Known For
Acting
Born
Oct 04, 1953
Place of Birth
Hertfordshire, England, UK
Credits
114 titles
Christopher Fairbank
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
Filmography
100 Nights of Hero
Beaked Brother Charles
Scoop
Elderly Man
Constellation
Yura
Truelove
Trevor
The Little Mermaid
Hawkins
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3
Broker
Andor
Ulaf
Sherwood
Bill Raggett
All My Friends Hate Me
Norman
Death of Zygielbojm
Deus Otiosus: The Idle God
Deus
Iron Mask
Grey
Hatton Garden
Billy Lincoln
The Fight
Frank Dunn
London Fields
Darts Player
Walk Like a Panther
Leslie Beck
Papillon
Jean Castili
Taboo
Ibbotson
Lady Macbeth
Boris Lester
Sunday For Sammy 2016
Dickensian
Silas Wegg
Orthodox
Joseph Goldberg
Writers Retreat
Nigel
Dragonheart 3: The Sorcerer's Curse
Potter
Wolf Hall
Walter Cromwell
Outlander
Aaron Beardsley
Guardians of the Galaxy
The Broker
Hercules
Gryza
Jamaica Inn
Harry
Back with the Boys Again
Himself
Family Tree
Neville St. Aubrey
Jack the Giant Slayer
Uncle
Father Brown
Herman Jolly
Orthodox
Goldberg
Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides
Ezekiel
Vera
Robert Naresby
Little Deaths
X
Lennon Naked
Freddie Lennon
Borgen
Vassily Andrejev
Five Daughters
DCI John Quinton
This Is Jinsy
Goal III: Taking on the World
Foghorn
Law & Order: UK
Merlin
Black Knight (voice)
Tess of the D'Urbervilles
Groby
Ashes to Ashes
David Bonds
Never Better
The 50 Greatest Television Dramas
Self
Flushed Away
Thimblenose Ted / Cockroach / Passerby (voice)
The Line of Beauty
Barry Groom