Christopher Fairbank is an English film, stage and television actor, best known in the UK for playing Moxey in the comedy drama series Auf Wiedersehen, Pet.[1][2]

Christopher Fairbank
Born
NationalityEnglish
OccupationActor
Years active1978–present

Career edit

In 2010, he appeared as a detective in Five Daughters, and as Alfred "Freddie" Lennon in the biopic Lennon Naked.[3] In December 2023, it was announced that Fairbank had been cast as Eddie Knight in EastEnders.[4]

Theatre edit

Year Title Role Company Director | Notes
2015 The Caucasian Chalk Circle Azdak Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh Mark Thomson adaptation by Alistair Beaton

Filmography edit

Film edit

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Year Title Role Notes
1979 Agatha Luland As Chris Fairbank
1980 The Awakening Porter
1980 Cry Wolf Sergeant Short film
1985 Plenty Spencer
1988 Hanna's War Ruven
1989 Venus Peter Blind Man As Christopher Fairbanks
1989 Batman Nic
1990 White Hunter Black Heart Tom Harrison Also art director
1990 Hamlet Player Queen
1992 Alien 3 Thomas Murphy As Chris Fairbank
1997 The Fifth Element Mactilburgh
2001 The Bunker Sgt. Heydrich
2002 Anazapta Steward
2002 Below Pappy
2005 Valiant Additional Voices (voice) As Chris Fairbank
2005 Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit Additional Voices (voice)
2005 Goal! Foghorn
2006 Cargo Ralph
2006 Almost Heaven Teapot Ted
2006 Flushed Away Thimblenose Ted, Cockroach, Passerby (voice)
2007 Five Days: Revised Final Episode DS Mal Curling
2008 MindFlesh Verdain
2009 Goal III: Taking on the World Foghorn
2009 Edward's Turmoil Grandpa Short film
2011 Little Deaths X Segment: "Mutant Tool"
2011 Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides Ezekiel
2012 Orthodox Goldberg Short film
2013 Jack the Giant Slayer Uncle
2014 Guardians of the Galaxy The Broker
2014 Hercules Gryza As Chris Fairbank
2015 Dragonheart 3: The Sorcerer's Curse Potter
2015 Writers Retreat Nigel
2015 Orthodox Joseph Goldberg
2016 Lady Macbeth Boris
2017 Papillon Jean Castili
2018 Walk like a Panther Lesley Beck
2018 The Fight Frank Dunn
2019 Tayna pechati drakona Grey
2020 The Show Patsy Bleaker
2020 Deus Otiosus: The Idle God Deus Short film
2021 All My Friends Hate Me Norman
2021 Śmierć Zygielbojma Woolf
2022 Guardians of the Galaxy: Cosmic Rewind The Broker Short film
2022 Survive This John Short film
2023 Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 The Broker

Television edit

Year Title Role Notes
1978 Z-Cars Z-Cars Episode: "A Woman's Place"
1978 Plain Murder Oldroyd TV movie
1979 The Professionals Billy Episode: "The Purging of CI5"; as Chris Fairbank
1979–1980 The Old Curiosity Shop Kit Nubbles 7 episodes
1980 Noah's Castle Cliff 6 episodes
1980 Little Lord Fauntleroy Man filling in ditch TV movies; uncredited
1980 Maria Marten or Murder in the Red Barn Tom Corder 3 episodes; as Chris Fairbank
1980–1982 BBC2 Playhouse Billy, Jerry 2 episodes
1981 Coronation Street Ginger 8 episodes
1982 Sapphire & Steel Johnny Jack 4 episodes
1983–2004 Auf Wiedersehen, Pet Albert Moxey 39 episodes
1985 Murder with Mirrors Sergeant Lake TV movie
1987 Bergerac Sydney Sterrat Episode: "Root and Branch"
1987 The Two Mrs. Grenvilles Horst Berger Episode: "#1.1", "#1.2"
1987 Casualty Gerald Bryant Episode: "A Drop of the Hard Stuff"
1988 Rockliffe's Babies Dover Episode: "Easy Meat"
1988 South of the Border Dennis Episode: "#1.1"
1989 The Bill Charles Episode: "Grace of God"
1990 Hands of a Murderer Jeremy Stubb TV movie
1992 Spender Joe Phelan Episode: "Fly by Night"
1992 Framed Sydney Jefferson Episode: "#1.1"
1993 Stay Lucky Leech Episode: "Down to Earth"
1993 Sweating Bullets Patrick Episode: "Deal of a Lifetime"
1993 Prime Suspect Chief Insp. David Lyall Episode: "Keeper of Souls: Part 2"; as Chris Fairbank
1994 Royce Kupchak TV movie
1994 A Pinch of Snuff Det Sgt Edgar Wield 3 episodes
1994 Lovejoy Foxy Norris Episode: "Day of Reckoning"
1994 Finney Bobo Jnr. 6 episodes
1994–1995 Space Precinct Breon, Burl Flak Episode: "Welcome to Demeter City", "Hate Street"
1994–1996 Crocodile Shoes Alan Clarke Season 1: 3 episodes; season 2: 5 episodes
1995 Inspector Morse George Daley Episode: "The Way Through the Woods"; as Chris Fairbank
1996 Into the Fire Joyce 3 episodes
1997 True Tilda Gavel
1997 Silent Witness Chris Palmer Episode: "Friends Like These: Part 1", "Friends Like These: Part 2"
1997 Wokenwell Stew Saunter Episode: "#1.5"
1997 Underworld Haynesie 5 episodes
1998 Invasion: Earth Wg. Cdr. Friday 4 episodes; as Chris Fairbank
1999 The Scarlet Pimpernel Fumier 3 episodes
2000 London's Burning Tony Episode: "#12.5"
2000 City Central Mark Dixon Episode: "History"
2000 In the Beginning Idol Worshipper Episode: "Part I", "Part II"
2001 In a Land of Plenty Bob Episode: "#1.10"
2002 Paradise Heights John Askins 1 episode
2003 In Deep Harbinson Episode: "Character Assassins: Part 1", "Character Assassins: Part 2"
2003 Comic Relief 2003: The Big Hair Do Albert Arthur Moxey TV special
2003 Spooks Gordon Blaney 1 episode; uncredited
2005 The Rotters' Club Roll-up Reg 1 episode
2005 A Waste of Shame Physician TV movie
2006 New Tricks Tommy Gerrard Episode: "Diamond Geezers"
2006 The Line of Beauty Barry Groom 3 episodes
2007 Five Days DS Mal Curling Episode: "Day Twenty Eight", "Day Seventy Nine"
2007 Diamond Geezer Barry Episode: "Old School Lies"
2007 Midsomer Murders Ronnie Tyler Episode: "Death in a Chocolate Box"
2008 Ashes to Ashes David Bonds 1 episode
2008 Never Better Doug 6 episodes
2008 Tess of the d'Urbervilles Groby 4 episodes
2008 Merlin Voice of the Black Knight (voice) Episode: "Excalibur"
2009 Law & Order: UK Jeff McFadden 1 episode
2010 This is Jinsy Letley Orridge Episode: "Bandy Dog Red"
2010 Five Daughters DCI John Quinton 3 episodes
2010 Lennon Naked Freddie Lennon TV movie
2011 Hidden George Venn 3 episodes
2012 Kidnap and Ransom Chris Taylor 3 episodes
2012 Inspector George Gently Billy Mallam 1 episode
2013 Borgen Vassily Andrejev Episode: "Fortidens sønner"
2013 Family Tree Neville St. Aubrey Episode: "The Box"
2013 Doc Martin Malcolm Raynor Episode: "Hazardous Exposure"
2014 Jamaica Inn Harry 3 episodes
2014 Doctor Who Fenton Episode: "Flatline"
2015 Wolf Hall Walter Cromwell Episode: "Three Card Trick", "Crows"
2015 Wallander Sten Norlander Episode: "The Troubled Man"
2015–2016 Dickensian Silas Wegg 15 episodes
2016 The Secret Agent Yundt Episode: "#1.1"
2017 Taboo Ibboston 3 episodes
2018 Vera Robert Naresby 1 episode
2018 The Woman in White Mr. Brown Episode: "#1.4", "#1.5"
2019 Grantchester Eli Roper Episode: "#4.5"
2019 Hatton Garden Billy Lincoln Episode: "#1.3", "#1.4"
2020 Outlander Aaron Beardsley Episode: "Free Will"
2022 Shakespeare & Hathaway: Private Investigators Don Bergius Episode: "Die We Must"
2022 The Essex Serpent Cracknell Episode: "Matters of the Heart", "Everything Is Blue"
2022 Sherwood Bill Raggett
2022 Andor Ulaf 3 episodes
2024 EastEnders Eddie Knight

Video Game edit

Year Title Role Notes
2002 Prisoner of War Colonel Roger Harding
2003 I.G.I.-2: Covert Strike David Jone
2004 The Getaway: Black Monday Additional Voices As Chris Fairbank
2006 Rule of Rose Gregory M. Wilson As Chris Fairbank
2006 Killzone: Liberation General Armin Metrac As Chris Fairbank
2006 Medieval II: Total War As Chris Fairbank
2007 Heavenly Sword Additional Voices
2007 Hellgate: London As Chris Fairbank
2008 Conflict: Denied Ops
2008 Viking: Battle for Asgard As Chris Fairbank
2008 Age of Conan
2008 Fable II
2009 Demon's Souls Old King Doran, Yurt the Silent Chief
2009 Killzone 2 Additional Helghast Voices As Chris Fairbank
2009 Wheelman As Chris Fairbanks
2011 The Last Story Narrator (voice) As Chris Fairbank
2011 Killzone 3 Helghast Soldiers (voice)
2011 Renegade Ops Inferno (English version, voice)
2012 The Secret World Khalid El-Sayad (voice)
2013 Divinity: Dragon Commander Falstaff (voice)
2013 Puppeteer General Tiger (voice)
2017 Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War III Inquisitor Holt, Space Marines (voice) As Chris Fairbanks
2022 Lego Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga
2022 Warhammer 40,000: Chaos Gate - Daemonhunters Brother Purifier Ectar (voice)

References edit

  1. ^ "What happened to the Auf Wiedersehen, Pet cast, from tragedy to Queen's Honours". Daily Mirror. 17 January 2021.
  2. ^ "Auf Wiedersehen, Pet Special:1 (2004)". Archived from the original on 6 May 2018.
  3. ^ Love, Damien (21 June 2010). "Lennon Naked digs beneath the skin of John's family relationships". The Herald. Glasgow. Archived from the original on 26 June 2010. Retrieved 24 June 2010.
  4. ^ Mitchell, Harriet (10 December 2023). "EastEnders casts George Knight's adoptive parents Eddie and Gloria". Digital Spy.
  5. ^ Fairbank, Christopher. "CV". Chris Fairbank. Retrieved 16 May 2023.

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