Christopher Mitchell (actor)

{{Short description|English actor (1948–2001)}}

{{Other people|Christopher Mitchell}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=December 2022}}

{{Use British English|date=June 2013}}

{{Infobox person

| name = Christopher Mitchell

| image = Christopher_Mitchell_(actor).jpg

| birth_name = Christopher Mitchell Driver

| birth_date = {{Birth date|1948|5|21|df=y}}

| birth_place = Surrey, England

| death_date = {{Death date and age|2001|2|22|1948|5|21|df=y}}

| death_place = King's Lynn, Norfolk, England

| nationality = English

| occupation = Actor

| parents = Norman Mitchell

| years_active = 1967–2001

}}

Christopher Mitchell Driver (21 May 1948 – 22 February 2001) was an English actor known for his role in the BBC sitcom It Ain't Half Hot Mum as Gunner Nigel 'Parky' Parkin.{{Cite web|url=https://theatricalia.com/person/130b/christopher-mitchell|title=Christopher Mitchell | Theatricalia|website=theatricalia.com}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.aveleyman.com/ActorCredit.aspx?ActorID=25682|title=Christopher Mitchell|website=aveleyman.com}} His film credits include Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush (1967), This, That and the Other (1969), The Sex Thief (1973) and What's Up Superdoc! (1978).{{Cite web|url=https://www2.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2ba5090a56|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180612193415/http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2ba5090a56|url-status=dead|archive-date=12 June 2018|title=Christopher Mitchell|website=BFI}}

He appeared in two episodes of Only Fools and Horses ("May the Force Be With You" in 1983 and "To Hull and Back" in 1985), playing policeman Terry Hoskins.{{Cite web|url=https://www.comedy.co.uk/tv/only_fools_and_horses/episodes/3/5/|title=Only Fools And Horses Series 3, Episode 5 – May The Force Be With You|first=British Comedy|last=Guide|website=British Comedy Guide}}{{Cite web|url=https://mubi.com/cast/christopher-mitchell|title=Christopher Mitchell|website=MUBI}} In addition he had parts in many other comedies such as: Keeping Up Appearances; Never the Twain and That's My Boy.

He died from cancer at the age of 52, a month before his father, actor Norman Mitchell, and in the same year as Kenneth MacDonald, another actor with a role as a gunner in It Ain't Half Hot Mum, who died of a heart attack aged 50.{{Cite web|url=https://www.mylondon.news/news/celebs/only-fools-horses-keeping-up-20714970|title=The Only Fools and Horses actor who died tragically young at 52|first=Lucy|last=Williamson|date=1 June 2021|website=MyLondon}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/kenneth-macdonald-9142937.html|title=Kenneth MacDonald|date=21 February 2014|website=The Independent|location=London}}