Chris Langham
Actor
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.
Filmography
The Pink Panther Strikes Again
as Police Driver 1976
Carry On Columbus
as Hubba 1992
The Emperor's New Clothes
as Maurice 2001
My Family and Other Animals
as Theodore Stephanides 2005
The Big Tease
as BBC Interviewer 1999
Black Pond
as Tom Thompson 2011
Silas Marner
as Keating 1985
I Love Muppets
as Self 2002
The Darkest Universe
as Alan 2016
Room to Rent
as Mr. Paul 2001
The Secret Policeman's Other Ball
as Self - Various Roles 1982
Vengeance
as Danny 2020
Bejewelled
as Cop 1991
The Best of Not The Nine O'Clock News Volume One
2006
Of Muppets & Men
as Self 1981
The Secret Policeman’s Biggest Ball
as Self 1989