Christopher Robbie

Christopher Robbie is a British actor, television announcer, theater director and designer, playwright and photographer who trained at RADA in London. He built a long theatrical career that included playing the title role in King Lear as a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company, and he has performed a one-man show tracing the life of Charles Darwin. Writing as James Alan, he is the author of the play The Sirens of Eroc. On screen he appeared in the film Where Has Poor Mickey Gone? (1964) and in the Doctor Who serials The Mind Robber (1968) and Revenge of the Cybermen (1975), along with The Avengers, UFO, Dempsey and Makepeace and One Foot in the Grave. He has also worked as an in-vision announcer for Southern Television, TVS, Associated-Rediffusion, Thames Television and Anglia Television, and has exhibited his photography.