1. Christopher Timothy is known for his roles as James Herriot in All Creatures Great and Small, Mac McGuire in the BBC One daytime soap opera Doctors and Ted Murray in the BBC One primetime soap opera EastEnders.
22 Facts About Christopher Timothy
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Christopher Timothy is the son of Anglican priest and BBC announcer Andrew Timothy and his first wife, Gwladys Marian nee Hailstone.
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Christopher Timothy played the role of James Herriot in All Creatures Great and Small for the full 90 episodes, from 1978 until 1990.
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Christopher Timothy appeared as a special guest on ITV1 drama The Bill, which was aired on New Years Day 2009.
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Christopher Timothy is the son of BBC announcer Andrew Timothy, and has done regular voice work himself including taking his father's place as the announcer for the Goon Again Show in 2001 marking the 50th anniversary of The Goon Show.
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Christopher Timothy played the announcer role on The Kinks' 1974 double album, Preservation Act 2.
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Christopher Timothy was the subject of This Is Your Life in 2000 when he was surprised by Michael Aspel on the set of Doctors at the BBC's Pebble Mill studios in Birmingham.
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Christopher Timothy voiced and appeared in numerous television commercials for The Sun newspaper in the 1970s when Rupert Murdoch had entered British newspaper publishing; these were extremely unusual commercials for the time in the level of energy and even aggression evident in Timothy's delivery.
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Christopher Timothy was played by Jack Holden in the Almeida opening and by Andrew Durand in the Broadway production.
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Christopher Timothy appeared in BBC Radio's Just a Minute in 1988 and 1989.
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Christopher Timothy was used in the marketing material for Dignity plc, primarily for their prepaid funeral plans.
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In 2008 Christopher Timothy took part in the BBC Wales programme Coming Home about his Welsh family history.
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Christopher Timothy returned to theatre in March 2013 in The Living Room.
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Christopher Timothy appeared with Peter Davison in two series of Great British Car Journeys for Channel 4 in 2018 and 2019.
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Christopher Timothy appeared in Midsomer Murder S21E1 "The Point of Balance" as Ned Barnaby.
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Christopher Timothy had narrated the first nine series of Channel 5's The Yorkshire Vet, which features veterinarians Julian Norton and Peter Wright.
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Christopher Timothy had hoped to do so for the tenth series as well, but was self-isolating owing to the COVID-19 pandemic in April 2020.
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Christopher Timothy had narrated the audio books of the James Herriot series.
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Christopher Timothy has been married twice; first to Susan Boys, with whom he had four sons and two daughters.
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Christopher Timothy has been married to Annie Veronica Swatton since 1982, and they have one daughter.
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Christopher Timothy is a supporter of National League football club Hartlepool United.
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Christopher Timothy learned to play violin whilst at school and plays occasionally in a local amateur orchestra although he described his ability as moderate.