Mmoloki Chrystie is an
EnglishEngland is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west and the North Sea to the east, with the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...
actorAn actor or actress is a person who acts in a dramatic production and who works in film, television, theatre, or radio in that capacity...
, probably best recognised for playing the soccer-crazed, not-too-bright Frazer "Frazz" Davis in the BAFTA award winning
Central TelevisionCentral Independent Television, more commonly known as Central was the Independent Television contractor for the Midlands, created following the restructuring of ATV and commencing broadcast on 1 January 1982. The station is owned and operated by ITV plc, under the licensee of ITV Broadcasting...
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Children's ITVCITV is the brand name used for the majority of children's television output on ITV's television stations, including the ITV Network, breakfast broadcaster GMTV and the ITV plc-owned CITV Channel as well as non ITV plc owned regions...
comedy-drama
Press GangPress Gang is a British children's television comedy-drama consisting of forty-three episodes across five series that were broadcast from 1989 to 1993...
. Prior to that, Chrystie had played Kevin Baylon in another children's favourite,
Grange HillGrange Hill is a British television drama series originally made by the BBC. The show began in 1978 on BBC1 and was one of the longest running programmes on British television...
, from 1984-1986. Kevin was best friend of 'Zammo' McGuire (
Lee MacDonaldLee MacDonald is a British actor best known for playing the part of Zammo Maguire in the children's TV series Grange Hill from 1982-1987. Since then he has made cameo appearances on Birds of a Feather, The Bill and a TV version of A Midsummer Night's Dream. He trained as a boxer, but a car crash...
), and so featured heavily in the infamous Zammo "Just Say No" drugs storyline and campaign.
After
Press Gang ended in 1993, Chrystie left acting, but was still involved in the business, working as an assistant director on a small budget film called
Rage, and later setting up his own production company.
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Mmoloki Chrystie is an
EnglishEngland is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west and the North Sea to the east, with the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...
actorAn actor or actress is a person who acts in a dramatic production and who works in film, television, theatre, or radio in that capacity...
, probably best recognised for playing the soccer-crazed, not-too-bright Frazer "Frazz" Davis in the BAFTA award winning
Central TelevisionCentral Independent Television, more commonly known as Central was the Independent Television contractor for the Midlands, created following the restructuring of ATV and commencing broadcast on 1 January 1982. The station is owned and operated by ITV plc, under the licensee of ITV Broadcasting...
/
Children's ITVCITV is the brand name used for the majority of children's television output on ITV's television stations, including the ITV Network, breakfast broadcaster GMTV and the ITV plc-owned CITV Channel as well as non ITV plc owned regions...
comedy-drama
Press GangPress Gang is a British children's television comedy-drama consisting of forty-three episodes across five series that were broadcast from 1989 to 1993...
. Prior to that, Chrystie had played Kevin Baylon in another children's favourite,
Grange HillGrange Hill is a British television drama series originally made by the BBC. The show began in 1978 on BBC1 and was one of the longest running programmes on British television...
, from 1984-1986. Kevin was best friend of 'Zammo' McGuire (
Lee MacDonaldLee MacDonald is a British actor best known for playing the part of Zammo Maguire in the children's TV series Grange Hill from 1982-1987. Since then he has made cameo appearances on Birds of a Feather, The Bill and a TV version of A Midsummer Night's Dream. He trained as a boxer, but a car crash...
), and so featured heavily in the infamous Zammo "Just Say No" drugs storyline and campaign.
After
Press Gang ended in 1993, Chrystie left acting, but was still involved in the business, working as an assistant director on a small budget film called
Rage, and later setting up his own production company. In 2003, Chrystie was one of a number of former
Grange Hill cast members approached by presenter
Justin Lee CollinsJustin Lee Collins, often known as JLC, is a British comedian, television and radio presenter from Bristol. His West Country accent, enthusiasm for pop culture and "caveman" image are amongst his trademarks, a trait he claims was inspired by Chewbacca from Star Wars...
to appear in
Bring Back... Grange Hill, a
Channel 4Channel 4 is a UK public-service television broadcaster which began working on November 2, 1982. Although commercially self-funded, it is ultimately publicly owned; originally a subsidiary of the Independent Broadcasting Authority , the station owned now and operated by the Channel Four Television...
programme designed to re-unite cast members to perform the
Just Say No single. Chrystie was one of the few people who declined to take part, but interestingly decided to submit his own produced short film to the programme about the campaign's trip to America to meet
Nancy ReaganNancy Davis Reagan is the widow of former United States President Ronald Reagan and served as an influential First Lady of the United States from 1981 to 1989. She was born in New York; her parents divorced soon after her birth and she grew up in Maryland, living with an aunt and uncle while her...
. Only a small amount of this film was used in the programme.
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- Casualty
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- Grange Hill
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