Mark Strickson

Mark Strickson
Birth date:	6 April 1959
Work in the DWU
Main roles:	Vislor Turlough
Main jobs:	Actor
Stories:	see credits section
Main time period active:	1983-1984, 2000, 1999, 2001, 2005, 2009-present
Career highlights
Notable non-DWU work:	Actor: Angels, A Christmas Carol, Bergerac, Casualty Documentary maker: Australia's Kangaroos, Industrial Revelations, Nature, Mark Williams on the Rails, Massive Engines, Dark Days in Monkey City
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Mark Strickson (born on 6 April 1959 in Stratford-upon-Avon) played Vislor Turlough on Doctor Who from Mawdryn Undead to Planet of Fire. He made a cameo appearance as Turlough in The Caves of Androzani and has reprised the role for some of the Big Finish Productions audio dramas together with Peter Davison. He also played the prosecutor in the Doctor Who spoof mockumentary "Lust in Space."

Strickson studied drama at RADA in London. Prior to his role as Turlough, he had appeared in several episodes of Angels. After he left Doctor Who, he appeared in other roles, including the young Ebenezer Scrooge in a 1984 American television adaptation of A Christmas Carol starring George C. Scott.

Eventually, Mark Strickson emigrated to Australia where he studied zoology at university. He now lives in Dunedin, New Zealand. He has also directed a few wildlife programmes with people such as the late Steve Irwin.

He was at one time married to Julie Brennon, who appeared on Doctor Who in 1987. He has a son named Tom.

Credits

Television

Doctor Who

• Mawdryn Undead
• Terminus
• Enlightenment
• The King's Demons
• The Five Doctors
• Warriors of the Deep
• The Awakening
• Frontios
• Resurrection of the Daleks
• Planet of Fire
• The Caves of Androzani

Audio dramas

Big Finish Doctor Who audio stories

• Phantasmagoria
• Loups-Garoux
• Zagreus (as Captain McDonnell)
• Singularity
• Ringpullworld
• Freakshow
• Cobwebs
• The Whispering Forest
• The Cradle of the Snake
• Heroes of Sontar
• Kiss of Death
• Rat Trap
• The Emerald Tiger
• The Jupiter Conjunction
• The Butcher of Brisbane
• Eldrad Must Die!
• The Lady of Mercia
• Prisoners of Fate
• The Light at the End
• Mistfall
• Equilibrium
• The Entropy Plague
• Gardens of the Dead
• The Memory Bank and Other Stories
  • The Memory Bank
  • The Last Fairy Tale
  • Repeat Offender
  • The Becoming

Audiobooks

• The King's Demons

Documentary

• The Doctors: 30 Years of Time Travel and Beyond
• Celebration
• Winner Takes All
• Who Wants to Live Forever?
• The Flames of Sarn
• Come in Number Five
• The Doctors Revisited - The Fifth Doctor
• Boys! Boys! Boys!
• Doctor Who Live: The Afterparty

Other

• Children in Need 1985
• Lust in Space

External links

• Mark Strickson at the Internet Movie Database