Dan Starkey

Dan Starkey (born 27 September ) 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 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.

Outside of Doctor Who, starting from 2012, Starkey played the hobgoblin in Russell T Davies' .

Doctor Who

 * The Sontaran Stratagem / The Poison Sky - Commander Skorr and Lieutenant Skree
 * The End of Time - Commander Jask
 * A Good Man Goes to War - Strax
 * The Great Detective - Strax
 * The Snowmen - Strax
 * The Crimson Horror - Strax
 * The Name of the Doctor - Strax
 * The Time of the Doctor - Commander Skarr and another Sontaran
 * Deep Breath - Strax
 * Last Christmas - Ian the Elf

The Sarah Jane Adventures

 * The Man Who Never Was - Plark

Doctor Who Main Range

 * Robophobia - Cravnet
 * Wirrn Isle - Sheer Jawn
 * Starlight Robbery - Marshall Stenn and Major Vlaar
 * Terror of the Sontarans - Field-Major Kayste / Skegg and Stodd

Special Releases

 * The Five Companions - The Sontarans
 * The Eighth of March
 * Inside Every Warrior

The Lost Stories

 * The Foe from the Future - Historiographer Osin
 * Hexagora - Lord Zellenger
 * The First Sontarans - Jaka

Fourth Doctor Adventures

 * Energy of the Daleks - Kevin Winston and Robomen
 * The Oseidon Adventure - Marshal Grinmal and Captain Clarke
 * The King of Sontar - Strang and Hutchins
 * The Eternal Battle - Field Major Lenk and Sergeant Major Stom
 * The Crowmarsh Experiment - Linus Strang

Dark Eyes

 * Master of the Daleks - Rastel and other Sontarans

Ravenous

 * Deeptime Frontier - Brallix

The War Doctor

 * The Eternity Cage - General Fesk and other Sontarans

Tenth Doctor Adventures

 * Time Reaver - Dorn

Classic Doctors, New Monsters

 * Fallen Angels - a priest
 * The Sontaran Ordeal - Jask

The Early Adventures

 * The Sontarans - Corporal Ellis / Slite / Shrok / Stack and Commander

The First Doctor Adventures

 * Last of the Romanovs - Yakov Yurovsky

The Paternoster Gang
As Strax
 * 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

Jago & Litefoot

 * The Devil's Dicemen - Nerville Tibbs
 * Island of Death - Nerville Tibbs
 * The Haunting - Strax

The New Counter-Measures

 * The Splintered Man - Doctor Henry Cording

UNIT: The New Series

 * The Sontaran Project - Marshall Skar / Commander Merx and Sontaran Escapee

Missy

 * A Spoonful of Mayhem - Mr Cosmo / Park Keeper / Old Man / Sphinx

The Diary of River Song

 * The Unknown - Computer
 * Five Twenty-Nine - Announcer
 * Peepshow - Commander Strumm / Sontarans

Charlotte Pollard
As Bertram
 * The Viyran Solution
 * 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

Audiobook Readings

 * Devil in the Smoke
 * Silhouette
 * Deep Time
 * Amorality Tale
 * Shakedown
 * The Scales of Injustice
 * The Lost Magic
 * Rhythm of Destruction
 * Doctor Who and the Krikkitmen
 * Molten Heart
 * The Scent of Blood

The Audio Annual

 * The Sinister Sponge

Time Lord Fairy Tales

 * The Three Little Sontarans

Video game roles

 * The Gunpowder Plot - Field Major Kaarsh
 * Doctor Who Game Maker - Sontaran

Webcast roles

 * Vastra Investigates: A Christmas Prequel - Strax
 * The Battle of Demon's Run: Two Days Later - Strax

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)".

Doctor Who Main Monthly Range

 * Terror of the Sontarans (with John Dorney)

Fourth Doctor Adventures

 * The Bad Penny

Short Trips

 * The Authentic Experience

The Paternoster Gang

 * Dining with Death