British actor
Christopher Fairbank |
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| Nationality | English |
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| Occupation | Actor |
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| Years active | 1978–present |
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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]
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]
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| 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 | |
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