Christopher Allport (June 17, 1947 – January 25, 2008) was an American TV actor.
Allport was born in Boston, Massachusetts. His acting life began at the age of nine in New Canaan, Connecticut at the Children's Theatre. While at Northwestern University, he worked with Paul Sills and Story Theatre. He performed in New York with the Public Theatre at Lincoln Center, and with Ensemble Studio Theatre; and in Los Angeles at the Taper, South Coast Repertory and with Padua Playwrights. In 2007, he wrote and starred in "The Backroad Home", a theatrical memoir with his original music, directed and developed by Paul Linke (Ruskin Theatre).
One of his earliest television roles was as Tim McGowan on the soap opera Another World (1973-74).
His list of television credits includes appearances on such programs as The X Files, Commander In Chief, ER, Felicity, Mad Men, and Brothers & Sisters.
Allport was married to novelist Susan Hayden and had two sons: Andrew (from a previous marriage to actress/writer Carolyn Jones Allport), and Mason, his son with Hayden.
Allport had written a story about the pleasures of backcountry skiing in the Los Angeles Times in 2004 in which he stated that "any excursion into the mountains requires awareness. Have fun, but be careful."
On January 25, 2008, Allport was one of three people killed by three avalanches near the Mountain High ski resort in Wrightwood, California, in the San Gabriel Mountains (the other fatalities were Michael McKay and Darin Coffey). A fourth man, snowboarder Oscar Gonzales, Jr., escaped after getting lost and hit a rock. Winter storms had been recently hitting Southern California; the San Gabriel Mountains, while usually free of avalanches, had been hit by 3 feet (0.91 m) of snow the week before Allport died.
