Christopher Malcolm Biography

Christopher Malcolm (19 August 1946 - 15 February 2014) was a Scottish television and film actor, director and producer. He first achieved fame for his role as Brad Majors in the original stage production of The Rocky Horror Show.

Biography

Early life and education

Malcolm was born in Aberdeen, Scotland and was brought up in Canada after his family emigrated to British Columbia, Canada in the late 1940s. He attended the University of British Columbia where he worked and studied theatre.

Career

After university, he returned to the United Kingdom and began his professional career with the Royal Shakespeare Company (1966-68). He appeared in over 10 productions and worked with numerous directors including Peter Hall, Trevor Nunn and John Barton.

Throughout the 1970s he worked continuously in theatre and film, appearing in many Royal Court productions including the award winning and ground breaking musical The Rocky Horror Show creating the role of Brad Majors. He appeared in films like Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back, Reds, Ragtime, Labyrinth and Highlander.

In 1978 Malcolm began his producing career with the musical Pal Joey, which successfully transferred to the West End in 1980 and was nominated for best Musical Revival in the Laurence Olivier Awards. He followed this success with the Best Comedy award in 1981 for Nell Dunn"?s hit comedy Steaming, which went on to play 2 years at the Comedy Theatre and enjoy productions around the world. Other productions in London include Frankie and Johnny starring Julie Walters, as well as When I Was A Young Girl I Used To Scream And Shout and five Steven Berkoff plays including Decadence, Greek and Metamorphosis. Metamorphosis starred Tim Roth, and was also filmed for the BBC.

In 1990 Malcolm co-produced a new production of The Rocky Horror Show at the Piccadilly Theatre, in partnership with Howard Panter of the Ambassador Theatre Group. This Olivier nominated production went on to huge success throughout the UK, enjoying 4 nationwide tours over the next 10 years as well as many productions throughout the world. Christopher oversaw these productions on behalf of The Rocky Horror Company Ltd. a company formed by the producers and the play's author Richard O"?Brien to look after this much loved musical. The show finally reached Broadway in 2000 in a Tony Award nominated production co-produced with Jordan Roth Productions at the Circle in the Square Theatre.

Other British productions throughout this time include The Pajama Game, Footloose the Musical, A Slip of the Tongue starring John Malkovich at the Shaftesbury Theatre and the award winning Single Spies written by Alan Bennett which had a very successful year at the Queen's Theatre. Recently Malcolm co-produced the world premiere of Flashdance The Musical which premiered at the Plymouth Theatre Royal in 2008 toured the UK and presented at the Shaftesbury Theatre in 2010.

Malcolm had maintained his interest in the acting side of the business, appearing in the huge TV success of the nineties Absolutely Fabulous as Saffy"?s father Justin and recently was seen in the BBC2 film Daphne as Daphne du Maurier"?s publisher Nelson Doubleday.

Personal life

Christopher lived in London with his wife Judy. His daughter reported his death on February 15 via Twitter.

Filmography

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1969	The Desperados	Gregg
	Strange Report	Sloane	One TV episode
1970	Figures in a Landscape	Helicopter observer
1971	Welcome to the Club	Pvt. Henry Hoe
1972	The Adventures of Barry McKenzie	Sean
	The Protectors	Malloy	One TV episode
1974	Disneyland	Jock	Three TV episodes
1975	Thriller	Hank	One TV episode
	The Spiral Staircase	Policeman
1976	Second Verdict	Mullaly	One TV episode
1977	Raffles	Barney Maguire	One TV episode
1978	Force 10 from Navarone	Rogers
1979	The Great Riviera Bank Robbery	Serge
1980	Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back	Zev Senesca (Rogue 2)
	Oppenheimer	Steve Nelson	(mini) TV series
	Play for Today	Matt	One TV episode
1981	The Dogs of War	Baker
	Ragtime	Police captain #2
	Reds	C.L.P. Party Member
	Shock Treatment	Vance Parker (as Chris Malcolm)
1982	We'll Meet Again	MSgt. Joe 'Mac' McGraw	TV series (All Episodes)
	Beau Geste	Hank	(mini) TV series
1983	Only Fools and Horses	Chief of security/Mad axeman	One TV episode
	Superman III	1st Miner (as Chris Malcolm)
1984	Lassiter	Quaid
1984-1990	The Comic Strip Presents...	Cafe Owner/Brother-in-law	Two TV episodes
1985	King David	Doeg
	Rustlers' Rhapsody	Jud
	Spies Like Us	Jumpmaster
1986	Highlander	Kirk Matunas
	Labyrinth	Father
	Whoops Apocalypse	Gallagher
1987	The Moneymen	Samson	TV
	Pulaski	Tony	One TV episode
1992-2011	Absolutely Fabulous	Justin	More than 10 TV episodes spanning between 1992 to 2011
1994	Lovejoy	Texas Greenberg	TV episode
1996	Over Here	Murphy	TV
2007	Daphne	Nelson Doubleday	TV