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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 film actor he appeared in Where Has Poor Mickey Gone? (1964). 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 was 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.

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• Christopher Robbie at IMDb