Chris Langham

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Christopher Langham (born 14 April 1949) is an English writer, actor, and comedian.

He is best known for his role as cabinet minister Hugh Abbot in the BBC Four sitcom The Thick of It, as host Roy Mallard in People Like Us, first on BBC Radio 4 and later on television, where Mallard is almost entirely an unset character.

He later created several parody adverts in the same style.

In an episode of the television show Happy Families and the film The Big Tease, he appeared as similar unseen interviewers.

He is also known for his work in television series Not the Nine O'Clock News, Help, Kiss Me Kate, and as the gatekeeper in Chelmsford 123.

He received BAFTA awards for The Thick of It and Support in 2006. Langham was found guilty of 15 charges of downloading and owning level 5 child pornography on August 2, 2007.

Langham was sentenced to ten months in prison but was reduced to six on appeal.

He was asked to sign the child offenders' registry and was barred from working with children for ten years.

Early life and education

Langham is the son of theatre producer Michael Langham and actress Helen Burns. He was educated at St Paul's School, a West London boys' independent school, followed by the University of Bristol, where he studied English and drama before dropping out.

Personal life

Langham's first marriage to actress/singer Sue Jones-Davies had three children but he had to leave due to his alcoholism. Langham's second wife, director Christine Cartwright, had two children by his second marriage.

Langham obtained alcohol and cocaine abuse, and he was still receiving medical attention a week later this week. He co-authored Help, a BBC2 series in which he portrayed a psychotherapist alongside colleague Paul Whitehouse and played a counsellor in sitcom Kiss Me Kate, using his experiences.

Despite his arrest and jail time for possessing photos of child violence, his marriage to Cartwright survived, and his wife and children continued to live with him in Cranbrook, Kent, following his release. In the same way, his three sons from his first marriage stood by him.

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Career

Langham's career began with comedy and writing for Spike Milligan.

He began his writing career as the sole British writer for The Muppet Show, which was one of his early breaks. In the 19th episode of the final season, he appeared as the "extra guest star" when the planned guest, Richard Pryor, was unable to attend the recording; a script in which "Chris the Delivery Boy" stood in for an absent celebrity. He received two awards from the Writers Guild of America for his appearance on The Muppet Show. In 1976, he appeared as a police officer in The Pink Panther Strikes Again, opposite Peter Sellers. In 1976, Langham co-wrote with Ken Campbell at the Science Fiction Theatre of Liverpool, and it was also the beginning of the nine-hour stage play Illuminatus. The production was transferred to the Cottesloe Theatre, London, where Peter Hall found it "very touching" on George Dorn's performance.

Langham was part of the original cast for Not the Nine O'Clock News, written by Richard Curtis in 1979. The show was marketed as a comedy troupe, but it was not Monty Python's Flying Circus nor The Two Ronnies. Langham was retained for the first full series, billed equally with Mel Smith, Pamela Stephenson, and Rowan Atkinson, even after the original pilot was pulled from the program. The first series did not do as well as expected, but Langham was considered to be "too free a spirit." Langham appeared in Monty Python's Life of Brian as a centurion, a film that sparked controversy for its satire of Christianity, resulting in a televised discussion between John Cleese, Michael Palin, Malcolm Muggeridge, and Mervyn Stockwood over whether the film is blasphetical. Curtis had written a skit that parodied this discussion as well. Langham was furious over the sketch's inclusion, which gave the team and producer John Lloyd the excuse for his replacement by support player Griff Rhys Jones. When Langham heard the crew discussing the second series, he did not know about it until the last day of filming. The show only gained cult status during its later years, and in subsequent compilation compilations, the majority of Langham's contributions have been stripped, giving the appearance that he was never a principal cast member.

Langham went on to appear on Smith and Jones' own website, Alas Smith and Jones, as an ineffectual panel host. This character was reportedly inspired by John Morton to create Roy Mallard, who would later appear in his film People Like Us; Mallard was also on television and (offscreen) on television by Langham. In 1985, Langham appeared in a fly-on-the-wall documentary interviewer very similar to Roy Mallard's Happy Families.

Langham appeared Arthur Dent in the first professional stage version of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, directed by Ken Campbell. He later returned to Hitchhiker's, appearing as Prak in the Tertiary Phase radio series produced in 2004.

He appeared in a number of Birdseye commercials promoting their Steakhouse product range (1991–1993).

Langham narrated the 1984 radio series The History of Rock with Chris Langham, in which Langham provided a comedic and slightly fictitious account of rock music history. Langham appeared in "Roxanne" episode five of Ben Elton's BBC situation comedy Happy Families on November 14, 1985. He appeared in the film Carry On Columbus in 1992.

Langham appears in numerous one-man shows; Crazy for You, in which he appeared in 1996; The Way of the World, The Nerd, and The Pirates of Penzance are among his stage credits for his 1996 debut. He created Blondel's comedic role, as well as Tim Rice and Stephen Oliver, and appears on the original cast album.

Langham wrote the BBC One sitcom Kiss Me Kate, in which he appeared alongside Caroline Quentin and Amanda Holden. In 2002, he wrote and appeared in My Dreams, an adaptation of a short story by Lawrence Block for the BBC. On Radio 4, he narrated The Rapid Eye Movement, which starred Martin Freeman as Chester Beatty, who was in charge of the entire series. Posh Nosh, the BBC television comedy series, was directed by the actor in 2003.

In the BBC docudrama George Orwell and John Wyndham, respectively, portrayed writers George Orwell and John Wyndham, as well as the Invisible Man of Science Fiction in 2003 and 2005. He also appeared in The Sunday Format, a radio magazine parody.

In 2005, he appeared alongside co-writer Paul Whitehouse in Help on BBC Two, where he also appeared in the Armando Iannucci film The Thick of It in the same year. Langham was named Best Comedy Actor in the 2005 British Comedy Awards and received the 2006 BAFTA Best Comedy Performance award for his role in The Thick of It. Langham wrote and starred in the ITV pilot Seven Second Delay, which appeared in November 2005.

He appeared on The Heaven and Earth Show several times. He was a member of Bremner, Bird, and Fortune's writing staff, in which he appeared as a civil servant discussing Bremner's Tony Blair. Langham has appeared on Armando Iannucci's Charm Offensive, as a panelist.

Langham was interviewed by celebrity psychologist Pamela Connolly, who had worked on Not the Nine O'Clock News, where he spoke about being abused as an eight-year-old prisoner, triggering his arrest and conviction. On January 15, 2008, More4 hosted the interview. Langham was also invited to speak in front of the Oxford Union on May 29, 2008, but the invitation was then withheld.

In 2011, Will Sharpe and Tom Kingsley directed Black Pond, a low-budget British film directed by Tom Kingsley and Will Sharpe, in his first screen appearance since his debut on screen. Langham said in an interview with The Guardian in September 2011, that many people had suggested to him that he should return to work, but no one wanted to hire him. "Whether it will rehabilitate him among casting agents and comedy show commissioners is another thing," the Independent said of his performance in Black Pond. On December 11, 2011 at the Kino Digital Cinema in Hawkhurst had a preview of the film. Langham, a short distance, hosted a brief question-and-answer session to help promote the film.

In Richard John Taylor's drama film Acceptance, he appeared with Billy Murray, Leslie Grantham, and Crissy Rock in 2012.

When Langham's The Muppet Show episode was added to Disney+ in 2021, it was not available on Disney+. The bulk of missing episodes and segments were due to music-rights issues, according to Disney, who refused to comment on Langham specifically.

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