Christopher Hewett
Born	Christopher Michael Hewett 5 April 1922(1922-04-05) Worthing, Sussex, England
Died	3 August 2001 (aged 79) Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Occupation	Actor

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.

Contents 1 Career 2 Personal life and death 3 Filmography 4 Award nomination 5 See also 6 References 7 External links

[edit] Career

Hewett was born in Worthing, Sussex, England, to an army officer father and a Irish mother who was a descendent of Daniel O'Connell.^[1] 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.^[2]

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.^[3]

Hewett made his film debut in the 1951 crime drama Pool of London, and later appeared in roles on Robert Montgomery Presents and DuPont Show of the Month. He appeared as the effeminate stage director Roger DeBris in Mel Brooks's 1968 film comedy The Producers. In 1976, Hewett played the generic bureaucrat Federov in the short-lived sitcom Ivan the Terrible. From 1983 to 1984, he portrayed Lawrence, Mr. Roarke's (Ricardo Montalbán) sidekick on the final season of the ABC series Fantasy Island. The following year, Hewett landed his best known role as Lynn Aloysius Belvedere, an English butler who works for a middle-class American family in the sitcom Mr. Belvedere. After the series ended its run in 1990, Hewett appeared in a guest spot on an episode of the NBC teen sitcom California Dreams. His last onscreen role was a cameo appearance on the FOX series Ned & Stacey in 1997.^[3]

[edit] Personal life and death

A devout Catholic and lifelong bachelor, Hewitt served as a deacon at St. Victor's church in West Hollywood. During his later years, he suffered from arthritis and diabetes.^[1] On August 3, 2001, Hewett died of complications from diabetes.^[4]He was 79 years old. Hewett had no children.

[edit] Filmography

Film
Year	Film	Role	Notes
1951	Pool of London	Mike
	The Lavender Hill Mob	Inspector Talbot
1954	The Million Pound Note	Irate Investor	Uncredited Alternative title: Man with a Million
1968	The Producers	Roger De Bris
1986	Ratboy	Acting Coach
Television
Year	Title	Role	Notes
1955	Robert Montgomery Presents		1 episode
1959	DuPont Show of the Month	Policeman	1 episode
1976	Ivan the Terrible	Federov	5 episodes
1979	ABC Afterschool Special	Butler	1 episode
1982	ABC Theatre of the Month: The Elephant Man	Ross	Television movie
	Hart to Hart	Jeremy Lane	1 episode
	Massarati and the Brain	Anatole	Television movie
1983-1984	Fantasy Island	Lawrence	8 episodes
1984	E/R	Englishman	1 episode
1985-1990	Mr. Belvedere	Mr. Lynn Aloysius Belvedere	115 episodes
1987	The New Mike Hammer		1 episode
	Murder, She Wrote	Humphrey Defoe	1 episode
1990	A Very Retail Christmas	Ghost of Christmas Past	Television movie
1994	California Dreams	Mr. Green	1 episode
1997	Ned & Stacey	Himself	1 episode

[edit] Award nomination

Year	Award	Result	Category	Series
2004	TV Land Award	Nominated	Best Broadcast Butler	Mr. Belvedere

[edit] See also

• List of Worthing inhabitants

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Christopher Hewett at the Internet Broadway Database
• Christopher Hewett at the Internet Movie Database
• Christopher Hewett at Find a Grave

Persondata
NAME	Hewett, Christopher
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Hewett, Christopher Michael
SHORT DESCRIPTION	Actor, theatre director
DATE OF BIRTH	5 April 1922
PLACE OF BIRTH	Worthing, Sussex, England
DATE OF DEATH	3 August 2001
PLACE OF DEATH	Los Angeles, California, U.S.