Christopher Langham is an English writer, actor, and comedian. He is known for playing the cabinet minister Hugh Abbot in the BBC Four sitcom The Thick of It, and as presenter Roy Mallard in People Like Us, first on BBC Radio 4 and later on its transfer to television on BBC Two, where Mallard is almost entirely an unseen character.Langham subsequently created several spoof adverts in the same vein. He also played similar unseen interviewers in an episode of the television series Happy Families and in the film The Big Tease. He is also known for his roles in the television series Not the Nine OClock News, Help, Kiss Me Kate, and as the gatehouse guard in Chelmsford 123. In 2006, he won BAFTA awards for The Thick of It and Help.On 2 August 2007, Langham was found guilty of fifteen charges of downloading and possessing level 5 child sexual abuse images and videos. Langham was jailed for ten months, reduced to six months on appeal. He was made to sign the sex offenders register and was banned from working with children for 10 years.
BBC Interviewer
Film 1999
Self
Film 1981
Tom Thompson
Film 2011
Self
Film 1989
Vinnie
Film 2013
Nigel
Film 1986
Various Roles (archive footage)
Film 2009
Self - Various Roles
Film 1982
Detective
Film 1986
Hubba
Film 1992
Alfonso / Giggling Guard
Film 1979
Tim
Film 1978
Theodore Stephanides
Film 2005
Cop
Film 1991
Alan
Film 2016
Dr. Keelover
Film 1996
Keating
Film 1985
Film 2006
George Orwell
Film 2003
Danny
Film 2020
Doctor
Film 2013
Maurice
Film 2001
Police Driver
Film 1976
John Wyndham
Film 2005
Jack
Film 2004
Self
Film 2002
Self
Film 1976
Film 1979
Self as Narrator
Film 2005
Tv 1998
Harry
Tv 1991
Tv 1984
Roy Mallard
Tv 1999
Self
Tv 1976
Tv 1979
Hugh Abbot
Tv 2005
Spencer Moffatt
Tv 1981
Tv 1989
Peter
Tv 2005
Self - Special Guest Star
Tv 1976
Barry Turner
Tv 2004
Ned Ward
Tv 2004
Reporter
Tv 1985
Devas
Tv 1981
Himself
Tv 2007
Nigel
Tv 1982
Himself
Tv 1988
Self
Tv 1990
Self - Host
Tv 1990