Christopher Hewett
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Christopher Michael Hewett (born 1921 – 31 August 2001) was a British actor and theatre director best known for his role as Lynn Aloysius Belvedere on ABC's Mr. Belvedere.
Personal life and death
Hewett, a devout Catholic and lifelong bachelor, served at St. Victor's Church in West Hollywood. He suffered from arthritis and diabetes during his later years.
Hewett died in his Los Angeles home on August 3rd, 2001, from diabetes-related issues at the age of 80.
Career
Hewett was born in Worthing, Sussex, to Christopher Fitzsimon Hewett (an army officer and a descendant of Daniel O'Connell) and his partner Eleanor Joyce Watts (an actress whose professional name was Rhoda Cleighton). He was educated at Beaumont College and Wimbledon College, and he made his acting debut in A Midsummer Night's Dream, which was staged in Dublin, aged 7. Hewett, a 16-year-old boy, joined the Royal Air Force, retiring in 1940. Hewett performed with the Oxford Repertory Company for his West End debut in 1943.
He appeared on Broadway in the musicals My Fair Lady, First Impressions, The Unsinkable Molly Brown, Music Is and Kean, and others in the productions Sleuth and The Affair, among others, and he directed the 1966 Broadway revival of the Rodgers and Hart musical By Jupiter. Hewett has also directed several stage productions, including The Marriage-Go-Round and Beyond the Fringe and Camelot.
Hewett made his film debut in the crime drama Pool of London (1951) and later appeared in Robert Montgomery Presents and DuPont Show of the Month. In Mel Brooks' comedy The Producers (1967), he appeared as grandiose and camp theatre director Roger DeBris. In 1976, Hewett played generic bureaucrat Federov in the short-lived sitcom Ivan the Terrible. He appeared on Broadway as Captain Hook to Sandy Duncan's Peter Pan in the 1979-80 season. Lawrence, Mr. Roarke's (Ricardo Montalbán) sidekick on ABC's last season of Fantasy Island portrayed him from 1983 to 1984.
Hewett landed his first-known role as Lynn Aloysius Belvedere, an English butler who works for a middle-class American family in the sitcom Mr. Belvedere's middle class American family. Hewett appeared in a guest spot on an episode of the NBC teen sitcom California Dreams in 1990 after the series came to an end. In 1997, his last on-screen appearance was a cameo appearance on the Fox series Ned and Stacey.