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Christopher Fairbank

Christopher Fairbank (sometimes credited as Chris Fairbank; born 4 October 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.

Cast

The Fifth Element

(Mactilburgh)

Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit

(Additional Voice (voice))

The 50 Greatest Television Dramas

(Self)

Death of Zygielbojm

The Bunker

(Sgt. Heydrich)

Alien³

(Murphy)

Below

(Pappy)

Deus Otiosus: The Idle God

(Deus)

Cargo

(Ralph)

The Awakening

(Porter)

Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3

(Broker)

Brimstone & Treacle

(Drunk)

The Little Mermaid

(Hawkins)

Flushed Away

(Thimblenose Ted / Cockroach / Passerby (voice))

Almost Heaven

(Teapot Ted)

Black Plague

(Steward)

Orthodox

(Goldberg)

Goal!

(Foghorn)

Orthodox

(Joseph Goldberg)

Little Lord Fauntleroy

(Man Filling in Ditch)

How Many Miles to Babylon?

(Jerry Crowe)

Hercules

(Gryza)

Dragonheart 3: The Sorcerer's Curse

(Potter)

Guardians of the Galaxy

(The Broker)

Royce

(Kupchak)

Little Deaths

(X)

Lennon Naked

(Freddie Lennon)

Back With The Boys Again

(Himself)

Scoop

(Elderly Man)

Plenty

(Spencer)

Games Without Frontiers

(Billy)

Hanna's War

(Ruven)

Writers Retreat

(Nigel)

Hamlet

(Player Queen)

Mel Gibson Goes Back to School

(Player Queen (archive footage))

Lady Macbeth

(Boris Lester)

Iron Mask

(Grey)

Cry Wolf

(Sergeant)

Jack the Giant Slayer

(Uncle)

A Waste of Shame: The Mystery of Shakespeare and His Sonnets

(Physician)

Batman

(Nic)

Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides

(Ezekiel)

Agatha

(Luland)

The Fight

(Frank Dunn)

White Hunter, Black Heart

(Tom Harrison)

Walk Like a Panther

(Leslie Beck)

A Pinch of Snuff

(DS Edgar Wield)

Papillon

(Jean Castili)

Hands of a Murderer

(Jeremy Stubb)

Goal III: Taking on the World

(Foghorn)

Venus Peter

(Blind Man)

London Fields

(Darts Player)

Murder with Mirrors

(Sergeant Lake)

All My Friends Hate Me

(Norman)

The Scarlet Pimpernel

(Fumier)

Midsomer Murders

(Ronnie Tyler)

Bergerac

(Sydney Sterrat)

The Bill

Z-Cars

Silent Witness

(Chris Palmer)

Spooks

(Gordon Blaney)

Space Precinct

Auf Wiedersehen, Pet

(Albert Moxey)

Lovejoy

(Foxy Norris)

Law & Order: UK

Tess of the D'Urbervilles

(Groby)

Crocodile Shoes

Spender

(Joe Phelan)

Drama Connections

New Tricks

Never Better

Comic Relief

Wokenwell

The Old Curiosity Shop

(Kit Nubbles)

This Is Jinsy

Vera

(Robert Naresby)

Doctor Who

(Fenton)

The Two Mrs. Grenvilles

(Horst Berger)

In a Land of Plenty

Rockliffe's Babies

In Deep

(Harbinson)

Stay Lucky

Casualty

(Gerald Bryant)

The Line of Beauty

(Barry Groom)

South Of The Border

(Dennis)

Dickensian

(Silas Wegg)

The Rotters' Club

(Roll-up Reg)

Outlander

(Aaron Beardsley)

Invasion: Earth

(Wg. Cdr. Friday)

Sherwood

(Bill Raggett)

Finney

(Bobo Jr.)

Inspector Morse

(George Daley)

Five Daughters

(DCI John Quinton)

Hatton Garden

(Billy Lincoln)

Star Wars: Andor

(Ulaf)

Jamaica Inn

(Harry)

Constellation

(Yura)

Prime Suspect

(Chief Insp. David Lyall)

Merlin

(Black Knight (voice))

Ashes to Ashes

(David Bonds)

Wolf Hall

(Walter Cromwell)

In the Beginning

(Idol Worshipper)

The Professionals

(Billy)

Taboo

(Ibbotson)