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Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthday
October 4, 1953
Place of Birth
Hertfordshire, England, UK
Also Known As
- Chris Fairbank
- Christopher E. Fairbank
- Chris Faibank
Christopher Fairbank
1.4 Popularity
Biography
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
Credits
Scoop
as Elderly Man
2024
6.3
Constellation
as Yura
2024
7.1
Truelove
as Trevor
2024
6.2
The Little Mermaid
as Hawkins
2023
6.3
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3
as Broker
2023
7.9
Andor
as Ulaf
2022
8.3
Sherwood
as Bill Raggett
2022
7.0
All My Friends Hate Me
as Norman
2022
6.0
Death of Zygielbojm
2021
5.8
Deus Otiosus: The Idle God
as Deus
2020
4.5
Iron Mask
as Grey
2019
6.1
Hatton Garden
as Billy Lincoln
2019
5.8
The Fight
as Frank Dunn
2019
5.7
London Fields
as Darts Player
2018
5.1
Walk Like a Panther
as Leslie Beck
2018
6.2
Papillon
as Jean Castili
2017
7.3
Taboo
as Ibbotson
2017
7.9
Lady Macbeth
as Boris Lester
2016
6.6
🎬
Sunday For Sammy 2016
2016
0.0
Dickensian
as Silas Wegg
2015
7.3
Orthodox
as Joseph Goldberg
2015
4.4
Writers Retreat
as Nigel
2015
5.5
Dragonheart 3: The Sorcerer's Curse
as Potter
2015
5.4
Wolf Hall
as Walter Cromwell
2015
7.5
Outlander
as Aaron Beardsley
2014
8.2
Guardians of the Galaxy
as The Broker
2014
7.9
Hercules
as Gryza
2014
5.8
Jamaica Inn
as Harry
2014
6.6
Back With The Boys Again
as Himself
2013
0.0
Family Tree
as Neville St. Aubrey
2013
6.4
Jack the Giant Slayer
as Uncle
2013
5.9
Father Brown
as Herman Jolly
2013
7.5
🎬
Orthodox
as Goldberg
2012
0.0
Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides
as Ezekiel
2011
6.6
Vera
as Robert Naresby
2011
7.4
Little Deaths
as X
2011
4.4
Lennon Naked
as Freddie Lennon
2010
5.6
Borgen
as Vassily Andrejev
2010
8.0
Five Daughters
as DCI John Quinton
2010
6.3
This Is Jinsy
2010
6.5
Goal III: Taking on the World
as Foghorn
2009
4.0
Law & Order: UK
2009
6.9
Merlin
as Black Knight (voice)
2008
7.8
Tess of the D'Urbervilles
as Groby
2008
7.6
Ashes to Ashes
as David Bonds
2008
7.7
Never Better
2008
6.0
The 50 Greatest Television Dramas
as Self
2007
0.0
Flushed Away
as Thimblenose Ted / Cockroach / Passerby (voice)
2006
6.3
The Line of Beauty
as Barry Groom
2006
6.5
Cargo
as Ralph
2006
4.6
Almost Heaven
as Teapot Ted
2006
5.5
A Waste of Shame: The Mystery of Shakespeare and His Sonnets
as Physician
2005
5.3
Goal!
as Foghorn
2005
6.8
Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit
as Additional Voice (voice)
2005
7.1
🎬
Drama Connections
2005
0.0
Doctor Who
as Fenton
2005
7.5
The Rotters' Club
as Roll-up Reg
2005
0.0
New Tricks
2004
7.4
Black Plague
as Steward
2002
5.2
Below
as Pappy
2002
6.0
Spooks
as Gordon Blaney
2002
7.6
The Bunker
as Sgt. Heydrich
2001
5.6
In Deep
as Harbinson
2001
10.0
In a Land of Plenty
2001
2.0
In the Beginning
as Idol Worshipper
2000
6.0
The Scarlet Pimpernel
as Fumier
1999
7.2
Invasion: Earth
as Wg. Cdr. Friday
1998
6.1
🎬
Wokenwell
1997
0.0
The Fifth Element
as Mactilburgh
1997
7.6
Midsomer Murders
as Ronnie Tyler
1997
7.5
Silent Witness
as Chris Palmer
1996
7.6
Finney
as Bobo Jr.
1994
7.0
Crocodile Shoes
1994
7.2
Space Precinct
as Burl Flak
1994
5.7
Royce
as Kupchak
1994
5.2
A Pinch of Snuff
as DS Edgar Wield
1994
0.0
Alien³
as Murphy
1992
6.4
Prime Suspect
as Chief Insp. David Lyall
1991
7.7
Spender
as Joe Phelan
1991
7.0
Mel Gibson Goes Back to School
as Player Queen (archive footage)
1991
0.0
Hamlet
as Player Queen
1990
6.6
White Hunter, Black Heart
as Tom Harrison
1990
6.4
Hands of a Murderer
as Jeremy Stubb
1990
6.8
Stay Lucky
1989
6.0
Batman
as Nic
1989
7.2
Venus Peter
as Blind Man
1989
5.8
South Of The Border
as Dennis
1988
0.0
Hanna's War
as Ruven
1988
4.7
🎬
Comic Relief
1988
5.7
The Two Mrs. Grenvilles
as Horst Berger
1987
4.3
Rockliffe's Babies
1987
5.2
Casualty
as Gerald Bryant
1986
6.1
Lovejoy
as Foxy Norris
1986
7.3
Plenty
as Spencer
1985
5.7
Murder with Mirrors
as Sergeant Lake
1985
6.5
The Bill
1984
6.7
Auf Wiedersehen, Pet
as Albert Moxey
1983
7.9
Brimstone & Treacle
as Drunk
1982
5.9
How Many Miles to Babylon?
as Jerry Crowe
1982
0.0
Bergerac
as Sydney Sterrat
1981
6.7
Little Lord Fauntleroy
as Man Filling in Ditch
1980
7.3
The Awakening
as Porter
1980
5.4
Games Without Frontiers
as Billy
1980
0.0
The Old Curiosity Shop
as Kit Nubbles
1979
6.0
Sapphire & Steel
as Johnny Jack
1979
7.4
Agatha
as Luland
1979
6.2
The Professionals
as Billy
1977
7.4
Z-Cars
1962
7.0
The One Hundred Nights of Hero
N/A
0.0
🎬
Cry Wolf
as Sergeant
N/A
0.0