Background
Ian MacNaughton was born in Glasgow and educated at Strathallan School in Perthshire. He studied medicine at University before abandoning his plans to become a doctor and joining the Royal Marines for a year in 1945. Whilst serving with the Royal Marines in an officers' training squad at Deal in Kent he was offered the chance to act with the Globe Players which was the Royal Marines amateur dramatics group. After he was demobilised in 1946 he returned to Glasgow where his father hoped he would join the family firm. However, he decided to apply for a one year pre-RADA course in London, which he completed, though he did not enter the Academy itself.
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