Michael Kilgarriff might not be a familiar face, but you most certainly can’t have missed him. At six feet, seven inches tall he’s appeared as some of the Doctor’s most well know villains. He has played a Cyber Controller in 1966, a part he would play again in the legendary serial Tomb of the Cybermen and in 1985’s Attack of the Cybermen, an Orgron and the Robot in Tom Baker’s first serial, Robot.

Killgarriff was born in 1937 in Brighton. One of his first acting roles was in a school tour of Alice in Wonderland. He spent a number of years doing theater, radio and television. Fans of of The Muppets may recall hearing Killgarriff’s voice as the Thought Lion that appeared alongside Jim Henson on ABC’s The Jim Henson Hour in the late 1980s and as Skeksis general in 1982’s The Dark Crystal. More recently he appeared as an uncredited Death Eater in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire and his voice can be heard on Disney’s The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe DVD documentary as C.S. Lewis. Killgarriff is also an author having written numerous books and children’s joke books.

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