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British actor
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]
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 ]
Filmography [ edit ]
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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 ]
References [ edit ]
External links [ edit ]
International National Artists