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He is known for his roles as James Herriot in All Creatures Great and Small, Mac McGuire in the BBC soap opera Doctors and Ted Murray in the BBC soap opera EastEnders.Table of Contents       (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});after-content-x4Early life[edit]Personal life[edit]Filmography[edit]Film[edit]Television[edit]References[edit]External links[edit]Early life[edit]Timothy was born in Bala, North Wales, attended The Priory Grammar School for Boys, Shrewsbury, and trained at the Central School of Speech and Drama.[1]In the 1960s, Timothy was part of Laurence Olivier’s National Theatre company and appeared in such productions as The Master Builder, Juno and the Paycock and Olivier’s Othello.[2] Timothy’s television career started with the 1969 series Take Three Girls, and he went on to appear in UFO (1970 episode “The Psychobombs”), Doctor at Large in 1971, Some Mothers Do ‘Ave ‘Em in 1973 and Murder Most English: A Flaxborough Chronicle in 1977 before winning the role of Herriot.He played the role of James Herriot in All Creatures Great and Small (1978 TV series) for the full 90 episodes, from 1978 until 1990.[3] Timothy later recalled meeting the author, Alf Wight, who had “a soft, lilting Scottish accent \u2013 though I was told to keep my speech neutral to retain the universality of the part. Which I thought was complete bollocks”.[4]His film career included roles in Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush (1967), Alfred The Great (1969), The Virgin Soldiers (1969), Spring and Port Wine (1970), The Mind of Mr. Soames (1970), Up the Chastity Belt (1971), and the sex comedy Eskimo Nell (1975).       (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});after-content-x4In 1980, he played Jesus Christ in the York Mystery Plays. He continued work as James Herriot until 1990.In 2000, he was cast as Mac McGuire in the BBC soap opera Doctors staying in the series for six years, and directing some of the episodes.In 2004, he made an appearance in Casualty as the murderer of long-standing character Finlay Newton. He also appeared as a special guest on ITV1 drama The Bill, which was aired on New Years Day 2009. More recently he has appeared in Lewis (ITV1) in the episode “Wild Justice”, The Grapes of Wrath, All the Fun of the Fair, Haunting Julia and Casualty (2014).He is the son of BBC announcer Andrew Timothy, and has done regular voice work himself including taking his father’s place as the Announcer for the Goon Again Show in 2001 marking the 50th anniversary of The Goon Show (Andrew had been the announcer for the show back in the early 1950s). He played the Announcer role on The Kinks’ 1974 double album, Preservation Act 2.He was the subject of This Is Your Life in 2000 when he was surprised by Michael Aspel on the set of Doctors at the BBC’s Pebble Mill studios in Birmingham.[5]He voiced and appeared in numerous television commercials for The Sun newspaper in the 1970s when Rupert Murdoch had entered British newspaper publishing; these were extremely unusual commercials for the time in the level of energy and even aggression evident in Timothy’s delivery. As the person in these advertisements, he became a character, a role, in the 2017 stage production of Ink, a play about Australian Rupert Murdoch\u2019s start on Fleet Street in British newspaper publishing with The Sun. Timothy was played by Jack Holden in the Almeida opening[6] and by Andrew Durand[7] in the Broadway production. The play was directed by Rupert Goold, at the Almeida Theatre, London, and later moved to the West End, and then performed on Broadway.[8]He appeared in BBC Radio’s Just a Minute in 1988 and 1989. He was also used in the marketing material for Dignity plc, primarily for their prepaid funeral plans.In 2008 Timothy took part in the BBC Wales programme Coming Home about his Welsh family history. In 2011, he played himself in the audio drama We are not the BBC[9] written by Susan Casanove and produced by the Wireless Theatre Company.He returned to theatre in March 2013 in The Living Room.[10] In 2014 he played Inspector Hubbard in the UK tour of the stage thriller Dial M for Murder.[11]In April 2017, it was announced that he would be joining the BBC soap opera EastEnders as regular character Ted Murray, in which he made his last appearance on 27 September 2019.[12]Timothy appeared with Peter Davison in two series of Great British Car Journeys for Channel 4 in 2018 and 2019.[13]He also appeared in Midsomer Murder S21E1 \u201cThe Point of Balance\u201d as Ned Barnaby. In February 2020 Timothy appeared in Shakespeare & Hathaway: Private Investigators as Chamberlain, episode #3.3 “The Sticking Place”.In April 2020 Timothy appeared in ITV Series Kate & Koji (Series 1, episode 5)When Kate’s flashy ex-husband Dennis arrives in town with his much younger wife, Kate feigns an attachment to KojiTimothy had narrated the first nine series of Channel 5’s The Yorkshire Vet which features veterinarians Julian Norton and Peter Wright. He had hoped to do so for the tenth series as well, but was self-isolating due to the COVID-19 pandemic in April 2020. Peter Davison was asked to take on the role, because his home was equipped with a recording studio, allowing him to complete the project in spite of the lockdown. Timothy was gracious in his comments. “I\u2019m so sorry not to be able to do the voiceover for The Yorkshire Vet right now, but I can\u2019t tell you all how delighted I am that Peter is taking over. He most definitely would be my first choice while I\u2019m in lockdown!”[14][15]Timothy had also narrated the audio books of the James Herriot series, written by veterinarian Alf Wight who practiced for decades in Thirsk.[16]Personal life[edit]Timothy has been married twice; first to Susan Boys, with whom he had four sons and two daughters. During the 1978\u20131980 first run of All Creatures Great and Small, he had an affair with his on-screen wife, Carol Drinkwater.[17] He has been married to Annie Veronica Swatton since 1982, and they have one daughter.[18]He is a supporter of League Two football club Hartlepool United.Filmography[edit]Film[edit]Television[edit]References[edit]^ “Passed\/Failed: An education in the life of the actor Christopher”. The Independent. 15 January 2009.^ Olivier at Work, ed. Lyn Haill, 1989, pp 89-95^ Jones, Craig (8 March 2021). “What happened to the All Creatures Great and Small cast after the original BBC series ended”. Examiner: Yorkshire Live. Retrieved 25 November 2021.^ Watkins, Jack (6 February 2018). “How we made All Creatures Great and Small”. The Guardian. Retrieved 25 November 2022.^ “This Is Your Life – Christopher Timothy”. IMDb. 10 April 2000. Retrieved 25 November 2022.^ “WORLD PREMIERE \u2014INK”. Cast and Creatives. What\u2019s On at Almeida Theatre. 17 June 2017. Retrieved 25 November 2022.^ “Andrew Durand”. Broadway World. Retrieved 25 November 2022.^ Franklin, Marc J (5 March 2019). “Manhattan Theatre Club’s American premiere of the James Graham play will begin performances April 2”. Playbill. Retrieved 25 November 2022. Andrew Durand (Head Over Heels) as Beverly\/Christopher Timothy,^ “We are not the BBC”. Archived from the original on 22 October 2013.^ Billington, Michael (13 March 2013). “The Living Room \u2013 review”. The Guardian. Archived from the original on 30 May 2014. Retrieved 22 September 2014.^ “Dial M for Murder – UK Tour 2014”. Archived from the original on 16 August 2014. Retrieved 22 September 2014.^ Lindsay, Duncan (2 April 2017). “EastEnders casts a new couple carrying secrets from the past”. Metro. Archived from the original on 29 May 2017. Retrieved 30 May 2017.^ “Great British Car Journeys”. Channel4.com. Retrieved 5 December 2020.^ “Peter Davison will now narrate The Yorkshire Vet instead of Christopher Timothy”. Yorkshire Post. 21 April 2020. Retrieved 26 February 2021. Peter Davison, who played Tristan Farnon in the television adaptation of James Herriot’s All Creatures Great and Small stories, will take over from Christopher Timothy to narrate The Yorkshire Vet.^ “Peter Davison to narrate Channel 5’s The Yorkshire Vet”. Evening Express. 20 April 2020. Retrieved 26 February 2021.^ “Christopher Timothy, narrator of books by James Herriot”. Libby by OverDrive. Retrieved 25 November 2022.^ Stanford, Peter (15 November 2008). “A tear in Provence”. Irish Independent. Retrieved 23 October 2018.^ Mike Godfrey (4 April 2012). “Whatever Happened to the “All Creatures Great and Small” Cast?”. Archived from the original on 17 August 2016. Retrieved 3 July 2016.External links[edit]     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});after-content-x4"},{"@context":"http:\/\/schema.org\/","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"https:\/\/wiki.edu.vn\/en\/wiki43\/#breadcrumbitem","name":"Enzyklop\u00e4die"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https:\/\/wiki.edu.vn\/en\/wiki43\/christopher-timothy-wikipedia\/#breadcrumbitem","name":"Christopher Timothy – Wikipedia"}}]}]