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Christopher Jonathan Brown, known professionally as Chris Barrie, is a British actor, comedian, and impressionist. He worked as a vocal impressionist on the ITV sketch show Spitting Image, and later starred as Arnold Rimmer in the sci-fi sitcom Red Dwarf, as Gordon Brittas in the BBC leisure centre sitcom The Brittas Empire, and as Lara Croft's butler Hillary in the Tomb Raider franchise films.
Birth Name
Christopher Jonathan Brown
Born
Monday, 28 March 1960
Actor Filmography
| Title | Character | Year |
|---|
| Prince Andrew: Banished | Prince Andrew - Randy Andy | 2022 |
| The Noughties | Hillary / Self | 2020 |
| Red Dwarf: The First Three Million Years | Self - 'Rimmer' / Self | 2020 |
| Car Crash TV | Self - Narrator | 2015 |
| Saving Santa | Blitzen | 2013 |
| Beautiful People | Gordon Brittas | 2008 |
| Back in Business | Tom Marks | 2007 |
| When Evil Calls | Headmaster / Samantha's Father | 2006 |
| Petrolheads | Self - Team Captain | 2006 |
| The Funny Ladies of British Comedy | Self | 2004 |
Actor Filmography
| Title | Character | Year |
|---|
| Prince Andrew: Banished | Prince Andrew - Randy Andy | 2022 |
| The Noughties | Hillary / Self | 2020 |
| Red Dwarf: The First Three Million Years | Self - 'Rimmer' / Self | 2020 |
| Car Crash TV | Self - Narrator | 2015 |
| Saving Santa | Blitzen | 2013 |
| Beautiful People | Gordon Brittas | 2008 |
| Back in Business | Tom Marks | 2007 |
| When Evil Calls | Headmaster / Samantha's Father | 2006 |
| Petrolheads | Self - Team Captain | 2006 |
| The Funny Ladies of British Comedy | Self | 2004 |
| Happy Birthday BBC Two | Self | 2004 |
| Lara Croft: Tomb Raider - The Cradle of Life | Hillary | 2003 |
| Comedy Connections | Self | 2003 |
| The Terry and Gaby Show | Self | 2003 |
| Top Gear | Self | 2002 |
| Lara Croft: Tomb Raider | Hillary | 2001 |
| The Wright Stuff | Self - Guest Panelist | 2000 |
| A Prince Among Men | Gary Prince | 1997 |
| Midsomer Murders | Lionel Poulter | 1997 |
| Hetty Wainthropp Investigates | Gordon Brittas | 1996 |
| Live & Kicking | Self | 1993 |
| The Legends of Treasure Island | Captain Smollett (voice) / Captain Smollett | 1993 |
| Are You Being Served? Again! | Commentator | 1992 |
| Noel's House Party | Gordon Brittas | 1991 |
| The Brittas Empire | Gordon Brittas / Brittas / Vlad | 1991 |
| 8:15 from Manchester | Self | 1990 |
| Testimony | Carnival Thin Man | 1988 |
| Live! From London | Spitting Image voices | 1988 |
| Red Dwarf | Arnold Rimmer / Rimmer / Ace Rimmer / Unspeakable One / Frank Rimmer / Lister | 1988 |
| Blackadder the Third | Ambassador - a Fearsome Revolutionary | 1987 |
| The New Statesman | Various Characters | 1987 |
| Filthy Rich & Catflap | The Director | 1987 |
| Open Air | Self | 1986 |
| Genesis: Land of Confusion | Ronald Reagan (voice) | 1986 |
| Honour, Profit & Pleasure | Pope | 1985 |
| Surprise! Surprise! | Narrator | 1984 |
| Spitting Image | (voice) / Neil Kinnock / Michael Heseltine / Kenneth Branagh / David Owen / Maurice Saatchi / David Coleman / Ronald Reagan / Harold Angryperson / Ian MacGregor / Alastair Burnet / Norman Tebbit / Kenneth Clarke / Prince Charles / Prince Andrew / Ronnie Corbett / John Smith / John Gielgud / Andrew Lloyd Webber / Paul Daniels / Cliff Richard / Jimmy Hill / President George Bush / Mick Jagger / The Great Masochisto / Press Pig #2 / Jim Callaghan / Richard Attenborough / Various / Michael Grade / Nigel Lawson / John Cole / Kenneth Williams / Norman Fowler / Michael Foot / Geoffrey Howe / Clive James / Robin Day / Kenneth Newman / Barry Norman / P. W. Botha / Robert Maxwell / Xenophobia Jones' assistant / Richard Branson / Henry Cooper / Ken Livingstone / Mark Thatcher / John McEnroe / Des Lynam / Eddy Shah / Michael Parkinson / George H. W. Bush / Pope John Paul II / Mike Stock / James Callaghan / Billy Graham / Russell Harty / Jeffrey Archer / Alfred Roberts / Paul Channon / Bernard Manning / Lord Lucan / Clint Eastwood / Denis Thatcher / François Mitterrand / David Vine / Announcer / The Invisible Man / Bob Geldof / Christopher Martin-Jenkins / James T. Kirk (William Shatner) / Bobby Charlton / Cyril Smith / Max Bygraves / Christopher Dean / Clive Sinclair / Prince Edward / Russell Davies / George H.W. Bush / Boy George / P.W. Botha / Ian St. John / Dennis Thatcher / John Motson / David Bowie / Magnus Magnusson / Roger Cook / Roger Moore / Denis Norden | 1984 |
| Alas Smith & Jones | 1984 | |
| The Young Ones | Rat / Captain | 1982 |
| Carrott's Lib | (as Christopher Barrie) | 1982 |
| ABC Weekend Specials | (voice) (as Christopher Barrie) | 1977 |
| Arena | Himself (archive footage) | 1975 |
