Christopher Ryan Marshall in Episode 3 "Olympics" of the "Absolutely Fabulous" 20th-anniversary specials. Although his film appearances were few, he played small roles in "" (1985) and the film "Dirty Weekend" (1993), directed by Michael Winner. Ryan starred as Baron Hardup in the pantomime of Cinderella at the Theatre Royal, Norwich from 17 December 2013 to 19 January 2014. Christopher Ryan Christopher Ryan (born Christopher Papazoglou; 25 January 1950) is an English actor best known for his roles as Mike in the BBC comedy series "The Young Ones", Tony Driscoll in the BBC comedy series "Only Fools and Horses", and as Edina
Pantomime to the marriage of the young lovers, she would transport the whole company to a grand final scene. Despite its visible decline by 1836, the pantomime still fought to stay alive. After 1843, when theatres other than the original patent theatres were permitted to perform spoken dialogue, the importance of the silent harlequinade began to decrease, while the importance of the fairy-tale part of the pantomime increased. Two writers who helped to elevate the importance and popularity of the fairy-tale portion of the pantomime were James Planché and Henry James Byron. They emphasized puns and humorous word play, a tradition