Christopher Michael Hewett (5 April 1922 – 3 August 2001) was an English actor and theatre director best known for his role as Lynn Belvedere on the ABC sitcom Mr. Belvedere.
Hewett was born in Worthing, Sussex, England, to an army officer father and a Irish mother who was a descendent of Daniel O'Connell. He was educated at Beaumont College, and at age 7, he made his acting debut in Dublin stage production of A Midsummer Night's Dream. At 16, He...
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Christopher Michael Hewett (5 April 1922 – 3 August 2001) was an English actor and theatre director best known for his role as Lynn Belvedere on the ABC sitcom Mr. Belvedere.
Hewett was born in Worthing, Sussex, England, to an army officer father and a Irish mother who was a descendent of Daniel O'Connell. He was educated at Beaumont College, and at age 7, he made his acting debut in Dublin stage production of A Midsummer Night's Dream. At 16, Hewett joined the Royal Air Force, leaving in 1940. Hewett then joined the Oxford Repertory Company and made his West End theatre debut in 1943.
He later appeared on Broadway in the musicals My Fair Lady, The Unsinkable Molly Brown, Music Is, and Kean and in the play Sleuth, among others, and directed the 1960 Broadway revue From A to Z and the 1967 off-Broadway revival of the Rodgers and Hart musical By Jupiter. Hewett also directed several stage productions including The Marriage-Go-Round and Beyond the Fringe and Camelot.
Hewett made his film...
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