Christopher Langham was born on 14 April 1949 and is an English writer, actor, and comedian.
36 Facts About Chris Langham
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Chris Langham is known for playing the cabinet minister Hugh Abbot in the BBC sitcom The Thick of It, and as presenter Roy Mallard in People Like Us, first on BBC Radio 4 and later on its transfer to television on BBC Two, where Mallard is almost entirely an unseen character.
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Chris Langham subsequently created several spoof advertisements in the same vein.
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Chris Langham played similar unseen interviewers in an episode of the television series Happy Families and in the film The Big Tease.
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Chris Langham is known for his roles in the television series Not the Nine O'Clock News, Help, and Kiss Me Kate, and as the gatehouse guard in Chelmsford 123.
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Chris Langham was jailed for 10 months, reduced to 6 months on appeal.
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Chris Langham is the son of theatre director Michael Chris Langham and actress Helen Burns.
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Chris Langham was educated at St Paul's School, an independent school for boys in Barnes in West London, followed by the University of Bristol, where he studied English and drama, before dropping out.
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Chris Langham appeared as the "special guest star" in the 19th episode of the final season, when the scheduled guest, Richard Pryor, was unable to make it to the recording; a script was hastily written in which "Chris the Delivery Boy" stood in for an absent celebrity.
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Chris Langham received two awards from the Writers Guild of America for his work on The Muppet Show.
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Chris Langham made a brief appearance as a police driver in The Pink Panther Strikes Again in 1976, opposite Peter Sellers.
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In 1976 was the inception, at the Science Fiction Theatre of Liverpool, of the nine-hour stage play Illuminatus, which Chris Langham co-wrote with Ken Campbell.
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Chris Langham was part of the original cast for the pilot for Not the Nine O'Clock News in 1979, written by Richard Curtis.
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Chris Langham was upset at the inclusion of the sketch, which gave the team and producer John Lloyd the excuse for his replacement by support player Griff Rhys Jones.
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Chris Langham did not learn of the switch until the last day of filming, when he heard the crew discussing the second series.
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Chris Langham went on to appear on Smith and Jones' own programme, Alas Smith and Jones, playing an ineffectual panel-show host.
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Chris Langham played a fly-on-the-wall documentary interviewer very similar to Roy Mallard in Happy Families in 1985.
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Also in 1979, Chris Langham played Arthur Dent in the first professional stage version of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, directed by Ken Campbell.
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Chris Langham later returned to Hitchhiker's, appearing as Prak in Above The Title Productions' Tertiary Phase radio series in 2004.
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Chris Langham appeared in a series of Birdseye advertisements for their Steakhouse range.
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Chris Langham created the comic role of the Assassin in Blondel, and appears on the original cast album.
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Chris Langham wrote the BBC One sitcom Kiss Me Kate, in which he appeared alongside Caroline Quentin and Amanda Holden.
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Chris Langham appeared in the radio magazine satire The Sunday Format.
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Chris Langham starred alongside co-writer Paul Whitehouse in Help on BBC Two in 2005, where he appeared in the Armando Iannucci comedy The Thick of It in the same year.
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Chris Langham was named Best Comedy Actor in the 2005 British Comedy Awards and won the 2006 BAFTA Best Comedy Performance award for his role in The Thick of It.
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In November 2005, Chris Langham wrote and starred in ITV pilot Seven Second Delay.
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Chris Langham was a frequent guest on The Heaven and Earth Show.
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Chris Langham was part of the writing team for Bremner, Bird and Fortune, in which he occasionally appeared as a civil servant discussing things with Bremner's Tony Blair.
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Chris Langham has appeared as a panelist on the Radio 4 show Armando Iannucci's Charm Offensive.
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Chris Langham was invited to make a speech in front of the Oxford Union on 29 May 2008, but the invitation was then withdrawn.
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Chris Langham sought counselling for alcohol and cocaine addiction, and was still undergoing therapy once a week as of 2006.
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Chris Langham used his experiences to co-write the BBC2 series Help, in which he portrayed a psychotherapist, with friend Paul Whitehouse, and played a counsellor in sitcom Kiss Me Kate.
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On 29 November 2005, Chris Langham was arrested by Kent Police in connection with Operation Ore, a British police operation into credit-card customers paying to access indecent and abusive images of children on the internet.
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The arrest was first reported in the press on 16 December 2005, in response to which Chris Langham's lawyer read a statement in which he said that he was innocent and pointed out that he had not been charged.
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Whitehouse stated that the character was not intended to be a paedophile, nor was he personally aware of Chris Langham obtaining such material for the development of the programme's script.
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Chris Langham was released on 14 November 2007, after his sentence was reduced to six months on appeal.