Christopher Robbie

Christopher Robbie (born 30 May 1938) is a British actor, television announcer, theatre director and designer, playwright and photographer.[1] He trained as an actor at RADA in London, and has had a distinguished theatrical career, playing the title role in King Lear when a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company.[2][3]

He has performed a one-man play about the life of Charles Darwin. Under the pseudonym James Alan he wrote the play The Sirens of Eroc.[4] As a television actor he appeared in the Doctor Who stories The Mind Robber (1968)[5] and Revenge of the Cybermen (1975),[6] as well as in The Avengers, UFO, Dempsey and Makepeace and One Foot in the Grave, among others.[7] As a photographer he has held exhibitions of his work.[8]

He is also well-remembered as an in-vision announcer for Southern Television. He announced on the company's final day of broadcasting (31 December 1981) and presented its final programme And It's Goodbye From Us ...[9] He announced, although less often, for TVS in the 1980s, and had stints in the announcer's chair at Associated-Rediffusion, Thames Television and Anglia Television.