20 Doctor Who Actors Who Have Been In Star Wars (& 2 Who Will Be)
14. Alan Ruscoe
Ruscoe wins the gold medal for the most appearances in both franchises. To Doctor Who fans, he's recognised for being Andy Stone, the space gardener taken over by the Flood in The Waters of Mars, but he was a stalwart of the programme's revival right from the beginning, playing Slitheen, Autons, a humanoid tree and the Anne Droid in Series 1. Ruscoe even crossed over to the Doctor Who spin off series, The Sarah Jane Adventures, to portray a clown in the appropriately titled The Day of the Clown. For the Star Wars prequels, Ruscoe turned in an equally large number of performances. In The Phantom Menace, he was the Neimoidian Daultay Dofine, Jabba the Hutts right-hand man Bib Fortuna, and Jedi master Plo Koon. For Attack of the Clones, he was a different Trade Federation baddie, Rune Haako. You can never quite tell who's lurking under those Trade Federation prosthetics, it seems.
Mike has lived in the UK, Japan and the USA. Currently, he is based in Iowa with his wife and 2 young children. After working for many years as a writer and editor for a large corporation, he is now a freelancer. He has been fortunate enough to contribute to many books on Doctor Who over the last 20 years and is now concentrating on original sci-fi & fantasy short stories, with recent sales including Flame Tree, Uffda, and The Martian Wave. Also, look for his contribution on Blake's 7 to "You and Who Else", a charity anthology to be released later this year.
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