Chris Langham
Also Known As: Christopher Langham
Biography: Christopher Langham is an English writer, actor, and comedian. He is known for playing the cabinet minister Hugh Abbot in the BBC Four sitcom The Thick of It, and as presenter Roy Mallard in People Like Us, first on BBC Radio 4 and later on its transfer to television on BBC Two, where Mallard is almost entirely an unseen character. Langham subsequently created several spoof adverts in the same vein. He also played similar unseen interviewers in an episode of the television series Happy Families and in the film The Big Tease. He is also known for his roles in the television series Not the Nine O'Clock News, Help, Kiss Me Kate, and as the gatehouse guard in Chelmsford 123. In 2006, he won BAFTA awards for The Thick of It and Help. On 2 August 2007, Langham was found guilty of fifteen charges of downloading and possessing level 5 child sexual abuse images and videos. Langham was jailed for ten months, reduced to six months on appeal. He was made to sign the sex offenders' register and was banned from working with children for 10 years.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: London, England, UK
Birthday: April 14, 1949
Adult: No
Gender: Male
Popularity:
Known For:
The Big Tease
Overview: Thinking he's competing in Los Angeles' hot Platinum Scissors contest, Scottish hairstylist Crawford leaves Glasgow with a film crew to capture the event. When he learns he's a mere audience member, Crawford must find a way to become the mane event.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-11-26
Popularity:
Of Muppets & Men
Overview: Documentary about the work of puppeteer Jim Henson and his team in creating The Muppet Show.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-10-31
Popularity:
Black Pond
Overview: The Thompson family is accused of murder when a stranger dies at their dinner table. Six months later, family friend Tim visits freelance therapist Dr. Eric Sacks and the story finds it's way to the press. The facts are bent and the details spun as the Thompsons become known to the public as 'The Family of Killers'.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-11-11
Popularity:
The Secret Policeman’s Biggest Ball
Overview: After the criticisms of the 1987 show’s disproportionate focus on music - and the financial disaster of its music-only Festival Of Youth weekend concert in 1988, Amnesty returned to the original formula that had been so successful in the 1976-1981 era with a primary focus on comedy. Pat Duffy was dropped from organising any further benefit events for Amnesty and for the 1989 show, Amnesty hired producer Judith Holder.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-01-01
Popularity:
Full Time
Overview: Michael returns to his childhood home in the north of England to accompany his father to one last trip to the football. Michael, a successful photographer in London, no longer feels at home in the parochial environment of his upbringing. With little interest in football and almost no emotional connection with his father, Michael struggles through the game as a bored spectator whilst his father is both irritable and irritating. As time passes, though, Michael soon realizes that his father's bad-tempered quirks could be the signs of something graver. Full Time examines the fragile connections that bind love, memory and the gaps in between
Genres: Drama Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-10-17
Popularity:
Private Enterprise
Overview: Whilst delivering toilet rolls to a recording studio, small-time crook Keith pockets a demo tape by the newly disbanded group Toy Department, which he takes to a promoter, Brian. Together they have a chart hit with the 'mystery' group but complications arise when Brian wants a live tour.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-01-02
Popularity:
Not Again: Not the Nine O'Clock News
Overview: A look behind the scenes of satirical sketch show Not the Nine O'Clock News.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-12-28
Popularity:
The Secret Policeman's Other Ball
Overview: Following the success of the 1979 show and the financial benefits accruing to Amnesty from the spin-off movie, TV special and record albums – Cleese, Lewis and Walker planned the next show to be a more spectacular event. Cleese focused on broadening the comedic talent to be presented at the show. In addition to the Amnesty show stalwarts drawn from the Oxbridge/Monty Python/Beyond The Fringe orbit, he invited newcomers such as Rowan Atkinson’s colleagues from the BBC TV show Not the Nine O'Clock News including Pamela Stephenson and Griff Rhys Jones; comedian Victoria Wood and regional comic Jasper Carrott. Lewis secured a return appearance by Billy Connolly and a debut appearance by "alternative" comedian Alexei Sayle who Lewis had recently discovered and was managing. Building on the success of Pete Townshend's 1979 appearance Lewis recruited other rock musicians to perform at the 1981 show including Sting, Phil Collins, Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck, Donovan and Bob Geldof.
Genres: Comedy Music TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-03-01
Popularity:
The McGuffin
Overview: Paul Hatcher has a habit of spying on the neighbors across the way, something that gets him into deep trouble. Hatcher is a movie critic, and for awhile it looks like his main problem is keeping reality and the silver screen separate. But then a double murder occurs across the street after some mobsters cannot find an incriminating negative. After Hatcher discovers where the negative is hidden, he is bumped to the top on the assassins' hit list.
Genres: Drama Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-01-12
Popularity:
Life of Brian
Overview: Brian Cohen is an average young Jewish man, but through a series of ridiculous events, he gains a reputation as the Messiah. When he's not dodging his followers or being scolded by his shrill mother, the hapless Brian has to contend with the pompous Pontius Pilate and acronym-obsessed members of a separatist movement. Rife with Monty Python's signature absurdity, the tale finds Brian's life paralleling Biblical lore, albeit with many more laughs.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-08-17
Popularity:
Carry On Columbus
Overview: Christopher Columbus believes he can find an alternative route to the far East and persuades the King and Queen of Spain to finance his expedition...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-10-02
Popularity:
Cold Harbour
Overview: A beautiful Chilean exile called Tina is stranded in a new country.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-04-25
Popularity:
My Family and Other Animals
Overview: An English family relocates to sunny Greece in the months before WWII.
Genres: TV Movie Comedy Drama Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-12-27
Popularity:
Bejewelled
Overview: An American's family jewels are stolen during her trip to London and she reluctantly teams up with a private investigator-in-training to try and recover them.
Genres: Action TV Movie Family Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-01-20
Popularity:
The Darkest Universe
Overview: A romantic comedy set in space, or - to be more specific - planet Earth which follows world-weary banker Zac on his search for his eccentric sister, Alice, who goes missing while on a narrowboat trip with her new boyfriend.
Genres: Romance Comedy Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-11-04
Popularity:
The Preventers
Overview: Parody of 1960's spy capers.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-12-16
Popularity:
Soft Targets
Overview: Stephen Poliakoff's parody of the spy-thriller genre. A Russian diplomat becomes convinced that he is at the centre of a Foreign Office plot.
Genres: Comedy Thriller Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-10-19
Popularity:
Silas Marner
Overview: Adaption of George Eliot's novel. When a respectable weaver is wrongfully accused of theft, he becomes a virtual hermit until his own fortune is stolen and an orphaned child is found on his doorstep.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-12-30
Popularity:
The Best of Not The Nine O'Clock News
Overview: Attention, comedy fans: NOT THE NINE O'CLOCK NEWS is the real thing. This is scathing, no-holds-barred Brit humor at its best. Rapid-fire skits starring Rowan Atkinson (Mr. Bean) are as politically incorrect as they are side-bustingly funny, sparing no one as they take on the British Royal Family, Margaret Thatcher, Scotland Yard, country music, Christianity, devil worship, punk rock and bathroom etiquette. NOT THE NINE O'CLOCK NEWS is so irreverent that when the pilot was due to air in April 1979, the BBC cancelled it due to its incendiary political content. When at last it aired, the greatest comedy group to hit England since Monty Python's Flying Circus stormed the airwaves and revolutionized British and American television alike. Discover the show that set the standard for the anarchic cynicism that defined the alternative comedy of the 80's.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-02-28
Popularity:
George Orwell: A Life In Pictures
Overview: Dramatised biography of writer George Orwell.
Genres: Documentary Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-06-14
Popularity:
Vengeance
Overview: Eric Williams has been on the run for 27 years for a murder he didn't commit. When his estranged daughter is brutally attacked in London, the police are reluctant to act, so Eric must return to a city he no longer recognises to deal with the culprits himself, relying on help from his last remaining friends.
Genres: Drama Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-11-01
Popularity:
The Factory
Overview: Gene has the world - he's a successful entrepreneur, beautiful home, beautiful car, everything he could ask for except for one thing. Then he meets Gilda and the two fall in love and marry. They travel the world and live a life of pure happiness until tragedy strikes...
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-01-26
Popularity:
The Emperor's New Clothes
Overview: Napoleon, exiled, devises a plan to retake the throne. He'll swap places with commoner Eugene Lenormand, sneak into Paris, then Lenormand will reveal himself and Napoleon will regain his throne. Things don't go at all well; first, the journey proves more difficult than expected, but more disastrously, Lenormand enjoys himself too much to reveal the deception. Napoleon adjusts somewhat uneasily to the life of a commoner while waiting, while Lenormand gorges on rich food.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-08-11
Popularity:
The Pink Panther Strikes Again
Overview: Charles Dreyfus, who has finally cracked over inspector Clouseau's antics, escapes from a mental institution and launches an elaborate plan to get rid of Clouseau once and for all.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-12-15
Popularity:
John Wyndham: The Invisible Man of Science Fiction
Overview: Endeavors to reveal who the reclusive writer John Wyndham Parkes Lucas Beynon Harris was, through interviews with colleagues, flatmates, family friends and scientists. His life, as can best be constructed, is revealed and his body of work, once settling on the name John Wyndham, is analyzed and discussed. An actor portrays him by quoting things he wrote that have survived, and the only piece of footage ever recorded of him is examined. The emphasis is on what his personality may have been, the scientific ramifications of his themes, and the influence of his writings and the film adaptations of those, on later generations.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-10-15
Popularity:
The Legend of the Tamworth Two
Overview: Based on a true story, the movie tells the story of two pigs, named Butch and Sundance, who staged a dramatic escape from an abattoir in January 1998 and remained at large for a week ...
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-04-12
Popularity:
I Love Muppets
Overview: Gonzo the Great talks about the Muppets creator Jim Henson and what he did before the television show was made in 1976.
Genres: Comedy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-03-31
Popularity:
The Story of Pantomime
Overview: This 1976 BBC documentary sees Ken Campbell (and his Roadshow) investigate the origins and the development of the traditional British Christmas pantomime.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-12-23
Popularity:
Phoelix
Overview: An aged art connoisseur (Beaumont) and his young female neighbour (Coles), who has a job posing naked in a club, meet and exist in fantasy and reality. Although this raises certain much-discussed questions about the nature of representation, and about the construction of narrative and daydreams in films, 'Phoelix' tends to treat these as just pretty and pertinent issues, opting instead for a mannered concentration on detail.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-08-01
Popularity:
Spin by David Shrigley
Overview: Shrigley puts his personal spin on news stories and big events every day for a week by creating seven pieces of thought-provoking and entertaining artwork which offer an alternative, very personal interpretation on a topical news story. In the week-long public art project he expresses his idiosyncratic, wry humour in a variety of surprising media. Among his creations, there's been a cartoon on a building banner for Manchester about bullying, saying: "The bully has a brain the size of a pea"; a horde of people with sandwich boards about Tony Blair's current political issues which gathered outside the Guildhall in London, where the Prime Minister was making a speech; a giant mobile billboard parked at the Tory hustings in Leicester with the rallying cry "Legalise pottery"; and a giant wearing the slogan "Binge drinking is our heritage" visited bars in Nottingham.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-11-23
Popularity: