10 Doctor Who Voice Talents You've Never Even Noticed

8. Mark Gatiss (Danny Boy)

He's been a Doctor Who fan since childhood and, given the number of times he's popped in and out of the show as both actor and writer, you'll be forgiven for not realising he gave us a brief voice cameo in between. Mark wrote the Eleventh Doctor's first encounter with the Daleks, 2010's Victory of the Daleks, but what you may not have noticed was that one of the flying aces firing on the Dalek mothership from a modified Spitfire was in fact Mark Gatiss himself. "Danny Boy to the Doctor". Back in 2007 he appeared on screen in the more recognisable (for a while, at least) role as Professor Lazarus in the Tenth Doctor's adventure The Lazarus Experiment. Lazarus' dangerous experiments and attempts to reverse his ageing process turned him into a horrifying monster instead. This is Doctor Who, after all. It was bound to happen. He has even played the Doctor himself in the past, albeit in a comedy sketch called The Webb of Caves which was broadcast on BBC Two's Doctor Who Night in 1999. Still, it's still closer to stepping into the shoes of the Time Lord than most of us will ever get, but let's move on before it gets too depressing.
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Joel Cornah, is an author hailing from a small isolated village in Lancashire. Having told stories of dinosaurs, penguins and dragons to his younger siblings for nigh on two decades, it soon became apparent that these tales needed to be written down. Gathering the myriad of maps, family trees, illustrations and noted ideas, he began work on the world of dyngard. Having grown along with the audience from a collection of loosely related children’s stories, it became a whole world of adventure, magic and questions. He was awarded a degree in Creative Writing from Liverpool John Moors University and spent seven years writing a comical newspaper for The Barrow Downs Tolkien discussion forum. Currently running a charity café in Parbold village, Joel is often found deep in discussion of the works of J.R.R. Tolkien, the long history of Doctor Who, and desperately trying not to frighten people away. Often with limited success.