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 Randal Moon in Wizards vs Aliens.
Roles
Television roles
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
Audio roles
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
Tenth Doctor Adventures
Classic Doctors, New Monsters
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
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)".
Production credits
Big Finish main range
- Terror of the Sontarans - writer (with John Dorney)
