Christopher Robbie
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Christopher Robbie | |
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| Born | Christopher James Alan Robbie 30 May 1938 Edmonton, London, England |
| Occupations | Actor, theatre director, playwright |
Christopher Robbie (born 30 May 1938) is a British actor, television announcer, theatre director and designer, playwright and photographer.[1] He trained as an actor at RADA in London, and has had a distinguished theatrical career, playing the title role in King Lear when a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company.[2][3]
He has performed a one-man play about the life of Charles Darwin. Under the pseudonym James Alan he wrote the play The Sirens of Eroc.[4] As a film actor he appeared in Where Has Poor Mickey Gone? (1964). As a television actor he appeared in the Doctor Who stories The Mind Robber (1968)[5] and Revenge of the Cybermen (1975),[6] as well as in The Avengers, UFO, Dempsey and Makepeace and One Foot in the Grave, among others.[7] As a photographer he has held exhibitions of his work.[8]
He was an in-vision announcer for Southern Television. He announced on the company's final day of broadcasting (31 December 1981) and presented its final programme And It's Goodbye From Us ...[9] He announced, although less often, for TVS in the 1980s, and had stints in the announcer's chair at Associated-Rediffusion, Thames Television and Anglia Television.
His grandfather, William Sleator, was a pioneer of French football. [10]
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