Christopher Boyd Lemmon (born June 22, 1954)[1] is an American actor and author.

[2] Lemmon attended the Verde Valley School in Sedona, Arizona.

He appeared as an actor in numerous stage productions, including the west-coast tour of Barefoot in the Park, directed by Jerry Paris, the original West coast production of Shay by Anne Commire, and A. R. Gurney's Love Letters with Stephanie Zimbalist.

He portrayed Richard Phillips in two situation comedies, Duet (1987) and Open House (1989), and also co-starred as Martin "Bru" Brubaker in the television series Thunder in Paradise alongside American professional wrestler Hulk Hogan.

[2] On December 19, 2018, after an article was published several weeks prior in The San Diego Union-Tribune, Lemmon confirmed on Facebook that he had recently undergone a double-lung transplant due to idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis and was recovering.