Chris Lang is a writer

Writer

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, actor

Actor

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, and producer

Television producer

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 for British

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 television

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He has written for British television shows including 'Alas Smith and Jones

Alas Smith and Jones

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, The Bill

The Bill

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, Casualty, Soldier Soldier

Soldier Soldier

Soldier Soldier is a British television drama series. The title comes from a traditional song of the same name.Produced by Central Television and broadcast on the ITV network, it ran for a total of seven series and 82 episodes from 1991 to 1997...

, The Knock

The Knock

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, Reach for the Moon, The Glass, Sirens, Unconditional Love, P.O.W., Amnesia, Lawless,The Palace, 'Primeval

Primeval

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and 'Hustle'. He also served as Associate producer on TV serials Sirens, Lawless, and Amnesia and in 2007 he co founded the production company TXTV, for which he has produced 'The Little House', and has written and produced 'The Reckoning' and 'Torn' which was nominated for a 'Royal Television Society' award.

As an actor, he has appeared in such British television shows as Shadow of the Noose, KYTV, Paul Merton, The Series

Paul Merton

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, Drop the Dead Donkey

Drop the Dead Donkey

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, Outside Edge

Cricket in film and television

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, A Dance to the Music of Time

A Dance to the Music of Time

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, Jo Brand Through the Cakehole

Jo Brand

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, and All Along the Watchtower

All Along the Watchtower (TV series)

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, as well as the American

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 television show Melrose Place. In his youth, he formed a comedy revue called The Jockeys of Norfolk with Andy Taylor and Hugh Grant.

He is also a voice actor for films (such as A Monkey's Tale

A Monkey's Tale

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), video games (such as Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (video game)

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), and cartoons. His voice work in animated

Animation

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 children's television series includes the voice of Pigling Bland in The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends

Peter Rabbit

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, and voices for almost all of the characters (except for Kipper) in Kipper the Dog

Kipper the Dog

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With his brother Nick Lang, Chris Lang was a drummer in the unsigned new wave rock band The Acidicx, later becoming an early member of The Housemartins

The Housemartins

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 (for whom he also played drums) alongside school friends Quentin Cook (AKA Norman Cook - Fatboy Slim

Fatboy Slim

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) and Paul Heaton

Paul Heaton

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. He left the band in 1984 to be replaced by Hugh Whitaker

Hugh Whitaker

Hugh Whitaker is the former drummer for the British indie rock band The Housemartins. He replaced original drummer Chris Lang and drummed for the band's first album, London 0 Hull 4, and its attendant single releases. He left the band before the recording of their second album, The People Who...

; former drummer with The Gargoyles.