Despite this claim, Gatiss appears in the show as an actor who is murdered by the characters played by Pemberton and Shearsmith.

In 2010, writer and actor Mark Gatiss interviewed Sara Karloff about her father's career for his BBC documentary series A History of Horror.

He later appeared in the BBC Three comedy series Clone as Dr. Victor Blenkinsop also starring Stuart McLoughlin and Mark Gatiss.

The first series aired on BBC Two in 1999, and follows the lives of dozens of the town's bizarre inhabitants, played by Gatiss, Pemberton and Shearsmith in a number of different guises and make-up.

However, Shearsmith and Pemberton did reunite in 2009 to create a similarly-dark BBC sitcom, Psychoville, which featured an episode guest-starring Gatiss.

In 2010, writer and actor Mark Gatiss interviewed Warner about his role in The Omen ( 1976 ) for his BBC documentary series A History of Horror.

After a successful run by the Leeds Library Theatre Company, touring the United Kingdom in October and November 2003, the play was turned into a television drama starring Mark Gatiss and Julia Davis, broadcast in October 2006 on BBC Four as one of a series of culinary-themed dramas.

* Mark Gatiss played Mycroft in the 2010 BBC television series Sherlock.

A second series of Nighty Night and the new comedy-drama Funland, the latter co-written by his League cohort Jeremy Dyson, both featured Gatiss and aired on BBC Three in the autumn of 2005.

Fulfilling a lifelong dream, Gatiss has written four episodes for the 2005-revived BBC television series Doctor Who.

Gatiss also wrote, co-produced and appeared in Crooked House, a ghost story that was broadcast on BBC Four during Christmas 2008.

In the BBC Four production The Worst Journey in the World, Cherry-Garrard was played by Mark Gatiss.

A tribute article by writer and admirer Mark Gatiss, published on the BBC News Online website shortly after Kneale's death in 2006, praised his contribution to British television history.

In 2010, actor-writer Mark Gatiss interviewed Steele about her role in Black Sunday ( 1960 ) for his BBC documentary series A History of Horror .< ref >

* The Man in Black, a BBC Radio 4 Extra horror series on starring Mark Gatiss

Following this, Graham wrote three series of the BBC Radio 4 sci-fi sit-com Nebulous ( 2005 – 2008 ) starring Mark Gatiss as Professor Nebulous.

In 2010, writer and actor Mark Gatiss interviewed Shelley about her career at Hammer Films for his BBC documentary series A History of Horror .< ref >

It also starred Bob Hoskins as Badger, Matt Lucas as Toad, and Mark Gatiss as Ratty, and has also appeared in a modernised BBC adaptation of Rapunzel for the Fairy Tales series.

Mark Gatiss stated in the Radio Times that the original script was more bleak and frightening, but that he was advised by Davies to " make it more of a romp ".

In all these productions, Warner has worked with writer and comedian Mark Gatiss of the League of Gentlemen, and plays a guest role in the League's 2005 feature film The League of Gentlemen's Apocalypse.

Episodes following the rechristening saw some characterisations by their all-star casts, such as Zoë Wanamaker's portrayal of Ariadne Oliver, tend towards tongue-in-cheek ; comedy actors, including Mark Gatiss, Daisy Donovan, and Steve Pemberton, have featured in the casts of these later episodes.

The second series employed some other writers, including Gareth Roberts, Mark Gatiss and Jeremy Dyson.

Gatiss and Roberts both did their first ever professional fiction writing for the line, as did others who later found success elsewhere, including Daniel Blythe, Justin Richards, Andy Lane and Lance Parkin.

The titles will each feature the show's branding and introductions by key members of the " Sherlock " team, including co-founders Steven Moffat and Mark Gatiss.

stories written by Mark Gatiss and featuring numerous actors from the history of Doctor Who – including Jon Pertwee, Peter Davison, Colin Baker and Sylvester McCoy.

The adaptation was written by Mark Gatiss and has several significant plot changes from the original novel, including:

The League of Gentlemen are a quartet of British dark comedy writers / performers, formed in 1995 by Jeremy Dyson, Mark Gatiss, Steve Pemberton and Reece Shearsmith.

Gatiss is perhaps best known as a member of the sketch comedy team The League of Gentlemen ( along with fellow performers Reece Shearsmith, Steve Pemberton and co-writer Jeremy Dyson ).

Gatiss wrote and performed the comedy sketches The Web of Caves, The Kidnappers and The Pitch of Fear for the BBC's " Doctor Who Night " in 1999 with Little Britain's David Walliams, and played the Master in the Doctor Who Unbound play Sympathy for the Devil under the name " Sam Kisgart ", a pseudonym he later used for a column in Doctor Who Magazine.

He is best known as a member of the sketch comedy team The League of Gentlemen, along with fellow performers Mark Gatiss, Reece Shearsmith, and co-writer Jeremy Dyson, all of whom he met at Bretton Hall drama school in his late teens.

He is best known as co-creator of the hit West End play Ghost Stories and as a member of the sketch comedy team The League of Gentlemen, along with fellow performers Mark Gatiss, Steve Pemberton, and Reece Shearsmith, all of whom he met while they were studying at Bretton Hall drama school.

Mark Gatiss, the co-creator of the modern day adaptation series Sherlock, has announced that the first episode of the show's third series will be based on The Adventures of The Empty House.

Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock: The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, with an introduction by Mark Gatiss, followed on 27th October 2011.

Gatiss has written two episodes of Sherlock, a modern Sherlock Holmes series co-produced by himself and Steven Moffat.

The plot of the short story – Holmes and Watson attempting to recover incriminating photos from Adler – is covered briefly in the first half of the episode updated for the contemporary period ( Adler's photos are stored digitally on her mobile phone ) and adjusted ( the royal they incriminate is British and female ); the episode then moves on to an original storyline that includes Adler, Mycroft Holmes ( Mark Gatiss ) and Jim Moriarty.

The story was written by Mark Gatiss and stars Peter Davison and Mark Strickson.

* Ke Le — Sam Kisgart ( an anagram of " Mark Gatiss ", designed to conceal that actor's presence in the story before its release )

* The DVD release of this story features a fictitious documentary, Global Conspiracy, starring Mark Gatiss as investigative reporter Terry Scanlon, following up the events surrounding the incident at Global Chemicals.

* The Anneke Wills-narrated soundtrack was also released in a collector's tin called Doctor Who: Daleks, along with the soundtrack to The Evil of the Daleks and a bonus disc featuring My Life as a Dalek, a story presented by Mark Gatiss discussing the history of the Daleks.

His latest writing projects include film work, a graphic adaptation of his Torturer story with artist Ian Simmons, an entry in the Cinema Macabre book introduced by Jonathan Ross and featuring Simon Pegg, Mark Gatiss and Jeremy Dyson, and a book examining the Hellraiser movies, introduced by Doug " Pinhead " Bradley: The Hellraiser Films and Their Legacy.

Its graduates include Richard O ' Brien, Louisa Leaman, Kay Mellor, Colin Welland, John Godber, Comedian Ray Peacock ( Ian Boldsworth ), Sir Ken Robinson, David Rappaport, Mark Thomas, Jonathan Kerrigan, Esther Hall, Christopher Barlow, the comedian and actress Emma Fryer, Queer as Folk actress Carla Henry, the pop band The Research, three of the four League of Gentlemen creators / performers, Mark Gatiss, Steve Pemberton and Reece Shearsmith, Emmerdale's Emily Kirk, performer Hayli Clifton, actress Kate McGregor, Shelley Conn, This Mornings fashion expert John Scott, educationalist Wil Edmunds, and Louisa Stanley.