
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.

Have I Got News for You
TV • 1990

Have I Got News for You
TV • 1990

The Comic Strip Presents...
TV • 1982

The Muppet Show
TV • 1976

The Thick of It
TV • 2005

Whose Line Is It Anyway?
TV • 1988

Murder Most Horrid
TV • 1991

Bottom
TV • 1991

Life of Brian
MOVIE • 1979

People Like Us
TV • 1999

The Secret Policeman's Ball
TV • 1976

Not the Nine O'Clock News
TV • 1979

The Jim Henson Hour
TV • 1989

Shrink Rap
TV • 2007

Chelmsford 123
TV • 1988

Happy Families
TV • 1985

Alas Smith and Jones
TV • 1984

Help
TV • 2005