Christopher Fairbank

Probably best known as Moxy in the television series of Auf Wiedersehen Pet, he was born in Essex, educated in Canterbury, then moved to Liverpool when he was seventeen. He made his stage debut in 1974 as Prince Henry in The Wisest Fool with Marius Goring at the Civic Theatre in Darlington, when, as an understudy, he had to go on when the leading man David Wilkinson was taken ill.