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Christopher Hewett
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Actor Born: April 5, 1922 in Worthing, Sussex, England, UK Death: August 3, 2001 in Los Angeles, CA Biography:"Christopher Hewett" spent much of his four-decade acting career toiling in roles into which he could melt -- it was only when he found a part, near the end of his career, into which he could inject a large part of himself, that he became a star. Born in England in 1922, he was the son of a former actress, and at age seven made his stage debut, in Ireland, in a production of A Midsummer Night's Dream. He attended Wimbledon College and served in the Royal Air Force from 1938 until 1940. Hewett became an actor after his discharge, joining the Oxford Repertory Company, where he spent the next few years learning his craft in repertory work, eventually playing over 100 roles. In 1951, at the age of 29, he made his first screen appearance in "Pool of London", and he was seen as a police detective later that same year in the classic Ealing comedy "The Lavender Hill Mob". Hewett left England in 1954 and moved... Full Biography
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