Christopher Hewett

Christopher Hewett was an English actor and theater director who began acting as a boy in Dublin and later worked on the West End and Broadway. Born in Worthing, Sussex, he joined the Royal Air Force as a teenager, then the Oxford Repertory Company, and his West End debut followed in 1943. On Broadway he appeared in My Fair Lady, Kean, First Impressions, The Unsinkable Molly Brown and Music Is, and he acted in Sleuth and The Affair. He directed From A to Z on Broadway and a 1967 Off Broadway revival of By Jupiter. His film debut came with Pool of London (1951), and he later played Roger DeBris in Mel Brooks's The Producers (1968). On television he was Federov in Ivan the Terrible and Lawrence on Fantasy Island, and he played Captain Hook opposite Sandy Duncan in Peter Pan on Broadway. His best-known role was the butler Lynn Aloysius Belvedere on Mr. Belvedere.