List of Minor Doctor Who Villains - S - Henry Van Statten

Henry van Statten is an American villain who appeared in the Ninth Doctor episode "Dalek". Van Statten is a man who wields enormous wealth and influence, but is corrupt and greedy. His corporation is called Geocomtex and a fictional company web site was created by the BBC's official Doctor Who web team. Van Statten has been collecting extraterrestrial artifacts on the grey market and claims to have invented the broadband Internet access and the cure for the common cold from alien technology. He keeps these artifacts inside a privately owned bunker called the Vault, more than fifty floors below ground in Utah near Salt Lake City.

When the Ninth Doctor and Rose Tyler arrive in the Vault, the Doctor discovers that Van Statten's sole living specimen, which he has dubbed the Metaltron, is in fact a Dalek. Despite the Doctor's warnings to destroy it, Van Statten shows the true extent of his heartlessness by capturing the Doctor instead, to examine his alien physiology. The Dalek manages to regenerate itself by absorbing the DNA of the time travelling Rose and escapes, killing two hundred personnel before it is finally stopped. Van Statten's personal assistant, Diana Goddard, takes charge at this point and orders that Van Statten be taken away and mindwiped as he had been seen earlier having done to his employees.

Statten was played by Corey Johnson.