Christopher Fairbank

Birthday: 1953-10-04
Birthplace: Hertfordshire, England, UK
Gender: Male
Owned By: Unowned

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.

Credits

Year Title Character
Cry Wolf Sergeant
The One Hundred Nights of Hero
2024-03-27 Scoop Elderly Man
2023-05-18 The Little Mermaid Hawkins
2023-05-03 Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 Broker
2022-03-11 All My Friends Hate Me Norman
2021-09-21 Death of Zygielbojm
2020-09-16 Deus Otiosus: The Idle God Deus
2019-08-16 Iron Mask Grey
2019-03-15 The Fight Frank Dunn
2018-09-20 London Fields Darts Player
2018-03-09 Walk Like a Panther Leslie Beck
2017-09-07 Papillon Jean Castili
2016-12-12 Lady Macbeth Boris Lester
2016-02-01 Sunday For Sammy 2016
2015-11-11 Orthodox Joseph Goldberg
2015-10-16 Writers Retreat Nigel
2015-02-24 Dragonheart 3: The Sorcerer's Curse Potter
2014-07-30 Guardians of the Galaxy The Broker
2014-07-23 Hercules Gryza
2013-02-27 Jack the Giant Slayer Uncle
2012-01-10 Orthodox Goldberg
2011-05-15 Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides Ezekiel
2011-02-25 Little Deaths X
2010-11-21 Lennon Naked Freddie Lennon
2009-06-22 Goal III: Taking on the World Foghorn
2006-10-22 Flushed Away Thimblenose Ted / Cockroach / Passerby (voice)
2006-02-14 Cargo Ralph
2006-01-01 Almost Heaven Teapot Ted
2005-11-22 A Waste of Shame: The Mystery of Shakespeare and His Sonnets Physician
2005-09-29 Goal! Foghorn
2005-09-15 Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit Additional Voice (voice)
2002-12-01 Black Plague Steward
2002-08-11 Below Pappy
2001-09-14 The Bunker Sgt. Heydrich
1997-05-02 The Fifth Element Mactilburgh
1994-08-31 Royce Kupchak
1994-04-09 A Pinch of Snuff DS Edgar Wield
1992-05-22 Alien³ Murphy
1990-12-19 Hamlet Player Queen
1990-05-16 White Hunter, Black Heart Tom Harrison
1990-05-16 Hands of a Murderer Jeremy Stubb
1989-06-21 Batman Nic
1989-03-05 Venus Peter Blind Man
1988-04-14 Hanna's War Ruven
1985-09-20 Plenty Spencer
1985-02-20 Murder with Mirrors Sergeant Lake
1982-10-01 Brimstone & Treacle Drunk
1982-02-26 How Many Miles to Babylon? Jerry Crowe
1980-12-01 Little Lord Fauntleroy Man Filling in Ditch
1980-07-09 The Awakening Porter
1980-05-09 Games Without Frontiers Billy
1979-02-09 Agatha Luland