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Anthony Stewart Head To Face Off Against Three Doctors
In the three Doctor Who segments of the Excelis story, due for release bi-monthly from February, the Time Lord will face the wrath of a recurring villain, the Warlord Grayvorn, who, after meeting the Fifth Doctor and Iris Wildthyme in Excelis Dawns, is 'touched' by an alien artefact known as the Relic and becomes immortal. In the subsequent two Excelis adventures, Grayvorn has to adopt alternate identities in his quest for power over both the city of Excelis and the planet Artaris itself.
Joining Peter Davison, Colin Baker and Sylvester McCoy for these three stories is Anthony Stewart Head, the British actor who gained fame during the 1980s with the famous will-they wont-they Gold Blend coffee adverts before obtaining worldwide fame as Rupert Giles in the TV series Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
Now based once again in Britain, having finished his Watcher duties for Buffy, Anthony's agents let it be known to Big Finish that he was interested in playing a Doctor Who villain and we were overjoyed at the idea. Although unable to confirm that he would be playing Warlord Grayvorn/Reeve Maupassant/Lord Sutton in the trilogy, the three writers -- Paul Magrs, David A McIntee and Craig Hinton -- clearly had Anthony in mind as they wrote their scripts.
BFP co-producer Gary Russell said "As a Buffy fan, I'm overwhelmed to be working with Anthony. As a producer, I'm absolutely delighted to be directing such a great actor. It's the best of both worlds really!"
Anthony Stewart Head To Face Off Against Three Doctors
In the three Doctor Who segments of the Excelis story, due for release bi-monthly from February, the Time Lord will face the wrath of a recurring villain, the Warlord Grayvorn, who, after meeting the Fifth Doctor and Iris Wildthyme in Excelis Dawns, is 'touched' by an alien artefact known as the Relic and becomes immortal. In the subsequent two Excelis adventures, Grayvorn has to adopt alternate identities in his quest for power over both the city of Excelis and the planet Artaris itself.
Joining Peter Davison, Colin Baker and Sylvester McCoy for these three stories is Anthony Stewart Head, the British actor who gained fame during the 1980s with the famous will-they wont-they Gold Blend coffee adverts before obtaining worldwide fame as Rupert Giles in the TV series Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
Now based once again in Britain, having finished his Watcher duties for Buffy, Anthony's agents let it be known to Big Finish that he was interested in playing a Doctor Who villain and we were overjoyed at the idea. Although unable to confirm that he would be playing Warlord Grayvorn/Reeve Maupassant/Lord Sutton in the trilogy, the three writers -- Paul Magrs, David A McIntee and Craig Hinton -- clearly had Anthony in mind as they wrote their scripts.
BFP co-producer Gary Russell said "As a Buffy fan, I'm overwhelmed to be working with Anthony. As a producer, I'm absolutely delighted to be directing such a great actor. It's the best of both worlds really!"
