Christopher George Hewett was an English actor and theatre director best known for his role as Lynn Aloysius Belvedere on the ABC sitcom Mr Belvedere.
11 Facts About Christopher Hewett
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Christopher Hewett was educated at Beaumont College and at Wimbledon College, and at aged 7, made his acting debut in a Dublin stage production of A Midsummer Night's Dream.
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At age 16 Hewett joined the Royal Air Force, leaving in 1940.
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Christopher Hewett then joined the Oxford Repertory Company and made his West End theatre debut in 1943.
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Christopher Hewett later appeared on Broadway in the musicals My Fair Lady, First Impressions, The Unsinkable Molly Brown, Music Is and Kean and in the plays Sleuth and The Affair, among others, and directed the 1960 Broadway revue From A to Z and the 1967 Off Broadway revival of the Rodgers and Hart musical By Jupiter.
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Christopher Hewett directed several stage productions including The Marriage-Go-Round and Beyond the Fringe and Camelot.
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Christopher Hewett made his film debut in the crime drama Pool of London, and later appeared in roles on Robert Montgomery Presents and DuPont Show of the Month.
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Christopher Hewett appeared as the grandiose and camp theatre director Roger DeBris in Mel Brooks's comedy The Producers.
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In 1976, Christopher Hewett played the generic bureaucrat Federov in the short-lived sitcom Ivan the Terrible.
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Christopher Hewett's last on-screen role was a cameo appearance on the Fox series Ned and Stacey in 1997.
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Christopher Hewett died on 3 August 2001, in his Los Angeles home from complications of diabetes at age 80.