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name: "Christopher Evan Welch"
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born: "28 September 1965"
died: "2 December 2013"
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# Christopher Evan Welch

Actor. Born 28 September 1965 in Fort Belvoir - Virginia - USA. Died 2 December 2013.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 28 September 1965, Fort Belvoir - Virginia - USA
- **Died:** 2 December 2013
- **Active:** 2008–2014

## Biography

Christopher Evan Welch was an American actor known for roles in film, television and theatre. He was born on 28 September 1965 in Fort Belvoir, Virginia, and died on 2 December 2013 in Santa Monica, California, from complications of lung cancer.

Welch trained at the University of Dallas and the University of Washington, and began his career in regional theatre before moving to New York. He appeared in Broadway and Off-Broadway productions including *Festen*, *The Crucible* and *A Streetcar Named Desire*, for which he received an Obie Award. On screen he played the narrator in Woody Allen's *Vicky Cristina Barcelona* (2008), a clerk in *Lincoln* (2012) and John More in *The Master* (2012). His final role was as the eccentric investor Peter Gregory in the first season of the HBO series *Silicon Valley* (2014).

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, nytimes.com, latimes.com.*

## On Fi1m (3)

- *Silicon Valley* (2014), Fi1m 82, as Peter Gregory — [page](https://film.one/tv/silicon-valley.md)
- *The Master* (2012), Fi1m 84, as John More — [page](https://film.one/film/the-master.md)
- *Synecdoche, New York* (2008), Fi1m 84, as Pastor — [page](https://film.one/film/synecdoche-new-york.md)

## Also known for

- *War of the Worlds* (2005), Photographer
- *Law & Order: Special Victims Unit* (1999), William Lexner, Richard Dwyer
- *Lincoln* (2012), Clerk – Edward McPherson
- *Vicky Cristina Barcelona* (2008), Narrator (voice)
- *Elementary* (2012), Samuel Abbott
- *Whatever Works* (2009), Howard
- *The Interpreter* (2005), Jonathan Williams
- *The Stepford Wives* (2004), Ed Wainwright

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