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Chris Langham

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Chris Langham was born on April 14, 1949 in London, England, UK. He was an actor and writer, known for The Thick of It (2005), Help (2005) and Monty Python's Life of Brian (1979). He was married to Christine Cartwright and Sue Jones-Davies. He died on June 24, 2026.

Known for his deadpan style and dry sense of humour.
Is known for his quick wit and improvisational prowess, which he has demonstrated in shows like Whose Line Is It Anyway? (1988), Have I Got News for You (1990) and Not the Nine O'Clock News (1979), among others.

[September 14, 2007] Sentenced to 10 months in prison after police found child pornography on his computer. Freed on 14th November after his 10-month prison sentence was reduced by the Court of Appeal.
Due to the nature of his criminal conviction, almost his entire film and television work has been deemed unsuitable for broadcast, or his contributions have been edited out of repeats.
He was a very successful voice-over artist on British television.
Three sons by his first wife, Sue Jones-Davies; two children by his second, Christine Cartwright. His daughter, Emily Langham, had a part in Help (2005), as a child prodigy.
Studied English and Drama at Bristol University.

As I get older I look at my first kids and realise how terribly I short-changed them. They all somehow grew up to be incredibly nice and kind. But I think this was because they grew up trying to work out how to please their rampaging, dysfunctional father.
This Government is almost beyond satirising. The tail really does wag the dog. Policy is not about people having strong moral principles. The question they ask in Downing Street is: 'Will this policy play well with the Daily Mail?' They are like a sitcom looking for ratings. They panic. They make policies on the hoof. The Daily Mail ran an article about aggressive begging and the next day the Government came up with a policy of marching offenders to cash points. How thought through was that?
I think this Government attracts and deserves the mockery it gets. It is mock-worthy. When Blair was elected I had such high hopes. I was so excited about the possibilities. Now I feel quite disillusioned and bitter. I feel I've been made to look a fool for trusting Blair.
I arrived in adulthood with a satchel of goods and one of the things in my satchel was [the feeling] that I'm not quite enough. It's not a problem, it's just the way things are. I just lack. I'm a lacking person who's a bit of a disappointment.
You can't play a villain as a villain because they don't think of themselves as such. Hitler never had a bad idea. To him, they were good ideas.