Nicholas Briggs

Nicholas Briggs, sometimes credited under the pseudonyms David Sax or Arthur Wallis, wrote, directed and performed in various media. Most of all, he participated in many ways in the production of Big Finish audio stories as well as writing and performing in licenced spin-off videos for BBV Productions. In the revived series of Doctor Who as well as Big Finish Doctor Who, he voiced the Daleks, Cybermen, Ice Warriors, Judoon, Zygons, and a variety of one-time aliens.

Briggs has the distinction of being the only actor to have regular roles in the revived TV series for the BBC and Big Finish Productions (guest stars from the revival have appeared in the audios, but none of the other regulars appear in both, including Elisabeth Sladen who ended her Big Finish Sarah Jane Smith series when she began reprising the role on TV).

He also took part in The Weakest Link: Doctor Who Special but was voted out early on.

Career

1980s and 1990s

Briggs was one of several actors/writers/directors (Mark Gatiss and Gary Russell among them) who cut their teeth on fan-made Doctor Who-related/inspired productions and who later got to work on the official series. As well as under his own name, Briggs has also written for video and audio under the pen-names Arthur Wallis and Martin Peterson.

Prior to his work on the revived TV series, Briggs played an active role in Doctor Who fandom since the 1980s. He portrayed a future incarnation of the Doctor in a series of unofficial audio dramas by Audio Visuals, the forerunner of Big Finish Productions. He also worked with Reeltime Pictures, hosting Myth Makers, a long-running series of made-for-video interview documentaries featuring cast and crew of Doctor Who. He also played the title role in Myth Runner, a parody of Blade Runner built around bloopers from the Myth Makers series.

His writing included productions such as Auton 2: Sentinel for BBV Productions and two entries in The Stranger series, one of which, In Memory Alone, co-starred him with Colin Baker and Nicola Bryant. He also wrote independent science fiction-dramas such as The Airzone Solution, also produced by BBV Productions which starred all of the actors who had played the Doctor, with the exception of Tom Baker.

2000s

Briggs is the executive producer of the Big Finish audio dramas line. Among his notable works for Big Finish has been writing and directing the Dalek Empire series of audio dramas.

When Russell T Davies brought Doctor Who back to television in 2005, he chose Nicholas Briggs as the voice of the Daleks, as he was a subscriber of the Big Finish range, and heard Briggs doing the Dalek voices for The Genocide Machine and other Big Finish productions.

Since then, Briggs has been the "go to guy" for voices for various alien races. Besides the Daleks and Cybermen, Briggs has also given voice to the Nestene Consciousness and the Judoon, also providing the voice of the latter for an episode of The Sarah Jane Adventures.

In 2009, Briggs made his on-screen debut in a BBC Doctor Who franchise production when he appeared as Rick Yates in Torchwood Children of Earth: Day Four, also his first work for the Torchwood spinoff.

2010s

Besides reprising the Cybermen and Daleks for series 5, his voice can be heard as the narrator of the National Museum video Amy Pond watches in The Big Bang.

In the 2010 stage play The Monsters Are Coming!, Briggs portrayed Winston Churchill, as well as voicing the Daleks, Cybermen and Judoon.

As of 2011^[update], Briggs became the host of the BBC Radio 4 Extra radio anthology series 7th Dimension, which has broadcast a number of Doctor Who audio dramas over the past few years.

In 2013, he played Peter Hawkins in the docu-drama An Adventure in Space and Time; Hawkins, like Briggs, provided Dalek voices for Doctor Who. The film was written by his longtime colleague, Mark Gatiss.

Briggs also contributed to the charity reference book Behind the Sofa: Celebrity Memories of Doctor Who.

In the DWU

Briggs has a cameo appearance as himself in the audio story Legend of the Cybermen, a story set in the Land of Fiction.

Acting credits

Television

Doctor Who

Day of the Daleks - Dalek voice (DVD Special Edition)
Rose - Nestene Consciousness voice
Dalek - Dalek voice
The Long Game - Jagrafess voice (uncredited) ^{[source needed]}
Bad Wolf - Dalek voice
The Parting of the Ways - Dalek voices
Rise of the Cybermen - Cybermen voice
The Age of Steel - Cybermen voice
Army of Ghosts - Dalek and Cybermen voices
Doomsday - Dalek and Cybermen voices
Smith and Jones - Judoon voice
Daleks in Manhattan - Dalek voice
Evolution of the Daleks - Dalek voice
The Stolen Earth - Dalek and Judoon voices
Journey's End - Dalek voice
The Next Doctor - Cybermen voice
The End of Time - Judoon voice
Victory of the Daleks- Dalek voice
The Pandorica Opens - Dalek, Cybermen and Judoon voices
The Big Bang - Dalek voice and National Museum Pandorica video narrator
A Good Man Goes to War - Cybermen voice
Closing Time - Cybermen voice
The Wedding of River Song - Dalek voice
Asylum of the Daleks - Dalek voice
Cold War - Grand Marshall Skaldak (voice)
Nightmare in Silver - Cybermen voice
The Day of the Doctor - Zygon and Dalek voices
The Time of the Doctor - Dalek and Cybermen voices
Into the Dalek - Dalek voices
Death in Heaven - Cybermen voices
The Magician's Apprentice - Dalek voices
The Witch's Familiar - Dalek voices
The Zygon Invasion/The Zygon Inversion - Zygon voices
Hell Bent - Dalek voices
The Pilot - Dalek voices

Video

BBV Productions

Auton 2: Sentinel - Mike

Reeltime Pictures

Wartime - Soldier

Tardisodes

Tardisode 13 - Dalek voice ^[1]

Webcasts

Real Time - Cyber-Controller

Audio

BBV Audio

Homeland - Captain

Big Finish main range

The Sirens of Time - the Temperon
Phantasmagoria - Henry Gaunt
The Genocide Machine - Prink / The Daleks
The Apocalypse Element - The Daleks
The Mutant Phase - The Daleks
Sword of Orion - The Cybermen
Minuet in Hell - Gideon Crane
Seasons of Fear - The Dalek (uncredited)
Embrace the Darkness - Cimmerian voice
The Time of the Daleks - The Daleks
Spare Parts - The Cybermen / Commander Zheng / Radio Announcer / Nurse / Citizen
Bang-Bang-a-Boom! - Continuity announcer
Jubilee - The Daleks
Creatures of Beauty - The Koteem / Morgue Attendant / Police Officer / Security Guard / Forleon Control / Captain Delarphim / Pilot
The Twilight Kingdom - Fraxin
The Harvest - The Cybermen
The Juggernauts - The Daleks / The Mechanoids
The Next Life - The Daleks (uncredited) ^{[source needed]}
Terror Firma - The Daleks
The Nowhere Place - Trevor Ridgely
The Reaping - The Cybermen / Commander Zheng / Alan-56
The Gathering - The Cybermen / Alan Fitzgerald
Renaissance of the Daleks - The Daleks
Frozen Time - Arakssor / Kelly / Pilot / First Officer
The 100 Days of the Doctor - The Assassin
The Girl Who Never Was - The Cybermen
The Bride of Peladon - Zixlyr
Kingdom of Silver - The Cybermen
Keepsake - Examiner 1
Brotherhood of the Daleks - The Daleks
The Judgement of Isskar - Isskar
Enemy of the Daleks - The Daleks
Patient Zero - Etheron / The Daleks
Paper Cuts - Prefect / The Red Emperor
The Eternal Summer - Geoff
Plague of the Daleks - Cricketer / Dobson / The Daleks
Legend of the Cybermen - The Cybermen
The Crimes of Thomas Brewster - Ticket collecter (uncredited) ^{[source needed]}
The Silver Turk - The Cybermen
The Curse of Davros - The Daleks
Daleks Among Us - Ralf / The Daleks / Workman
Masters of Earth - The Daleks / Roboman
Last of the Cybermen - The Cybermen
We Are The Daleks - The Daleks
Order of the Daleks - Tanapal / The Daleks
Alien Heart - The Daleks
Dalek Soul - The Daleks/Black Dalek

Bonus releases

Last of the Titans - Vilgreth
Real Time - Cyber-Controller / Professor Osborn
Return of the Daleks - The Daleks
Cuddlesome - Newsreader
The Four Doctors - The Daleks
The Five Companions - The Daleks

Special releases

Dominion - Time Lord (uncredited) ^{[source needed]}
The Worlds of Big Finish
- The Adventure of the Bloomsbury Bomber - Sherlock Holmes
- The Feast of Magog - Sherlock Holmes

50th Anniversary

The Light at the End - The Vess

Eighth Doctor Adventures

Blood of the Daleks - The Daleks
No More Lies - Peter (uncredited) ^{[source needed]}
Human Resources - The Cybermen
The Beast of Orlok - Lugner
Deimos - The Ice Warriors, Security leader
The Resurrection of Mars - The Ice Warriors
Lucie Miller / To the Death - The Daleks / The Dalek time controller

Dark Eyes

The Great War - The Daleks
Fugitives - The Daleks / The Dalek time controller / Voice Synthesising Artificial Intelligence 001
Tangled Web - The Daleks / The Dalek time controller
X and the Daleks - The Daleks / The Dalek time controller
The Traitor - The Daleks / The Dalek Time Controller / Control / Auto-Voice
Time's Horizon - The Dalek Time Controller
Eyes of the Master - The Dalek Time Controller
The Monster of Montmartre - The Dalek Time Controller, Dalek Time Strategists, other Daleks
Master of the Daleks - The Dalek Time Controller, Dalek Time Strategists, other Daleks
Eye of Darkness - Dalek Time Controller, Dalek Supreme, the Daleks