Chris Barrie

Chris Barrie

Born: March 28, 1960
in Hannover, Germany
Christopher Jonathan Brown, known professionally as Chris Barrie (born 28 March 1960), is a British actor and impressionist. He is best known for his roles as Arnold Rimmer in the science-fiction comedy, Red Dwarf, and as Gordon Brittas in the sitcom, The Brittas Empire. He's also known for his role as Hillary in Lara Croft: Tomb Raider and its sequel Lara Croft: The Cradle of Life.

Movies for Chris Barrie...

Title: Red Dwarf: The First Three Million Years
Character: Self
Released: August 6, 2020
Type: TV
The definitive overview of the adventures of the legendary Boys from the Dwarf. This three-part series charts the origins, production and legacy of everything associated with the sci-fi comedy.
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Red Dwarf: The Promised Land
Title: Red Dwarf: The Promised Land
Character: Arnold Rimmer
Released: April 9, 2020
Type: Movie
The posse meet three cat clerics who worship Lister as their God. Lister vows to help them as they're being hunted by Rodon, the ruthless feral cat leader who has vowed to wipe out all cats who worship anyone but him.
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Title: Britain's Greatest Machines With Chris Barrie
Character: Himself - Presenter
Released: June 4, 2009
Type: TV
Britain's Greatest Machines with Chris Barrie is a documentary television series from National Geographic Channel. It is showing the technological progress of the 19th and 20th centuries from a British point of view. Chris Barrie is the host and is testing various means of transportation.
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Red Dwarf: Back to Earth
Title: Red Dwarf: Back to Earth
Character: Rimmer
Released: April 12, 2009
Type: Movie
Hurled through a portal, the Red Dwarf crew discover they’re just characters in a TV series. Can they track down their creators and discover how long they have left to live?
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Red Dwarf: The Beginning - Series I
Title: Red Dwarf: The Beginning - Series I
Character: Himself
Released: November 12, 2007
Type: Movie
A documentary about the first series of Red Dwarf (1988).
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Red Dwarf: It's Cold Outside - Series II
Title: Red Dwarf: It's Cold Outside - Series II
Character: Himself
Released: November 12, 2007
Type: Movie
A documentary about the second series of Red Dwarf (1988).
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Back in Business
Title: Back in Business
Character: Tom Marks
Released: February 9, 2007
Type: Movie
After decades of domination by America and Russia there is a new competitor in the space race... Great Britain. The British Space Agency has designed an impressive new space buggy that all the big countries want to get their hands on, which provides the perfect opportunity for con men Tom Marks and Lord Spencer to go 'Back in Business'. They decide to sell the buggy to the highest bidding country, but things don't go quite to plan.
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Best Ever Spitting Image
Title: Best Ever Spitting Image
Character: Self (Archive Footage)
Released: July 25, 2006
Type: Movie
A documentary about Spitting Image (1984) and the impact it had, including clips of the most memorable moments and contributions from many of the cast, crew and some of celebrities portrayed on the show.
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Title: Petrolheads
Released: February 12, 2006
Type: TV
Petrolheads is a BBC panel game presented by Neil Morrissey, with team captains Richard Hammond and Chris Barrie. The show pitted motoring wits against each other and included car stunts shot on location. There were two guests each episode. The show was produced by Brian Klein, directed by John L Spencer and executive producers were Marie-Claire Walton and Steve Ayres. The theme music was by British composer Leigh Haggerwood. It was created and scripted by prolific author Norman Giller, with input from Top Gear writer Richard Porter and comedy scriptwriter Ged Parsons. In October 26, 2012, Richard Osman, writing for The Guardian named Petrolheads among four of UK TV's worst ever gameshows.
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Red Dwarf: Back from the Dead - Series VII
Title: Red Dwarf: Back from the Dead - Series VII
Character: Self
Released: November 7, 2005
Type: Movie
A documentary about the seventh series of Red Dwarf (1988).
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Red Dwarf: The Starbuggers - Series VI
Title: Red Dwarf: The Starbuggers - Series VI
Character: Self
Released: February 21, 2005
Type: Movie
A documentary about the sixth series of Red Dwarf (1988).
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Red Dwarf: Heavy Science - Series V
Title: Red Dwarf: Heavy Science - Series V
Character: Self
Released: November 8, 2004
Type: Movie
A documentary about the fifth series of Red Dwarf (1988).
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Red Dwarf: Built to Last - Series IV
Title: Red Dwarf: Built to Last - Series IV
Character: Self
Released: February 16, 2004
Type: Movie
A documentary about the fourth series of Red Dwarf (1988).
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Red Dwarf: All Change - Series III
Title: Red Dwarf: All Change - Series III
Character: Self
Released: November 3, 2003
Type: Movie
A documentary about the third series of Red Dwarf (1988).
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Lara Croft: Tomb Raider - The Cradle of Life
Title: Lara Croft: Tomb Raider - The Cradle of Life
Character: Hillary
Released: July 21, 2003
Type: Movie
Tasked by MI6 to find the mythological Pandora's Box, an ancient object supposedly containing one of the deadliest plagues on Earth, Lara Croft must beat evil Nobel Prize-winning scientist turned bioterrorist Jonathan Reiss to it.
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Red Dwarf A-Z
Title: Red Dwarf A-Z
Character: Self
Released: February 10, 2003
Type: Movie
A compilation of clips and interviews, originally broadcast on BBC2's Red Dwarf Night in 1998, and subsequently included on the DVD release of Red Dwarf series 2.
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Launching Red Dwarf
Title: Launching Red Dwarf
Character: Self / Rimmer (archive footage)
Released: November 2, 2002
Type: Movie
A documentary about the making of the first series of "Red Dwarf" (1988).
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Title: Top Gear
Character: Self
Released: October 20, 2002
Type: TV
This fast-paced and stunt-filled motor show tests whether cars, both mundane and extraordinary, live up to their manufacturers' claims. The long-running show travels to locations around the world, performing extreme stunts and challenges to see what the featured cars are capable of doing. The current hosts are Paddy Mcguinness, Chris Harris and Andrew "Freddie" Flintoff.
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Lara Croft: Tomb Raider
Title: Lara Croft: Tomb Raider
Character: Hillary
Released: June 11, 2001
Type: Movie
English aristocrat Lara Croft is skilled in hand-to-hand combat and in the midst of a battle with a secret society. The shapely archaeologist moonlights as a tomb raider to recover lost antiquities and meets her match in the wicked Powell, who's in search of a powerful relic.
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Can't Smeg Won't Smeg
Title: Can't Smeg Won't Smeg
Character: Rimmer
Released: February 14, 1998
Type: Movie
20th century television chef Ainsley Harriott beams himself aboard the space vessel Starbug in order to test the crew's culinary skills.
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Title: A Prince Among Men
Character: Gary Prince
Released: September 15, 1997
Type: TV
A Prince Among Men is a somewhat unsuccessful British sitcom that ran on BBC1 from 1997 to 1998 lasting 12 episodes. It starred Chris Barrie as Gary Prince, a former international football star turned entrepreneur. The theme music was by Jamie Marshall.
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Treasure Island
Title: Treasure Island
Character: Captain Smollett
Released: July 14, 1997
Type: Movie
Jim Hawkins races to beat Long John Silver to the riches awaiting on Treasure Island. An animated retelling of Robert Louis Stevenson's classic novel, featured the main characters as animals.
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Title: Get Fit with Brittas
Released: July 1, 1997
Type: TV
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Title: Midsomer Murders
Character: Lionel Poulter
Released: March 23, 1997
Type: TV
The peacefulness of the Midsomer community is shattered by violent crimes, suspects are placed under suspicion, and it is up to a veteran DCI and his young sergeant to calmly and diligently eliminate the innocent and ruthlessly pursue the guilty.
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Surviving Christmas
Title: Surviving Christmas
Character: Gordon
Released: December 24, 1996
Type: Movie
Gordon takes the staff for a military-style team-building exercise into Wales. While dealing with the rigors of the wild, they are relentlessly pursued by would-be assassins. Gordon's well-intentioned motivational skills make things worse.
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Chris Barrie's Motoring Wheel Nuts
Title: Chris Barrie's Motoring Wheel Nuts
Character: Sir Marmaduke / Vic / Bertie / Roger / Spike / Bertie / more
Released: October 30, 1995
Type: Movie
Who has the shiniest bumpers in Frogmorton? Why do some people require a vehicle that looks like it was designed for rounding up wild animals in Colorado in order to drive 300 yards to the solarium? Is it possible to perform satisfactory sex in the back seat of a Volkswagen Beetle without the aid of a workshop manual? If you yearn for the answers to these and other burning motoring questions, as well as the chance to drool over some of the world's most stunning classic automobiles and exotic modern supercars, then why not let Sir Marmaduke Lovetuesday - heir to a great British tradition of drunkenness, greed and incompetence - take you on a guided tour of the Surley Manor Automotive Gala... a tale of sin, sex and soiled spark plugs!
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Red Dwarf: Smeg Outs
Title: Red Dwarf: Smeg Outs
Character: Rimmer
Released: January 1, 1995
Type: Movie
A video release containing toxic waste from the first three series of space comedy Red Dwarf. Witness the cast, and a number of guest stars, forget lines, reach for misplaced props, or accidentally fall over in a selection of hilarious out-takes. Kryten, the 4000-series sanitation mechaniod, answers questions about Red Dwarf, and the video also includes a full length smeg mix of Cat's Tongue Tied song.
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Red Dwarf: Smeg Ups
Title: Red Dwarf: Smeg Ups
Character: Rimmer
Released: January 1, 1994
Type: Movie
Kryten presents a collection of bloopers from series 4 to 6 of Red Dwarf.
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Know Your Europeans: The United Kingdom
Title: Know Your Europeans: The United Kingdom
Released: January 1, 1994
Type: Movie
Set to Gilbert and Sullivan tunes, a musical cartoon attempts to describe the character of the British nation, with occasional interruptions by Prince Charles.
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White Goods
Title: White Goods
Character: Mickie Scott
Released: January 1, 1994
Type: Movie
Ian Deegan and Charlie Collins are best friends who team up to appear on TV in a popular snooker based game show. But, when they hit their jackpot, their friendship comes under tremendous strain as they find that they cannot agree on how best to split their winnings.
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Title: The Legends of Treasure Island
Character: Captain Smollett (voice)
Released: September 10, 1993
Type: TV
The Legends Of Treasure Island is an animated cartoon from the UK that ran from 1993-1995. It had two series of 13 episodes each and each episode runs for 22–25 minutes. The series was loosely based on Robert Louis Stevenson's original story "Treasure Island". Featuring a mysterious and dark storyline, it incorporates magic and many new characters. Unlike the book and most adaptations Long John Silver is not an anti-hero with dubious morality but rather a straight villain. It was broadcast in the United Kingdom and in other countries throughout Europe and Latin America and was also aired in Australia. The programme was a FilmFair production for Central Independent Television, The Legends of Treasure Island, is owned by ITV PLC.
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The Legends of Treasure Island
Title: The Legends of Treasure Island
Character: Ben Gunn (voice)
Released: September 10, 1993
Type: Movie
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The Legend of Lochnagar
Title: The Legend of Lochnagar
Released: April 11, 1993
Type: Movie
Prince Charles tells a group of children the story of the Old Man of Lochnager, based on the book he wrote.
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Amnesty International's Big 30
Title: Amnesty International's Big 30
Character: Arnold Rimmer
Released: December 28, 1991
Type: Movie
In the tradition of the acclaimed series of British concerts known as The Secret Policemen's Ball, Amnesty International celebrates its 50th Anniversary live at Radio City Music Hall.
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Title: The Brittas Empire
Character: Gordon Brittas
Released: January 3, 1991
Type: TV
The Brittas Empire is a British sitcom created and originally written by Andrew Norriss and Richard Fegen. Chris Barrie plays Gordon Brittas, the well-meaning but incompetent manager of Whitbury New Town Leisure Centre. The show ran for seven series and 53 episodes — including two Christmas specials — from 1991 to 1997 on BBC1. Norriss and Fegen wrote the first five series, after which they left the show. The Brittas Empire enjoyed a long and successful run throughout the 1990s, and gained itself large mainstream audiences. In 2004 the show came 47th on the BBC's Britain's Best Sitcom poll, and all series have been released on DVD. The creators Andrew Norriss and Richard Fegen often combine farce with either surreal or dramatic elements in episodes. For example in the first series, the leisure centre prepares for a royal visit, only for the doors to seal, the boiler room to flood and a visitor to become electrocuted. Unlike the traditional sitcom, deaths were quite common in The Brittas Empire.
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Title: 8:15 from Manchester
Released: April 21, 1990
Type: TV
8:15 from Manchester was a Saturday morning children's magazine show broadcast on BBC1 when Going Live! was in summer recess. Broadcasting from Manchester, it was presented by Ross King and Charlotte Hindle. The first edition was broadcast on 21 April 1990. It was produced by Martyn Day. BBC Radio 1 weathergirl Dianne Oxberry joined for the second series, which began on 28 April 1991. The format was very similar to Going Live!, with imported cartoons punctuating items, such as games, music performances and interviews. A regular segment was The Wetter The Better, a game show based in a swimming pool and hosted by Ross King. A weekly drama was shown, in which the short episode ended in a dilemma of some sort. Two endings had been filmed and viewers telephoned to vote which ending would be shown. It also incorporated a repeat run of Rentaghost, though all the pre-1980 episodes were omitted and the end-credits rarely seen. Later, episodes of Grandad, starring Clive Dunn, were also shown. The theme tune was by Inspiral Carpets: a rewrite of their single "Find Out Why". An early edition had a feature of how the theme was recorded.
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Testimony
Title: Testimony
Character: Carnival Thin Man
Released: November 1, 1988
Type: Movie
The story of the great Soviet composer Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975) and his life and career during the rule of Stalin.
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Title: Red Dwarf
Character: Arnold Rimmer
Released: February 15, 1988
Type: TV
The adventures of the last human alive and his friends, stranded three million years into deep space on the mining ship Red Dwarf.
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Title: Filthy Rich & Catflap
Character: The Director
Released: January 7, 1987
Type: TV
The series featured former The Young Ones stars Nigel Planer, Rik Mayall and Adrian Edmondson as its three title characters respectively. It was written by Ben Elton with additional material credited to Mayall. One series of six half-hour episodes was produced. (The notion of a second series is played upon in the final episode, and the continuity announcer on the last instalment says "...and Filthy Rich and Catflap will return next year." They didn't.)
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The Comic Relief Utterly Utterly Rude Video Live
Title: The Comic Relief Utterly Utterly Rude Video Live
Released: April 25, 1986
Type: Movie
In April 1986, inspired by the previous summer's bombastic Live Aid event and the success of Amnesty's first four Secret Policeman's Ball shows, the UK's alternative comedy scene (and a few of the old guard) put on a fund-raising comedy revue at The Shaftesbury Theatre, London. The show's took place on 4-6 April, a recording was broadcast by the BBC on 25 April.
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Title: Zastrozzi: A Romance
Character: Waiter
Released: April 13, 1986
Type: TV
In a heady tale of revenge and obsession, the outlaw Zastrozzi, assisted by courtesan, Matilda, abducts his half-brother, Verezzi, and torments him into believing his lover, Julia, has been murdered. His campaign of vicious psychological abuse signals a grisly bloodbath of greed, envy, betrayal, retribution, and eternal damnation.
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Title: Pushing Up Daisies
Released: November 3, 1984
Type: TV
British sketch show with parodies, impressions, satire, songs and plenty of recurring characters and motifs.
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Title: Spitting Image
Released: February 26, 1984
Type: TV
Spitting Image is an award winning British satirical puppet show, created by Peter Fluck, Roger Law and Martin Lambie-Nairn. The series was produced by Spitting Image Productions for Central Independent Television over 18 series which aired on the ITV from 1984 to 1996. The series was nominated and won numerous awards during its run including 10 BAFTA Awards, including one for editing in 1989, and even won two Emmy Awards in 1985 and 1986 in the Popular Arts Category. The series featured puppet caricatures of celebrities famous during the 1980s and 1990s, including British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and fellow Tory politicians, American president Ronald Reagan, and the British Royal Family. The Series was the first to caricature the Queen mother.
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Title: Harty
Character: Self
Released: September 20, 1983
Type: TV
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Title: Blackadder
Character: Ambassador, a fearsome revolutionary
Released: June 15, 1983
Type: TV
Black Adder traces the deeply cynical and self-serving lineage of various Edmund Blackadders throughout British history, from the muck of the Middle Ages to the frontline of the First World War.
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Title: The Young Ones
Character: Ship's Captain
Released: November 9, 1982
Type: TV
The misadventures of four lunatic students who live in a shared student house. There's Rik, the overblown political one addicted to Cliff Richard, Vyvian the experimental scientific one/part-time anarchist, Neil the worried hippy, and Mike the ladies' man (at least he is in his mind).
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Title: The Young Ones
Character: Rat (voice)
Released: November 9, 1982
Type: TV
The misadventures of four lunatic students who live in a shared student house. There's Rik, the overblown political one addicted to Cliff Richard, Vyvian the experimental scientific one/part-time anarchist, Neil the worried hippy, and Mike the ladies' man (at least he is in his mind).