Alan Ruscoe is a British actor who is best known for his work as various aliens, monsters and androids in the ''

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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 "

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in "

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", 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'', ''

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. He also played Andrew Stone, a Mars colonist later taken over by an alien lifeform in the November 2009 ''

'' special "

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". In films, Ruscoe has played Daultay Dofine,

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in '' Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace'', and the Mangalore Kino in ''

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''. He also played "the Poulterer" in a 2004 television adaptation of ''

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''. 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 ''

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'' 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

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Filmography

Film

Television

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