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Darth Vader, Boba Fett, and those other Star Wars players who've time-travelled to the Doctor Who galaxy.
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00:00We're going to go through a list of two of the biggest sci-fi franchises to have existed,
00:04Doctor Who and Star Wars. How many names have crossed over between the two of them? It might
00:08surprise some people to think, well hang on, wasn't Doctor Who for the longest time this like
00:12small little BBC show that no one had heard about? And to them I would say, how dare you?
00:18With that in mind, I'm Sean Ferrick for Who Culture and here are 10 actors who appeared
00:23in Star Wars and Doctor Who. Number 10, Felicity Jones. Oscar nominee
00:29Felicity Jones tends to shy away from huge blockbuster flicks like Star Wars, largely
00:34opting for meatier dramatic roles in films like The Theory of Everything, A Monster Calls and On
00:38the Basis of Sex. However, in 2016 she dipped her toes into the genre pool in a major way,
00:44delivering a solid performance as the tough as nails Jyn Erso in Rogue One A Star Wars Story.
00:49Considering that Jyn was obliterated by the Death Star at the end of that movie, Jones's first Star
00:53Wars feature was also probably her last. Although considering that fellow deceased rebel Cassian
00:58Andor has just had his series start airing on Disney Plus, so perhaps we'll see Jones reprise
01:04her role in a similar Disney Plus prequel one day. Her Hooniverse character fared much better,
01:08with Jones starring as cockney jewel thief Ada Mullins in the 2008 episode The Unicorn and the Wasp,
01:13opposite David Tennant's 10th Doctor and Catherine Tate as his companion Donna Noble.
01:17Initially going by the name Robina Redmond in order to mask her real identity, Mullins was one of
01:22the suspects in the murder of Professor Peach, was ultimately cleared when the true culprit was
01:26uncovered by the Doctor and Agatha Christie. A giant alien wasp. Yeah it's Doctor Who, just go with it.
01:31Number 9, Michael Sheard. The late Michael Sheard didn't have much screen time in the Star Wars
01:36universe, but his small role has become the subject of a fascinating fan theory in the decades since.
01:41Popping up in 1980's The Empire Strikes Back, Sheard played Admiral Ozell, a high ranking Empire
01:46officer who oversaw the Siege of Hoth in the early stages of the movie. Unfortunately for him though,
01:51this offensive didn't work out and a pissed off Vader force choked him to death for his tactical ineptitude.
01:55The fact that Ozell failed at his job and made it easier for the Rebels to escape has led to
01:59the
01:59theory that he was actually a Rebel spy or even just a Rebel sympathiser. And hey with Hux being
02:04outed as a spy in The Rise of Skywalker it's not completely bonkers to suggest that Ozell was in
02:08a similar situation. Jumping over to the small screen and Sheard's Doctor Who resume is one of the most
02:13impressive of all time. Between 1966 and 1988 he appeared in no less than six different serials
02:20opposite five different Doctors, the most notable of these being the role of Scarman in the fourth
02:25Doctor story Pyramids of Mars and even did an audio drama with eighth Doctor Paul McGann in 2001.
02:31Now that is quite the Hooniverse legacy. Number eight, Simon Pegg. Simon Pegg is one of those rare
02:37actors who's completed the Holy Trinity. He's got roles in Star Wars, Star Trek and Doctor Who. Add to
02:43that all the cool points he gained by working on the Cornetto trilogy and Mission Impossible and this
02:47unassuming Brit is something of a god amongst nerds. After playing Chief Engineer Scotty in 2009's Star
02:53Trek reboot and its 2013 sequel and 2016 threequel, Pegg's minor easy to miss Star Wars role came
02:59during 2015's Force Awakens where the actor was hidden under several layers of makeup and prosthetics
03:05as Unkar Plutt, the penny pinching junk dealer who interacts with Rey a couple of times throughout the
03:10film. Pegg's Doctor Who character was also a bit of a dick with the superstar helping to bring the
03:14show back to television in the first series of the 2005 Revival. Squaring off against Christopher
03:18Eccleston's ninth Doctor in the episode The Long Game, Pegg played the scenery chewing villain The
03:23Editor, a glorified henchman who served a higher power that was manipulating the human race. Pegg was
03:27originally set to play Pete Tyler, a character who would recur throughout season two unlike the one
03:32and done editor. However, considering that his Hollywood career blew up around this time,
03:35it's unclear if Pegg would have been game for a more modestly budgeted small screen sci-fi.
03:40Number 7, Lily Cole. Sticking with the sequel trilogy, model turned actress Lily Cole had
03:45an ever so brief role in The Last Jedi's Canto Bight casino sequence where she stood alongside
03:50Justin Theroux's Master Codebreaker as he enjoyed a spot of gambling. Referred to as Lovey, Cole's
03:55character has just a single line of dialogue during this sequence but her extravagant hairstyle and
04:00intricately woven costume ensured she remained somewhat memorable. Cole had significantly more screen
04:05time over in the Hooniverse where she played the seductive Siren in the 2011 episode The Curse of
04:10the Black Spot. This villain of the week tormented the 11th Doctor and a gang of pirates on board a
04:14stranded ship snatching them away to their presumed deaths. In true Doctor Who fashion though it was
04:19eventually revealed that the Siren was actually a misunderstood alien who was stealing people not to
04:22kill them but to cure them. Cole's unique look contributed greatly to the Siren's otherworldly
04:27presence and she was a standout in an otherwise unremarkable episode. Number 6, David Prowse.
04:32Though James Earl Jones receives a ton of credit for making Darth Vader one of the greatest villains
04:37in movie history and of course rightfully so, it's important not to forget the man behind the mask.
04:43The late David Prowse was the man who physically played Vader in the original Star Wars trilogy with
04:47a 6 foot 6 inch bodybuilder putting his towering frame to good use. David brought a physicality to
04:52Darth Vader that was essential for the character, said George Lucas shortly after Prowse's death in late
04:572020. He made Vader leap off the page and onto the big screen. Five years before his debut in a
05:03galaxy
05:03far far away, Prowse's height again proved the perfect match for a villain role when the Doctor
05:07Who team was searching for an actor to portray the Minotaur in the third Doctor serial, The Time
05:12Monster. As is the case with many classic Doctor Who baddies, the makeup and effects don't exactly hold
05:17up to modern standards here, this Minotaur is clearly just a half naked dude with a Halloween mask on,
05:21but Prowse's bulging muscles did at least make the character feel intimidating at various points.
05:27Number five, Silas Carson. Though the vast majority of moviegoers won't know who he is,
05:33Silas Carson has built himself an incredible career over the last 20 years or so, starring opposite
05:37Hollywood heavyweights Tom Hardy, Daniel Day-Lewis and Viggo Mortensen in films like Locke, Phantom Thread
05:43and Hidalgo respectively. He's an underrated MVP within the Star Wars Galaxy 2 and that's because Carson had
05:49a whopping four roles across the prequel trilogy, from 1999's Phantom Menace to 2005's Revenge of the
05:54Sith. He played Trade Federation representatives Newt Ganray and Lot Dodd, doomed Jedi Master Ki-Adi
06:00Mundi and Republic pilot Antidar Williams who dies early in the first film. Carson's Hooniverse call
06:05sheet is also rather chunky, with the actor providing the voice of the alien species The Ood across various
06:11Doctor Who stories from 2006 to 2021. He also lent his pipes to several aliens in the 2005 episode The
06:17End of the World and even appeared in whose spin-off The Sarah Jane Adventures as General Oovlavad Kudlak.
06:22Try saying that 10 times fast. Number four, Tosin Cole.
06:26It must be a dream come true to appear in a Star Wars movie even if your role is the
06:30very
06:30definition of blink and you'll miss it. That's how Tosin Cole's part in 2015's The Force Awakens
06:35is best described, with the young actor getting mere seconds of screen time as Lieutenant Bastion,
06:39a resistance pilot who flies alongside Poe Dameron in the assault on Starkiller base. Despite having very
06:44little to do in the movie, Cole still had to adhere to the same strict secrecy rules as the rest
06:48of the
06:48cast, telling Radio Times that the audition process was crazy. They take the secrecy crazy seriously.
06:54Less than two years after The Force Awakens record-setting theatrical run, it was announced
06:58that Cole will be joining Doctor Who as one of the 13th Doctor's main companions Ryan Sinclair. He
07:03debuted in the 2018 episode The Woman Who Fell to Earth, spending two full seasons on the show before
07:08departing in the 2021 New Year's Day special. Number three, Christina Chong. Speaking of bit parts
07:15in The Force Awakens, Christina Chong's small role in the 7th episode of The Skywalker Saga is something
07:19of a mystery to this day because it was cut in its entirety during editing. In July 2014 it was
07:24announced that Chong had joined the film in a minor role and although she did travel to Abu Dhabi to
07:29shoot her scenes and even got called in for reshoots at Pinewood Studios in London, her character
07:33didn't make the final cut. Reflecting on her Star Wars experience in a recent interview, Chong said,
07:37My scene was with Daisy Ridley and it was at the beginning, the very first day of the shoot. I
07:41essentially got paid twice to do that job and it ended up on the cutting room floor, which is kind
07:45of amazing. Fortunately, Doctor Who's editors were much kinder to Chong and her character Lorna Bucket,
07:50a soldier working for the part religious, part military organisation, the Church of the Papal
07:54mainframe, played a vital role in the 2011 episode A Good Man Goes to War. Along with Peg,
08:00Chong is another of these rare actors who's completed the Trek Wars Who trifecta, having boldly gone to the
08:05Star Trek franchise in 2022's Strange New Worlds, which currently has just wrapped production on
08:11its second season. Number 2, Alan Rusko. Like Silas Carson, Alan Rusko played a host of different
08:18characters across the Star Wars prequels, although you never actually saw his face due to him being
08:22buried under mounds of prosthetics. In The Phantom Menace he played the rather eclectic trio of Jedi
08:27Master Plo Koon, slimy Twi'lek Bib Fortuna in a scene that was cut from the film, and Trade Federation
08:32Captain Dalte Dauphine, who dies towards the end of the third act when young Anakin Skywalker blows
08:37up the battleship he's stationed on. He also played another Trade Federation representative, Rune Hakko,
08:42in Attack of the Clones, who was seen alongside Count Dooku at several points throughout the film. He was
08:46also very busy over on Doctor Who and played various characters in the first series of the 2005 revival,
08:51including in Auton in the first episode, a Slothene in the fourth and fifth, and the sinister
08:55Android game show host in the finale. He returned to the show for his most recognisable role in 2009,
09:01playing Flood victim Andy Stone in the terrific 10th Doctor episode, The Waters of Mars.
09:07Number 1, Jeremy Bullock. With Boba Fett enjoying a modern resurgence thanks to The Mandalorian
09:12and his own self-titled Disney Plus show, there's never been a better time to shine a spotlight on
09:17the original man behind the mask, Jeremy Bullock. Bullock, who sadly passed away in late 2020,
09:22a month after David Prowse, wore that iconic Boba Fett costume in The Empire Strikes Back and returned
09:26three years later for Return of the Jedi. As with Vader though, the voice was provided by a different
09:30actor, in this case Jason Wingreen, whose vocals were then dubbed by the incumbent Timora Morrison
09:35in the 2004 DVD release of the original trilogy. Bullock had a second more visible role in The
09:41Empire Strikes Back 2, swapping the bounty hunter's armour for the Empire uniform of Lieutenant Sheckle.
09:45Bullock was a last minute replacement for this part, after the original actor became unavailable.
09:49He also had a cameo in Revenge of the Sith, portraying Tantive III pilot Captain Colton.
09:54Moving from the cinema to the living room now, and yes, the guy who played Boba Fett also appeared
09:58in Doctor Who, it doesn't really get much cooler than that, Bullock popped up twice during the
10:02classic years of the show, originally starring opposite First Doctor in the 1965 serial The
10:06Space Museum, and returning for a more sizeable role of Hal the Archer in 1973's The Time Warrior,
10:12alongside John Pertwee's Third Doctor. Hal's one of the very first characters to kill a Sontaran on
10:17screen, making Bullock quite the badass, no matter which galaxy he appeared in.
10:21That's everything for our list folks, and if you reckon I missed anything,
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