Christopher Fairbank

Born: 1953-10-04

Christopher Fairbank (sometimes credited as Chris Fairbank; born 4 October 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.


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as Black Knight (voice)
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as Chris Palmer
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Spooks

as Gordon Blaney
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as Gerald Bryant
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as Sydney Sterrat
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New Tricks

as uncredited
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as George Daley
First aired: 1987-01-06

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The Professionals

as Billy
First aired: 1977-12-30

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Z-Cars

as uncredited
First aired: 1962-01-02

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Prime Suspect

as Chief Insp. David Lyall
First aired: 1991-04-07

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The Bill

as uncredited
First aired: 1984-10-16

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Wolf Hall

as Walter Cromwell
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Law & Order: UK

as uncredited
First aired: 2009-02-23

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Borgen

as Vassily Andrejev
First aired: 2010-09-26

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Lovejoy

as Foxy Norris
First aired: 1986-01-10

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Sherwood

as Bill Raggett
First aired: 2022-06-13

Old grudges, new rivalries. A tangled web of murder and revenge spirals in a fractured...

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Space Precinct

as uncredited
First aired: 1994-10-03

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Ashes to Ashes

as David Bonds
First aired: 2008-02-07

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Dickensian

as Silas Wegg
First aired: 2015-12-26

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Tess of the D'Urbervilles

as Groby
First aired: 2008-09-14

The story of Tess Durbeyfield, a low-born country girl whose family find they have noble...

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Spender

as Joe Phelan
First aired: 1991-01-08

Jimmy Nail plays tough cop Spender, forced to return to his native Newcastle after a failed...

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The Line of Beauty

as Barry Groom
First aired: 2006-05-17

Crawl deep under the skin of Thatcher's Britain, seen through the eyes and experiences of a...

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Jamaica Inn

as Harry
First aired: 2014-04-21

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Auf Wiedersehen, Pet

as Albert Moxey
First aired: 1983-11-11

Seven British construction workers escape Britain's ever growing dole queues and travel to...

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In Deep

as Harbinson
First aired: 2001-02-19

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Crocodile Shoes

as uncredited
First aired: 1994-11-10

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The Scarlet Pimpernel

as Fumier
First aired: 1999-01-24

A series of television drama programmes loosely based on Baroness Emmuska Orczy's series of...

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as Dennis
First aired: 1988-10-25

Drama concerning a pair of female private detectives, Pearl Parker (Buki Armstrong) and Finn...

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Stay Lucky

as uncredited
First aired: 1989-12-08

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In the Beginning

as Idol Worshipper
First aired: 2000-11-12

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Invasion: Earth

as Wg. Cdr. Friday
First aired: 1998-05-08

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as Billy Lincoln
First aired: 2019-05-20

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as DCI John Quinton
First aired: 2010-04-25

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The Old Curiosity Shop

as Kit Nubbles
First aired: 1979-12-09

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as uncredited
First aired: 2001-01-10

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as Horst Berger
First aired: 1987-02-08

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The Rotters' Club

as Roll-up Reg
First aired: 2005-01-26

Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais' adaptation of Jonathon Coe's novel follow a group of Birmingham...

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Finney

as Bobo Jr.
First aired: 1994-11-17

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This Is Jinsy

as uncredited
First aired: 2010-03-01

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Rockliffe's Babies

as uncredited
First aired: 1987-01-09

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Never Better

as uncredited
First aired: 2008-01-10

Black comedy series centred on Keith Merchant, a recovering alcoholic, as he makes his way...

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