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Chris Parr. Producer, Executive. 25 September 1943 to 24 November 2023. A British television producer and executive, who won a BAFTA as producer of Takin’ Over the Asylum (1994). Chris Parr also spearheaded Play for Today’s Billy trilogy (1982-1984), starring a young Kenneth Branagh.
Mini Bio. After a long career in theatre and television, from 2007 Chris founded his own company, "Grey Cat Productions", and teamed up with fellow Producer, Anthony Rowe to develop and make feature films and TV drama, set in the UK, with an emphasis on Northern Ireland, and the Republic of Ireland. Their forthcoming feature is Pumpgirl (2009).
With an open scholarship to read classics at Queen’s College, had he graduated his command of two dead languages might have led to a career teaching in a public school or perhaps a fast stream into the civil service.
Chris Parr 1953-1961. My wonderful teachers at Chichester, Mr Gahan and Mr Smart, would have been mortified to hear that, in Doug Murgatroyd’s words, I “got bored” with Latin and Greek at Oxford. Languages, including dead ones, remain a passion of mine (I got GCSE Irish a couple of years ago).
Chris Parr (1953-61) – Producer and Director, has died. He lived and commuted to school from Littlehampton. Chris had few peers in the cerebral department and was one of the brightest in my year (Bill Allen).
Jul 23, 2018 · Chris had got a job with Pebble Mill in the West Midlands, so my folks moved over with me and I grew up there. But we came back to Belfast often.
I’m Chris Parr, BBC Environmental Award winner, the Prime Minister’s Points of Light recipient, multi award winning social entrepreneur and wood-craftsman. Born and fired in Burslem, also known as the Mother Town in the City of Stoke-on-Trent (the Potteries).
