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Steven Berkoff

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Steven Berkoff: An Interview

Steven Berkoff is one of the most influential figures in the world of theatre and film, both as an actor and as a pioneering writer and director, spearheading the conception of ‘total theatre’- a method and style that, whilst avant-garde and shocking twenty years ago, is now widely mimicked in both professional and amateur theatre.

Berkoff’s reputation precedes him, much of it painting him in the same intimidating, volatile light of one of the famous villains he has played throughout his career; Rambo’s Colonel Padovsky, Bond’s General Orlov, Victor Maitland in Beverly Hills Cop. His association with other legends such as Stanley Kubrick only seals his status as a maverick and icon of the dramatic world, whilst his writing-both creative and auto-biographical- has led to him having a eager following of young writers and actors who regard him with both fear and great admiration.

It was in this context that Berkoff attended PERFORM 2013- the convention of theatre that returned to London’s Olympia for its third year. PERFORM brings together theatre professionals and young students- playwrights, actors and theatre lovers- to provide career advice and talks. Berkoff attended the event both to promote his upcoming play, An Actor’s Lament, his first verse-play in over twenty years, and to give a talk about his career, a talk that was incredibly well-received by the audience who all sat entranced by Berkoff. His way of speaking is in itself transfixing, filled with grandeur and performance- even in the context of a cold and bleak tent, with Berkoff dressed in a grey hoodie. His genius was clear as he recounted his training with Jacques Lecoq, performing mime acts each a balance of comedy and great insight into the human condition. Afterwards, as PERFORMANCE REVIEWED sat down with the great man himself, he provided even greater insight into the mercurial nature of his craft.

W : Hello Mr Berkoff. You’re here at Perform as a successful actor and are recognised as a groundbreaking force within theatre. Yet at the same time you’re here promoting your new book ‘The Actor’s Lament’ which portrays the hardship of the craft. In your talk you described acting as lonely craft with a real need for allies. Do you feel now in your career you’ve reached a stage where you feel you have your allies and if it is no longer as lonely as it once was?

S : I think it gets lonelier. Because as you start to establish yourself, you start to take your own particular road. And you find your road is a different territory and that the other people are digging out the old pits you find that you become isolated. In the beginning you are linked to these people, you work with them, you act with them, you get on with them. As you find there are more things in heaven and earth than as dreamt in your philosophy, you find that they have neglected what is there. They haven’t even begun to discover the potential of the theatre. Consequently you have to go off and do it yourself. The more you do that, what it tends to do is to create a situation where you are isolated from them. Yet you still need each other. Many of these people are very defensive. They have their theatres and they have their groups and they have their style- if you can call it that- then what they tend to do is when they have theatres and when they have means of which to show, you find yourself more and more outside. More and more if you like, not only an outsider, but generally regarded as a person who’s doing their own thing. They have nothing to do with you. You are, in a way, in another stratosphere. You are in space and they are still digging away at the old pits.

W : Your work is very visceral. Did you find that when people saw it they instantly accepted it or did you find you had to convince people?

S : Audiences immediately because we went to a different kind of form whereby most theatre draws you in the beginning, so you hear the story and then you get a little bit hooked. My philosophy was that it should attack the audience within the first ten seconds. It should be blindingly obvious that is a visceral, dynamic experience. So I’m in a different area- the audiences always accepted it. The critics did at first, then they become a bit cynical and they have their own particular values. That’s what keeps them going- they are enshrined in the old. That’s not bad, they love the old. They love their Pinter, Stoppard. But by this time, I’ve left them so far that I have not even a connection. We might be in a different business even.

G : You talked just now about the directors who use catchy tunes, ear worms and other devices to artificially entice their audience. Do you think that the British audiences are changing? Will we continue to have those who go for the sake of having to see ‘Wicked’, or ‘Phantom of the Opera’?

S : I’m afraid so, because not being challenged. What you’re doing, you’re cultivating a very dumb audience with an amazingly low threshold. They merely want to have somewhere to go to build up enough appetite for their supper afterwards. They can’t just go out for dinner- they have to see a play. Because once they’ve seen a play, they have something to discuss at dinner. But the threshold of drama at the moment is appalling.

G : Do you think British theatre has a future ahead of it? Do you think there might be a Renaissance?

S : I think so, yes. People are getting fed up of the same people, the same club, seeing the same directors. It’s up to the young people to create their own groups. To start again.

W : Well on that note, at Perform there are so many young actors and writers. Do you feel that in your career you are now moving towards a more mentoring role?

S : Yeah, a lot. But I’m still acting. I decided to some more acting. That’s why I did this play I talked about, called The Actor’s Lament. I was acting a few weeks ago and it was fantastic to be acting again. I think I’ll do more mentoring next year.

G : Turning to characters – in your talk that you described Hamlet as boring.

S : Not boring – it’s that there are so many actors around him, like Horatio. He’s like a feed.

G : When you read a script, do you instantly get a feel about the character and do you try to alter that when you play him?

S : Yes, I usually do. I usually have a strong feel but more than anything I look to see how it can be staged. I see my character and my play and the first thing I think of is ‘how does it come alive on stage?” That’s so important. How to make it quintessentially hypnotic.

G : Have there ever been any characters where you’ve not got anything, you’ve felt challenged by their aims?

S : Well, maybe a little bit. I mostly play parts I feel a great sympathy for. The one I’m doing now I feel completely inside. Sometimes I play Coriolanus; about 10 years ago I got into it, and a lot of it I feel very uncomfortable with, because he went on whining and whining. But some you don’t, unless you find a hook, it can be very difficult. But usually, I find a hook.

G : Do you think the theatre has advantages over film and television, in terms of the audience?

S : Well, the theatre lasts a lot longer. You can have a film, it comes out, wins an Academy Award, everyone talks about it for about 10 minutes, but then onto the next one. But pieces of theatre that are exciting, will last year after years after year and become part of the nation’s identity. And also you develop the piece, and it’s refracted through many different actors and interpreters. So the thing is continually enlivened, where with film you see it again and again and then it becomes part of history. Theatre has a more dynamic effect on society. Even if only a small percentage of society see it, that percentage of society that do have more power, influence, culture and effect than the billions that go along and see Rocky I and II (comically imitates Sylvester Stallone).

W : If you could express your relationship and belief in theatre in one sentence, what would it be?

S : For me, theatre is the way of discovering the truest, most innermost part of myself. That’s what it is.

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Steven Berkoff

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Steven Berkoff (born 3 August 1937) is an English actor, writer and director. Best known for his performance as General Orlov in the James Bond film Octopussy, he is typically cast in villanous roles, such as Lt. Col Podovsky in Rambo: First Blood Part II, Victor Maitland in Beverly Hills Cop, and Adolf Hitler in epic mini-series War and Remembrance.

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Steven Berkoff was born in Stepney, London 1937. He studied Drama in London and Paris. Performed with repertory companies before forming the London Theatre Group (L.T.G.) in 1968. Their first professional production was In the Penal Colony, an adaptation of a short story by Kafka. Berkoff's first original stage play East, was presented at the Edinburgh Festival in 1975.

Other original plays include West, Decadence, Greek, Kvetch, Acapulco, Harry's Christmas, Lunch, Sink the Belgrano, Massage, Sturm und Drang, Brighton Beach Scumbags, The Secret Love Life of Ophelia, Bow of Ulysses, Ritual in Blood and Messiah.

Among the many adaptations Steven Berkoff has created for the stage, directed and toured are Kafka's Metamorphosis and The Trial, Agamemnon (after Aeschylus) and Poe's The Fall of the House of Usher. His plays and adaptations have been performed in many countries and many languages.

He has also directed and toured productions of Hamlet, Macbeth and Oscar Wilde's Salome. He has directed his plays and adaptations in Japan, Germany and Los Angeles as well as Richard II and Coriolanus for the New York Shakespeare Festival.

His one-man show has toured Britain, the USA, South Africa, Finland, Italy, Singapore and Australia. He directed and played the title role in Coriolanus at the West Yorkshire Playhouse in 1995 and at the Mermaid Theatre London in 1996.

In 1997 he directed and performed the American premiere of Massage at the Odyssey Theatre in Los Angeles. This performance earned him a nomination for Best Actor in the L.A. Weekly Theatre Awards. Steven then brought Massage to the Everyman Theatre in Liverpool in preparation for its UK premiere at the Edinburgh Festival in August 1997. He was honoured with a Total Theatre Lifetime Achievement Award at the Festival.

He has acted in films such as: A Clockwork Orange, Barry Lyndon, The Passenger, McVicar, Outland, Octopussy, Beverly Hills Cop, Rambo, Underworld, Revolution, Under the Cherry Moon, Absolute Beginners, Prisoner of Rio, The Krays, Fair Game, Flynn, Another 9 1/2 weeks and Rancid Aluminium. He directed and co-starred with Joan Collins in the film version of Decadence.

Television productions include West, Metamorphosis,, Harry's Christmas, Silent Night, a reworking of Harry's Christmas and The Tell Tale Heart.

Other television credits include: Sins, Beloved Family, Knife Edge, The Professionals, War and Remembrance, Michelangelo - Season of Giants, Star Trek - Deep Space Nine, La Femme Nikita an Jonathan Creek.

He has published a variety of books such as Gross Intrusion and Graft- collections of short stories; I Am Hamlet and Meditations on Metamorphosis, Coriolanus in Deutschland, A Prisoner in Rio- all production journals; The Theatre of Steven Berkoff - a photographic history of his productions over the last two decades; America and Overview - both travel writing and poetry collections; and his autobiography Free Association.

Steven Berkoff has done a variety of voice over work and books on tape including Kafka's Metamorphosis and The Trial for Penguin Audiobooks. Radio productions include the title role in Macbeth and his musical debut as the MC in Cabaret. He recently recorded An Actor's Tale, a selection of his short stories, for Radio 4. He can also be heard on the single by the dance group N-Trance... The Mind of the Machine.

For more information or to book dates please contact Berkoff's Tour and Booking Agent

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Quark meets Gaila's partner Hagath and the pair assure him that they won't ask him to bring weapons onto the station. Hagath takes an instant liking to Quark but warns him, "Never cross me." Quark uses his holosuites to give buyers demonstrations with holographic replicas of their wares and proves to be an excellent salesmen. Hagath funnels Quark's earnings directly to his creditors to make sure that he doesn't become compromised by his debts. The group is riding high until Odo storms in on Quark and arrests him for selling weapons without a license. But then Sisko and Kira arrive and announce that Hagath and Gaila have been granted clemency by the Bajoran Provisional Government in thanks for selling them the arms that they used to win their freedom. Odo releases Quark reluctantly, but everyone warns him that he's on precariously thin ice with the law.

Quark is treated as an outcast by Federation citizens on the station, but he's still got his arm deals running. He's given pause when Hagath confronts one of his other business partners, Farrak, for poor performance and fires him on the spot. Gaila confides in Quark that he's thinking of retiring and giving Quark a greater stake in the business, but the deal doesn't sound so inviting after Gaila mentions that Hagath had Farrak killed on his flight from the station.

The trio's next big customer is the Regent of Palamar, who wants to buy a bio-weapon to kill upwards of 28 million people in a strike against his rival, General Nassuc. Horrified, Quark urges the Regent to reconsider such a brutal action, but Hagath coldly brushes Quark's objections aside. Gaila later confronts Quark and tries to convince him to set his conscience aside in the name of profit. Caught between a genocide and a murderous partner, Quark reaches out to Dax for support, but she won't listen to him. He has a nightmare about the station all being ghosts and blaming him for their deaths.

While all this has been going on, O'Brien has been unable to let go of his son Kirayoshi without the boy crying, so he's been forced to take him everywhere. He realizes that a certain section of Ops lulls the baby asleep, but it's only a temporary solution. Ultimately he takes a few days off, and Worf visits. When O'Brien hands the baby over to Worf for a moment, Kirayoshi falls alseep, and O'Brien promptly passes out himself.

Quark tells Hagath that he could not get the weapons that the Regent wanted but has an alternative, so they'll need to meet with the Regent again to discuss it. Afterward, Quark tells Gaila that he's arranged a deal with General Nassuc to double their profits and assures his cousin that all will be well as long as neither side finds out about the other. However, Quark has scheduled both deals for the same cargo bay. When the two sides meet, chaos and shooting erupts. Quark slinks away and sits down as Odo's security rushes to the scene. In the aftermath, the Regent has been killed and the General has sent assassins after Gaila and Hagath. Quark is in the clear, but Sisko saddles him with the bill for the damages to the cargo bay, which he agrees to pay off in installments.

In the end, Quark and Dax have reconciled, and they're now playing Tongo again.

Tropes in this episode:

• A Million Is a Statistic : Gaila tries to invoke this in his "one star in the sky" speech to Quark, but Quark disagrees . Later, Quark considers the death of the Regent (and the narrow escape of Hagath and Gaila) to be a small price to pay for saving the lives of 28 million people—a sentiment Sisko agrees with.
• Ambiguously Gay : Hagath may have Talura as his sexy female arm candy, but he's also very... affectionate towards Quark, gifting the Ferengi with jewels and touching him on the lobes (the Ferengi erogenous zones) while telling him "I love you."
• Anger Born of Worry : Sisko dressing down Quark in his office during the penultimate scene. Sisko's justifiably furious that Quark's attempts to sabotage the arms deal instead triggered a firefight on the Station. At the same time, though, it's heavily implied (and the Teleplay's direction confirms) that Sisko's secretly relieved that Quark's managed to get himself out of this mess.
• Arms Dealer : Gaila and Hagath, who do business with a number of interplanetary factions.
• Asshole Victim : The Regent. Neither Quark nor Sisko shed any tears over his death.
• Bad Boss : Hagath showers his associates with praise and gifts when everything is going well, but the moment they disappoint him, he turns into seething rage and will kill them just for spite.
• Batman Gambit : Quark decides to turn against both Hagath and Gaila by arranging for the Regent and his mortal enemy to run into each other in the Cargo Bay, counting on the fallout to end their business.
• Berserk Button : For the love of God, do not do anything that will hurt Hagath's profits.
• Blatant Lies : Quark tells Jadzia that the weapons he's selling are "strictly defensive" in nature. She doesn't buy this for a second.
• Call-Back : This is not the first time that Gaila and his weapons business have been mentioned. Dax also brings up that time he tried to kill Quark .
• Chew-Out Fake-Out : Quark contacts the Regent's chef to prepare a sumptuous dinner of all his favorites. Hagath pretends outrage, asking if Quark is trying to scuttle the deal. " This?! He's going to enjoy this?! [samples a plate] Well, he should, it's delicious."
• Chewing the Scenery : It's a miracle DS9's hulls are still intact with the way Hagath articulated his lines.
• The Metrons are mentioned as being among Hagath's potential customers, though it seems a bit odd that a species previously shown to abhor violence would want to buy weapons. Perhaps the Metrons weren't so much buying the weapons as confiscating them?
• Worf reminds the audience that he's got a son and recalls that he never got to see him when he was an infant.
• Cuteness Proximity : Everybody in Ops is distracted by Kirayoshi sleeping.
• Didn't See That Coming : Quark tries to pull this with regards to the firefight that he caused in the cargo bay between the Regent's and Nassuc's forces, claiming that all he wanted to happen was for the two groups to both pull a Screw This, I'm Outta Here . Sisko doesn't buy this for a moment, but whether or not Quark was being sincere, it's clear that the latter definitely didn't intend for the Regent to end up dead; not that either he or Sisko minds.
• Does This Remind You of Anything? : When Gaila sees Dax, he describes a clothed woman as "titillating" while rubbing his lobes — a well-known erogenous zone.
• Easily Forgiven : Despite their justified anger, Sisko and Jadzia (and by proxy, the rest of the Cast) are back on speaking terms with Quark after he sabotages the deal. In Sisko's case, though, that doesn't stop him from making his forgiveness expensive for Quark (by forcing him to pay for the repairs to Cargo Bay 5).
• Everyone Has Standards : Even though Quark is as greedy as the next Ferengi and open to all sorts of shady dealings, he's never been interested in the arms business. When it becomes clear that his wares will kill millions of people, it's too much for Quark's conscience.
• Evil Brit : Hagath. He is played by Steven Berkoff, after all.
• Evil Is Hammy : Hagath sells weapons, not subtlety. "So let's forgo any further attempts at jocularity, shall we? And get down to THE BUSINESS!"
• Faux Affably Evil : Hagath appears jovial and kind, seeing to it that all of Quark's debts are settled and gives him a set of rare glass beads as a token of his appreciation. Just don't make him lose his temper. Because he will actually have you murdered.
• I Can Live With That : Quark's reaction to the narrow escape of Hagath and Gaila from the station. He also has this reaction to the death of the Regent: Quark: I can live with that, too. And I can think of twenty-eight million other people who won't mind either. Sisko: Twenty-eight million... and one .
• It Will Never Catch On : Hagath and Gaila reminisce about how people said they were crazy for wanting to sell weapons to the Bajoran resistance. Hagath: What chance do they have? Invest in a winner, sell to the Cardassians.
• Karmic Shunning : Quark is freed after his arrest because Hagath has pull with the Bajoran government (he sold them arms) and Quark doesn't sell arms at the station — he just gives demos in his hole-suites. While clear of the law, the crew of DS9 shun Quark and Federation officers avoid his bar.
• Let's You and Him Fight : How Quark sets things up to get out of the weapons deal while forcing Hagath and Gaila to flee for their lives.
• Loan Shark : Quark is facing a lot of business debts about to come due, with what are implied to be dire consequences if he doesn't pay up.
• Loophole Abuse : Quark knows that Odo would never allow any weapons onto the station, so buyers are given demonstrations using holographic replicas instead. All the actual shipping takes place outside Federation territory, so they can't get busted by Starfleet. Odo acknowledges it later after detaining Quark, noting it's a mere technicality and it won't hold up legally (at least until he's forced to let Quark go on the orders of the Bajoran Government).
• Make It Look Like an Accident : Hagath has Farrakk killed in a warp core explosion. It's implied that this is how he deals with everyone who makes a screw up that hurts his profit.
• Mistaken for Transformed : Knowing that Odo wouldn't approve of the newest business venture, Quark is quickly reduced to checking the barstools just in case one of them might be a disguised Changeling, even taking the glass out of Gaila's hand and dipping his finger in it. Gaila exasperatedly reminds him that they saw Odo walking down the promenade just five minutes ago - not that this helps Quark's paranoia in the slightest.
• Mood Whiplash : The A-Plot is Quark wrestling with his conscience as his new employers openly discuss ending thousands to millions of lives for profit. The B-Plot? O'Brien's baby won't stop crying.
• My God, What Have I Done? : Quark, when he realizes what he's gotten himself involved in. He even whispers "What have I done?" after waking up from his Guilt-Induced Nightmare .
• Quark has one when the Regent wants 28 million people killed.
• Gaila has one when he realizes Quark invited General Nassuc (the Regent's mortal enemy) to the station.
• Played for Black Comedy in the penultimate scene when Sisko presents the repair bill for Cargo Bay 5 to Quark.
• Opinion-Changing Dream : Quark's nightmare of all his dead friends blaming him for getting them killed by the weapons he's selling.
• Pet the Dog : Hagath sends Quark's earnings directly to his creditors, telling him he won't be able to enjoy his profits until all his debts are settled. But to make up for it, he gives him a set of rare glass beads that are worth a fortune so that he can enjoy some fruits of his labor.
• Playing Both Sides : Hagath and Gaila occasionally do this during planetary wars, but note that it's very risky. Quark decides to exploit this by inviting General Nassuc to the station and telling Gaila that is exactly what he is planning, while leading her to a potential standoff with the Regent .
• Properly Paranoid : Just before meeting Hagath, Quark shakes the seats in his bar, worried that Odo is eavesdropping as an inanimate object, just as he has done in previous episodes. Gaila has to remind Quark that they watched him leave the promenade five minutes earlier.
• Reasonable Authority Figure : Despite his anger at Quark, and while he does stick Quark with the bill for the damage the firefight caused, Sisko also allows Quark to pay via an installment plan rather than a lump sum.
• Rejected Apology : Quark tries to make amends with Dax before sabotaging the deal, knowing he will likely die, but she rebuffs him (thinking he's just trying to bribe his way back into her good graces). She's much more receptive, though, afterwards when everything is back to normal.
• Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! : Odo brings Quark in when he suspects him of arms dealing, but as it turns out, his new employer Hagath helped the Bajoran Resistance and made their independence possible. As such, the Bajoran government, owing a boon to Hagath, lets Quark walk. Hagath and Gaila reveal that they sold to the Bajorans specifically to make a valuable connection.
• Gaila's speech to Quark about whether Quark should care about some people he doesn't know and will never meet is very similar to Harry Lime's speech in The Third Man .
• The Breen weapon that Quark demonstrates is designated CRM-114, which was the B-52 radio encryption set in Dr. Strangelove .
• Hagath's dialogue with Quark parallels an exchange from Scarface : Hagath: Don't cross me, Quark. Don't you ever cross me.
• Special Guest : Steven Berkoff as Hagath.
• Status Quo Is God : Played with. The episode premise is Quark taking a new job that will make him a ton of money and allow him to pay his debts, but it alienates his friends in the Federation, and by the end of the episode Quark is back at the bar still in debt and has mended his bridges. However, his time working with Hagath did allow him to pay off his debts, and his new debts are to Sisko for the repairs to the cargo bay that Quark's machinations damaged; while the fee is implied to be high, it's probably less than he owed before, and he's dealing with a much more reasonable debt collector this time.
• Suddenly Shouting : Hagath tends to do this at points, particularly when he tries to distract from Quark's horror at the Regent's wish to commit mass-murder by quickly saying "Let's get down to THE BUSINESS!" — more than likely a Shout-Out to Steven Berkoff's prior role in Octopussy as General Orlov, who had much the same habit.
• Take a Third Option : Before the climax, Quark has two choices: continue to be part of the weapons deal and allow for the deaths of 28 million people, or risk getting killed by Hagath and Gaila. He chooses to set things up so that all parties involved are involved in a shootout and both Hagath and Gaila are forced to flee.
• Hagath sends Quark's pay directly to his creditors to pay off his debts, as he doesn't want Quark to act irresponsible with his profits and not pay back his debtors, but he also recognizes the importance of his business partner not having that pressure on him anymore. Given the general behavior of Ferengi and the business Hagath is in, making sure Quark has no obligations to anyone else and keeping control of his money for the time being are good ideas.
• Hagath and Gaila have one by proxy when Kira begrudgingly admits that weapons dealers like them made it possible for the Bajorans (and other oppressed groups) to fight back against tyranny.
• Played straight with Hagath and Gaila, who enable warmongers to kill millions while they enjoy the luxuries from their profits.
• Subverted by Quark, who acts like he's willing to sell to both sides, but he's really setting it up so that the leaders of both sides will "accidentally" run into each other and start shooting .
• What Happened to the Mouse? : It's not mentioned what happens to Talura at the end of the episode.
• Worth It : Implied several times regarding Quark's screwing of the deal at the climax. If Quark died in the execution, it was worth it to stop the slaughter of 28 million people. (As he himself puts it: "One life for 28 million. Best deal I ever made." ) He sheds no tears over the Regent's death when it's revealed, and he doesn't even try to wiggle out of being sent the bill for the damage dealt in the firefight, only asking for a payment plan that Sisko agrees to.
• You Have Failed Me : Hagath is extremely displeased with Farrakk, who was vacationing on Risa instead of conducting a weapons deal. Needless to say, Farrakk meets with an unfortunate "accident" shortly after leaving the station.

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Steven Berkoff

Highest Rated: 88% The Passenger (1975)

Lowest Rated: Not Available

Birthday: Aug 3, 1937

Birthplace: Stepney, London, England, UK

This socially committed stage writer and director has subsidized his strikingly original London theater work with (usually) villainous film and TV roles.

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Steven Berkoff Biography (1937-)

Born August 3, 1937, in Stepney, London, England; son of Alfred (a tailor) and Pauline (maiden name, Hyman) Berkoff; married Shelley Lee (a dancer and choreographer), August 21, 1976 (marriage ended). Addresses: Agent: Artists Independent Network, 32 Tavistock St., London, WC2E 7PB England; Joanna Marston, Rosica Colin Ltd., 1 Clareville Grove Mews, London, SW7 5AH England.

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The Surprising Connections Between Star Trek And Doctor Who

In the world of science fiction television, "Star Trek" and "Doctor Who" represent the best that the United States and the United Kingdom have to offer, respectively. The long-running, time-traveling English series got a head start, launching in 1963 with William Hartnell as the titular Doctor — a mysterious space-time adventurer. The series' famous "regeneration" trope has allowed new actors to come in and out of the role over the decades, helping the series to last for a whopping 26 consecutive years before leaving the air in 1989. 

In 1966, "Star Trek" similarly dazzled American audiences, though the original series ran for just three seasons. Cancellation couldn't kill it, however, and the franchise was brought back as a series of feature films just as the 1980s were dawning. Then in 1987, the franchise exploded, spawning four new series over a decade and a half: "Star Trek: The Next Generation," "Deep Space Nine," "Voyager," and "Enterprise." Oddly enough, just as "Enterprise" was ending in 2005, "Doctor Who" returned.

Both franchises have thrived in different eras, and both have experienced modern-day renaissances. Despite being produced on different continents, the two legendary franchises have also shared a number of actors. From small parts to lead roles, here's every performer who's featured in both "Star Trek" and "Doctor Who." 

You've most likely seen or heard character actor Guy Siner before. He played a harbormaster in "Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl" and twice has voiced the supervillain Man-Ray in "Spongebob Squarepants." He's also provided voice work for a number of "Star Wars" video games and appeared in guest roles in shows in the U.K. and America, including "Diagnosis Murder" and "'Allo 'Allo!" But before all of that, he appeared as Ravon in two parts of the "Doctor Who" story "Genesis of the Daleks" in 1975. Ravon was a Kaled officer who served during the Thousand Year War and oversaw the construction of the very first Daleks built by the mastermind Davros.

Hop forward nearly 30 years, and Siner would appear in an episode of "Star Trek: Enterprise." There he played Stuart, the father of Malcolm Reed, the ship's security officer. In the Season 1 episode "Silent Enemy," Stuart Reed is contacted over subspace by Captain Archer in an attempt to learn more about Malcolm, as the officer's birthday is coming up and they are hoping to throw him a surprise party. Though a small role, it cemented him as one of the few to be part of both sci-fi franchises .

Best known for his collaborations with director Edgar Wright, Simon Pegg's roles in "Hot Fuzz," "Shaun of the Dead" and "The World's End" have made him a British comic legend. But it was his co-starring role in "Mission Impossible III" that brought him to the attention of Hollywood, and director J.J. Abrams would bring him back when he was tasked with recasting the roles of Captain Kirk, Mr. Spock, and the crew of the starship Enterprise for his 2009 reboot of the "Star Trek" franchise. Pegg would come onboard as Scotty, the overworked, exasperated, and brilliant chief engineer, and he played the role for three films. At a time when Chris Pine's star had yet to fully rise, Pegg's presence brought some name recognition to the project.

But his tenure on the Enterprise wasn't the first time Pegg found himself in a sci-fi relaunch. In 2005, Pegg starred alongside Christopher Eccleston in an episode of the first season of the "Doctor Who" revival series. Brought back after almost two decades, the new series recruited Pegg to play the villain in the seventh episode, "The Long Game." Set in the year 200,000, Pegg played a malevolent media magnate called the Editor who uses his power and influence to manipulate the people of future Earth by controlling the news.

Barrie Ingham

The second season of "Star Trek: The Next Generation" is  generally considered to be pretty rough , but for all its faults, it still includes a number of notable guest stars including Billy Campbell, Mick Fleetwood, and Mitch Ryan. While Barrie Ingham may not have been as big of a name as those others at the time, he's the only one who had previously appeared on "Doctor Who." In the episode "Up The Long Ladder," two separate groups of colonists come aboard the Enterprise looking for relocation: one is a highly advanced people who've embraced cloning as a means of reproduction, while the Bringloidi are Luddites who eschew technology in all forms. Ingham plays the Bringloidi leader Odell, whose daughter he wishes to marry off. The two groups eventually solve their mutual problems by forming a new colony together.

Back in 1965, Ingham appeared twice in the "Doctor Who" franchise. In the series, Ingham played Paris, the son of King Priam of Troy in the adventure serial "The Myth Makers." In the episode, it's Paris who finds the TARDIS and brings it into Troy, and he befriends companion Steven Taylor during the tale. Ingham would get another turn in the non-canonical "Dr. Who and the Daleks" feature film starring Peter Cushing, where he played an alien called Alydon whose people were being hunted by the Doctor's mortal foes. Ironically, Ingham's character discovers the TARDIS and befriends the Doctor's companion again in the movie.

You may recognize actress Orla Brady from her work outside both "Star Trek" and "Doctor Who." Whether it's from her recurring role as Elizabeth Bishop in "Fringe" or Dr. Karen Hopple in "American Horror Story," Brady has had a variety of major roles in her career. But her most recent is starring opposite Patrick Stewart in dual roles on "Star Trek: Picard." In the first season, she's introduced as Laris, a Romulan refugee and former Tal Shiar agent who comes to live on Picard's vineyard after the destruction of her homeworld. In Season 2, she returns as Laris, but she also plays the role of Tallin, an enigmatic "Watcher" tasked with monitoring events on Earth in the 21st century. 

Prior to her appearance in "Star Trek," Brady made a single but important appearance in "Doctor Who." Right around the franchise's 50th anniversary, Brady showed up in the episode "The Time of the Doctor," one of the show's many Christmas specials . There she played the villain Tasha Lem, an old friend of the Doctor's who calls him to the planet Trenzalore after a mysterious signal from the lost Time Lords begins emanating from the planet. Lem is ultimately revealed to be an agent of the villainous Daleks, having been converted by the robot race.

With a long career in science fiction and fantasy films, Deep Roy has done and seen it all. He's played the Oompa Loompas in Tim Burton's "Willy Wonka" remake, performed as Droopy McCool and Yoda in the "Star Wars" franchise, and appeared in such classics as "Return To Oz," "The Neverending Story," "Planet of the Apes," and "The X-Files." But after featuring in so many major franchises, Roy still hadn't appeared in "Star Trek." That is, not until the 2009 reboot from J.J. Abrams. There he played Keenser, the small alien friend to engineer Scotty (Simon Pegg) when he was stationed at a remote outpost. Keenser would later accompany Scotty to the Enterprise after his recruitment by Kirk, appearing in all three films in the series.

Deep Roy often played fantasy creatures and outer space aliens. That would again be the case in "Doctor Who," where he made appeared in the classic 1977 serial "The Talons of Wein Chiang." In the story, Roy plays Mr. Sin, a robotic servant to magician Li H'sen Chang, who turns out to be much more than he appears.

Mark Sheppard

One of the few actors on this list to appear first as a part of the "Star Trek" franchise before taking a role in "Doctor Who," Mark Sheppard's connection to the British series is closely connected to that of his actor father, W. Morgan Sheppard. In the "Star Trek: Voyager" episode "Child's Play," the younger Sheppard played Leucon, the father of former Borg drone Icheb. Captain Janeway and the crew meet Leucon when they attempt to send Icheb home to his parents, but they soon discover that he and his wife have bio-engineered their son to be a living weapon against the Borg. When they send Icheb to die against the cybernetic invaders, it's up to the Voyager crew to save him.

More than a decade after appearing in "Voyager," Sheppard would play FBI agent Canton Everett Delaware III in the "Doctor Who" episode "Day of the Moon." Delaware helps investigate a series of mysterious phone calls made to U.S. President Richard Nixon in 1969, not long before the first moon landing. The Doctor, Amy, Rory, and River Song arrive at the White House to investigate themselves, believing they could be tied to a possible alien incursion. Together, they uncover a plot by a sinister race of aliens called the Silence, who nobody can remember unless they're looking at them.

William Morgan Sheppard

William Morgan Sheppard has made multiple major guest appearances in the "Star Trek" franchise. He was first featured in the "Next Generation" episode "The Schizoid Man" as a reclusive scientist named Ira Graves. Graves meets Commander Data on his deathbed and is able to transfer his consciousness to the android's body before his passing. In the 1991 feature film "Star Trek: The Undiscovered Country," Sheppard played a Klingon overlord on the penal colony Rura Penthe who tormented Captain Kirk and Dr. McCoy. Later, in "Star Trek: Voyager," Sheppard guest-starred as alien monster hunter Qatai in "Bliss," who's engaged in a hunt for a massive space-borne life form that's feeding off of Voyager. A decade after that appearance, Sheppard would play a Vulcan official overseeing Spock's application to the Science Academy in the 2009 "Star Trek" reboot.

Sheppard's one appearance on "Doctor Who" is closely tied to his son, Mark Sheppard. In "Day of the Moon," the action of the episode takes place in 1969, where the younger Sheppard plays FBI agent Canton Everett Delaware III. In a bookend to that story, we meet a much older Canton in 2011 played by William Morgan Sheppard. At the conclusion of their adventure together in 1969, the Doctor gives him instructions to meet him, River, Amy, and Rory at Lake Silencio in Utah, where they'll burn the remnants of his body after his death at the hands of a mysterious astronaut.

John Franklyn-Robbins

Appearing in the "Star Trek: The Next Generation" Season 7 episode "Pre-Emptive Strike," John Franklyn-Robbins plays Macias, a sagely old man and member of the group of renegade freedom fighters known as the Maquis. Macias is the person in charge of the resistance on the colony of Juhraya, which was abandoned after the Federation signed a treaty with the Cardassians. Ro Laren, assigned to go undercover and gather intelligence on the Maquis, grows close to Macias, eventually seeing him as a father figure. Macias is killed during a raid by Cardassians, however, spurring Ro to defect from Starfleet and join the rogue faction of anti-Cardassian militants.

In "Doctor Who," Franklyn-Robbins appears in the classic serial "Genesis of the Daleks" as an unnamed Time Lord messenger with an important role to play. In the story, it's Franklyn-Robbins' character who kicks off the action by informing the Doctor of the danger the Daleks pose. Learning that the race of robots is going to one day wipe out all life in the universe, the messenger instructs the Doctor to travel back and stop their creation from ever occurring.

Daphne Ashbrook

The only American actor on this list, Daphne Ashbrook had serious potential to become a major player in the "Doctor Who" franchise. She appeared in the 1996 "Doctor Who" TV movie co-produced by the BBC and Fox. The film was intended to spark a whole new series that would have brought the British icon to American shores. As such, the cast was a mix of British and American talent, with Ashbrook starring as the Eighth Doctor's companion, an actual doctor named Grace Holloway who attempts to save the life of the Time Lord after he's attacked by a street gang in 20th-century San Francisco. The movie wasn't a success in the ratings, but it has its bright spots, and Ashbrook is definitely one of them.

Three years before her role as Holloway, Ashbrook appeared in an episode of "Star Trek: Deep Space Nine"  Season 2. In the episode "Melora," she plays the title character, an alien scientist and Starfleet officer who visits the Deep Space Nine station. Ashbrook's character falls in love with the station's resident physician Julian Bashir. Melora is wheelchair-bound thanks to the unusual properties of her homeworld, but Bashir comes up with a new treatment that could allow her to walk at the expense of never being able to return home.

David Ajala

Prior to his stint on "Star Trek: Discovery," English actor David Ajala may have been best known to American audiences for his role as Manchester Black on the CW superhero drama "Supergirl." Before that, though, he was a mainstay on British TV, with roles in "Law & Order: UK," "The Bill," and "Black Mirror." It was in 2010 that Ajala would appear in "Doctor Who" in just the second episode of the Tenth Doctor's tenure, "The Beast Below." There he played a sinister enforcer named Peter aboard Starship U.K. in the 33rd century. Part automaton, Peter was the leader of the Winders, mechanical men who punished rule-breakers aboard the ship and were duty-bound to protect the secrets of their home.

A decade after his role in "Doctor Who," Ajala would join the "Star Trek" franchise as a mysterious renegade named Cleveland "Book" Booker. With the U.S.S. Discovery catapulted into the 32nd century, Michael Burnham is lost and crash-lands on the planet Hima, where she encounters Book. Over the course of the season, Book and Burnham become romantically involved, and when Burnham takes command of Discovery, Book joins her aboard the ship for good. 

Christopher Neame

In 1995, British actor Christopher Neame appeared in the "Star Trek: Voyager" episode  "Heroes And Demons." In the story, he played a warrior named Unferth in a holodeck simulation of "Beowulf" run by Harry Kim. Oddly enough, Unferth is encountered by the ship's doctor when Kim goes missing within the virtual world. Later, in "Star Trek: Enterprise," Neame pops up again as a German general during World War II. But this is no holodeck recreation, as the NX-01 Enterprise had found itself transported back in time. An alien race had altered Earth's history to assist the Third Reich in its plans for global domination

Neame's role in "Doctor Who" is a bit less straightforward, and certainly one of the most unique appearances featured on this list. He played the role of Skagra, an alien engineer in the infamous serial "Shada," written by Douglas Adams. The story became infamous because, due to a number of reasons, production was halted halfway through and wouldn't be completed for decades. A combination of animation and newly filmed sequences were eventually used to finish things up. Neame himself would take part in the completion of the story, including providing commentary on the 2013 home video release.

Steven Berkoff

Excellent at playing sly villains, character actor Steven Berkoff appeared in the "Star Trek: Deep Space Nine" episode "Business As Usual." One of the show's many Ferengi-centric episodes and centered on the unscrupulous bartender Quark, the story features Berkoff as Hagath, a ruthless arms dealer who hires Quark to wine and dine his high-class clients. When Quark realizes that his work, though lucrative, might be aiding in the deaths of millions in a galactic war, he has a change of heart and must go against the vicious Hagath, as well as his own cousin Gaila. 

Fifteen years after appearing in "Star Trek," Berkoff would show up on "Doctor Who." In the 2012 Series 7 episode "The Power of Three" — which also featured an appearance by Mark Williams, of "Harry Potter" fame — Berkoff would play Shakri, the holographic image interface of an alien vessel. Shakri is encountered by Matt Smith's Doctor — along with Amy, Rory, and Rory's father Brian — when Earth is invaded by mysterious alien cubes.  

Noel Clarke

Actor Noel Clarke is the first "Star Trek" actor to have joined the sci-fi franchise after playing one of the Doctor's companions on "Doctor Who." Debuting in the first episode of the "Doctor Who" revival series in 2005, Clarke played Mickey, who at first is portrayed simply as Rose Tyler's boyfriend, and who stays behind on Earth when Rose joins the Doctor to travel space and time. But eventually, Mickey would join Rose as a full-time companion and travel across the universe with her and the Doctor. All told, Clarke would appear in 15 episodes of the show, returning to say goodbye to David Tennant's Doctor in his final episode, "The End of Time."

A few years after his final appearance on "Doctor Who," Clarke would show up in the 2014 film "Star Trek Into Darkness." There he played a man named Thomas Harewood, whose daughter is dying of an incurable disease. Harewood is approached by a mysterious man calling himself John Harrison, who offers him a cure that will save his daughter's life. In exchange, Harrison asks him to destroy a secret Starfleet facility. Harrison of course turns out to be the notorious "Star Trek" villain Khan (Benedict Cumberbatch), and it's Harewood's act of terrorism that jumpstarts the action of the film.

Maurice Roëves

The "Star Trek: The Next Generation" Season 7 episode "The Chase" is a divisive one among Trekkies, with a story that rewrites universal history and the "Star Trek" canon (per Den of Geek ). In the episode, it's revealed that a race of ancient aliens is responsible for species throughout the franchise all being bipedal humanoids. Throughout the story, the Enterprise, a Klingon captain, and a Cardassian scientist compete to uncover the secrets of an ancient computer program. At the episode's climax, actor Maurice Roëves  plays a Romulan commander who's been shadowing them all, hoping to steal the secrets for himself.

In the 1984 "Doctor Who" story "The Caves Of Androzani," Roëves appeared as Stotz, an illegal arms dealer hired by the villain Morgus to get weapons into the hands of renegade Sharaz Jek. The ensuing war on Androzani Minor draws in the Fifth Doctor (Peter Davison), who, along with his companion Peri, becomes poisoned by a dangerous substance called Spectrox, which is at the heart of the conflict. 

Chris Obi plays a small but important role in the "Doctor Who" episode "Closing Time." In the story, the Doctor is drawn back to Earth and zeroes in on a department store called Sanderson And Grainger, where something fishy is going on. He takes a job in the store, where Obi plays George, a security guard who becomes friendly with him. In the end, the Doctor's investigation leads him to uncover yet another Cyberman plot to invade Earth. 

In 2017, Obi would snag the coveted role of the lead villain on the first new "Star Trek" series in more than a decade. In "Star Trek: Discovery," Obi plays the Klingon leader T'Kuvma, who succeeds in uniting the many warring Klingon houses in a fight with the Federation. Unlike most actors who've crossed between the two sci-fi franchises, Obi actually became a main cast member in one franchise after appearing in the other.

Christina Chong

The Paramount+ series "Star Trek: Strange New Worlds" features an ensemble cast that includes Christina Chong , who also appeared in a small but memorable role on "Doctor Who" in 2011. Set aboard the original U.S.S. Enterprise, "Strange New Worlds" puts Chong into the role of security officer La'An Noonien Singh. The character's name connects her to the classic "Star Trek" villain Khan Noonien Singh, played by Ricardo Montalban in the "Original Series" episode "Space Seed" and later in "Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan."

Chong appears in the sixth series of the "Doctor Who" revival in the episode "A Good Man Goes To War." She plays a young soldier named Lorna Bucket, a member of the Church of the Papal Mainframe, which is dedicated to the Doctor's destruction. Bucket herself only joined so she might one day meet the Doctor again, however, after encountering him as a young girl growing up in the Gamma Forests. Sadly, Bucket would meet her end in the Battle of Demon's Run, and viewers never learned much else about her.

Alec Newman

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Alec Newman ( born 27 November 1974 ; age 49) is the Scottish actor who played Malik in the Star Trek: Enterprise fourth season episodes " Borderland ", " Cold Station 12 " and " The Augments ". Newman also narrated the audiobooks for the English-language editions of the Star Trek: Prometheus trilogy. He is well known to science fiction fans for his role as Paul Atreides in the Sci-Fi Channel mini-series Dune in 2000 and Children of Dune in 2003, the latter of which also featured Alice Krige and Steven Berkoff .

Born in Glasgow and raised first in Scotland and later in England, Newman was initially eying a career as a professional soccer player until an injury forced him to reconsider. He joined London's National Youth Theater at the age of 17 and later attended the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art. Upon completing his studies, Newman broke into television in both Scotland and England. This led to his feature film debut in the 1999 British drama G:MT Greenwich Mean Time and his American debut in 2000's Dune mini-series.

Newman had a supporting role in the 2002 English horror film Long Time Dead . He also appeared in the English TV movie Night Flight , in which he played the young version of the lead character, played by Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country 's Christopher Plummer . In 2003, Newman had roles in three films produced in Britain: The Death of Klinghoffer , Bright Young Things , and the starring role in The Principles of Lust . In 2004, he returned to American television, appearing on Tru Calling and playing Drogyn in two episodes of Angel , one of which was directed by James A. Contner . He then played the title role in the mini-series Frankenstein .

Newman co-starred with Mädchen Amick in Four Corners of Suburbia and with David Clennon , Zoë Saldana , Gabrielle Union , and Clarence Williams III in Constellation , two American dramas released in 2005. He more recently co-starred with Star Trek: Voyager guest actor Michael Shamus Wiles in the 2007 sci-fi film The Gene Generation . He also appeared in two Doctor Who audio stories, by Big Finish Productions , with Colin Baker and Tom Baker – his involvement with Big Finish led to his hiring for the Prometheus licence.

He starred in the 2009 British series Hope Springs , and appeared in ten episodes of the long-running drama series Casualty between 2008 and 2010.

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• Alec Newman at Wikipedia
• Alec Newman at the Internet Movie Database
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