Christopher Knight (actor) explained

Christopher Knight
Birth Date:7 November 1957
Birth Place:New York City, U.S.[1]
Birth Name:Christopher Anton Knight
Years Active:1967–present
Known For:Peter Brady in The Brady Bunch
The Brady Kids
A Very Brady Christmas
The Bradys
Spouse:

    Christopher Anton Knight (born November 7, 1957)[2] is an American actor and businessman. He is best known for playing Peter Brady in the 1970s series The Brady Bunch. He has since gone on to become a businessman and enjoyed a semi-resurgence in the public eye with television appearances in the 2000s.

    Early life and work

    Knight was born in New York City, New York, the son of Wilma and Edward Knight, an actor.[3] Knight's father was born Edward Kozumplik, to parents from the Austro-Hungarian Empire, while Knight's mother was Jewish.[4] [5]

    The Brady Bunch and other roles

    Before the Brady Bunch series, Knight had some small television roles, including an appearance on the first season of Mannix, in a 1967 episode called "Coffin for a Clown". In 1969, Knight was cast as middle son Peter Brady on the ABC sitcom The Brady Bunch, which ran until 1974. He was also the voice of Peter in the ABC Saturday morning cartoon The Brady Kids (1972-74).

    After the end of the Brady Bunch, Knight's acting career consisted mostly of making guest appearances on other television shows (Happy Days, The Love Boat), and occasional film roles (Just You and Me, Kid, Curfew, Good Girls Don't, The Doom Generation, and Nowhere). He reunited with his former Brady costars in several subsequent series, including The Brady Bunch Hour (1976-77), the TV movie The Brady Girls Get Married (1981), the holiday TV movie A Very Brady Christmas (1988), and the drama The Bradys (1990). He also had a cameo role as a coach in the film The Brady Bunch Movie (1995).

    Computer career

    In 1988, Knight, a self-described "geek", left acting to pursue a business career in the computer industry. He got a job as an account sales manager for Martec, Inc. and landed that company's first million-dollar sales deal within his first 18 months on the job, for which he was named Employee of the Year. In 1989, he was named Vice President of Design System Marketing and Sales at New Image Industry.

    In 1991, he co-founded Visual Software, a pioneering 3D graphics company. In 1995, he founded Kidwise Learningware, a company that manufactures interactive educational products. In 1996, he joined the keyboard manufacturer Adesso, and in 1997, he became Vice President of Marketing at iXMicro, a video hardware company. In 1998, he founded his own TV tuner company, Eskape Labs; it was purchased by Hauppauge Computer Works in 2000.[2]

    Return to television

    Continuing to pursue TV opportunities, Knight appeared on VH1's fourth season of The Surreal Life. The show garnered Knight more attention than he had received in quite some time, in part because he appeared shirtless on the show, revealing a well-built body. During his stint on the show, he began a romance with castmate model Adrianne Curry, winner of America's Next Top Model cycle 1, who is almost 25 years younger than Knight. After the show, the two moved in together and got engaged, as documented on the VH1 series My Fair Brady, which premiered on September 11, 2005. The series was renewed for another season, and the couple wed in Curry's hometown of Joliet, Illinois, on May 29, 2006, in a Gothic-style wedding.[6]

    Knight participated in VH-1's retrospective miniseries, I Love The '70s: Volume II. He, his family, and friends appeared on the season finale of NBC's Celebrity Family Feud on July 29, 2008.During the 2008–09 television season, Knight hosted the syndicated game show, . He has hosted a series of Jonathan Goodson-produced game show specials for the Michigan Lottery, Make Me Rich. The first special was scheduled for October 16, 2009, with a second scheduled for February 2010. The show aired periodically until early 2012.[7] Knight joined the other Brady Bunch cast members in the 2019 television series A Very Brady Renovation on HGTV.[8] In 2021, he starred in the Lifetime Christmas movie, Blending Christmas, alongside his Brady Bunch co-stars Barry Williams, Mike Lookinland, Susan Olsen, and Robbie Rist.[9]

    In 2022, Knight, Williams, and Lookinland competed in season eight of The Masked Singer as "Mummies". They were eliminated in the third episode, which aired as the October 3 "TV Theme Night" alongside Daymond John as "Fortune Teller".[10] On June 28, 2024, Knight appeared as a guest on Toon In With Me, which airs on MeTV.

    Personal life

    Knight has been married four times.[11] Knight proposed to his third wife, model and reality television personality Adrianne Curry, on the season finale of My Fair Brady, on VH1, which aired on November 6, 2005. The show was renewed for a second season that began in June 2006, and focused on the couple's wedding preparations. The couple wed in Curry's hometown of Joliet, Illinois, on May 29, 2006, in a gothic-style wedding. Knight's manager, Phil Viardo, told a celebrity gossip website on May 29, 2011, that Knight and Curry were announcing their separation. The date was the couple's fifth wedding anniversary.[12] On February 2, 2012, on G4's Attack of the Show, Curry said the divorce had been finalized.[13] He married his fourth wife, Cara Kokenes, in November 2016.[11]

    Filmography

    Film

    YearTitleRoleNotes
    1979Just You and Me, KidRoy
    1989CurfewSam
    1993Good Girls Don'tMontana
    1995Coach
    1997NowhereMr. Sighvatssohn
    2000Family JewelsThe Guru
    2003Christopher Knight
    2005L.A. DicksBernie Taylor
    2006Fallen AngelsBelmont
    2008Light Years AwayDavid Sommers
    2009Alumnus Guy #3
    2012Keith 'Lobster Joe' WilliamsScenes deleted
    2012Letting GoThe Boss
    2014Guardian AngelBrian Casey
    2017Where the Fast Lane EndsCooley Swindell
    2017PrisonerBradShort
    2023HimselfDocumentary about Williams syndrome

    Television

    YearTitleRoleNotes
    1967MannixJosh"Coffin for a Clown" (credited as "Christopher A. Knight")
    1968GunsmokeJimmy"The Miracle Man"
    1969–1974Peter BradyMain role
    1972Peter Brady (voice)"The Brady Kids on Mysterious Island"
    1972–1974Peter Brady (voice)Main role (credited as "David E. Smith" in season 2)
    1974ABC Afterschool SpecialJoe"Sara's Summer of the Swans"
    1976One Day at a TimePete"Barbara's Emergence"
    1976–77Peter BradyMain role
    1977Bobby"Max"
    1978Happy DaysBinky Hodges"Be My Valentine"
    1978CHiPsWes Miller"Family Crisis"
    1979Diary of a Teenage HitchhikerNickTV film
    1979–80Joe's WorldSteve WabashMain role
    1980Valentine Magic on Love IslandJimmyTV film
    1981Peter BradyTV film
    1981Another WorldLeigh HobsonGuest role
    1984MasqueradeHank Totten"Oil"
    1984Peter Barkan1 episode
    1988Peter BradyTV film
    1989Day by DayPeter Brady"A Very Brady Episode"
    1990Peter BradyMain role
    2001The Weakest LinkHimself"Brady Bunch Special Edition"
    2006That '70s ShowJosh"We Will Rock You"
    2008-2009HimselfHost
    2010, 2018Dr. Andrews2 episodes
    2014HeartbreakersHurley FontenotTV miniseries
    2018Grandpa ClarkeTV film
    2019A Very Brady RenovationChristopher Knight7 episodes
    2021[14] Peter BradyParamount Plus TV special
    2021Blending ChristmasBrianTV film
    2022The Masked SingerHimself/MummySeason 8 contestant; Group costume with Barry Williams and Mike Lookinland

    Notes and References

    1. Web site: Christopher Knight. Biography.com. The Biography Channel. June 17, 2016. https://web.archive.org/web/20160625060422/http://www.biography.com/people/christopher-knight-591412. June 25, 2016. dead.
    2. http://www.biography.com/people/christopher-knight-591412?page=2 "Christopher Night Biography"
    3. Book: Bradymania!: Everything You Always Wanted to Know--and a Few Things You Probably Didn't. 9781558504189. Moran. Elizabeth. 1995. Adams Pub. .
    4. Web site: Bradypedia: The Complete Reference Guide to Television's the Brady Bunch. Woehlk. Erika.
    5. https://web.archive.org/web/20090219161646/http://blogs.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendID=42771364&blogID=470936238 Adrianne Curry Myspace post, February 19, 2009
    6. http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/dailydish/detail?entry_id=5504 "Knight and Curry Plan Gothic Wedding"
    7. http://michigan.gov/lottery/0,1607,7-110--223933--,00.html "Michigan Lottery Debuts New TV Game Show"
    8. News: Lee, Luaine. Bradys go 'home' again for HGTV. Baltimore Sun. September 8, 2019. A&E 4.
    9. Jones. Marcus. 2021-05-19. Lifetime reunites High School Musical, Brady Bunch stars for holiday movies. live. 2021-12-22. Entertainment Weekly. en-US. https://web.archive.org/web/20210519181312/https://ew.com/tv/lifetime-holiday-movies-reunite-high-school-musical-brady-bunch-stars/. May 19, 2021 .
    10. Web site: 'The Masked Singer' Reveals Identities of 'Devastated' Mummies and Fortune Teller: Here's Who They Are. Schneider, Michael. live. en-US. Variety. October 5, 2022. October 6, 2022. October 6, 2022. https://web.archive.org/web/20221006011802/https://variety.com/2022/tv/news/the-masked-singer-season-8-episode-3-recap-shark-tank-brady-bunch-daymond-john-1235394361/.
    11. Dugan, Christina (November 28, 2016). "Brady Bunch Star Christopher Knight on How 'Second Mom' Florence Henderson Made Him 'Shine'. People.
    12. Collins, Emma. "Hollyscoop Exclusive: Adrianne Curry and Christopher Knight Split", Hollyscoop.com, May 28, 2011.
    13. Attack of the Show G4 February 2, 2012
    14. Web site: 'Dragging the Classics: The Brady Bunch' Delivers a Satisfying Twist on a Beloved Sitcom: TV Review . June 30, 2021 .