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 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.

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

Acting Roles
As Strax

Doctor Who

 * A Good Man Goes to War
 * The Great Detective
 * The Snowmen
 * The Crimson Horror
 * The Name of the Doctor
 * Deep Breath

Doctor Who

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

Doctor Who: Lockdown!

 * Strax Saves the Day

Special Releases

 * The Eighth of March
 * Inside Every Warrior

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

Jago & Litefoot

 * The Haunting

Missy

 * Brimstone and Terror

Other Roles

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

The Sarah Jane Adventures

 * The Man Who Never Was - Plark

The Adventure Games

 * The Gunpowder Plot - Field Major Kaarsh

BBC Website

 * The Doctor and the Dalek - Skar
 * Doctor Who Game Maker - Sontaran

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

Doctor Who 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)

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

The Tenth Doctor Adventures

 * Time Reaver - Dorn / Busker / Receptionist / Robot Voices

Classic Doctors, New Monsters

 * Fallen Angels - Priest
 * The Sontaran Ordeal - Jask

The Early Adventures

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

The First Doctor Adventures

 * Last of the Romanovs - Yakov Yurovsky

Jago & Litefoot

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

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

Target Novelisations

 * The TV Movie
 * The Crimson Horror - Strax's voice

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

BBC Audio

 * Devil in the Smoke
 * The Lost Magic
 * Rhythm of Destruction
 * The Scent of Blood
 * The Nightmare Realm

Doctor Who Audio Annuals

 * The Sinister Sponge
 * A Midsummer's Nightmare (with John Leeson)

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)".

Doctor Who Main Range

 * Terror of the Sontarans (with John Dorney)
 * Interlude (in Shadow of the Daleks 1)

Fourth Doctor Adventures

 * The Bad Penny

Short Trips

 * The Authentic Experience

The Paternoster Gang

 * Dining with Death