Nicholas Briggs
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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
- World Enough and Time - Cybermen voices
- The Doctor Falls - Cybermen voices
The Sarah Jane Adventures
- Prisoner of the Judoon - Captain Tybo (voice) and Judoon voices
Torchwood
Other
- An Adventure in Space and Time - Peter Hawkins
- The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot - Dalek operator
Video
BBV Productions
Reeltime Pictures
- Wartime - Soldier
Tardisodes
- Tardisode 13 - Dalek voice [1]
Webcasts
Audio
BBV 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
- 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
Fourth Doctor Adventures
- Energy of the Daleks - The Daleks
- The Sands of Life / War Against the Laan - Bob Caveer
- The Dalek Contract - The Daleks / The Dalek Supreme / Pilot
- The Final Phase - The Daleks / The Dalek Supreme
- The Evil One - The Salonu / Andor / Auto-Announcer
- Return To Telos - The Cybermen
Companion Chronicles
- Fear of the Daleks - The Daleks
- The Blue Tooth - The Cybermen
- The Prisoner of Peladon - The Ice Warriors
Short Trips
- One Small Step... - narrator
- Forever Fallen - narrator
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
The Early Adventures
- The Isos Network - The Cybermen
Novel Adaptations
Short Trips
- Museum Peace - reading
- Seven to One - reading, with William Russell
The Stageplays
- The Ultimate Adventure - The Daleks / The Cybermen
- Seven Keys to Doomsday - The Daleks
- The Curse of the Daleks - Narrator / The Daleks
Unbound
Destiny of the Doctor
- Night of the Whisper - reading
- The Time Machine - Creevix
Dalek Empire
- 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
- 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 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
Cyberman
- Scorpius - The Cybermen / The Cyber-Planner / Journalist / Guard
- Fear - The Cybermen / The Cyber-Planner / Journalist
- Conversion - The Cybermen / The Cyber-Planner / The Cyber-Leader
- Telos - The Cybermen / The Cyber-Planner
- Outsiders - The Cybermen / The Cyber-Planner
- Terror - The Cybermen / The Cyber-Planner
- Machines - The Cybermen / The Cyber-Planner
- Extinction - The Cybermen / The Cyber-Planner
I, Davros
- Innocence - The Daleks
- Purity - The Daleks
- Corruption - The Daleks
- Guilt - The Daleks / Baran
- The Davros Mission - The Daleks
Bernice Summerfield
- Oh No It Isn't! - Prince Charming
- Death and the Daleks - The Daleks / Crofton
- Silver Lining - The Cybermen / Lynton Jellis
- The Crystal of Cantus - The Cybermen
- Many Happy Returns - Curator
The New Adventures of Bernice Summerfield
- Good Night, Sweet Ladies - The Daleks
- The Lights of Skaro - The Daleks
- The Vaults of Osiris - Vasha
Sarah Jane Smith
Gallifrey
- Pandora - Gold Usher
- Imperiatrix - Gold Usher
- Arbitration - The Daleks (uncredited) [source needed]
- Extermination - The Daleks
- Ascension - The Daleks/Dalek Supreme
Charlotte Pollard
- The Lamentation Cipher - Bert Buchan / Announcer
- The Shadow at the Edge of the World - The Slaverings
- The Viyran Solution - Bert Buchan
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
The Churchill Years
Classic Doctors, New Monsters
- Judoon in Chains - Captain Kybo
UNIT: The New Series
- House of Silents - The Silence
- Square One - The Silence
- Silent Majority - The Silence
- In Memory Alone - The Silence
Kaldor City
New Series Adventures
- The Clockwise Man - reading
- Judgement of the Judoon - reading
- Prisoner of the Daleks - reading, the Daleks
- Nuclear Time - reading
- The King's Dragon - reading
- Paradox Lost - reading
- Plague of the Cybermen - The Cybermen
- The Dalek Generation - reading, the Daleks
- Engines of War - reading, the Daleks
Novelisation readings
- Doctor Who and the Cybermen - The Cybermen
- Doctor Who and the Dalek Invasion of Earth - The Daleks
- Daleks: Mission to the Unknown - The Daleks
- Daleks: The Mutation of Time - The Daleks
- Daleks: The Chase - The Daleks
- Earthshock - The Cybermen
- Doctor Who and the Tomb of the Cybermen - The Cybermen
- Doctor Who and the Planet of the Daleks - The Daleks
- Remembrance of the Daleks - The Daleks
- Death to the Daleks - The Daleks
- Cybermen - The Invasion - The Cybermen
- Doctor Who and the Day of the Daleks - The Daleks
Puffin eshort
- A Big Hand for the Doctor - reading
Time Lord Fairy Tales
- The Scruffy Piper - reading, the Cybermen
Past Doctor Adventures
- Illegal Alien - The Cybermen
Video games
Adventure Games
- City of the Daleks - The Daleks
- Blood of the Cybermen - The Cybermen / Alan Watts (uncredited) [source needed]
- Shadows of the Vashta Nerada - Oswald Fox
Browser games
- The Doctor and the Dalek - The Daleks, Lumpy, Cybermen
Other
- LEGO Dimensions - The Daleks, Cybermen
Production credits
Video
BBV Productions
- Auton - writer
- Auton 2: Sentinel - writer
- Auton 3: Awakening - writer, credited as Arthur Wallis, co-written with Paul Ebbs
Prose
Novels
- The Dalek Generation - writer
Short Trips
- One Small Step... - writer, in Short Trips: Past Tense
- Short Trips: Dalek Empire - editor (with Simon Guerrier)
- Kalendorf - writer
Doctor Who Storybook
- No One Died - writer
- The Iron Circle - writer
Comics
Doctor Who Magazine
- Food for Thought - writer
Audio
Doctor Who main range
- The Sirens of Time - writer, director, music and sound design
- Phantasmagoria - director
- 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
- Sword of Orion - writer, director, music and sound design
- Minuet in Hell - director, sound design
- Embrace the Darkness - writer, director
- The Time of the Daleks - director, music
- Neverland - music
- ...ish - director
- 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
- 100 - director
- Mission of the Viyrans - writer
- The Condemned - director
- The Dark Husband - director
- Spider's Shadow - writer[2]
- Kingdom of Silver - director
- Keepsake - director
- The Raincloud Man - director
- Patient Zero - writer and director
- Paper Cuts - director
- Blue Forgotten Planet - writer and director
- City of Spires - director
- Legend of the Cybermen - director
- The Crimes of Thomas Brewster - director
- The Feast of Axos - director
- Industrial Evolution - director
- Robophobia - writer and director
- The Wrong Doctors - director
- The Seeds of War - writer, with Matt Fitton
- 1963: The Space Race - director
- Antidote to Oblivion - director
- The Brood of Erys - director
- Scavenger - director
- Breaking Bubbles and Other Stories - director
- Masters of Earth - director and music
- The Defectors - writer and director
Doctor Who bonus releases
- Last of the Titans - writer, director
- Return of the Daleks - writer
- Return of the Krotons - writer, director, and music
- An Earthly Child - director
- The Four Doctors - director (with Ken Bentley)
The Stageplays
- The Curse of the Daleks - director, and music
Special Releases
- Dominion - writer, with Jason Arnopp, and director
- The Worlds of Doctor Who - music, with Howard Carter
- The Sixth Doctor: The Last Adventure - director
- The Brink of Death - writer
- The Third Doctor Adventures - director
- Prisoners of the Lake - music
- The Third Doctor Adventures: Volume 2 - director
50th Anniversary
- The Light at the End - writer and director
Eighth Doctor Adventures
- Blood of the Daleks - director
- Human Resources - director
- Sisters of the Flame - writer and director
- The Vengeance of Morbius - writer and director
- Orbis - writer, with Alan Barnes, and director
- Wirrn Dawn - writer and director
- The Scapegoat - director
- The Eight Truths - director
- Worldwide Web - director
- Situation Vacant - director and producer
- Nevermore - director
- Lucie Miller - writer and director
- To the Death - writer and director
Dark Eyes
- 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
- The White Room - director
- Time's Horizon - director
- Eyes of the Master - director
Doom Coalition
- Beachhead - writer
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 King of Sontar - director
- White Ghosts - director
- The Crooked Man - director
- The Evil One - writer and director
- Last of the Colophon - director
- Destroy the Infinite - writer and director
- Zygon Hunt - writer and director
- The Exxilons - writer and director
- The Darkness of Glass - director
- Requiem for the Rocket Men - director
- Death Match - director
- Suburban Hell - director
- The Cloisters of Terror - director
- The Fate of Krelos - writer and director
- Return to Telos - writer and director
- Wave of Destruction - director
- The Labyrinth of Buda Castle - director
- The Trouble with Drax - director
- The Pursuit of History - writer and director
- Casualties of Time - writer and director
- The Beast of Kravenos - director
- The Eternal Battle - director
- The Silent Scream - director
- Deathras - director
- The Haunting of Malkin Place - director
The Lost Stories
- The Second Doctor Box Set
- The Destroyers - writer, with John Dorney (adapted from script by Terry Nation)
Novel Adaptations
- The Romance of Crime - director
- The English Way of Death - director
Companion Chronicles
- Solitaire - director
The Early Adventures
- The Isos Network - writer and director
The War Doctor
- Only the Monstrous
- The Innocent - writer and director
- The Thousand Worlds - writer and director
- The Heart of the Battle - writer and director
- Infernal Devices
- Legion of the Lost - director
- A Thing of Guile - director
- The Neverwhen - director
- Agents of Chaos
- The Shadow Vortex - director
- The Eternity Cage - director
- Eye of Harmony - director
- Casualties of War
- Pretty Lies - director
- The Lady of Obsidian - director
- The Enigma Dimesnion - writer and director
Tenth Doctor Adventures
- Technophobia - director
- Time Reaver - director
- Death and the Queen - director
Short Trips
- Short Trips: Volume 1 - director, with Ken Bentley, music
- Short Trips: Volume 2 - director, with Ken Bentley
- Short Trips: Volume 3 - director, with Ken Bentley
- Short Trips: Volume 4 - director, with Ken Bentley
- Museum Peace - director, music, sound design
- Lepidoptery for Beginners - director
- The Little Drummer Boy - director
Unbound
- Auld Mortality - director
- Deadline - director, post-production
- Exile - writer
Dalek Empire
- Invasion of the Daleks - writer, director, post-production, music
- The Human Factor - writer, director, post-production, music
- "Death to the Daleks!" - writer, director, post-production, music
- Project Infinity - writer, director, post-production, music
- Dalek War: Chapter One - writer, director, post-production, music
- Dalek War: Chapter Two - writer, director, post-production, music
- Dalek War: Chapter Three - writer, director, post-production, music
- Dalek War: Chapter Four - writer, director, post-production, music
- The Exterminators - writer, director, post-production, music
- The Healers - writer, director, post-production, music
- The Survivors - writer, director, post-production, music
- The Demons - writer, director, post-production, music
- The Warriors - writer, director, post-production, music
- The Future - writer, director, post-production, music
- The Fearless: Part 1 - writer, director, post-production, music
- The Fearless: Part 2 - writer, director, post-production, music
- The Fearless: Part 3 - writer, director, post-production, music
- The Fearless: Part 4 - writer, director, post-production, music
Cyberman
- Scorpius - writer, director, post-production, music
- Fear - writer, director, post-production, music
- Conversion - writer, director, post-production, music
- Telos - writer, director, post-production, music
- Outsiders - director
- Terror - director
- Machines - director
- Extinction - director
Bernice Summerfield
- Oh No It Isn't! - director
- Birthright - director, producer
- Just War - director
Counter-Measures
- Threshold - music
- Artificial Intelligence - music
- The Pelage Project - music
- State of Emergency - music
- Manhunt - music
- The Fifth Citadel - music
- Peshka - music
- Sins of the Fathers - music
- Changing of the Guard - music
- The Concrete Cage - music
- The Forgotten Village - music
- Unto the Breach - music
- New Horizons - music
- The Keep - music
- Rise and Shine - music
- Clean Sweep - music
Charlotte Pollard
- The Lamentation Cipher - director, music
- The Shadow at the Edge of the World - director, music
- The Fall of the House of Pollard - director, music
- The Viyran Solution - director, music
- Embankment Station - writer, director, music
- Ruffling - writer, director, music
- Seed of Chaos - writer, director, music
- The Destructive Quality of Life - writer, director, music
The New Counter-Measures
- Who Killed Toby Kinsella? - music
- The Dead Don't Rise - music
- Nothing to See Here - music
- Troubled Waters - music
- The Phoenix Strain - music
- A Gamble With Time - music
I, Davros
- The Davros Mission - writer and director
BBV
- Homeland - director
BBC Radio
- The Dalek Conquests - writer, producer, narrator
External links
Footnotes
- ↑ DWMSE 14
- ↑ The Big Finish Podcast - Benji Clifford (August #03). Big Finish (8 August 2016). Retrieved on 8 August 2016.
