Christopher Fairbank

Christopher Fairbank

Christopher Fairbank (sometimes credited as Chris Fairbank; born October 4, 1953) is an English actor best known for his role as Moxey in the hit comedy-drama series Auf Wiedersehen, Pet. Fairbank was born in Hertfordshire, England. He has numerous television credits to his name, notably in Sapphire and Steel, The Professionals, The Scarlet Pimpernel and provided minor voice talent for both the hit Wallace and Gromit feature-length film Curse of the Were-Rabbit and Flushed Away (both produced by Aardman). Fairbank also appeared as one of the pair of muggers who rob an out-of-town family, heralding the first appearance of the Batman in Tim Burton's 1989 film. Fairbank also had roles as Mactilburgh the scientist in the film The Fifth Element, the prisoner Murphy in Alien 3, and the Player Queen in the Franco Zeffirelli version of Hamlet, opposite Mel Gibson. Recently, he provided the voice of Old King Doran in the video game Demon's Souls and provides a number of voice accents in the PS2 video game Prisoner of War. Chris also appeared in Goal! trilogy in the character of a Newcastle United fan. In 2010, Chris appeared as a detective in the BBC Drama, Five Daughters, and as Alfred "Freddie" Lennon in the biopicLennon Naked with Christopher Eccleston. In 2011 Fairbank starred in Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tidesas a pirate called Ezekiel. In 2012 he appeared as an Australian in Sky 1's Starlings.

Known For: Acting

Born: Hertfordshire, England, UK, 1953-10-04

Died: null

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1979	Agatha	Luland	62
2	1980	Games Without Frontiers	Billy	0
3	1980	The Awakening	Porter	54
4	1980	Little Lord Fauntleroy	Man Filling in Ditch	73
5	1982	How Many Miles to Babylon?	Jerry Crowe	0
6	1982	Brimstone & Treacle	Drunk	59
7	1985	Murder with Mirrors	Sergeant Lake	65
8	1985	Plenty	Spencer	57
9	1988	Hanna's War	Ruven	47
10	1989	Venus Peter	Blind Man	58
11	1989	Batman	Nic	72
12	1990	White Hunter, Black Heart	Tom Harrison	64
13	1990	Hands of a Murderer	Jeremy Stubb	68
14	1990	Hamlet	Player Queen	66
15	1991	Mel Gibson Goes Back to School	Player Queen (archive footage)	0
16	1992	Alien³	Murphy	64
17	1994	A Pinch of Snuff	DS Edgar Wield	0
18	1994	Royce	Kupchak	52
19	1997	The Fifth Element	Mactilburgh	76
20	2001	The Bunker	Sgt. Heydrich	56
21	2002	Below	Pappy	60
22	2002	Black Plague	Steward	52
23	2005	Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit	Additional Voice (voice)	71
24	2005	Goal!	Foghorn	68
25	2005	A Waste of Shame: The Mystery of Shakespeare and His Sonnets	Physician	53
26	2006	Almost Heaven	Teapot Ted	55
27	2006	Cargo	Ralph	46
28	2006	Flushed Away	Thimblenose Ted / Cockroach / Passerby (voice)	63
29	2007	The 50 Greatest Television Dramas	Self	0
30	2009	Goal III: Taking on the World	Foghorn	39
31	2010	Lennon Naked	Freddie Lennon	56
32	2011	Little Deaths	X	44
33	2011	Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides	Ezekiel	66
34	2012	Orthodox	Goldberg	0
35	2013	Jack the Giant Slayer	Uncle	59
36	2013	Back With The Boys Again	Himself	0
37	2014	Hercules	Gryza	58
38	2014	Guardians of the Galaxy	The Broker	79
39	2015	Dragonheart 3: The Sorcerer's Curse	Potter	54
40	2015	Writers Retreat	Nigel	55
41	2015	Orthodox	Joseph Goldberg	44
42	2016	Sunday For Sammy 2016		0
43	2016	Lady Macbeth	Boris Lester	66
44	2017	Papillon	Jean Castili	73
45	2018	Walk Like a Panther	Leslie Beck	62
46	2018	London Fields	Darts Player	51
47	2019	The Fight	Frank Dunn	57
48	2019	Iron Mask	Grey	61
49	2020	Deus Otiosus: The Idle God	Deus	45
50	2021	Death of Zygielbojm		58
51	2022	All My Friends Hate Me	Norman	60
52	2023	Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3	Broker	79
53	2023	The Little Mermaid	Hawkins	63
54	2024	Scoop	Elderly Man	63
55		Cry Wolf	Sergeant	0
56		100 Nights of Hero		0

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1962	Z-Cars		70
2	1974	Playhouse	Billy	70
3	1974	Playhouse	Jerry Crowe	70
4	1977	The Professionals	Billy	74
5	1979	Sapphire & Steel	Johnny Jack	74
6	1979	The Old Curiosity Shop	Kit Nubbles	60
7	1981	Bergerac	Sydney Sterrat	67
8	1983	Auf Wiedersehen, Pet	Albert Moxey	79
9	1984	The Bill		67
10	1986	Lovejoy	Foxy Norris	73
11	1986	Casualty	Gerald Bryant	61
12	1987	Rockliffe's Babies		52
13	1987	The Two Mrs. Grenvilles	Horst Berger	43
14	1988	Comic Relief		57
15	1988	South Of The Border	Dennis	0
16	1989	Stay Lucky		60
17	1991	Spender	Joe Phelan	70
18	1991	Prime Suspect	Chief Insp. David Lyall	77
19	1994	Space Precinct	Burl Flak	59
20	1994	Crocodile Shoes		72
21	1994	Finney	Bobo Jr.	70
22	1996	Silent Witness	Chris Palmer	76
23	1997	True Tilda	Gavel	0
24	1997	Midsomer Murders	Ronnie Tyler	75
25	1997	Wokenwell		0
26	1998	Invasion: Earth	Wg. Cdr. Friday	61
27	1999	The Scarlet Pimpernel	Fumier	72
28	2000	In the Beginning	Idol Worshipper	60
29	2001	In a Land of Plenty		20
30	2001	In Deep	Harbinson	100
31	2002	Spooks	Gordon Blaney	77
32	2004	New Tricks		74
33	2005	The Rotters' Club	Roll-up Reg	0
34	2005	Doctor Who	Fenton	76
35	2005	Drama Connections		0
36	2006	The Line of Beauty	Barry Groom	65
37	2008	Never Better		60
38	2008	Ashes to Ashes	David Bonds	77
39	2008	Tess of the D'Urbervilles	Groby	76
40	2008	Merlin	Black Knight (voice)	78
41	2009	Law & Order: UK		69
42	2010	This Is Jinsy		65
43	2010	Five Daughters	DCI John Quinton	63
44	2010	Borgen	Vassily Andrejev	80
45	2011	Vera	Robert Naresby	74
46	2013	Father Brown	Herman Jolly	75
47	2013	Family Tree	Neville St. Aubrey	64
48	2014	Jamaica Inn	Harry	66
49	2014	Outlander	Aaron Beardsley	82
50	2015	Wolf Hall	Walter Cromwell	75
51	2015	Dickensian	Silas Wegg	73
52	2017	Taboo	Ibbotson	79
53	2019	Hatton Garden	Billy Lincoln	58
54	2022	Sherwood	Bill Raggett	70
55	2022	Andor	Ulaf	83
56	2024	Truelove	Trevor	62
57	2024	Constellation	Yura	71

Christopher Fairbank

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