Christopher Fairbank

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	Hertfordshire, England
Nationality	English
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1978–present

Career

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

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

Filmography

Film

^[5]

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

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1978	Z-Cars	Z-Cars	Episode: "A Woman's Place"
	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
	Little Lord Fauntleroy	Man filling in ditch	TV movies; uncredited
	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"
	The Two Mrs. Grenvilles	Horst Berger	Episode: "#1.1", "#1.2"
	Casualty	Gerald Bryant	Episode: "A Drop of the Hard Stuff"
1988	Rockliffe's Babies	Dover	Episode: "Easy Meat"
	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"
	Framed	Sydney Jefferson	Episode: "#1.1"
1993	Stay Lucky	Leech	Episode: "Down to Earth"
	Sweating Bullets	Patrick	Episode: "Deal of a Lifetime"
	Prime Suspect	Chief Insp. David Lyall	Episode: "Keeper of Souls: Part 2"; as Chris Fairbank
1994	Royce	Kupchak	TV movie
	A Pinch of Snuff	Det Sgt Edgar Wield	3 episodes
	Lovejoy	Foxy Norris	Episode: "Day of Reckoning"
	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
	Silent Witness	Chris Palmer	Episode: "Friends Like These: Part 1", "Friends Like These: Part 2"
	Wokenwell	Stew Saunter	Episode: "#1.5"
	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"
	City Central	Mark Dixon	Episode: "History"
	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"
	Comic Relief 2003: The Big Hair Do	Albert Arthur Moxey	TV special
	Spooks	Gordon Blaney	1 episode; uncredited
2005	The Rotters' Club	Roll-up Reg	1 episode
	A Waste of Shame	Physician	TV movie
2006	New Tricks	Tommy Gerrard	Episode: "Diamond Geezers"
	The Line of Beauty	Barry Groom	3 episodes
2007	Five Days	DS Mal Curling	Episode: "Day Twenty Eight", "Day Seventy Nine"
	Diamond Geezer	Barry	Episode: "Old School Lies"
	Midsomer Murders	Ronnie Tyler	Episode: "Death in a Chocolate Box"
2008	Ashes to Ashes	David Bonds	1 episode
	Never Better	Doug	6 episodes
	Tess of the d'Urbervilles	Groby	4 episodes
	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"
	Five Daughters	DCI John Quinton	3 episodes
	Lennon Naked	Freddie Lennon	TV movie
2011	Hidden	George Venn	3 episodes
2012	Kidnap and Ransom	Chris Taylor	3 episodes
	Inspector George Gently	Billy Mallam	1 episode
2013	Borgen	Vassily Andrejev	Episode: "Fortidens sønner"
	Family Tree	Neville St. Aubrey	Episode: "The Box"
	Doc Martin	Malcolm Raynor	Episode: "Hazardous Exposure"
2014	Jamaica Inn	Harry	3 episodes
	Doctor Who	Fenton	Episode: "Flatline"
2015	Wolf Hall	Walter Cromwell	Episode: "Three Card Trick", "Crows"
	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
	The Woman in White	Mr. Brown	Episode: "#1.4", "#1.5"
2019	Grantchester	Eli Roper	Episode: "#4.5"
	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"
	The Essex Serpent	Cracknell	Episode: "Matters of the Heart", "Everything Is Blue"
	Sherwood	Bill Raggett
	Andor	Ulaf	3 episodes
2024	EastEnders	Eddie Knight

Video Game

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
	Killzone: Liberation	General Armin Metrac	As Chris Fairbank
	Medieval II: Total War		As Chris Fairbank
2007	Heavenly Sword	Additional Voices
	Hellgate: London		As Chris Fairbank
2008	Conflict: Denied Ops
	Viking: Battle for Asgard		As Chris Fairbank
	Age of Conan
	Fable II
2009	Demon's Souls	Old King Doran, Yurt the Silent Chief
	Killzone 2	Additional Helghast Voices	As Chris Fairbank
	Wheelman		As Chris Fairbanks
2011	The Last Story	Narrator (voice)	As Chris Fairbank
	Killzone 3	Helghast Soldiers (voice)
	Renegade Ops	Inferno (English version, voice)
2012	The Secret World	Khalid El-Sayad (voice)
2013	Divinity: Dragon Commander	Falstaff (voice)
	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
	Warhammer 40,000: Chaos Gate - Daemonhunters	Brother Purifier Ectar (voice)

References

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.

External links

• Christopher Fairbank at IMDb