Dan Starkey

Dan Starkey 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 .

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

Big Finish 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

The Lost Stories

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

Big Finish bonus releases

 * The Five Companions - The Sontarans

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

Dark Eyes

 * Master of the Daleks - Rastel and other Sontarans

Jago & Litefoot

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

Big Finish Torchwood

 * One Rule - Ross Bevan

Tenth Doctor Adventures

 * Time Reaver - Dorn

Classic Doctors, New Monsters

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

The War Doctor

 * The Eternity Cage - General Fesk and other 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)".

Big Finish main range

 * Terror of the Sontarans - writer (with John Dorney)