Dan Starkey

Dan Starkey (born 27 September 1977Famous Birthdays) 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 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 ====
* Vastra Investigates: A Christmas Prequel
* The Battle of Demon's Run: Two Days Late
* Sontaran Carols
==== Doctor Who: Lockdown! ====
* Strax Saves the Day
=== Audio ===
==== Once and Future ====
* The Martian Invasion of Planetoid 50
==== The Paternoster Gang ====
* Heritage 1
** The Cars That Ate London
** A Photograph to Remember
** The Ghosts of Greenwich
* Heritage 2
** Dining with Death
** The Screaming Ceiling
** Spring-Heeled Jack
* Heritage 3
** Family Matters
** Whatever Remains
** Truth and Bone
* Heritage 4
** Merry Christmas, Mr Jago
** The Ghost Writers
** Rulers of Earth
* Rogues Gallery
** The Ghost and the Potato Man
** Symmetry of Death
** Till Death Us Do Part
==== The Eighth of March ====
* Inside Every Warrior
==== Jago & Litefoot ====
* The Haunting
==== Missy ====
* Brimstone and Terror
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 ====
* The Man Who Never Was - Plark
=== 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 Sixth Doctor Adventures ====
* Sibling Rivalry / Children of the Revolution - Marshall Skurr / Commander Lurx / Corporal Kreng
==== The Seventh Doctor Adventures ====
* Bad Day in Tinseltown - Mungo
* The Last Day 1 - Marshall Stenn / Klant / Sontarans / Ogron 2
==== Dark Eyes ====
* Master of the Daleks - Rastel / Sontarans
==== Ravenous ====
* Deeptime Frontier - Brallix
==== The War Doctor ====
* The Eternity Cage - General Fesk / Sontarans
==== The Ninth Doctor Adventures ====
As Marcus Aurelius Gallius
* Ravagers
** Sphere of Freedom
** Cataclysm
** Food Fight
* Salvation Nine - Sontarans
==== The Tenth Doctor Adventures ====
* Time Reaver - Dorn / Busker / Receptionist / Robot Voices
==== Classic Doctors, New Monsters ====
* Fallen Angels - Priest
* The Sontaran Ordeal - Jask
* The House That Hoxx Built - The Hoxx of Balhoon
==== Sontarans vs Rutans ====
* The Battle of Giant's Causeway - Commander Caecilius Crassus Procullus
* Born to Die - Skole
==== Once and Future ====
* Past Lives - Field Surgeon / Black Market Merchant
==== The Early Adventures ====
* The Sontarans - Corporal Ellis / Slite / Shrok / Stack / Commander
==== The First Doctor Adventures ====
* Last of the Romanovs - Yakov Yurovsky
==== 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 Ghost and the Potato Man - Vauxhall Vinnie
* Till Death Us Do Part - Korgon
==== The New Counter-Measures ====
* The Splintered Man - Doctor Henry Cording
==== 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 ====
* The Mystery of Sector 13 - V42
==== Susan's War ====
* The Uncertain Shore - Yeorgi / Ogron 2
==== Charlotte Pollard ====
As Bertram
* Series Two
** Embankment Station
** Ruffing
** Seed of Chaos
** The Destructive Quality of Life
==== Graceless ====
* The Ward - Chaff
* The Dance - Chaff
==== Donna Noble: Kidnapped! ====
* Out of this World - Dennis
* Spinvasion - Collector Nine
==== Rose Tyler: The Dimension Cannon ====
* The Flood - Mr Finch
* Ghost Machines - Machines
==== 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 ====
* Doctor Who and the Krikkitmen
==== Virgin New Adventures ====
* Shakedown
==== Virgin Missing Adventures ====
* The Scales of Injustice
==== BBC Past Doctor Adventures ====
* Amorality Tale
==== BBC New Series Adventures ====
* Silhouette
* Deep Time
* Molten Heart
==== The Audio Novels ====
* Emancipation of the Daleks
* The Chaos Cascade - with Beth Chalmers and Rebecca Root
==== 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 ====
* I, Kamelion
* Gobbledegook
* Meanwhile Turlough
==== 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 ====
* The Vampires of Crellium
==== K9 Audio Annual ====
* The Voton Terror
==== Time Lord Fairy Tales ====
* The Three Little Sontarans
=== 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)".
== Writing Credits ==
=== Doctor Who Main Range ===
* Terror of the Sontarans - with John Dorney
* Interlude - in Shadow of the Daleks 1
=== The Fourth Doctor Adventures ===
* The Bad Penny
=== The Seventh Doctor Adventures ===
* Bad Day in Tinseltown
=== Short Trips ===
* The Authentic Experience
=== The Paternoster Gang ===
* Dining with Death
* Symmetry of Death
== External links ==
== Footnotes ==
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