- Christopher Beeny
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Christopher Beeny Born Christopher Beeny
7 July 1941
London, England, UKYears active 1952 - present Born in London, Beeny began his career at the age of six when he danced for the ' Ballet Rambert. He spent several years at the ' Arts Educational School before later progressing to 'RADA.
His first screen role was in the 1952 film The Long Memory. It starred John Mills and featured Thora Hird, Beeny's future co-star in In Loving Memory and Last of the Summer Wine. He went on to make seventeen films including The Kidnappers; The Long Memory; Man Of The Moment; Child’s Play and Doctor In Distress.
He also played Lenny Groves in the first British television soap, the BBC TV series The Grove Family, which was shown on Fridays during the mid-1950s.[1]
Beeny's big break came when he appeared in 47 episodes, as Edward Barnes, in the award-winning period drama Upstairs, Downstairs which ran for five series in the early to mid 1970s and was shown in more than 90 countries around the world. He went on to appear as Geoffrey in Miss Jones And Son; as Tony in the remake of The Rag Trade and as Billy Henshaw, Thora Hird’s co-star in In Loving Memory.
In 2001 he made a guest appearance in Last of the Summer Wine, something which he repeated numerous times until 2009 when he joined the cast as a permanent character. He appeared originally as the character Herman Teasdale, who later became Morton Beamish.
In 2006, he played a cameo role in Emmerdale. Coincidentally, he played the cousin of the character Noreen Bell, who had been played by his Upstairs, Downstairs co-star Jenny Tomasin. Beeny also played cameo roles in BBC TV's Sense & Sensibility and ITV's series Honest
Theatre appearances include Stop The World I Want To Get Off; The Long The Short And The Tall; Scapino ; How The Other Half Loves; Night Must Fall; Oliver; Who Saw Him Die; The Unexpected Guest; Boeing,Boeing; Move Over Mrs.Markham; Bedroom Farce; Run For Your Wife; Rough Crossing; Present Laughter; Brief Encounter; Caught In The Net; Crazy For You; Ten Times Table and Lark Rise To Candleford.
Beeny also toured in the play There's No Place Like a Home with Gordon Kaye and in 2011 he toured in " Five Blue Haired Ladies Sitting On A Park Bench. He will be appearing in pantomime at the Assembly Halls Tunbridge Wells 2011-12'.
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