Christopher Fairbank

Christopher "Chris" Fairbank (born 4 October 1953)^[1] is an English actor best known for his role as Moxey in the hit comedy-drama series Auf Wiedersehen, Pet.

Life and career

Fairbank was born in Clavering, 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 biopic Lennon Naked with Christopher Eccleston.^[2] In 2011 Fairbank starred in Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides as a pirate called Ezekiel. In 2012 he appeared as an Australian in Sky 1's Starlings.

Selected TV

• Z-Cars (1978) — Man at Bus Stop
• The Professionals (1979) — Billy
• The Old Curiosity Shop (1979-1980) — Kit Nubbles
• Sapphire & Steel (1982) — Johnny Jack
• Auf Wiedersehen, Pet (1983-2004) — Albert Moxey
• Bergerac (1987) — Sydney Sterrat
• Casualty (1987) — Gerald Bryant
• Rockliffe's Babies (1988) — Dover
• The Bill (1989) — Charles
• Spender (1991) — Joe Phelan
• Sweating Bullets (1993) — Patrick
• Prime Suspect 3 (1993) (TV) — Chief Inspector David Lyall
• Lovejoy (1994) — Foxy Norris
• Crocodile Shoes (1994) — Alan Clark
• Space Precinct (1995) — Burl Flak
• Inspector Morse (1995) — George Daley
• Silent Witness (1997) — Chris Palmer
• Wokenwell (1997) — Stew Saunter
• Invasion: Earth (1998) — Wing Cmdr. Friday
• The Scarlet Pimpernel (1999) — Fumier
• In A Land Of Plenty (2001) — Bob
• Paradise Heights (2002) — John Askins
• Spooks (2003) — Gordon Blaney
• The Rotters' Club (2005) — Roll-up Reg
• New Tricks (2006) — Tommy Gerrard
• The Line of Beauty (2006) — Barry Groom
• Five Days (2007) — DS Curling
• Diamond Geezer (2007) — Barry
• Midsomer Murders (2007) — Ronnie Tyler
• Never Better (2008) — Doug
• Ashes to Ashes (2008) — David Bonds
• Tess of the D'Urbervilles (2008) — Groby
• Merlin (2008) — Black Knight
• Law & Order: UK (2009) — Jeff McFadden
• Five Daughters (2010) — DCI John Quinton
• Borgen (2013) — Vassily Andrejev
• Doctor Who (episode: "Flatline") (2014) — Fenton
• Wolf Hall (2014) - Walter Cromwell
• Dickensian (2015) — Silas Wegg

Filmography

• Agatha (1979) — Luland
• Plenty (1985) — Spencer
• Batman (1989) — Nick
• Hamlet (1990) — Player Queen
• White Hunter Black Heart (1990) — Tom Harrison, Art Director
• Alien 3 (1992) — Murphy
• The Fifth Element (1997) — Mactilburgh
• The Bunker (2001) — Sgt. Heydrich
• Below (2002) — Pappy
• Anazapta (2002) — Steward
• Goal! (2005) — Foghorn
• Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit (2005) — Additional Voice
• Flushed Away (2006) (voice) — Thimblenose Ted / Cockroach / Passerby
• Goal! III (2009) — Foghorn
• Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides (2011) — Ezekiel
• Jack the Giant Slayer (2013) — Uncle
• Little Deaths (2014) — X
• Guardians of the Galaxy (2014) — The Broker
• Hercules (2014)
• Orthodox (2014) — Goldberg
• Pirates of the Caribbean Dead Men Tell No Tales (2017) — Ezekiel

Video games

• Prisoner of War (2002) — Colonel Roger Harding & other additional voices
• The Getaway: Black Monday (2004) — Additional Voices
• Killzone: Liberation (2006) — General Armin Metrac
• Medieval II: Total War (2006)
• Rule of Rose (2006) — Gregory M. Wilson (Stray Dog)
• Heavenly Sword (2007) — Additional Voices
• Age of Conan: Hyborian Adventures (2008)
• Fable II (2008)
• Viking: Battle for Asgard (2008)
• Demon's Souls (2009) — Old King Doran/Yurt, the Silent Chief
• Killzone 2 (2009) — Additional Helghast Voices
• The Last Story (2011) — Narrator
• Divinity: Dragon Commander (2013) — Sir Falstaff Silvervein, additional voices
• Puppeteer (2013) — General Tiger

References

External links

• Official website
• Christopher Fairbank at the Internet Movie Database