Nicholas Briggs

Nicholas Briggs (born 29 September 1961^[1]) 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.

Nicholas Briggs

Other names:

Nick Briggs

Birth date:

29 September 1961

Work in the DWU

Main roles:

Dalek, Cyberman, Zygon, Judoon and Ice Warrior voices

Main jobs:

Actor, Writer, Director, Executive producer, Post-production, Incidental music

Stories:

Acting credits, Production credits

Main time period active:

1984-present

Career highlights

Notable non-DWU work:

The League of Gentlemen, Judge Dredd, Strontium Dog, Adulthood, Sherlock Holmes, The Confessions of Dorian Gray, Treasure Island, The Avengers, Survivors, Frankenstein, The Omega Factor, Prisoner Zero, The Prisoner, Dan Dare, The Martian Invasion of Earth, Callan, The Human Frontier

Twitter

IMDb profile

Official site

Interview

Another interview

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 to voice 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

As well as reprising his role as the voice of the Cybermen and Daleks for series 5, his voice can also 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.

In 2011, Briggs became the sole 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.[1] In 2013, he became part of a rotating team of presenters for the series. As of 2017^[update], Briggs is still a presenter of 7th Dimension.[2]

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.

He also voiced REMUS, a computer AI, in the pilot minisode for Gerry Anderson's Firestorm.

In 2017, archive audio of Nicholas Briggs exclaiming "Exterminate!", originally recorded for The Parting of the Ways, was used to represent the Daleks in The Lego Batman Movie.

2020s

In 2020 Briggs provided the voices for the Judoon, especially Judoon Captain Pol-Kon-Don, in the series 12 episode Fugitive of the Judoon.

Later he also provided the voicing for the Lone Cyberman in The Haunting of Villa Diodati, though he went uncredited for this piece of work.^[2]

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
Bad Wolf - Dalek voice
The Parting of the Ways - Dalek voices
Rise of the Cybermen - Cyberman voice
The Age of Steel - Cyberman voices
Army of Ghosts - Dalek and Cybermen voices
Doomsday - Dalek and Cyberman voices
Smith and Jones - Judoon voices
Daleks in Manhattan - Dalek voices
Evolution of the Daleks - Dalek voice
The Stolen Earth - Dalek and Judoon voices
Journey's End - Dalek voice
The Next Doctor - Cyberman voices
The End of Time - Judoon voice
Victory of the Daleks - Dalek voices
The Pandorica Opens - Dalek, Cyberman and Judoon voices
The Big Bang - Dalek voice and National Museum Pandorica video narrator
A Good Man Goes to War - Cyberman voice
Closing Time - Cyberman voices
The Wedding of River Song - Dalek voice
Asylum of the Daleks - Dalek voices
Cold War - Grand Marshall Skaldak (voice)
Nightmare in Silver - Cyberman voices
The Day of the Doctor - Zygon and Dalek voices
The Time of the Doctor - Dalek and Cyberman voices
Into the Dalek - Dalek voices
Death in Heaven - Cyberman voices
The Magician's Apprentice - Dalek voices
The Witch's Familiar - Dalek voices
The Zygon Invasion - Zygon voices
The Zygon Inversion - Zygon voices
Hell Bent - Dalek voices
The Pilot - Dalek voices
World Enough and Time - Cyberman voices
The Doctor Falls - Cyberman voices
Twice Upon a Time - Dalek voice
Resolution - Dalek voice
Fugitive of the Judoon - Voice of Judoon Captain
Ascension of the Cybermen - Voice of Cybermen
The Timeless Children - Voice of Cybermen & Judoon Captain

Video

BBV Productions

Auton 2: Sentinel - Mike

Reeltime Pictures

Wartime - Soldier

Tardisodes

Tardisode 13 - Dalek voice^[3]

Webcasts

Real Time - Cyber-Controller
Mission to the Unknown - The Daleks

Audio

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
...ish - Annoying Delegate / Robot Waiter
Bang-Bang-a-Boom! - Continuity announcer
Jubilee - The Daleks / US Prime Minister / Announcer
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 Mechonoids
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
Robophobia - Robot
The Silver Turk - The Cybermen / Heinz / Barker
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
The Silurian Candidate - Chordok
Emissary of the Daleks - Dalek Supreme / Special Weapons Dalek / The Daleks
Cry of the Vultriss - The Ice Warriors

Special 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
The Light at the End - The Vess
The Worlds of Big Finish
- The Adventure of the Bloomsbury Bomber - Sherlock Holmes
- The Feast of Magog - Sherlock Holmes
The Legacy of Time
- The Sacrifice of Jo Grant - Lieutenant Wallace / Pirate (uncredited)
- Collision Course - Alien Voice

Lost Stories

Mission to Magnus - Brorg / Vedikael / Grand Marshall / Ishka
The Destroyers - The Daleks
Thin Ice - Hhessh
The Elite - The Daleks
Lords of the Red Planet - Aslor / Risor / The Ice Warriors

Fourth Doctor Adventures

Energy of the Daleks - The Daleks
The Sands of Life / War Against the Laan - Bob Caveer
The Dalek Contract / The Final Phase - The Daleks / The Dalek Supreme / Pilot
The Evil One - The Salonu / Andor / Auto-announcer
Return to Telos - The Cybermen
The Sinestran Kill - Policeman (uncredited)

Eighth Doctor Adventures

Blood of the Daleks - The Daleks
Human Resources - The Cybermen
The Skull of Sobek - Crock / Brother / Skull of Sobek
The Beast of Orlok - Lugner
Deimos / The Resurrection of Mars - The Ice Warriors / Security leader
Lucie Miller / To the Death - The Daleks / The Dalek time controller

The Further Adventures of Lucie Miller

The Dalek Trap - The Daleks

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

The Eighth Doctor: The Time War

The Starship of Theseus - The Daleks
Echoes of War - Dal / The Daleks
The Conscript - Dalek drone / The Daleks
One Life - The Daleks
The Lords of Terror - The Daleks
Planet of the Ogrons - The Daleks / Overseer
In the Garden of Death - The Daleks
Jonah - The Daleks
Fugitive in Time - The Daleks / Dalek Time Strategist
The War Valeyard - The Daleks

The War Doctor

The Innocent - The Daleks / Time Lord (uncredited)
The Thousand Worlds - The Daleks
The Heart of the Battle - The Daleks
The Shadow Vortex - The Daleks
The Eternity Cage - The Daleks
Pretty Lies - Dalek Time Strategist / The Daleks
The Enigma Dimension - Dalek Time Strategist / The Daleks / Assault Team Leader

The Tenth Doctor Adventures

One Mile Down - Judoon Captain / Clo / Judoon

Classic Doctors, New Monsters

Judoon in Chains - Captain Kybo

Novel Adaptations

All-Consuming Fire - Sherlock Holmes

The Stageplays

The Ultimate Adventure - The Daleks / The Dalek Emperor / The Cybermen
Seven Keys to Doomsday - The Daleks / Previous Doctor (uncredited)
The Curse of the Daleks - Narrator / The Daleks

The Early Adventures

The Isos Network - The Cybermen
The Dalek Occupation of Winter - The Daleks
Daughter of the Gods - The Daleks

The First Doctor Adventures

Return to Skaro - The Daleks

Third Doctor Adventures

The Conquest of Far - The Daleks / Aslarn / Earth President / Medi-Robot / Troopers
The Tyrants of Logic - The Cybermen / Bernard Schaeffer (uncredited)
Primord - UNIT Soldier (uncredited)
Poison of the Daleks - The Daleks

Destiny of the Doctor

Night of the Whisper - reading
The Time Machine - Creevix

Companion Chronicles

Fear of the Daleks - The Daleks
The Blue Tooth - The Cybermen
The Prisoner of Peladon - The Ice Warriors
Across the Darkened City - The Daleks

Short Trips

One Small Step... - narrator
Museum Peace - narrator
Seven to One - narrator, with William Russell
Forever Fallen - narrator
Landbound - narrator
The Last Day at Work - narrator
Battle Scars - narrator

Dalek Empire

Invasion of the Daleks - The Daleks / Ernst Tanlee / The Dalek Emperor
The Human Factor - The Daleks / Morebi / The Dalek Emperor
"Death to the Daleks!" - The Daleks / Ernst Tanlee / The Dalek Emperor / The Alliance Daleks
Project Infinity - The Daleks / Ernst Tanlee / The Dalek Emperor / The Alliance Daleks
Dalek War: Chapter One - The Daleks / The Alliance Daleks
Dalek War: Chapter Two - The Daleks / The Alliance Daleks
Dalek War: Chapter Three - The Daleks / The Alliance Daleks
Dalek War: Chapter Four - The Daleks / The Alliance Daleks
The Exterminators - The Daleks / Harley / Pilot
The Healers - The Daleks / Crewman Antani
The Survivors - The Daleks / Crewman Antani
The Demons - The Daleks
The Warriors - The Daleks
The Future - The Daleks
The Fearless: Part 1 - The Daleks
The Fearless: Part 2 - The Daleks / Ernst Tanlee
The Fearless: Part 3 - The Daleks / Ernst Tanlee
The Fearless: Part 4 - The Daleks / Ernst Tanlee