Gantok

Gantok
Appearances:	DW: The Wedding of River Song
Main actor:	[[actor::Mark Gatiss (credited as Rondo Haxton)|Mark Gatiss]]

Gantok was a humanoid who worked for the Silence .

Biography

Gantok is devoured by the Headless Monk skulls. (DW: The Wedding of River Song)

Gantok wore Viking-style attire, along with the Eye Drive worn by many servants of the Silence. He was an avid player of Live Chess. He was rather proud of his skill at the game and, when the Doctor had beaten him during a match, Gantok offered to pay anything to escape. He told the Doctor that Dorium Maldovar knew many things about his death. Gantok helped him get into the Seventh Transept, where he turned on the Doctor. He was killed when he stepped on a booby trap that dropped him into a pit filled with the skulls from the Headless Monks, which proceeded to devour him. (DW: The Wedding of River Song)

Behind the scenes

• Counting spitfire pilot "Danny Boy", whom Gatiss provided only the voice for, Gantok is the third character to be played by Doctor Who writer Mark Gatiss. The other was Professor Richard Lazarus. Mark Gatiss is not credited in The Wedding of River Song, instead the name Rondo Haxton appears, a reference to Rondo Hatton, on whom Gantok's acromegalic facial features seem to be based.