Chris Barrie - Roles in Television and Films

Roles in Television and Films

Chris Barrie's most recent TV work includes Britain's Greatest Machines with Chris Barrie, screened on the National Geographic Channel from 4 June 2009. Each of the four episode features some of the most notable air, sea and land vehicles & equipment of the 1930s, 1950s, 1960s & 1980s respectively. A second series of four episodes was transmitted in February 2010, with the 1910s, 1920s, 1940s & early steam trains as the subjects of each episode.

Barrie has also hosted the television series Chris Barrie's Massive Engines and Chris Barrie's Massive Machines on the Discovery Channel which was later shown on Channel 5 where both series received record viewing figures and are now on DVD. The latest in this series Massive Speed with Chris Barrie was shown on Discovery Channel from November 2006. In 2006, he appeared as a regular team captain in the BBC Two quiz show Petrolheads, and is the star of the British crime/comedy/drama film Back In Business, in which he plays Tom Marks.

Other roles include:

• The director of "Ooer, Sounds A Bit Rude" in episode two of Filthy, Rich & Catflap.
• The ship's captain in the wall-poster cut scene during The Young Ones episode "Nasty".
• The voice of Simon in the Adventure Soft computer games series Simon the Sorcerer (1993).
• Gary Prince in A Prince Among Men (1997–98).
• A French revolutionary/"ambassador" in the Blackadder The Third episode "Nob And Nobility".
• Hillary the Butler in the films Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (2001) and Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life (2003).
• Doubting Thomas in a small series of television advertisements for Anglian Windows.
• The voice of Jif Micro Liquid.
• The voices of Captain Smollett and Ben Gunn in The Legends Of Treasure Island.
• Appearances on the BBC Radio 4 sketch show Son of Cliché.
• Voice impersonations on recordings by Frankie Goes to Hollywood:
  • as Ronald Reagan on the 12-inch release of "Two Tribes".
  • as Mike Read, banning the single "Relax", on the 12-inch release of "The Power of Love".
  • as HRH Prince Charles on "Tag", from the album Welcome to the Pleasuredome.
• Voice impersonation of Robin Day on the Art Of Noise track "Close Up".
• Voice of a motorbike racing commentator in episode 3 of the BBC Comedy series "Grace and Favour".

He is a popular after dinner speaker and awards host for the JLA agency where he "often appears in the guise of a close relative of Brittas."