Christopher Cazenove (born December 17 1945) is a British cinema, television and stage actor.
Cazenove was born in Hampshire, and educated at the Dragon School, Eton College and Oxford.
He often portrays British aristocrats, and first made his name in the early 1970s drama series, The Regiment. Other notable roles include Charlie Tyrrell in the UK series The Duchess of Duke Street and Ben Carrington in the US soap opera Dynasty. He has also appeared several times in the British drama series Judge John Deed.
His marriage to actress Angharad Rees ended in divorce in 1994.
He has an Occitan French surname.
His eldest son, Linford, was killed instantly in 1999 in a road accident, while driving to pick up books from Cambridge University. He had just been awarded a Master's Degree in Philosophy from Cambridge.
His youngest son, Rhys William, was born in December 1976
