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.

Filmography

• 2025100 Nights of Hero — Beaked Brother Charles
• Constellation — Yura
• 2024Scoop — Elderly Man
• Truelove — Trevor
• 2023Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 — Broker
• 2023The Little Mermaid — Hawkins
• 2022All My Friends Hate Me — Norman
• Andor — Ulaf
• Sherwood — Bill Raggett
• 2021Death of Zygielbojm — Woolf
• 2020Deus Otiosus: The Idle God — Deus
• Hatton Garden — Billy Lincoln
• 2019Iron Mask — Grey
• 2019The Fight — Frank Dunn
• 2018London Fields — Darts Player
• 2018Walk Like a Panther — Leslie Beck
• 2017Papillon — Jean Castili
• Taboo — Ibbotson
• 2016Lady Macbeth — Boris Lester
• 2016Sunday For Sammy 2016
• Dickensian — Silas Wegg
• 2015Dragonheart 3: The Sorcerer's Curse — Potter
• 2015Orthodox — Joseph Goldberg
• Wolf Hall — Walter Cromwell
• 2015Writers Retreat — Nigel
• 2014Guardians of the Galaxy — The Broker
• 2014Hercules — Gryza
• Jamaica Inn — Harry
• Outlander — Aaron Beardsley
• Family Tree — Neville St. Aubrey
• Father Brown — Herman Jolly
• 2013Jack the Giant Slayer — Uncle
• 2012Orthodox — Goldberg
• 2011Little Deaths — X
• 2011Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides — Ezekiel
• Vera — Robert Naresby
• Borgen — Vassily Andrejev
• Five Daughters — DCI John Quinton
• 2010Lennon Naked — Freddie Lennon
• This Is Jinsy
• Law & Order: UK
• Ashes to Ashes — David Bonds
• 2008Goal III: Taking on the World — Foghorn
• Merlin — Black Knight (voice)
• Never Better
• Tess of the D'Urbervilles — Groby
• 2006Almost Heaven — Teapot Ted
• 2006Cargo — Ralph
• 2006Flushed Away — Thimblenose Ted / Cockroach / Passerby (voice)
• The Line of Beauty — Barry Groom
• 2005A Waste of Shame: The Mystery of Shakespeare and His Sonnets — Physician
• Doctor Who — Fenton
• Drama Connections
• 2005Goal! — Foghorn
• The Rotters' Club — Roll-up Reg
• 2005Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit — Additional Voice (voice)
• New Tricks
• 2002Below — Pappy
• 2002Black Plague — Steward
• Spooks — Gordon Blaney
• In Deep — Harbinson
• In a Land of Plenty
• 2001The Bunker — Sgt. Heydrich
• In the Beginning — Idol Worshipper
• The Scarlet Pimpernel — Fumier
• Invasion: Earth — Wg. Cdr. Friday
• Midsomer Murders — Ronnie Tyler
• 1997The Fifth Element — Mactilburgh
• True Tilda — Gavel
• Wokenwell
• Silent Witness — Chris Palmer
• 1994A Pinch of Snuff — DS Edgar Wield
• Crocodile Shoes
• Finney — Bobo Jr.
• 1994Royce — Kupchak
• Space Precinct — Burl Flak
• 1992Alien³ — Murphy
• Framed — Sydney Jefferson
• Prime Suspect — Chief Insp. David Lyall
• Spender — Joe Phelan
• 1990Hamlet — Player Queen
• 1990Hands of a Murderer — Jeremy Stubb
• 1990White Hunter, Black Heart — Tom Harrison
• 1989Batman — Nic
• Stay Lucky
• 1989Venus Peter — Blind Man
• Comic Relief
• 1988Hanna's War — Ruven
• South of the Border — Dennis
• Rockliffe's Babies — Dover
• The Two Mrs. Grenvilles — Horst Berger
• Casualty — Gerald Bryant
• Lovejoy — Foxy Norris
• 1985Murder with Mirrors — Sergeant Lake
• 1985Plenty — Spencer
• The Bill
• Auf Wiedersehen, Pet — Albert Moxey
• 1982Brimstone & Treacle — Drunk
• 1982How Many Miles to Babylon? — Jerry Crowe
• Bergerac — Sydney Sterrat
• Going Out — First Policenan
• 1980Games Without Frontiers — Billy
• 1980Little Lord Fauntleroy — Man Filling in Ditch
• Maria Marten or Murder in the Red Barn — Tom Corder
• Noah's Castle — Cliff
• 1980The Awakening — Porter
• 1979Agatha — Luland
• Sapphire & Steel — Johnny Jack
• The Old Curiosity Shop — Kit Nubbles
• The Professionals — Billy
• Playhouse — Billy, Jerry Crowe
• Z-Cars
• Cry Wolf — Sergeant

Appearances as themselves (2)

• 2013Back with the Boys Again — Himself
• 2007The 50 Greatest Television Dramas — Self