Mark Strickson

Mark Strickson
Birth date:	6 April 1959
Work in the DWU
Main roles:	Vislor Turlough
Main jobs:	Actor
Stories:	See Credits Section
Main time period active:	1983-84, 1999, 2001, 2003, 2005, 2008-13, 2015-16, 2018-19, 2021-present
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Mark Strickson (born on 6 April 1959 in Stratford-upon-Avon) played Vislor Turlough on Doctor Who from Mawdryn Undead to Planet of Fire. He made a cameo appearance as Turlough in The Caves of Androzani and has reprised the role for some of the Big Finish Productions audio dramas, together with Peter Davison. He also played the prosecutor in the Doctor Who spoof mockumentary "Lust in Space."

Career

Strickson studied drama at RADA in London. Prior to his role as Turlough, he had appeared in several episodes of Angels. After he left Doctor Who, he appeared in other roles, including the young Ebenezer Scrooge in a 1984 American television adaptation of A Christmas Carol starring George C. Scott.

Eventually, Mark Strickson emigrated to Australia where he studied zoology at university. He now lives in Dunedin, New Zealand. He has also directed a few wildlife programmes with people such as the late Steve Irwin.

Personal life

He was at one time married to Julie Brennon, who appeared in Paradise Towers. He has a son named Tom.

Credits

As Vislor Turlough

Television

Doctor Who

• Mawdryn Undead
• Terminus
• Enlightenment
• The King's Demons
• The Five Doctors
• Warriors of the Deep
• The Awakening
• Frontios
• Resurrection of the Daleks
• Planet of Fire
• The Caves of Androzani

Audio

Doctor Who Main Range

• Phantasmagoria
• Loups-Garoux
• Singularity
• Cobwebs
• The Whispering Forest
• The Cradle of the Snake
• Heroes of Sontar
• Kiss of Death
• Rat Trap
• The Emerald Tiger
• The Jupiter Conjunction
• The Butcher of Brisbane
• Eldrad Must Die!
• The Lady of Mercia
• Prisoners of Fate
• Mistfall
• Equilibrium
• The Entropy Plague
• The Memory Bank and Other Stories
  • The Memory Bank
  • The Last Fairy Tale
  • Repeat Offender
  • The Becoming
• Devil in the Mist
• Black Thursday / Power Game
• The Kamelion Empire
• The Blazing Hour
• The End of the Beginning

Special Releases

• The Light at the End

The Lost Stories

• Nightmare Country

The Fifth Doctor Adventures

• Forty: Volume 2
  • The Auton Infinity

The Companion Chronicles

• Ringpullworld
• Freakshow

Short Trips

• Gardens of the Dead
• Trap For Fools

Other Roles

Audio

Doctor Who Main Range

• Zagreus - Captain McDonnell

Audiobook Readings

Target Novelisations

• The King's Demons

Documentary

• The Doctors: 30 Years of Time Travel and Beyond
• Celebration
• Winner Takes All
• Who Wants to Live Forever?
• The Flames of Sarn
• Come in Number Five
• Grim Tales
• The Doctors Revisited - The Fifth Doctor
• Boys! Boys! Boys!
• Doctor Who Live: The Afterparty
• Time Trap: The Making of Castrovalva - Presenter
• Back to Bodiam: Making The King's Demons
• Doctor Who: Secrets and Scandals

Other

• Children in Need 1985
• Lust in Space

External links

• Mark Strickson at the Internet Movie Database