Christopher Neame
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Christopher Neame (born September 12, 1947, in London, England) is an English actor who has worked in both British and American film and television for over five decades. He was educated at King's School in Canterbury and trained at the Central School of Speech and Drama, graduating in 1970.
He launched his film career in the early 1970s with roles in two Hammer Horror productions: Lust for a Vampire (1971) and Dracula A.D. 1972 (1972). British television work during the same period included appearances in Colditz, Edward the King, and Secret Army. Moving into American productions through the 1980s, he appeared in the James Bond film Licence to Kill (1989), Steel Dawn (1987), and D.O.A. (1988), as well as the long-running US series Dynasty. He is notably one of a small number of actors to have appeared in Doctor Who, Blake's 7, the Star Trek franchise, Babylon 5, and Earth 2.
In Ghostbusters II (1989), Neame portrayed the Maitre D' at Armand's Restaurant, the upscale New York establishment where Peter Venkman takes Dana Barrett to dinner. The scene turns chaotic when Ray Stantz, Egon Spengler, and Winston Zeddemore arrive at the restaurant in their underwear, covered in slime from the Psychomagnotheric slime river beneath First Avenue. The Maitre D' calls the police. The restaurant is also referred to in IDW Publishing's Ghostbusters comics as Marquess Armand's, where it is noted as the site of Peter and Dana's "not-a-date."