Christopher Robbie

Christopher Robbie born 30 May 1938 is a British actor television announcer theatre director and designer playwright and photographer He trained as an actor at RADA in London and has had a distinguished theatrical career playing the title role in King Lear as a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company He has performed a oneman play about the life of Charles Darwin Under the pseudonym James Alan he wrote the play The Sirens of Eroc 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 and Revenge of the Cybermen 1975 as well as in The Avengers UFO Dempsey and Makepeace and One Foot in the Grave among others As a photographer he has held exhibitions of his work He was an invision announcer for Southern Television He announced on the companys final day of broadcasting 31 December 1981 and presented its final programme And Its Goodbye From Us He announced although less often for TVS in the 1980s and had stints in the announcers chair at AssociatedRediffusion Thames Television and Anglia Television His grandfather William Sleator was a pioneer of French football