Christopher Pate

{{short description|Australian actor}}

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| father = Michael Pate

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Christopher Pate is an Australian actor.{{Citation | last = Squires | first = Tony | date = 30 July 1987 | title = Pate eyes Gene Hackman roles | periodical = The Sydney Morning Herald | url = }} He was nominated for the 1977 AFI Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role for his role in Raw Deal.{{Cite web | title = AACTA Awards. Winners & Nominees |website= AACTA.org | publisher = Australian Film Institute. | url = https://www.aacta.org/aacta-awards/winners-and-nominees/range/1970-1979/year/1977/ |access-date = 31 August 2021 }}

In 1966, he starred in the television Western Gunsmoke as Curtis in S12E8 "The Whispering Tree". Pate had a regular role in the early 1970s on the TV series Bellbird.{{cite book |editor-last1 =Mayer |editor-first1 = Geoff |editor-last2 =Bertrand |editor-first2 = Ina | editor-last3 = McFarlane |editor-first3= Brian|date= 1999 |title= The Oxford Companion to Australian Film |url= |location= |publisher= Oxford University Press |page= 376 |isbn=9780195537970}} In 1977 he played the lead role in The Mango Tree, which was written and produced by his father Michael Pate.{{Cite web | last = Groves | first = Don | date = 5 October 2009 | title = The Mango Tree Review |website= SBS Movies | publisher = SBS | url = https://www.sbs.com.au/movies/review/mango-tree-review |access-date = 31 August 2021 }} He has appeared on stage in such musicals as Hair and Little Shop of Horrors and played in the original Australian production of Godspell.