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Personal Info

Gender

Male

Birthday

1949-04-14 (76 years old)

Place of Birth

London, England, UK

Chris Langham

Biography:

Christopher Langham is an English writer, actor, and comedian. He is known for playing the cabinet minister Hugh Abbot in the BBC Four 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.

Langham subsequently created several spoof adverts in the same vein. He also played similar unseen interviewers in an episode of the television series Happy Families and in the film The Big Tease. He is also known for his roles in the television series Not the Nine O'Clock News, Help, Kiss Me Kate, and as the gatehouse guard in Chelmsford 123. In 2006, he won BAFTA awards for The Thick of It and Help.

On 2 August 2007, Langham was found guilty of fifteen charges of downloading and possessing level 5 child sexual abuse images and videos. Langham was jailed for ten months, reduced to six months on appeal. He was made to sign the sex offenders' register and was banned from working with children for 10 years.

Known For

Acting

2020

Vengeance as Danny

2016

2013

Full Time as Vinnie
The Factory as Doctor

2011

Black Pond as Tom Thompson

2009

Not Again: Not the Nine O'Clock News as Various Roles (archive footage)

2007

Shrink Rap as Himself

2006

2005

My Family and Other Animals as Theodore Stephanides
Spin by David Shrigley as Self as Narrator
The Thick of It as Hugh Abbot
Help as Peter

2004

2003

2002

2001

1999

The Big Tease as BBC Interviewer
People Like Us as Roy Mallard

1998

1996

The Preventers as Dr. Keelover

1992

1991

Bejewelled as Cop
Bottom as Tight-Mouthed Larry

1990

1989

1988

1986

The McGuffin as Detective

1985

Silas Marner as Keating
Happy Families as Reporter

1984

1982

1981

The Gaffer as Spencer Moffatt
Bergerac as Devas

1979

1978

1976

Production

2005

Help as Producer

Crew

Creator

1998

Kiss Me Kate as Creator