Dan Starkey
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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[[edit] | [edit source]]
Outside of Doctor Who, starting from 2012, Starkey played the hobgoblin Randal Moon in Russell T Davies' Wizards vs Aliens.
Acting credits[[edit] | [edit source]]
As Strax
Television[[edit] | [edit source]]
Doctor Who[[edit] | [edit source]]
- A Good Man Goes to War
- The Great Detective
- The Snowmen
- The Crimson Horror
- The Name of the Doctor
- Deep Breath
Webcasts[[edit] | [edit source]]
Doctor Who[[edit] | [edit source]]
Doctor Who: Lockdown![[edit] | [edit source]]
Audio[[edit] | [edit source]]
Once and Future[[edit] | [edit source]]
The Paternoster Gang[[edit] | [edit source]]
The Eighth of March[[edit] | [edit source]]
Jago & Litefoot[[edit] | [edit source]]
Missy[[edit] | [edit source]]
Audio[[edit] | [edit source]]
The Seventh Doctor Adventures[[edit] | [edit source]]
The Doctor and Carnacki[[edit] | [edit source]]
Other Roles
Television[[edit] | [edit source]]
Doctor Who[[edit] | [edit source]]
- The Sontaran Stratagem / The Poison Sky - Commander Skorr / Commander
- 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[[edit] | [edit source]]
Video games[[edit] | [edit source]]
The Adventure Games[[edit] | [edit source]]
- The Gunpowder Plot - Field Major Kaarsh
Doctor Who website[[edit] | [edit source]]
- The Doctor and the Dalek - Skar
- Doctor Who Game Maker - Sontaran
Audio[[edit] | [edit source]]
Doctor Who Main Range[[edit] | [edit source]]
- 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[[edit] | [edit source]]
- The Five Companions - The Sontarans
The Lost Stories[[edit] | [edit source]]
- The Foe from the Future - Historiographer Osin
- Hexagora - Lord Zellenger
- The First Sontarans - Jaka
The Fourth Doctor Adventures[[edit] | [edit source]]
- 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[[edit] | [edit source]]
- The Moonrakers - Stent / Sontarans
- The People Made of Smoke - Alternate Sixth Doctor (uncredited)
The Seventh Doctor Adventures[[edit] | [edit source]]
- Bad Day in Tinseltown - Mungo
- The Last Day - Marshall Stenn / Klant / Sontarans / Ogron 2
Dark Eyes[[edit] | [edit source]]
Ravenous[[edit] | [edit source]]
The War Doctor[[edit] | [edit source]]
- The Eternity Cage - General Fesk / Sontarans
The Ninth Doctor Adventures[[edit] | [edit source]]
The Tenth Doctor Adventures[[edit] | [edit source]]
- Time Reaver - Dorn / Busker / Receptionist / Robot Voices
Classic Doctors, New Monsters[[edit] | [edit source]]
Sontarans vs Rutans[[edit] | [edit source]]
Once and Future[[edit] | [edit source]]
The Early Adventures[[edit] | [edit source]]
The First Doctor Adventures[[edit] | [edit source]]
Short Trips[[edit] | [edit source]]
- Reargurad - Stron / General
- The Three Flames - Narrator
Jago & Litefoot[[edit] | [edit source]]
- The Devil's Dicemen - Nerville Tibbs
- Island of Death - Nerville Tibbs
The Paternoster Gang[[edit] | [edit source]]
The New Counter-Measures[[edit] | [edit source]]
UNIT: The New Series[[edit] | [edit source]]
- The Sontaran Project - Skar / Commander Merx / Sontaran Escapee
Missy[[edit] | [edit source]]
- A Spoonful of Mayhem - Mr Cosmo / Park Keeper / Old Man / Sphinx
- Brimstone and Terror - Mr Cosmo
The Diary of River Song[[edit] | [edit source]]
- The Unknown - Computer
- Five Twenty-Nine - Announcer
- Peepshow - Commander Strumm / Sontarans
The Robots[[edit] | [edit source]]
Susan's War[[edit] | [edit source]]
Charlotte Pollard[[edit] | [edit source]]
As Bertram
Graceless[[edit] | [edit source]]
Donna Noble: Kidnapped![[edit] | [edit source]]
Rose Tyler: The Dimension Cannon[[edit] | [edit source]]
Big Finish Torchwood[[edit] | [edit source]]
- One Rule - Ross Bevan
- The Great Sontaran War - Major Kreg
Audiobook readings[[edit] | [edit source]]
Target novelisations[[edit] | [edit source]]
- The TV Movie
- The Crimson Horror - Strax's voice
- Doctor Who and the Nightmare of Eden
- The Romans
- The Zygon Invasion
- The Giggle
BBC Books novelisations[[edit] | [edit source]]
Virgin New Adventures[[edit] | [edit source]]
Virgin Missing Adventures[[edit] | [edit source]]
BBC Past Doctor Adventures[[edit] | [edit source]]
BBC New Series Adventures[[edit] | [edit source]]
The Audio Novels[[edit] | [edit source]]
BBC Audio[[edit] | [edit source]]
- 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[[edit] | [edit source]]
Doctor Who Audio Annuals[[edit] | [edit source]]
- 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[[edit] | [edit source]]
K9 Audio Annual[[edit] | [edit source]]
Time Lord Fairy Tales[[edit] | [edit source]]
Other appearances (not valid)[[edit] | [edit source]]
- 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)".
