Christopher Fairbank
Christopher Fairbank | |
|---|---|
| Born | |
| Nationality | English |
| Occupation | Actor |
| Years active | 1978–present |
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]
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]| 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
[edit]| 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
[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 |
| 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
[edit]- ^ "What happened to the Auf Wiedersehen, Pet cast, from tragedy to Queen's Honours". Daily Mirror. 17 January 2021.
- ^ "Auf Wiedersehen, Pet Special:1 (2004)". Archived from the original on 6 May 2018.
- ^ 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.
- ^ Mitchell, Harriet (10 December 2023). "EastEnders casts George Knight's adoptive parents Eddie and Gloria". Digital Spy.
- ^ Fairbank, Christopher. "CV". Chris Fairbank. Retrieved 16 May 2023.
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Categories:
- 20th-century English male actors
- 21st-century English male actors
- Alumni of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art
- English male film actors
- English male soap opera actors
- English male television actors
- English male video game actors
- English male voice actors
- Living people
- Male actors from Hertfordshire
- People educated at Kent College