Christopher Neame (born 12 September 1947) is an English actor who resides in the

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UK career

Neame's UK film credits include appearances in two

Hammer Horror Hammer Film Productions Ltd. is a British film production company based in London. Founded in 1934, the company is best known for a series of Gothic horror and fantasy films made from the mid-1950s until the 1970s. Many of these involve classi ...

films: ''

Lust for a Vampire ''Lust for a Vampire'', also known as ''Love for a Vampire'' or ''To Love a Vampire'' (the latter title was the one used on American television), is a 1971 British Hammer Horror film directed by Jimmy Sangster, starring Ralph Bates, Barbara J ...

'' (1971) and ''

Dracula AD 1972 ''Dracula A.D. 1972'' is a 1972 British horror film, directed by Alan Gibson and produced by Hammer Film Productions. It was written by Don Houghton and stars Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing and Stephanie Beacham. Unlike earlier films in Hammer's ...

'' (1972). He also appeared in '' No Blade of Grass'' (1970). He appeared in '' The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes'' as Sydney Wing in the episode entitled "The Secret of the Magnifique". In 1975 he played

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in the ITV 13-part drama series, ''

Edward the Seventh ''Edward the Seventh'' is a 1975 British historical drama series, made by ATV in 13 episodes. Based on the biography of King Edward VII by Philip Magnus, it stars Annette Crosbie as Queen Victoria, Timothy West as the elder Edward VII, wit ...

''. He was featured in two

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dramas dealing with the

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: as Lieutenant Dick Player in ''

Colditz Colditz () is a small town in the district of Leipzig (district), Leipzig, in Saxony, Germany. It is best known for Colditz Castle, the site of the Oflag IV-C prisoner-of-war camp, POW camp for officers in World War II. Geography Colditz is situa ...

'' (1972–74), and as Flight Lieutenant John Curtis in the first season of the World War II drama, '' Secret Army'' (1977). In between those, in the TV film ''A Point in Time'' (1973)
he appeared nude
on the small screen. Neame played the villain Skagra in the unfinished ''

Doctor Who ''Doctor Who'' is a British science fiction television series broadcast by the BBC since 1963. The series, created by Sydney Newman, C. E. Webber and Donald Wilson (writer and producer), Donald Wilson, depicts the adventures of an extraterre ...

'' serial '' Shada'' in 1979. He provided his voice to complete the serial using animation in 2017. Neame made a guest appearance in another

period drama ''

When the Boat Comes In ''When the Boat Comes In'' is a British television period drama produced by the BBC between 8 January 1976 and 21 April 1981. Across the whole series, events are set in the time period from 1919 to 1937. The series stars James Bolam as Jack Fo ...

'' in 1981 portraying Robin Cunningham. In 1983, he played

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in the BBC series ''

The Cleopatras ''The Cleopatras'' is a 1983 BBC Television eight-part historical drama serial. Written by Philip Mackie, it is set in Ancient Egypt during the latter part of the Ptolemaic Dynasty with an emphasis on the Cleopatras. Intended to be the '' I, Cl ...

''.

US career

Neame emigrated to the United States and has made frequent appearances in American films and television. He appeared in the films, '' Steel Dawn'' (1987), '' D.O.A.'' (1988), '' Bloodstone'' (1988), ''

Licence to Kill ''Licence to Kill'' is a 1989 spy film, the sixteenth in the List of James Bond films, ''James Bond'' series produced by Eon Productions, and the second and final film to star Timothy Dalton as the MI6 agent James Bond (literary character), J ...

'' (1989), ''

Ghostbusters II ''GhostbustersII'' is a 1989 American Supernatural fiction, supernatural comedy film directed by Ivan Reitman and written by Dan Aykroyd and Harold Ramis. The film stars Bill Murray, Aykroyd, Sigourney Weaver, Ramis, Rick Moranis, Ernie Hudson ...

'' (1989), ''

Edge of Honor ''Edge Of Honor'' is a 1991 drama / thriller movie directed by Michael Spence who also directed ''The Dread'' (2007). The film stars Corey Feldman, Don Swayze, Scott Reeves, Ken Jenkins, and Steve Buckley. Plot The film begins with an acc ...

'' (1991), ''

Suburban Commando ''Suburban Commando'' is a 1991 American science fiction action comedy film directed by Burt Kennedy, produced by Howard Gottfried, and written by Frank Cappello. The film stars Hulk Hogan, Christopher Lloyd, Shelley Duvall, and Larry Mil ...

'' (1991), '' Hellbound'' (1994), ''Ground Zero'' (2000) and ''

The Prestige ''The Prestige'' is a 1995 epistolary science fantasy mystery novel by Christopher Priest. It tells the story of a prolonged feud between two stage magicians in late 1800s England. Its main structure is that of a collection of diaries that ...

'' (2006). He played a psycho killer in an episode of ''

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'' in 1985, and appeared in '' The Great Escape II: The Untold Story''. In 1989, he played the character Gustav Hellstrom, a Swedish businessman, in the 12th season of the TV series ''Dallas'', appearing in 3 episodes: "Serpent's Tooth", "April Showers", "And Away We Go". He also appeared in a two-part story of '' Star Trek: Enterprise'', "Storm Front" and "Storm Front, Part II", in 2004. In 1994, he portrayed "Knight Two" in the ''

Babylon 5 ''Babylon 5'' is an American space opera television series created by writer and producer J. Michael Straczynski, under the Babylonian Productions label, in association with Straczynski's Synthetic Worlds Ltd. and Warner Bros. Domestic Tel ...

'' episode "

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". Neame is one of the few actors to have appeared in ''

'', ''

Blake's 7 ''Blake's 7'' is a British science fiction television programme produced by the BBC. Four series of thirteen 50-minute episodes were broadcast on BBC1 between 1978 and 1981. It was created by Terry Nation, who also wrote the first series, prod ...

'', the ''

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'' franchise, ''Babylon 5'', and '' Earth 2''. Other television appearances include ''

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'', ''

The A-Team ''The A-Team'' is an American Action television, action television series that ran on NBC from January 23, 1983, to March 8, 1987, about a fictional team of former United States Army Special Forces who work as mercenaries while on the run from ...

'', '' Benson'', ''

Beauty and the Beast "Beauty and the Beast" is a fairy tale written by the French novelist Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot de Villeneuve and published in 1740 in (''The Young American and Marine Tales''). Villeneuve's lengthy version was abridged, rewritten, and publish ...

'', ''

Northern Exposure ''Northern Exposure'' is an American comedy-drama television series about the eccentric residents in the fictitious town of Cicely, Alaska, that originally aired on CBS from July 12, 1990, to July 26, 1995, with a total of 110 episodes. It rec ...

'' (1994), '' JAG'' (1995), and the two-part mini-series ''

The Apocalypse Watch ''The Apocalypse Watch'' (1995) is a novel by Robert Ludlum. A TV movie based on it aired in 1997 which starred Patrick Bergin and Virginia Madsen. This was Ludlum's second novel to focus on a neo-Nazi conspiracy to take over the world, after '' ...

'' (1996). He also starred in the Showtime film ''

Street Knight ''Street Knight'' is a 1993 American action film directed by Albert Magnoli and starring Jeff Speakman. Plot Jake Barrett ( Jeff Speakman) is a former cop who retired from the LAPD following an incident where he failed to save a young hostage fro ...

'' (1994) and he appeared as "The One" in the last two episodes of ''

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'' (2000). He also played the main villain in the live-action cutscenes of '' Star Wars Jedi Knight: Dark Forces II'' (1997). In 2018, he reunited with his Hammer film co-star

Caroline Munro Caroline Jane Munro ( ; born 16 January 1949)McFarlane, Brian (28 February 2014). ''The Encyclopedia of British Film: Fourth edition''. Oxford University Press. p. 538; is an English actress, model and singer known for her many appearances in ...

to appear in the film '' House of the Gorgon''.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Neame, Christopher 1947 births Living people English male television actors English male film actors English expatriate male actors in the United States Male actors from London 20th-century English male actors 21st-century English male actors