Christopher Ryan

Christopher Ryan appeared in several Doctor Who television stories: as Lord Kiv in Mindwarp, General Staal in The Sontaran Stratagem and The Poison Sky and Commander Stark in The Pandorica Opens.

IMDb profile

He also voiced several characters in various Big Finish Doctor Who audio stories and spin-offs.

A promotional image of him as General Staal was used to depict Commander Halke in the Doctor Who story The God Complex and Major Stenx on the cover of the New Series Adventures novel The Sontaran Games. Archive imagery of Ryan was also used to depict a Sontaran resident of the trap street in Face the Raven.

Outside of Doctor Who, he is best known as Mike Thecoolperson in The Young Ones and Dave Hedgehog in Bottom.

Credits

Television

• Mindwarp - Lord Kiv
• The Sontaran Stratagem / The Poison Sky - General Staal

Direct-to-DVD

• Sil and the Devil Seeds of Arodor - Kiv

Audio

Ravenous

• How to Make a Killing in Time Travel - Macy

Classic Doctors, New Monsters

• The Sontaran Ordeal - General Stenk / Flitch

The Paternoster Gang

• A Photograph to Remember - Stonn

Lady Christina

• Portrait of a Lady - Grunt
• Death on the Mile - Handley / Slitheen Handley

External links

• Christopher Ryan at the Internet Movie Database