Christopher Douglas (British actor)


Christopher Douglas is a British actor and writer.
He is the voice of Ed Reardon in BBC Radio 4's long-running sitcom Ed Reardon's Week, which he co-wrote with Andrew Nickolds. Ed Reardon's Week has completed sixteen series and was the winner of the Broadcasting Press Guild's "Best Radio Programme" award in 2005 and again in 2010. Douglas is also the voice and co-creator of the world's most disappointing cricketer Dave Podmore, a Radio 4 regular since 2001.
Other radio credits include a two-part adaptation of George Gissing's New Grub Street, two series of Mastering The Universe, co-written with Nick Newman and starring Dawn French. With Nicola Sanderson, he co-wrote three series of the radio comedy, Beauty Of Britain, starring Jocelyn Jee Esien.
Douglas wrote and directed the improbably long-running career of uber-thesp Nicholas Craig, whose autobiography I, An Actor was first published in 1988, and who has continued to appear on TV and on stage ever since.

Background

Douglas was the son of actor, director and TV producer Douglas Neill and of Carol Howard-Eady, an actress and stage manager. Douglas's step-father Derek Clark was briefly an actor before becoming a director and producer, retiring in 1992 as Director of Programmes for HTV.
Douglas was educated at Downs Preparatory School and Clifton College. He left school at 15 to work as an assistant stage manager in various regional theatres, such as Porthcawl, Ilfracombe, Bristol Old Vic, Worcester and the Wyvern, Swindon, where he made his performing debut as the back end of Alfred the Horse. In 1972, he joined the Young Vic company as an acting assistant stage manager. He took up writing in 1979 but continued to work as an actor. He is secretary of the Weekenders Cricket Club.

Writing credits

THEATRE
  • Theatrical Digs
  • Scout's Honour
  • An Evening with Nicholas Craig starring Nigel Planer
  • Ed Reardon: A Writer's Burden
RADIO
  • The Englishman Abroad
  • I, An Actor.... Thirty episodes of Dave Podmore, co-written with Nick Newman and Andrew Nickolds, two series of Mastering the Universe, with Nick Newman
  • Ed Reardon's Week, co-written with Andrew Nickolds
  • Dolly
  • three series of Beauty of Britain, co-written with Nicola Sanderson
  • New Grub Street
  • "Tristram Shandy: In Development".
TV
  • Tygo Road
  • The Naked Actor
  • The Nicholas Craig Masterclass
  • It's Not Cricket with Rory Bremner
  • The Age Thing
  • A Master Class in Film Villiany with Nicholas Craig
  • How to be Eighteenth-Century
  • How to be Sci-Fi
  • The Rock and Roll Years
  • Mark Lawson Interviews Nicholas Craig
  • How to be Edwardian
  • How to be Old
BOOKS
  • Spartan Cricketer, a biography of D.R.Jardine
  • I, An Actor...
  • Pod Almighty!
  • The Word of Pod,
  • Ed Reardon’s Week
  • ghosted ...and June Whitfield
JOURNALISM
DIRECTING
  • I, An Actor… stage show 2002
  • Series 2 of The Nicholas Craig Masterclass
  • "How to be Eighteenth-Century"
  • How to be Sci-Fi
  • How to be Edwardian
  • Mark Lawson Interviews Nicholas Craig
  • ''How to be Old''

Presenting

Acting credits

Publications

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