Actor
Chris Langham
April 14, 1949 · London, England, UK
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.
Notable work
Often works with
Rik Mayall
3 titles together
Bottom, Carry On Columbus, The Comic Strip Presents...
Tom Goodman-Hill
3 titles together
My Family and Other Animals, The Worst Week of My Life, People Like Us
John Cleese
2 titles together
Life of Brian, Not the Nine O'Clock News
Rebecca Front
2 titles together
The Thick of It, People Like Us
Tony Gardner
2 titles together
The Thick of It, People Like Us
Adrian Edmondson
2 titles together
Bottom, The Comic Strip Presents...
Full filmography · 49
Les Misérables: In Concert at Hylands Park
as Thénardier
Upcoming
Vengeance
as Danny
2020
The Darkest Universe
as Alan
2016
The Factory
as Doctor
2013
Black Pond
as Tom Thompson
20116.2
Not Again: Not the Nine O'Clock News
as Various Roles (archive footage)
2009
The Art of Football from A to Z
Writer
2006
My Family and Other Animals
as Theodore Stephanides
20056.4
John Wyndham: The Invisible Man of Science Fiction
as John Wyndham
2005
The Legend of the Tamworth Two
as Jack
2004
The Best of Not the Nine O'Clock News Volume One
cast
2003
George Orwell: A Life In Pictures
as George Orwell
2003