Mark Gatiss

Mark Gatiss, (born 17 October 1966DWDVDF 139) credited on three occasions as Sam Kisgart and once as Rondo HaxtonThe Wedding of River Song, has been a major creative force in the production of Doctor Who fiction since the 1990s. Given his accomplishments as a Doctor Who author, screenwriter, audio writer, audio actor, screen actor, documentary narrator, and documentary subject, his contribution to the Doctor Who franchise is unique.
For Doctor Who, Gatiss writes it so the Doctor usually cannot gain a complete victory or someone else has to step in to save the day. For the former, Victory of the Daleks has the Daleks escape to rebuild their race, but the Doctor save the Earth from a bomb. With the latter, it tends to fall to the companions or a one-off character.
== Televised Doctor Who ==
In terms of televised Doctor Who, , Gatiss has contributed nine scripts and made five guest appearances since the series' revival, and been a narrator and a subject of Doctor Who Confidential.
Gatiss holds the distinction of being the very first credited contract writer of the revived series - the story The Unquiet Dead was the first broadcast not to be written by showrunner and Executive Producer Russell T Davies (who wrote the debut episodes Rose and The End of the World). Gatiss would remain the only credited writer other than Davies for the first five weeks of the show - almost half of the first series.
Although other writers had enjoyed small roles in the 1963 version of Doctor Who, he was the first to have not just one, but two large speaking roles — Professor Richard Lazarus, the titular villain of The Lazarus Experiment, and "the Captain" in Twice Upon a Time. During Steven Moffat's time as showrunner, Gatiss was the only writer other than Moffat himself to write a script for every season.
The Richard Lazarus prosthetic was later used in Voyage of the Damned to stand in for the actor playing Max Capricorn in some long shots. (PCOM: Voyage of the Damned)
He later returned to make two brief, uncredited appearances during the Matt Smith era as a Spitfire Pilot in Victory of the Daleks and A Good Man Goes to War. He then made a credited return to the programme as Gantok in The Wedding of River Song.
In series 5's Victory of the Daleks, Gatiss became one of few people to have written and acted in the same episode of Doctor Who, and he claimed that it also made him "the first and only person so far to write for the series and be in it twice"."Mark Gatiss on Victory of the Daleks". SFX. 11 April 2010.
With his role in this episode, Gatiss also achieved something of another Doctor Who record. , he has acted with nine of the eleven actors to have played the Doctor, though not always when that actor was playing the Doctor. Matt Smith was the sixth different Doctor he had encountered in a piece of performed Doctor Who.Although Elisabeth Sladen appeared alongside nine incarnations of the Doctor, one of "her" Doctors is Richard Hurndall, and she never appeared with William Hartnell, Paul McGann or Christopher Eccleston. Later, in 2017's Twice Upon a Time, Gatiss further appeared alongside the then-outgoing Twelfth Doctor Peter Capaldi, as well as David Bradley, who was playing the same role as the late William Hartnell's First Doctor.
Series 8's Robot of Sherwood, gave Gatiss the opportunity to write for his ninth Doctor, across all media. This equalled the nine Doctors written for by Terrance Dicks'. Both Gatiss and Dicks are behind Paul Cornell, however, who has written for 12 Doctors, . (if the Shalka Doctor is counted)
== Doctor Who work in other media ==
Outside the programme proper, he has written various officially licensed novels, televised spoofs and audio plays, and has sometimes lent his voice to Big Finish Productions. Counting BBC-made spoofs and these audios, he is alone with Sir Derek Jacobi in having played both the Doctor and the Master.
Gatiss also wrote the docu-drama An Adventure in Space and Time. A dramatised account of William Hartnell's tenure as the Doctor, it was produced and broadcast as part of the show's 50th anniversary celebrations. He portrayed the Third Doctor in the accompanying Another Doctor extra.
== Work with Doctor Who personnel outside of the programme ==
Gatiss also has significant relationships with Doctor Who luminaries that extend beyond the programme itself. For instance, he is a frequent collaborator with Steven Moffat, with whom he created and produced Sherlock, a TV series which started airing in 2010. He also played Robert Louis Stevenson in Moffat's .
He has had some form of professional or semi-professional contact with every actor to have played the Doctor except William Hartnell and Patrick Troughton. David Tennant is his most common acting partner amongst people who've played the Doctor. They've been on screen together on several occasions — most prominently in and the episode "Drop Dead" of , which also featured Jessica Hynes. He's also been alongside Tennant in , which also co-starred Fenella Woolgar, Stephen Fry, Bill Paterson, Richard E Grant, and Jim Broadbent; and the English-language cast of the Norwegian animated adventure , with Simon Pegg, Jim Broadbent and Steve Pemberton. He and Tom Baker have occasionally crossed paths, through their mutual connection to Matt Lucas. Gatiss script edited several episodes of , on which Baker was the regular narrator, and fellow Doctor Who Confidential narrator, Anthony Head, played a leading role. Later, he and Baker both appeared as actors in Lucas' . Christopher Eccleston once appeared on an episode of Gatiss' show, . He and Peter Davison were in several BBV productions at the start of Gatiss' career, but following that, they have acted together in the Big Finish Productions audio stories The Sirens of Time and Phantasmagoria. By virtue of his participation in The Zero Imperative, he's acted on-screen alongside Caroline John, Jon Pertwee, Sylvester McCoy, Colin Baker, Louise Jameson, and Sophie Aldred.
== Credits ==
Series 	Production relevance 	Role 	Adventure
Televised Doctor Who 	Writer 	 	The Unquiet Dead
Televised Doctor Who 	Writer 	 	The Idiot's Lantern
Televised Doctor Who 	Actor 	Richard Lazarus 	The Lazarus Experiment
Televised Doctor Who 	Writer, actor 	"Danny Boy"
(uncredited)	Victory of the Daleks
Televised Doctor Who 	Actor 	"Danny Boy"
(uncredited)	A Good Man Goes to War
Televised Doctor Who 	Writer 	 	Night Terrors
Televised Doctor Who 	Actor 	Gantok
(credited as Rondo Haxton)	The Wedding of River Song
Televised Doctor Who 	Writer 	 	Cold War
Televised Doctor Who 	Writer 	 	The Crimson Horror
Televised Doctor Who 	Writer 	 	Robot of Sherwood
Televised Doctor Who 	Writer 	 	Sleep No More
Televised Doctor Who 	Writer 	 	Empress of Mars
Televised Doctor Who 	Actor 	The Captain 	Twice Upon a Time
Big Finish's Monthly Adventures 	Actor 	Walther Schwieger 	The Sirens of Time
Big Finish's Monthly Adventures 	Writer, actor 	Jasper Jeake 	Phantasmagoria
Big Finish's Monthly Adventures 	Actor 	Karl Hendryk / Roboman 	The Mutant Phase
Big Finish's Monthly Adventures 	Actor 	Announcer 	Storm Warning
Big Finish's Monthly Adventures 	Actor 	Thinnes 	Sword of Orion
Big Finish's Monthly Adventures 	Actor 	Vincenzo 	The Stones of Venice
Big Finish's Monthly Adventures 	Writer, director, actor 	Radio Announcer 	Invaders from Mars
Doctor Who Unbound 	Actor 	Unbound Master
(occasionally credited as Sam Kisgart)	Sympathy for the Devil
The New Adventures of Bernice Summerfield	Actor 	Unbound Master
(occasionally credited as Sam Kisgart)	The Library in the Body
The New Adventures of Bernice Summerfield	Actor 	Unbound Master
(occasionally credited as Sam Kisgart)	The Emporium at the End
The New Adventures of Bernice Summerfield	Actor 	Unbound Master
(occasionally credited as Sam Kisgart)	The True Saviour of the Universe
The War Master 	Actor 	Unbound Master
(occasionally credited as Sam Kisgart)	Shockwave
The War Master 	Actor 	Unbound Master
(occasionally credited as Sam Kisgart)	He Who Wins
Masterful 	Actor 	Unbound Master
(occasionally credited as Sam Kisgart)	Exclusive scene
Masterful 	Actor 	Unbound Master
(occasionally credited as Sam Kisgart)	Masterful
Dalek Universe 	Actor 	George Sheldrake 	Buying Time
Dalek Universe 	Actor 	George Sheldrake 	The Wrong Woman
Minisodes 	Writer, actor 	Mr. Borusa 	The Pitch of Fear
Minisodes 	Writer, actor 	The Doctor 	The Web of Caves
Minisodes 	Writer, actor 	Mark 	The Kidnappers
Minisodes 	Writer, actor 	Terry Scanlon 	Global Conspiracy?
BBV P.R.O.B.E. series 	Writer, actor 	William Bruffin 	The Zero Imperative
BBV P.R.O.B.E. series 	Writer, actor 	Georgie 	The Devil of Winterborne
BBV P.R.O.B.E. series 	Writer, actor 	Alfred Emerson 	Unnatural Selection
BBV P.R.O.B.E. series 	Writer 	 	Ghosts of Winterborne
BBV The Time Travellers series 	Writer 	 	Republica
BBV The Time Travellers series 	Writer, actor 	Kell 	Island of Lost Souls
Target novelisations 	Narrator 	 	Doctor Who and the Planet of the Daleks
Target novelisations 	Narrator 	 	Twice Upon a Time
Target novelisations 	Author 	 	The Crimson Horror
Virgin New Adventures 	Author 	 	Nightshade
Virgin New Adventures 	Author 	 	St Anthony's Fire
BBC Past Doctor Adventures 	Author 	 	The Roundheads
BBC Past Doctor Adventures 	Author 	 	Last of the Gaderene
Doctor Who Confidential 	Documentary subject 	Himself 	Various episodes
Doctor Who Confidential 	Narrator 	 	Series 2
Doctor Who Storybook 	Writer 	 	Cuckoo-Spit
Doctor Who Storybook 	Writer 	 	Cold
The Brilliant Book 2012 	Writer 	 	My Special Book
Adventures in Lockdown 	Writer 	 	Fellow Traveller
Doctor Who Greatest Moments 	Documentary subject 	Himself 	The Enemies, The Doctor
BBC DVD documentaries 	Documentary subject 	Himself 	Putting the Shock into Earthshock, Waking the Dead
Other related works 	Writer, executive producer, actor	Jon Pertwee (scenes cut)	An Adventure in Space and Time
Other related works 	Writer, actor 	Third Doctor 	Regeneration[5]
== Personal life ==
Gatiss is openly gayhttps://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2010/oct/23/mark-gatiss-family-values and is married to Ian Hallard.https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2016/feb/06/mark-gatiss-interview
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== Footnotes ==
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