Christopher Winton Beeny was an English actor and dancer.
10 Facts About Christopher Beeny
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Christopher Beeny had a career as a child actor, but was best known for his work as the footman Edward Barnes on the 1970s television series Upstairs, Downstairs, as Billy Henshaw in the sitcom In Loving Memory, and as the incompetent debt collector and golfer Morton Beamish in Last of the Summer Wine.
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Christopher Beeny moved to Bristol with his family as a young child, spent several years at the Arts Educational School, and later attended the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art.
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Christopher Beeny gained notice when he appeared in the highly successful period drama Upstairs, Downstairs as the footman Edward Barnes.
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Christopher Beeny appeared as Geoffrey in the single mother sitcom Miss Jones and Son, as Tony in the remake of The Rag Trade and co-starring with Thora Hird in a further sitcom, In Loving Memory.
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Christopher Beeny appeared originally as the character Herman Teasdale, who later became Morton Beamish.
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Christopher Beeny toured in the play There's No Place Like a Home with Gorden Kaye, and in 2011 toured in Five Blue Haired Ladies Sitting On A Park Bench.
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Christopher Beeny appeared in pantomime at the Assembly Hall, Tunbridge Wells in late 2011, early 2012.
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Christopher Beeny played the role of The Storyteller in the production.
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Christopher Beeny died at his home in Kent on 3 January 2020, aged 78.