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Andrew O'Connor (born 1963 in Stevenage, Hertfordshire) is a British actor, comedian, magician, television presenter and executive producer. ==Television career== Although he enjoyed a short stint as a child actor, appearing as Tom Brill in ''The Canal Children'' in 1976, he made his mark as a children's magician, and won the Magic Circle's ''Young Magician of the Year'' prize in 1981.〔 He appeared in a number of variety shows on television, and was invited to join the cast of London Weekend Television's ''Copy Cats'', a show featuring impressionists such as Bobby Davro and Gary Wilmot, in 1985. A second series, without Wilmot, followed in 1986. O'Connor received a writing credit for each series. His own children's show, ''Andrew O'Connor's Joke Machine'' soon followed, in which he told jokes and performed magic tricks and invited children to do the same. In 1986, he began appearing in ITV's popular Saturday morning children's series, ''No. 73''. But shortly afterwards, he switched to the BBC to launch another Saturday morning children's series, ''On the Waterfront'', alongside fellow ex-''No. 73'' host Kate Copstick. In 1991, O'Connor became the second actor to play The Head in CITV's arts and crafts show Art Attack presented by Neil Buchanan. In 1988, O'Connor also appeared regularly in short comedy sketches co-written by himself for the Observation round in ITV game show ''The Krypton Factor''. In the same year, he took over from Jeremy Beadle as the presenter of the daytime game show, ''Chain Letters''. He returned to acting to play the role of the computer in early 90's children's sci-fi show ''Kappatoo'' but it was his career as a quiz-show host that took off, and he subsequently presented the UK version of ''Talk About'', moved to Saturday night prime time in 1991 with ''One to Win'', and returned to daytime television with ''The Alphabet Game''. This latter show was devised and produced by O'Connor, having formed his production company, Objective alongside Michael Vine. This marked the turning point in his career, and although O'Connor has made numerous on-screen appearances since then, he has mainly been working behind the camera. He has produced numerous comedy and magic related television shows, perhaps the most notable being the critically acclaimed sitcom, ''Peep Show'', and most of Derren Brown's programmes. In 1993 O'Connor presented The Big Breakfast for a week while Chris Evans was on holiday, but did not enjoy the experience of live television. He presented an ITV & Family Channel game show called ''Family Catchphrase'', which was a spin-off from ''Catchphrase''; there were 50 episodes from 1994. One episode featured a young Simon Amstell and another featured a guest appearance from the show's creator, Stephen Radosh. Also in 1994, O'Connor played the lead in the touring musical ''Me and My Girl''.〔 He established Objective Productions with Michael Vine, where O'Connor holds the position of Chair. The company website claims the company was founded in 1991 but a 2005 interview with O'Connor in ''The Independent'' lists 1996 as the year the company was formed.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Andrew O'Connor (actor)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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