One of three brothers all of diminutive stature and who were all child actors, Chris Reynalds trained at the Barbara Speak Stage School and began his acting career in the 1968 film
Oliver!. Other film appearances include
Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1969) and playing Little Billy in
Roald Dahl's film
The Night Digger (1971) with
Patricia Neal and
Peter Sallis. Reynalds' television work includes the 1968
Doctor Who episode
The Mind Robber with
Patrick Troughton. He played Bardell Jr. in the
TV musical Pickwick (1969) with
Harry Secombe, and in 1971 he played Alethorpe in an episode of the
BBCs
Play for Today called
Alma Mater alongside
Max Adrian and
Hilda Braid. He also appeared in an episode of
Tales of the Unexpected. He auditioned for and was offered the leading role in the 1971 sitcom
Alexander the Greatest but the role went instead to
Gary Warren, with whom Reynalds had appeared in the stage musical
Mame. Peter Dennis in
Mame (1969) at the
Theatre Royal, Drury Lane and starring
Ginger Rogers;
The Lionel Touch (1969) starring
Rex Harrison at the
Lyric Theatre; and
A Voyage Round My Father at the
Haymarket Theatre (1971) and starring
Alec Guinness and
Jeremy Brett. He married Dawn L Rowe in 1981 at
Hitchin in
Hertfordshire. ==Recent years==