Trivia

Christopher served two years in the Royal Air Force and was discharged at age 18 after a two year stint. He immediately joined the Oxford Repertory Co. where he performed in 104 plays. He also was an air raid warden during WWII. He moved to New York in 1954 and made his Broadway premiere in 1956 with the original cast of "My Fair Lady".

Although born in England, Christopher started his stage career in Ireland at the age of 7 in a production of "Midsummer Night's Dream."

Traced his descent (on his Irish side) from Irish political agitator Daniel O'Connell.

Performed and directed on Broadway from 1955-1981. One of the highlights of his stage career was in the original stage production of "My Fair Lady" where he originated the role of Rex Harrison's competing egotistical linguist, "Zoltan Karpathy".

His character of Lynn Aloysius Belvedere, was the topic for a popular 1991 Saturday Night Live (1975) skit, in which a convention is held for the fictional butler.

A cabaret entertainer as well, he shared the London stage with the inimitable Hermione Gingold in the "Sweet and Low" revues.

He is buried in Woking, Surrey, England's Brookwood Cemetery.

Of English and Irish extraction, Christopher Hewett was raised in England. His mother helped run a plantation in Malaysia, and was an actress herself. He attended Wimbledon College, a prestigious Jesuit school, before serving in the British armed forces.

Appeared in "The Unsinkable Molly Brown" on Broadway.

Directed everything from London revues to Shakespeare and Shaw.