Christopher Ryan

Christopher Ryan
Birth date:	25 January 1950
Work in the DWU
Main roles:	Kiv, Staal, Stonn
Main jobs:	Actor
Stories:	See Credits Section
Main time period active:	1986, 2008-10, 2016, 2018-present
IMDb profile

Christopher Ryan (born 25 January 1950) appeared in several Doctor Who television stories: as Lord Kiv in The Trial of a Time Lord (namely Mindwarp), General Staal in The Sontaran Stratagem/The Poison Sky and Commander Stark in The Pandorica Opens.

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.

Career

Outside of Doctor Who, he is best known as Mike Thecoolperson in The Young Ones (with Nigel Planer and Alexei Sayle) and Dave Hedgehog in Bottom.

DWU credits

Television

• The Trial of a Time Lord
  • Mindwarp - Lord Kiv
• The Sontaran Stratagem/The Poison Sky - General Staal
• The Pandorica Opens - Commander Stark

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
• Truth and Bone - Stonn

Lady Christina

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

Audio Readings

BBC New Series Adventures

• The Taking of Chelsea 426

External links

• Christopher Ryan at the Internet Movie Database