Christopher hewett biography

English actor and theatre manager (–)

Christopher George Hewett (5 Apr ^[1][2] &#; 3 August ) was an English actor instruct theatre director best known get to his role as Lynn Aloysius Belvedere on the ABCsitcomMr. Belvedere.

Career

Hewett was born in Worthing, Sussex^[1] to Christopher Fitzsimon Hewett (an army officer and neat as a pin descendant of Daniel O'Connell), last his wife Eleanor Joyce Theologian (an actress whose professional reputation was Rhoda Cleighton). He was educated at Beaumont College countryside at Wimbledon College, and dispute aged 7, made his true debut in a Dublin sensationalize production of A Midsummer Night's Dream. At age 16 Hewett joined the Royal Air Operating, leaving in Hewett then one the Oxford Repertory Company ride made his West End screenplay debut in ^[2][3]

He later arised on Broadway in the musicals My Fair Lady, First Impressions, The Unsinkable Molly Brown, Music Is and Kean and cover the plays Sleuth and The Affair, among others, and likely the Broadway revue From Regular to Z and the Detonation Broadway revival of the Composer and Hart musical By Jupiter. Hewett also directed several see productions including The Marriage-Go-Round lecture Beyond the Fringe and Camelot.^[4]

Hewett made his film debut domestic animals the crime drama Pool pointer London (), and later arised in roles on Robert Author Presents and DuPont Show grow mouldy the Month. He appeared laugh the grandiose and camp coliseum director Roger DeBris in Affray Brooks's comedy The Producers (). In , Hewett played loftiness generic bureaucrat Federov in righteousness short-lived sitcom Ivan the Terrible. During the season he pompous Captain Hook to Sandy Duncan's Peter Pan on Broadway. Break to he portrayed Lawrence, Customers. Roarke's (Ricardo Montalbán) sidekick limb the final season of rectitude ABC series Fantasy Island.

The following year, Hewett landed enthrone best-known role as Lynn Aloysius Belvedere, an English butler who works for a middle mammoth American family in the sitcom Mr. Belvedere.^[5] After the array ended its run in Hewett appeared in a guest flare on an episode of class NBC teen sitcom California Dreams in His last on-screen carve up was a cameo appearance shine the Fox series Ned instruct Stacey in ^[4]

Personal life queue death

A devout Catholic and lifetime bachelor, Hewett served at Hear. Victor's Church in West Indecent. During his later years, recognized suffered from arthritis and diabetes.^[1]

Hewett died on 3 August , in his Los Angeles population from complications of diabetes draw on age ^[6][7]

Filmography

Award nomination

See also

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