Dan Starkey
- You may be looking for his DWU counterpart.
Dan Starkey (born 27 September 1977[1]) played various Sontaran roles in televised Doctor Who, as well as for audio dramas and the Doctor Who video game The Gunpowder Plot. He has also played other non-Sontaran characters for audio and televised Doctor Who and The Sarah Jane Adventures. He also made a cameo appearance in part-Sontaran costume in The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot.
He is best known for playing Strax, an occasional associate of the Doctor's. Besides appearing in episodes, Starkey also appears as Strax in a number of online promotional videos uploaded by the BBC under the title Strax Field Report and has also made public appearances in costume and in character as Strax at venues such as the Doctor Who Experience and the 2013 edition of Doctor Who at the Proms.
In 2015, Starkey co-wrote the audio story Terror of the Sontarans with John Dorney.
He was interviewed on the 35th edition of Big Finish's charitable podcast series Toby Hadoke's Who's Round and editions of the documentary series Doctor Who Confidential.
Career
Outside of Doctor Who, starting from 2012, Starkey played the hobgoblin Randal Moon in Russell T Davies' Wizards vs Aliens.
Acting Credits
As Strax
Television
Doctor Who
- A Good Man Goes to War
- The Great Detective
- The Snowmen
- The Crimson Horror
- The Name of the Doctor
- Deep Breath
Webcasts
Doctor Who
Doctor Who: Lockdown!
Audio
Once and Future
The Paternoster Gang
The Eighth of March
Jago & Litefoot
Missy
Other Roles
Television
Doctor Who
- The Sontaran Stratagem / The Poison Sky - Commander Skorr / Lieutenant Skree
- The End of Time - Commander Jask
- The Time of the Doctor - Commander Skarr / Sontaran
- Last Christmas - Ian the Elf
- The Halloween Apocalypse - Kragar
- War of the Sontarans - Svild
- The Vanquishers - Senstarg / Shallo / Kragar
The Sarah Jane Adventures
Video Games
The Adventure Games
- The Gunpowder Plot - Field Major Kaarsh
BBC Website
- The Doctor and the Dalek - Skar
- Doctor Who Game Maker - Sontaran
Audio
Doctor Who Main Range
- Robophobia - Cravnet / Robot
- Wirrn Isle - Sheer Jawn
- Starlight Robbery - Marshall Stenn / Major Vlaar / Sergeant Gredd / Asallis
- Terror of the Sontarans - Field-Major Kayste / Skegg / Stodd
Special Releases
- The Five Companions - The Sontarans
The Lost Stories
- The Foe from the Future - Historiographer Osin
- Hexagora - Lord Zellenger
- The First Sontarans - Jaka
The Fourth Doctor Adventures
- Energy of the Daleks - Kevin Winston / Robomen
- The Oseidon Adventure - Marshal Grinmal / Captain Clarke
- The King of Sontar - Strang / Hutchins
- The Eternal Battle - Field Major Lenk / Sergeant Major Stom
- The Crowmarsh Experiment - Linus Strang
- The Bad Penny - Hadean / Small Hadean / Liddell / Mr Richards
- Planet of the Drashigs - Drashigs / Computer (uncredited)
The Fifth Doctor Adventures
- The Moonrakers - Stent / Sontarans
- The People Made of Smoke - Alternate Sixth Doctor (uncredited)
The Seventh Doctor Adventures
- Bad Day in Tinseltown - Mungo
- The Last Day 1 - Marshall Stenn / Klant / Sontarans / Ogron 2
Dark Eyes
Ravenous
The War Doctor
- The Eternity Cage - General Fesk / Sontarans
The Ninth Doctor Adventures
The Tenth Doctor Adventures
- Time Reaver - Dorn / Busker / Receptionist / Robot Voices
Classic Doctors, New Monsters
Sontarans vs Rutans
Once and Future
The Early Adventures
The First Doctor Adventures
Short Trips
- Reargurad - Stron / General
- The Three Flames - Narrator
Jago & Litefoot
- The Devil's Dicemen - Nerville Tibbs
- Island of Death - Nerville Tibbs
The Paternoster Gang
The New Counter-Measures
UNIT: The New Series
- The Sontaran Project - Skar / Commander Merx / Sontaran Escapee
Missy
- A Spoonful of Mayhem - Mr Cosmo / Park Keeper / Old Man / Sphinx
- Brimstone and Terror - Mr Cosmo
The Diary of River Song
- The Unknown - Computer
- Five Twenty-Nine - Announcer
- Peepshow - Commander Strumm / Sontarans
The Robots
Susan's War
Charlotte Pollard
As Bertram
Graceless
Donna Noble: Kidnapped!
Rose Tyler: The Dimension Cannon
Torchwood
- One Rule - Ross Bevan
- The Great Sontaran War - Major Kreg
Audiobook Readings
Target Novelisations
- The TV Movie
- The Crimson Horror - Strax's voice
- Doctor Who and the Nightmare of Eden
- The Romans
- The Zygon Invasion
- The Giggle
BBC Novelisations
Virgin New Adventures
Virgin Missing Adventures
BBC Past Doctor Adventures
BBC New Series Adventures
The Audio Novels
BBC Audio
- Devil in the Smoke
- The Lost Magic
- Rhythm of Destruction
- The Scent of Blood
- The Nightmare Realm
- The Code of Flesh
- The Teeth of Ice
Interludes
Doctor Who Audio Annuals
- The Sinister Sponge
- A Midsummer's Nightmare - with John Leeson
- The Sons of the Crab
- Famine on Planet X - with Louise Jameson
The Amazing World of Doctor Who
K9 Audio Annual
Time Lord Fairy Tales
Other appearances (not valid)
- Commander Strax in WC: Strax Field Report series.
- Commander Skorr in Doctor Who at the Proms 2008
- Commander Strax in Doctor Who at the Proms 2013
- Commander Strax in the cinema introduction segment of TV: The Day of the Doctor
- Himself (in Sontaran make-up) in The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot and the 2009 cast and crew music video for "I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles)".
