Mark Strickson

Last updated 09 January 2020

Acting Credits	expand all 5 roles
Turlough: 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; Phantasmagoria[BF]; Loups-Garoux[BF]; Singularity[BF]; Ringpullworld[BF]; Cobwebs[BF]; The Whispering Forest[BF]; The Cradle of the Snake[BF]; Heroes of Sontar[BF]; Kiss of Death[BF]; Rat Trap[BF]; The Jupiter Conjunction[BF]; The Butcher of Brisbane[BF]; Eldrad Must Die![BF]; Prisoners of Fate[BF]; The Lady of Mercia[BF]; The Light at the End[BF]; Mistfall[BF]; Equilibrium[BF]; The Entropy Plague[BF]; The Memory Bank and Other Stories[BF]; Devil In The Mist[BF]; Black Thursday / Power Game[BF]; The Kamelion Empire[BF]; The Emerald Tiger[BF]; The Specials[BF]	60 credits in 36 entries
Self: Children in Need[Related]; The Doctors Revisited: The Fifth Doctor[Factual]; Doctor Who Explained[Factual]	3 credits in 3 entries
Captain McDonnell: Zagreus[BF]	1 credit in 1 entry
Narrator: Gardens of the Dead[BF]; Trap For Fools[BF]	2 credits in 2 entries
Vislor Turlough: Nightmare Country[BF]; The Blazing Hour[BF]; The End of the Beginning[BF]; Forty 2	4 credits in 4 entries

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Mark Strickson

Born: Monday 6th April 1959 (age: 65)

Mark Strickson is a British TV producer and actor best known for his acting role as the character of Vislor Turlough alongside Fifth Doctor Peter Davison.

Strickson was born in Stratford-upon-Avon, England. He attended King Edward VI Grammar School in his home town, and was also a chorister at Holy Trinity Church (Shakespeare's Church), where his father John Strickson was organist and choirmaster. He studied drama at RADA in London. After he left Doctor Who, Strickson emigrated to Australia where he studied zoology at the University of New England, Armidale. He now lives in Dunedin, New Zealand.

As an actor, he appeared in the BBC medical series Angels, before landing his part in Doctor Who, in which he starred for two years. He also played the young Ebenezer Scrooge in the 1984 version of A Christmas Carol.

Strickson is now a documentary producer and director, especially of wildlife documentary programmes. He has produced programmes for, amongst others, the Discovery Channel, the BBC, ITV, Channel 4, and Animal Planet. He was the person who brought Steve Irwin to public attention with such shows as The Ten Deadliest Snakes in the World.

Strickson appeared at Doctor Who's 20th Anniversary celebrations in Longleat in 1983 alongside many other cast and crew from the series. He has reprised the role of Turlough in the Big Finish Productions Doctor Who audio dramas. He has also contributed interviews and voiceover commentaries for DVD releases of his various Doctor Who serials.

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