Nicholas Briggs

Nicholas Briggs
Birth date:	29 September 1961
Work in the DWU
Main roles:	Dalek, Cyberman, Judoon and Ice Warrior voices
Main jobs:	Actor, voice actor, audio director, writer
Stories:	See section
Main time period active:	1999-present (audio) 2005-present (television)
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Nicholas Briggs (born 29 September 1961), 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, on top of 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 voices the Daleks, Cybermen, Ice Warriors 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).

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.

Since the return of Doctor Who in 2005, 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, 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.

Selected credits

Acting

Video

BBV Productions

• Auton 2: Sentinel - Mike
• Cyber-Hunt - Fred

Television

Doctor Who

• Day of the Daleks - Dalek voice (DVD Special Edition)
• Rose - Nestene Consciousness voice
• Dalek - Dalek voice
• The Long Game - Jagrafess voice
• 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

The Sarah Jane Adventures

• Prisoner of the Judoon - Captain Tybo (voice) and Judoon voices

Torchwood

• Children of Earth: Day Four - Rick Yates

Other

• An Adventure in Space and Time - Peter Hawkins

Audio

BBV Audio

• Homeland

Big Finish Doctor Who audio stories

• 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
• Invasion of the Daleks - The Daleks / Ernst Tanlee
• The Human Factor - The Daleks
• "Death to the Daleks!" - The Daleks / Ernst Tanlee
• Project Infinity - The Daleks / Ernst Tanlee
• Seasons of Fear - The Daleks
• The Time of the Daleks - The Daleks
• Spare Parts - The Cybermen / Commander Zheng
• Jubilee - The Daleks
• Dalek War: Chapter One - The Daleks
• Dalek War: Chapter Two - The Daleks
• Dalek War: Chapter Three - The Daleks
• Dalek War: Chapter Four - The Daleks
• Death and the Daleks - The Daleks
• The Exterminators - The Daleks
• The Healers - The Daleks / Crewman Antani
• The Harvest - The Cybermen
• The Survivors - The Daleks / Crewman Antani
• The Demons - The Daleks
• The Warriors - The Daleks
• The Future - The Daleks
• The Juggernauts - The Daleks / The Mechanoids
• Silver Lining - The Cybermen
• Terror Firma - The Daleks
• Scorpius - The Cybermen / The Cyber-Planner
• Fear - The Cybermen / The Cyber-Planner
• Conversion - The Cybermen / The Cyber-Planner
• Telos - The Cybermen / The Cyber-Planner
• The Cybermen
• The Reaping - The Cybermen / Commander Zheng / Alan-56
• The Gathering - The Cybermen
• Innocence - The Daleks
• Purity - The Daleks
• Corruption - The Daleks
• Guilt - The Daleks / Baran
• Return of the Daleks - The Daleks
• Blood of the Daleks - The Daleks
• Renaissance of the Daleks - The Daleks
• Fear of the Daleks - The Daleks
• The Blue Tooth - The Cybermen
• Human Resources - The Cybermen
• The Girl Who Never Was - The Cybermen
• 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
• Kingdom of Silver - The Cybermen
• The Ultimate Adventure - The Daleks / The Cybermen
• Brotherhood of the Daleks - The Daleks
• Seven Keys to Doomsday - The Daleks
• The Curse of the Daleks - The Daleks
• Masters of War - The Daleks
• The Judgement of Isskar - Isskar
• Enemy of the Daleks - The Daleks
• Patient Zero - The Daleks / The Dalek time controller
• Outsiders - The Cybermen / The Cyber-Planner
• Terror - The Cybermen / The Cyber-Planner
• Machines - The Cybermen / The Cyber-Planner
• Extinction - The Cybermen / The Cyber-Planner
• Plague of the Daleks - The Daleks
• Legend of the Cybermen - The Cybermen
• Deimos - The Ice Warriors, Security Leader
• The Resurrection of Mars - The Ice Warriors
• The Destroyers - The Daleks
• The Four Doctors - The Daleks
• Lucie Miller / To the Death - The Daleks / The Dalek time controller
• The Silver Turk - The Cybermen
• The Elite - The Daleks
• The Five Companions - The Daleks
• The Curse of Davros - The Daleks
• Energy of the Daleks - The Daleks
• 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 Light at the End - The Vess

Destiny of the Doctor

• Night of the Whisper - Reading

Bernice Summerfield

• Oh No It Isn't! - director
• Birthright - director, producer

Tardisodes

• Tardisode 13 - Dalek voice

Video

BBV Productions

• Auton
• Auton 2: Sentinel
• Auton 3: Awakening (as Arthur Wallis, co-written with Paul Ebbs)

Prose

• The Dalek Generation

Audio

Big Finish Doctor Who audio stories

Doctor Who monthly range

• The Sirens of Time - writer, director, music and sound design
• Whispers of Terror - music
• The Land of the Dead - music and sound design
• The Genocide Machine - music and sound design
• The Apocalypse Element - music and sound design
• The Mutant Phase - writer, director, music and sound design
• Last of the Titans - writer
• Sword of Orion - writer, director, music and sound design
• Minuet in Hell - sound design
• Embrace the Darkness - writer
• The Time of the Daleks - music
• Neverland - music
• Jubilee - co-director, music and sound design
• Creatures of Beauty - writer, director, music and sound design
• Something Inside - director
• The Nowhere Place - writer, director, music and sound design
• Frozen Time - writer
• Patient Zero - writer and director
• Blue Forgotten Planet - writer and director
• Robophobia - writer and director
• 1963: The Space Race - director

Big Finish Eighth Doctor Adventures

• Sisters of the Flame - writer and director
• The Vengeance of Morbius - writer and director
• Orbis - co writer with Alan Barnes and director
• Wirrn Dawn - writer and director
• Lucie Miller - writer and director
• To the Death - writer and director
• The Great War - writer and director
• Fugitives - writer and director
• Tangled Web - writer and director
• X and the Daleks - writer and director
• The Traitor - writer and director

Doctor Who bonus releases

• Return of the Daleks - writer
• Return of the Krotons - writer, director, and music

The Fourth Doctor adventures

• Destination: Nerva - writer and director
• Energy of the Daleks - writer and director
• The Sands of Life - writer and director
• War Against the Laan - writer and director
• The Dalek Contract - writer and director
• The Final Phase - writer and director
• The Evil One - writer and director

Doctor Who Unbound

• Exile

Dalek Empire

• Invasion of the Daleks
• The Human Factor
• "Death to the Daleks!"
• Project Infinity
• Dalek War: Chapter One
• Dalek War: Chapter Two
• Dalek War: Chapter Three
• Dalek War: Chapter Four
• The Exterminators
• The Healers
• The Survivors
• The Demons
• The Warriors
• The Future
• The Fearless: Part 1
• The Fearless: Part 2
• The Fearless: Part 3
• The Fearless: Part 4

Cyberman

• Scorpius
• Fear
• Conversion
• Telos

Specially released audio dramas

• The Davros Mission

Other audio

• The Dalek Conquests - a faux documentary on the history of the Daleks produced by BBC Radio.

Short stories

• One Small Step... (in Short Trips: Past Tense)
• Kalendorf (in Short Trips: Dalek Empire)