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Christopher Michael Hewett (5 April 1921〔〔 – 3 August 2001) was an English actor and theatre director best known for his role as Lynn Aloysius Belvedere on the ABC sitcom ''Mr. Belvedere''. ==Career== Hewett was born in Worthing, Sussex, to an army officer father and an Irish mother who was a descendant of Daniel O'Connell. He was educated at Beaumont College, and at aged 7, made his acting debut in Dublin stage production of ''A Midsummer Night's Dream''. At 16, Hewett joined the Royal Air Force, leaving in 1940. Hewett then joined the Oxford Repertory Company and made his West End theatre debut in 1943. He later appeared on Broadway in the musicals ''My Fair Lady'', ''The Unsinkable Molly Brown'', ''Music Is'', and ''Kean'' and in the plays ''Sleuth'' and ''The Affair'', among others, and directed the 1960 Broadway revue ''From A to Z'' and the 1967 Off Broadway revival of the Rodgers and Hart musical ''By Jupiter''. Hewett also directed several stage productions including ''The Marriage-Go-Round'' and ''Beyond the Fringe and Camelot''.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Christopher Hewett Biography )〕 Hewett made his film debut in the 1951 crime drama ''Pool of London'', and later appeared in roles on ''Robert Montgomery Presents'' and ''DuPont Show of the Month''. He appeared as the grand theatre director Roger DeBris in Mel Brooks's 1968 film comedy ''The Producers''. In 1976, Hewett played the generic bureaucrat Federov in the short-lived sitcom ''Ivan the Terrible''. During the 1979-80 season, he played Captain Hook to Sandy Duncan's Peter Pan on Broadway. From 1983 to 1984, he portrayed Lawrence, Mr. Roarke's (Ricardo Montalbán) sidekick on the final season of the ABC series ''Fantasy Island''. The following year, Hewett landed his best known role as Lynn Aloysius Belvedere, an English butler who works for a middle class American family in the sitcom ''Mr. Belvedere''. After the series ended its run in 1990, Hewett appeared in a guest spot on an episode of the NBC teen sitcom ''California Dreams'' in 1994. In 1995, he starred with Charlton Heston, Mickey Rooney, Deborah Winters and Peter Graves in Warren Chaney's ''America: A Call to Greatness''. His last onscreen role was a cameo appearance on the Fox series ''Ned & Stacey'' in 1997.〔 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「Christopher Hewett」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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