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David Macmillan was privately educated and served as an army officer until 1955. He trained at the Webber-Douglas School of Dramatic Art between 1956 and 1958, where he received the Spotlight Award and the Margaret Rutherford Medal. He acted in radio, television and theatre between 1958 and 1967.
His theatrical experience included a very broad range of parts at theatres such as Birmingham Alex (two years), Edinburgh Gateway and Lyceum, Glasgow Citizens, Harrogate, St. Andrew's, Wimbledon, Richmond, Colchester, Salisbury, Belfast to name a few.
He appeared in radio productions such as "Children's Hour", "The Archers", plays and school broadcasts. In television, he made over fifty appearances between 1960 and 1967 including eighteen episodes of "Dr Finlay's Casebook" (as Constable Dickie), ten episodes of "The Flying Swan", eight episodes of "The George Kidd Show", "The Dark Number", "Compact", "The Saint", "William", "The Other Man", "North Flight", "Kipling", "No Thoroughfare", "Pack Up Your Troubles","The Big Pull" and "Gideon's Way".
He launched a successful senior management career in recruitment advertising and marketing in London between 1967 and his retirement in 1995.
He returned to acting in 1996 and has appeared on television as Martin Dawson in "Taggart" - 'Apocalypse' for STV (1996) (directed by Marcus White) and as Dobson in Rosamunde Pilcher's "Coming Home" (1997) for Portman Productions (directed by Giles Foster); at the Chichester Festival Theatre and the Theatre Royal Haymarket, as Lane in Oscar Wilde's "The Importance of Being Earnest" (directed by Christopher Morahan); and at the Pitlochry Festival Theatre in 2001 as Lord Loam, in J.M.Barrie's "The Admirable Crichton" (directed by Clive Perry) and as Arthur Winslow, in Terence Rattigan's "The Winslow Boy"
He has also dealt in antiques, Scottish Pottery and Works of Art. He met his actress wife Morag, while they were appearing in pantomime. They have three children and reside in Crieff.
