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For the writer, see Christopher Neame (writer/producer).
Christopher Neame Born 12 September 1947
London, EnglandOccupation actor Christopher Neame is an English actor.
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Early life
Name was born on 12 September 1947, in London.
Education
Neame was educated at The King's School, Canterbury, an independent school in Canterbury in Kent.
Life and career
Neame's film credits include appearances in the Hammer Horror film Dracula AD 1972 (1972), the James Bond film Licence to Kill (1989), Ghostbusters II (also 1989), Hellbound (1994) and The Prestige (2006).
He is known to television viewers in the UK for his roles in two BBC dramas dealing with the Second World War - Lieutenant Dick Player in Colditz (1972–74) and Flight Lieutenant John Curtis in the first series of Secret Army (1977). He also made a guest appearance in another BBC period drama When the Boat Comes In, in 1981 portraying Robin Cunningham.
He played a psycho killer in an episode of MacGyver in 1985. He is also known to have played the Dark Jedi Jerec in the Star Wars Jedi Knight: Dark Forces II computer game. Neame played the villain Skagra in the unfinished Doctor Who serial Shada in 1979.
Neame now resides in the United States, where he has made frequent appearances in American television including a two-part story of Star Trek: Enterprise in 2004. In 1994 he portrayed "Knight Two" in the Babylon 5 episode "And the Sky Full of Stars". Neame is one of the few actors to have appeared in Doctor Who, Star Trek and Babylon 5.
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Categories:- 1947 births
- English television actors
- English film actors
- Living people
- Actors from London
- People educated at Stanbridge Earls
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