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Nick Briggs, 2008

Nicholas „Nick“ Briggs (* 29. September 1961 in Lyndhurst, Hampshire, England) ist ein britischer Schauspieler, Voice Actor (u.a. Hörspielsprecher), Schriftsteller, Regisseur, Sound Designer, Komponist und Produzent. Er wird insbesondere mit seiner langjährigen und vielfältigen Tätigkeit für das BBC-Flaggschiff Doctor Who und seine diversen Spin-offs in Verbindung gebracht. Besonders bekannt ist er für die Erzfeinde des Doktors, die Daleks und Cybermen, denen er mithilfe technischer Verzerrung ihre Stimmen verlieh. Zuweilen arbeitete Briggs unter dem Pseudonym Arthur Wallis.

Als Executive Producer (Finanzbeauftragter) von Big Finish Productions, die ebenfalls insbesondere für ihre Beiträge zum Whoniverse bekannt sind, schrieb und produzierte er bereits mehrere Hörspiele, bei denen er nicht selten auch Regie führte und selbst Sprechrollen übernahm.

Karriere

Doctor Who

Briggs begann seine Karriere 1987 mit Some of Briggs' earliest Doctor Who-related work was as host of The Myth Makers, a series of made-for-video documentaries produced in the 1980s and 1990s by Reeltime Pictures in which Briggs interviews many of the actors, writers and directors involved in the series. When Reeltime expanded into producing original dramas, Briggs wrote some stories and acted in others, beginning with Wartime, the first unofficial Doctor Who spin-off, and Myth Runner, a parody of Blade Runner showcasing bloopers from the Myth Makers series built around a loose storyline featuring Briggs as a down on his luck private detective in the near future.

In the late 1980s, Briggs also provided the voice of a future incarnation of the Doctor for a series of unofficial audio dramas by Audio Visuals (a forerunner of Big Finish Productions). This version of the Doctor also appeared in "Party Animals", an installment of the Doctor Who comic published in Doctor Who Magazine issue 173, cover date 15 May 1991. Briggs also provided the model for the face of the supposed "Ninth Doctor" for Doctor Who Magazine in the late 1990s, when the magazine's comic strip ran a storyline in which the Eighth Doctor apparently regenerated, only for it to later be revealed that the whole thing had been a massive deception (see Shayde and Fey Truscott-Sade).

He wrote and appeared in several made-for-video dramas by BBV, including the third of the Stranger stories, In Memory Alone opposite former Doctor Who stars Colin Baker and Nicola Bryant. (In Memory Alone would be the last of the Stranger series to have any similarity to Doctor Who, which had inspired it.) He also wrote and appeared in a non-Stranger BBV production called The Airzone Solution (1993) and directed a documentary film, Stranger than Fiction (1994).

Briggs co-wrote a Doctor Who book called The Dalek Survival Guide (Vorlage:ISBN, published by BBC Books 2002).

He also voiced the Cybercontroller and Professor Osborn in the 2002 Webcast audio series Doctor Who: Real Time.

Since Doctor Who returned to television in 2005, Briggs has provided the voices for several monsters, most notably the Daleks and the Cybermen. Briggs also voiced the Nestene Consciousness in the 2005 episode "Rose", and recorded a voice for the Jagrafess in the 2005 episode "The Long Game". He also provided the voices for the Judoon in both the 2007 and 2008 series as well as the spin-off series The Sarah Jane Adventures, and did the voice of the Ice Warrior Skaldak in the 2013 episode "Cold War".

On 9 July 2009, Briggs made his first appearance in the Doctor Who spin-off Torchwood in the serial Children of Earth, playing Special Government Advisor Rick Yates.

Briggs has directed many of the Big Finish Productions audio plays, and has provided Dalek, Cybermen, and other alien voices in several of those as well. He has also written and directed the Dalek Empire and Cyberman audio plays for Big Finish. In 2006, Briggs took over from Gary Russell (who had been producer of Big Finish since 1999) and became co-executive producer of the company. In 2007, he guest starred in the Sapphire and Steel audio drama Water Like a Stone.

Briggs voiced the Daleks in a charity theatre production of The Daleks' Master Plan and briefly appeared on stage playing a regenerated Doctor. Briggs also recorded a short cameo, as the Daleks for the live Dr Who podcast stage show, 50 Years of Doctor Who: Preachrs Podcast Live 2. He appeared in this alongside a mix of modern and classic Doctor Who actors including; Peter Davison, Richard Franklin, Simon Fisher Becker and Terry Molloy.

In 2010 he starred in Doctor Who Live as Winston Churchill.

In 2012, his Doctor Who novel The Dalek Generation was published by Random House/BBC Books.

In 2013 the BBC began production of a docudrama depicting the creation and early days of Doctor Who, called An Adventure in Space and Time, to be shown as part of the programme's fiftieth anniversary celebrations. Briggs has a cameo role in the drama playing actor Peter Hawkins, who was the original voice of the Daleks in 1963. In November 2013 he also appeared in the one-off 50th anniversary comedy homage The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot.

Weitere Projekte

Briggs also directed, created the sound design and composed the incidental music for all three series of the BBC Radio 4 science fiction comedy Nebulous, written by Graham Duff and starring Mark Gatiss.

Outside the realm of science fiction, Briggs has appeared on stage at Nottingham's Theatre Royal since 1997, including a run as Sherlock Holmes in Holmes and the Ripper by Brian Clemens and The House of the Baskervilles, adapted by Briggs himself.

Briggs has also been playing Sherlock Holmes in an acclaimed series of audio dramas for Big Finish Productions since 2011. Productions include dramatised adaptations of Conan Doyle stories such as The Hound of the Baskervilles, "The Final Problem" and "The Empty House", as well as original stories such as The Adventure of the Perfidious Mariner, The Ordeals of Sherlock Holmes and The Judgement of Sherlock Holmes. Richard Earl co-stars as Dr. Watson.

He also appeared in the films Adulthood and 4.3.2.1, both written and directed by fellow Doctor Who actor Noel Clarke. Briggs became the presenter of Radio 7's Seventh Dimension, daily science fiction segment in 2011. As of 15 April 2013, he is part of a rotating line-up of hosts of the 7th Dimension on BBC Radio 4 Extra.

• Big Finish: Cicero – Exec. Prod.
• https://www.bigfinish.com/releases/v/cicero-excerpt-1627
• https://www.bigfinish.com/releases/v/cicero-series-01-1777

Filmografie

Film

Year	Title	Director	Screenwriter	Actor	Role	Notes
1987	Wartime			Ja	Soldier	Also assistant director Video short
1991	The Corridor Sketch			Ja	Reporter	Short
1993	The Stranger: In Memory Alone		Ja	Ja	Minor	Direct-to-video
	The Airzone Solution		Ja	Ja	Sam Flint
1994	The Stranger: The Terror Game		Ja	Ja	Raven	Also composer Direct-to-video
	Breach of the Peace		Ja	Ja	Evans	Direct-to-video
1995	Eye of the Beholder		Ja	Ja	Soldier
1997	Auton	Ja	Ja
1998	Auton 2: Sentinel	Ja	Ja	Ja	Mike
1999	Auton 3		Ja			Credited as Arthur Wallis Direct-to-video
2008	Adulthood			Ja	Max
2010	4.3.2.1.			Ja	Barry
2011	Cleaning Up			Ja	Ted	Short film
2017	The Lego Batman Movie			Ja	Daleks	Theatrically-released film

Fernsehen

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2002	Doctor Who: Real Time	Cybercontroller Professor Osborn	TV mini series
	The League of Gentlemen	Garden Centre Worker	Episode: "The Medusa Touch"
2004	Coupling	Dalek	Episode: "Nightlines"
2005–present	Doctor Who	Daleks Cybermen Judoon Ice Warriors Nestene Consciousness Jagrafess Zygons	Voices only
2006	Tardisode	Dalek	Episode: "Doomsday"
2009	Doctor Who Prom	The Dalek	TV movie
	Lewis	Solicitor	Episode: "Counter Culture Blues"
	Torchwood	Rick Yates	Episode: "Children of Earth: Day Four"
	The Sarah Jane Adventures	Captain Tybo	Episode: "Prisoner of the Judoon"
2010	BBC Proms	Dalek Dialogue	Episode: "Doctor Who Prom"
2013	An Adventure in Space and Time	Peter Hawkins Daleks
	The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot	Himself

Videospiele

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2003	Judge Dredd: Dredd Vs. Death	Judge Death
2010	Doctor Who: The Adventure Games	Daleks Cybermen Oswald Fox	* "City of the Daleks" * "Blood of the Cybermen" * "Shadows of the Vashta Nerada"
2015	LEGO Dimensions	Daleks Cybermen	Uncredited

Bibliografie

• Doctor Who (in Doctor Who Magazine #218–220, 1994)
• The Dalek Survival Guide (Vorlage:ISBN, published by BBC Books 2002)

Weblinks

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• Offizielle Webseite
• Nicholas Briggs bei IMDb

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