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Chris Harris (born Bridgwater, Somerset) is an English actor, director and writer. He has appeared in several UK TV series including Into the Labyrinth and "Hey Look That's Me" [1]. More recently he has built a successful career in pantomime, acting as a pantomime dame, as well being a director and writer at the Bristol Old Vic and the Theatre Royal, Bath.

Career

Chris Harris studied drama at the Rose Bruford College, then went into rep, which culminated in two years with the Old Vic Theatre Company at the Theatre Royal in Bristol.[2]

He attended the Jacques Lecoq mime and Theatre School in Paris, Ladislav Fialka's Pantomime Company in Prague, and was for a short time at the Moscow State Circus School.

In 1966 he was in his first pantomime at the Salisbury Playhouse with Stephanie Cole.

Since 1976, he has performed his one-man comedy shows around the world.

He is a regular visiting lecturer for the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School, and is a former member of the Royal Shakespeare Company [3].

He spent nine years up until 2000 writing, directing and starring in pantomimes for the Bristol Old Vic and since then has done the same for the Theatre Royal, Bath. [4]

Television appearances

  • The Rocking Horse Winner - 1977
  • Into the Labyrinth– 1982
  • Hey Look That's Me - 1983
  • Chasing Rainbows – A Nation and Its Music - 1986

Radio appearances

  • The Chris Harris Road Show, BBC Radio Bristol.
  • The Birds
  • Hiawatha
  • Harvey Angel

One-Man stage shows

  • Kemp's Jig
  • That's The Way To Do It!
  • Ally Sloper's Half-Holiday
  • Beemaster''*'Arris Music 'All
  • A Night At The Pantomime''

Books written or co-written by Chris Harris

  • Will Kemp, Shakespeare's Forgotten Clown(1983), ISBN 0-907-12809-2,
  • Cinderella (2002), ISBN 0-856-76251-2
  • Aladdin (2002) ISBN 0-856-76252-0
  • Jack and the Beanstalk (2002)ISBN 0-856-76255-5
  • Mother Goose (2002) ISBN 0-856-76256-3
  • Babes in the Wood (2002) ISBN 0-856-76257-1
  • Dick Whittington (2002) ISBN: 0-856-76250-4

References

  1. ^ http://www2.tv-ark.org.uk/bbcsouth/bbcsouthprogrammes1.html
  2. ^ http://www.chrisharrisproductions.co.uk/biography%201.htm
  3. ^ Sleeping Beauty programme, Theatre Royal, Bath 2009
  4. ^ http://www.bbc.co.uk/bristol/content/articles/2007/10/01/panto_chrisharris_feature.shtml

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1668473/

http://www.chrisharrisproductions.co.uk/biography%201.htm

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