; and Malcolm D. Lee’s House Jam: A New Legacy. Previous to turning into a UPM, Henderson labored as an assistant director on options starting from John Cassavetes’ Huge Hassle to Sylvester Stallone’s Rocky IV. As a DGA Trainee, Henderson labored on tasks together with Paul Schrader’s American Gigolo and Michael Cimino’s Heaven’s Gate.
“A DGA member for over 40 years, Duncan’s stage of ardour, service and dedication was past exemplary – and for that we honored him with the Frank Capra Achievement Award in 2020 as a mark of his extraordinary dedication,” Glatter stated. “Regardless of how large the movie, whether or not The Excellent Storm, Residence Alone 2 or DGA- and Academy Award-nominated options Grasp and Commander: The Far Facet of the World and Useless Poet’s Society, Duncan was at all times out there as a frontrunner, a mentor and a buddy. He gave the identical sensible counsel and considerate consideration to award-winning administrators and the manufacturing assistant on her first business job.”
When requested about his longtime dedication to the guild, Henderson stated upon receiving the Frank Capra Award that “I used to be like all of my compatriots within the DGA – busy. Sooner or later I spotted that different members who had been simply as busy as me had been making time to contribute to guild with their service. I made a decision to observe their lead and be part of the AD/UPM Council. It was among the best selections I’ve ever made. It expanded the whole scope of my movement image profession.”
