title: Christopher Neame
text: Christopher Neame (born 12 September 1947) is an English actor now living in the United States.
  
  UK career
  Neame's UK film credits include appearances in two Hammer Horror films: Lust for a Vampire (1971) and Dracula AD 1972 (1972). He also appeared in No Blade of Grass (1970).
  
  He appeared in The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes as Sydney Wing in the episode entitled "The Secret of the Magnifique". In 1975 he played Kaiser Wilhelm II in the ITV 13-part drama series, Edward the Seventh.
  
  He was featured in two BBC dramas dealing with the Second World War: as Lieutenant Dick Player in Colditz (1972–74), and as Flight Lieutenant John Curtis in the first season of the World War II drama, Secret Army (1977). In between those, in the TV film A Point in Time (1973), he became one of the first male actors to appear nude on the small screen.
  
  Neame played the villain Skagra in the unfinished Doctor Who serial Shada in 1979. He provided his voice to complete the serial using animation in 2017. Neame made a guest appearance in another BBC period drama When the Boat Comes In in 1981 portraying Robin Cunningham. In 1983, he played Mark Antony in the BBC series The Cleopatras. 
  
  In addition, Neame produced some episodes of the 1990s drama series Soldier Soldier.
  
  US career
  
  Neame emigrated to the United States and has made frequent appearances in American films and television. He appeared in the films,  Steel Dawn (1987), D.O.A. (1988), Bloodstone (1988), the James Bond film Licence to Kill (1989),  Ghostbusters II (1989), Edge of Honor (1991), Suburban Commando (1991), Hellbound (1994), Ground Zero (2000) and The Prestige (2006).
  
  He played a psycho killer in an episode of MacGyver in 1985, and appeared in The Great Escape II: The Untold Story. In 1989, he played the character Gustav Hellstrom, a Swedish businessman, in the 12th season of the TV series Dallas, appearing in 3 episodes: "Serpent's Tooth", "April Showers", "And Away We Go". He also appeared in a two-part story of Star Trek: Enterprise in 2004. In 1994, he portrayed "Knight Two" in the Babylon 5 episode "And the Sky Full of Stars". Neame is one of the few actors to have appeared in Doctor Who, Blake's 7, the Star Trek franchise, Babylon 5, and Earth 2.  Other television appearances include Dynasty, The A-Team, Benson, Beauty and the Beast, Northern Exposure (1994), JAG (1995), and the two-part mini-series The Apocalypse Watch (1996). He also starred in the Showtime film Street Knight (1994) and he appeared as "The One" in the last two episodes of Martial Law (2000).  He also played the main villain in the live-action cutscenes of Star Wars Jedi Knight: Dark Forces II (1997). In 2018, he reunited with his Hammer film co-star Caroline Munro to appear in the film House of the Gorgon.
  
  Filmography
  No Blade of Grass (1970) - Locke
  Lust for a Vampire (1971) - Hans
  Dracula AD 1972 (1972) - Johnny Alucard
  Benson (1985) season 7 episode 5 "We Spy" as Max Heimlich
  Steel Dawn (1987) - Sho
  D.O.A. (1988) - Bernard
  Transformations (1988) - Calihan
  Bloodstone (1988) - Van Hoeven
  The Great Escape II: The Untold Story (1988) - Kiowski
  Dynasty (1988-1989) - Hamilton Stone
  Licence to Kill (1989) - Fallon
  Ghostbusters II (1989) - Maitre D'
   The Flash (1990 TV series)- Brian Gideon
  The Radicals (1990) - Ulrich Zwingli
  Edge of Honor (1991) - Blade
  Suburban Commando (1991) - Commander
  Diplomatic Immunity (1991) - Stefan Noll
  Still Not Quite Human (1992) - Dr. Frederick Berrigon
  Boris and Natasha (1992) - Fearless Leader
  Irresistible Force (1993) - James Barron
  Street Knight (1993) - James Franklin
  Hellbound (1994) - Professor Malcolm Lockley \ Prosatanos
  Star Wars: Jedi Knight - Dark Forces II (1997) - Jerec
  Walking Thunder (1997) - Ansel Richter
  Ground Zero (2000) - Andrew Donovan
  Highway 395 (2000) - Klauss Hess
  Special Ed (2005) - Dr. Davis
  The Prestige (2006) - Defender
  House of the Gorgon (2019) - Father Llewellyn
  
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  1947 births
  Living people
  English male television actors
  English male film actors
  British expatriates in the United States
  Male actors from London
  20th-century English male actors
  21st-century English male actors