Biography
Duncan Henderson (also credited as Duncan S. Henderson) was an American film producer, assistant director and unit production manager. He was born in Culver City, California, and studied film at the University of California, Los Angeles, and business at the University of Southern California.
Henderson worked as an assistant director on films including Rocky IV (1985) and served as unit production manager or associate producer on Dead Poets Society (1989) and Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (2001). As a producer his credits include Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (2003), for which he shared an Academy Award nomination for Best Picture, Oblivion (2013), Maleficent: Mistress of Evil (2019), Space Jam: A New Legacy (2021) and Transformers: Rise of the Beasts (2023).
A longtime member of the Directors Guild of America, Henderson served on its national board and received the Frank Capra Achievement Award in 2020. He died in 2022.
