Christopher Robbie

{{Short description|British actor and theatre director}}

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| birth_name = Christopher James Alan Robbie

| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1938|05|30|df=y}}

| birth_place = Edmonton, London, England

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| occupation = Actor, theatre director, playwright

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Christopher Robbie (born 30 May 1938) is a British actor, television announcer, theatre director and designer, playwright and photographer.{{Cite web|url=https://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2bab489340|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160504124051/http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2bab489340|url-status=dead|archive-date=4 May 2016|title=Christopher Robbie|publisher=British Film Institute}} He trained as an actor at RADA in London, and has had a distinguished theatrical career, playing the title role in King Lear when a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company.{{Cite web|url=https://www.rada.ac.uk/profiles/christopher-robbie/|title=Christopher Robbie – RADA|website=rada.ac.uk}}{{Cite web|url=https://theatricalia.com/person/2zg/christopher-robbie/past|title=Christopher Robbie | Theatricalia|website=theatricalia.com}}

He has performed a one-man play about the life of Charles Darwin. Under the pseudonym James Alan he wrote the play The Sirens of Eroc.{{Cite web|url=https://www.uktw.co.uk/archive/play/the-sirens-of-eroc-an-argument-won-and-lost/S01780424312/|title=The Siren's of Eroc: An Argument Won and Lost (Play) archive [PLAY]|website=uktw.co.uk}} As a film actor he appeared in Where Has Poor Mickey Gone? (1964). As a television actor he appeared in the Doctor Who stories The Mind Robber (1968){{cite web | url=https://www.radiotimes.com/tv/sci-fi/doctor-who-guide/the-mind-robber/ | title=The Mind Robber ★★★★ | Radio Times }} and Revenge of the Cybermen (1975),{{cite web | url=https://www.radiotimes.com/tv/sci-fi/doctor-who-guide/revenge-of-the-cybermen/ | title=Revenge of the Cybermen ★ | Radio Times }} as well as in The Avengers, UFO, Dempsey and Makepeace and One Foot in the Grave, among others.{{Cite web|url=https://www.aveleyman.com/ActorCredit.aspx?ActorID=14738|title=Christopher Robbie|website=aveleyman.com}} As a photographer he has held exhibitions of his work.{{cite web | url=https://showreel.thetvroom.com/talent-profiles/7563/robbie-christopher/ | title=Robbie, Christopher | date=January 2018 }}

He was an in-vision announcer for Southern Television. He announced on the company's final day of broadcasting (31 December 1981) and presented its final programme And It's Goodbye From Us ...{{Cite web|url=https://thetvroom.com/ark/announcers/channel-21.html|title=Announcers|website=thetvroom.com}} He announced, although less often, for TVS in the 1980s, and had stints in the announcer's chair at Associated-Rediffusion, Thames Television and Anglia Television.

His grandfather, William Sleator, was a pioneer of French football. https://www.scottishsporthistory.com/sports-history-news-and-blog/the-father-of-french-football-a-tailor-from-worcester