Christopher Blake

Christopher Blake was an English actor and screenwriter. He is perhaps best remembered for starring in the British sitcoms, Mixed Blessings and Thats My Boy .

He was born Peter Ronald Gray onAugust 1949 in Chingford, London, England. His father, Charles , was a plasterer and his mother, Elizabeth, a dressmaker and housewife. They went on to have two more sons. The family emigrated to Australia in the late 1950s but returned in 1966 and he attended the Fitzherbert Secondary Modern School, Brighton, Sussex. He then trained at the Central School of Speech and Drama and changed his name to Christopher Blake, because there was another Peter Gray registered with the actors union, Equity. He chose the surname Blake from the telephone directory.

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