Alan Ruscoe


Alan Ruscoe is a British actor who is best known for his work as various aliens, monsters and androids in the Star Wars films and the television series Doctor Who.

Career

On television, he has played Baraquel, Sariel and Araquiel in Sky One's Hex season 2, as well as a number of characters in the 2005 series of Doctor Who: Blon Fel-Fotch Passameer-Day Slitheen in "Aliens of London" and "World War Three", lead Auton in "Rose", the Anne Droid in "Bad Wolf" and "The Parting of the Ways", Trine-E in "Bad Wolf", and Lute of the Forest of Cheem in "The End of the World". Ruscoe has also appeared in the Doctor Who audio dramas The Veiled Leopard, The Settling, Gallifrey: Annihilation and Bernice Summerfield: Paradise Frost for Big Finish Productions. He also played Andrew Stone, a Mars colonist later taken over by an alien lifeform in the November 2009 Doctor Who special "The Waters of Mars".
In films, Ruscoe has played Daultay Dofine, Rune Haako and Plo Koon in , and the Mangalore Kino in The Fifth Element. He also played "the Poulterer" in a 2004 television adaptation of A Christmas Carol. He appears alongside Terence Stamp, Vanessa Redgrave and Gemma Arterton in "Song For Marion" released this year.
In theatre, he has played Deputy and Snake Preacher in Whistle Down the Wind, Riff Raff in The Rocky Horror Show in the English Theatre Frankfurt, Bob Cratchit in the 2004 touring version of Scrooge and Gussie Fink-Nottle in the 2007 UK tour of By Jeeves. In Germany, he played "Bob" the pizza-boy-eating alien for the T-Online television and poster campaign.

Filmography

Film

YearTitleRoleNotes
1997The Fifth ElementMangalore Kino
1999'Daultay Dofine / Plo Koon / Bib Fortuna
1999Julie and the CadillacsJailhouse Barman
2002'Rune Haako
2012Unfinished SongJudge

Television

YearTitleRoleNotes
2005HexVarious3 episodes
2005-2009Doctor WhoAuton
Lute
Slitheen
Slitheen
Slitheen
Anne Droid/Trine-E
Anne Droid
Andy Stone
Rose
The End of the World
Aliens of London
World War Three
Boom Town
Bad Wolf
The Parting of the Ways
The Waters of Mars
2008The Sarah Jane AdventuresClown1 episode
2013EmmerdaleMarcus3 episodes