Tom Baker
Tom Baker | |
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Born | Thomas Stewart Baker 20 January 1934 Vauxhall, Liverpool, England |
Alma mater | Rose Bruford College |
Occupation(s) | Actor, writer |
Years active | 1956–present |
Known for | Fourth incarnation of the Doctor in Doctor Who |
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Children | 2 |
Website | www |
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Thomas Stewart Baker (born 20 January 1934) is an English actor and writer. He played the fourth incarnation of the Doctor in the science fiction television series Doctor Who from 1974 to 1981.[1][2]
Later in his career, Baker performed in the television series Medics (1992–1995), Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased) (2000–2001) and Monarch of the Glen (2004–2005). He also provided narration for the television comedy series Little Britain (2003–2006) and Little Britain USA (2008).[1] His voice, which has been described as "sonorous", was voted the fourth-most recognisable in the UK in 2006.[3]
Early life
Thomas Stewart Baker was born on
Baker attended Cheswardine Hall Boarding School in Shropshire. At age 15, he became a novice religious brother with the Brothers of Ploermel (Brothers of Christian Instruction) in Jersey[6] and later in Shropshire.[7] He left the monastery six years later after losing his faith.[8] In his autobiography, he said he had realised that he wanted to break each of the Ten Commandments—in order—so he thought he should get out before he did something serious.
Baker undertook his
Baker took up acting around 1956, joining the
Career
Early work
Baker was in his thirties when his professional acting career began and he worked in provincial
Baker's stage work led to work on television, where he gained small parts in series such as
Baker also appeared in
Doctor Who
In 1974, Baker took over the role of the Doctor from Jon Pertwee to become the Fourth Doctor in the BBC TV series.[2] He had been recommended to producer Barry Letts by the BBC's Head of Serials, Bill Slater, who had directed Baker in a Play of the Month production of Shaw's play The Millionairess. Letts was impressed by Baker upon meeting him, and then, after seeing his performance in The Golden Voyage of Sinbad, became convinced he was right for the part.[11] Baker was working on a construction site at the time, as acting jobs were scarce. When he first took on the role, the media dubbed him "Boiler Suit Tom" because he had been supplied for a press conference with some old studio-set clothes to replace his modest garments.[12] Baker told the Daily Express that his friends teased him that "the BBC scoured London to come up with the only middle-aged-ten-year-old in the business."[13] Letts left the series after producing Baker's debut story, Robot (1974–1975),[14] and was replaced by Philip Hinchcliffe. Under Hinchcliffe and script editor Robert Holmes the series gained a "Gothic tone" influenced by Hammer Film Productions and, according to Hinchcliffe, was aimed "a bit more to the adults in the audience".[15]
Baker quickly made the part his own, and audience-viewing figures for his first few years returned to a level not seen since the height of '
During his period as the star of Doctor Who, the original series received its highest viewing figures.
According to Baker in 2017, "When I was doing Doctor Who, it was the realisation of all my childhood fantasies... so I took to it like a duck to water, and I still do. Doctor Who was more important than life to me—I used to dread the end of rehearsal... that's why I can't stay away from it."
Baker was also involved in the reading of old Target novelisations in the BBC Audio range of talking books, "Doctor Who (Classic Novels)". Doctor Who and the Giant Robot was the first release in the range read by Baker, released on 5 November 2007, followed by Baker reading Doctor Who and the Brain of Morbius (released 4 February 2008), Doctor Who and the Creature from the Pit (released on 7 April 2008) and Doctor Who and the Pyramids of Mars (released 14 August 2008). In October 2009, Baker was interviewed for BBC Radio 4's Last Word to pay tribute to the deceased former Doctor Who producer Barry Letts. He described Letts, who originally cast him in the role, as "the big link in changing my entire life".
On 20 November 2013, Baker revealed that he would appear in the 50th-anniversary special, "The Day of the Doctor", stating, "I am in the special. I'm not supposed to tell you that, but I tell you that very willingly and specifically; the BBC told me not to tell anybody but I'm telling you straight away."[27] The episode saw Baker in the role of a mysterious curator in the National Gallery who openly discusses his resemblance to the Fourth Doctor with the Eleventh Doctor.
Baker also filmed inserts in 1992 for a video release of the unfinished Douglas Adams Doctor Who serial Shada, originally begun in 1979 but abandoned due to strike action, and presented the video release The Tom Baker Years (1992), which was a look back at his time on the series with Baker watching short clips from his episodes. In November 2017, Baker returned to the Doctor role by completing Shada. Animation was added to complete the original story. He also filmed one new scene for inclusion in the final episode.[28]
Doctor Who audio dramas
While
In March 2011, it was announced that Baker would be returning as the Fourth Doctor initially for two series of plays for Big Finish Productions, starring alongside former companions Leela (
It was reported in April 2020 that Baker had recorded "Return of the Cybermen" for Big Finish, an alternative version of the story Revenge of the Cybermen (1975), with Sadie Miller, Elisabeth Sladen's daughter, taking over the role of Sarah Jane Smith from her mother. The story was released in March 2021.[33]
Baker also returned to the role of the Curator for Big Finish, joining the casts of The Eighth Doctor Adventures and UNIT: The New Series.
Later film and television work
In 1982, Baker portrayed
For the third series of the British game show
Baker later returned to Have I Got News For You as a guest host in 2008. Baker played the role of the Captain in the
In the late 1990s, it was reported that Baker was a candidate for the role of Gandalf in the Lord of the Rings films.[35] Baker has since stated that he was only approached for "a role" in the film, and turned down the offer when told that it would mean spending months away in New Zealand.[36] He appeared as Halvarth, the Elven healer, in Dungeons & Dragons (2000).
Little Britain
After his work on
Hello, telly viewers. You're watching the BBC One! In half an hour, Jenny Dickens's classic serial Bleak House. But first let's see what the poor people are up to in the first of two visits this evening to the EastEnders.
Voice acting
Baker has appeared in various radio productions, including a role as "Britain's most celebrated criminal barrister", Sir
Baker narrated the children's computer-animated series
In the third season of the animated series Star Wars Rebels, Baker provided the voice of Bendu, a powerful Force-sensitive being.[39]
Video games
Baker starred as the Fourth Doctor in the 1997 video game
Narration
Baker is a prolific voiceover artist and his voice was voted as the fourth most recognisable in the UK in 2006 after
In 1992 and 1993, Baker narrated BBC radio comedy seriesBaker voiced both the narrator and the god "Tetsu" in the role-playing game
Baker's voice may be heard at London's
Baker voiced the character "Max Bear", a series of animated stories broadcast on Channel 4 (UK Terrestrial) from 2000 to 2005. He narrated Australian cartoonist Bruce Petty's 2006 film about world politics, Global Haywire.
Books
Baker's autobiography, Who on Earth is Tom Baker? was published in 1997 and made available on Kindle devices in September 2013.[7]
Baker has also written a short fairytale-style novel called The Boy Who Kicked Pigs. In 1981 he edited a collection of poems for children: Never Wear Your Wellies in the House and Other Poems to Make You Laugh.
In 2019, Baker released a Doctor Who novel called Scratchman.[47] Co-written with James Goss, the novel is based on a script Tom Baker and Ian Marter wrote for a Doctor Who film in the 1970s. The plot involves the Fourth Doctor meeting Scratchman who may be the devil.[48]
Theatre
In 1966, Baker became a member of Frank Dunlop's Pop Theatre Company production of Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale, which was performed at that year's Edinburgh International Festival and in the Cambridge Theatre, London.[49] Other cast members included "Carry On..." stalwart Jim Dale and up-and-coming actress Jane Asher: Baker played several small roles within the play, including the infamous "bear".
Baker joined the National Theatre in 1968 as an understudy for
After playing the horse in The Travails of Sancho Panza (directed by Joan Plowright), Laurence Olivier subsequently cast him as the Prince of Morocco in The Merchant of Venice. The play was directed by Jonathan Miller, with Baker appearing alongside Olivier as Shylock. Still under contract at the National, Baker also played a Russian in The Idiot, Sir Frances Acton in A Woman Killed With Kindness, opposite Anthony Hopkins, and Filippo in The Rules of the Game.[50]
After leaving the role of
In 1987, Baker played
Music
In 1998, Baker provided narration on the track Witness to a Murder (Part 2) on the album Six by the English alternative rockband Mansun.[54]
On 13 May 2020, Dutch producer and songwriter
Personal life
Baker's first marriage was in 1961, to Anna Wheatcroft, niece of rose grower Harry Wheatcroft; they had met and started dating whilst at acting school. They had two sons and divorced in 1966. Baker lost contact with his sons until a chance meeting with Piers in a New Zealand pub allowed them to renew their relationship.[56] In December 1980, he married Lalla Ward, who had co-starred in Doctor Who as his character's companion Romana. They divorced in April 1982.[57]
Baker married for a third time on 1 April 1986, to Sue Jerrard, who had been an assistant editor on Doctor Who. They moved to the Bell House, a converted school in
Baker is critical of religion and describes himself as irreligious, or occasionally as Buddhist, but not anti-religious.[61][62] Politically, Baker has expressed disdain for the Conservative Party and New Labour, saying in 1998, "when the Conservatives were in I cannot tell you how much I hated them, but I realise how shallow I am because I now hate the Labour Party as much."[56]
Popular culture
- English
- A cartoon of Tom Baker, as the Fourth Doctor, appeared as one of the "esteemed representatives of television" in The Simpsons episodes "Sideshow Bob's Last Gleaming", "Treehouse of Horror X", and "Mayored to the Mob". A fan of Doctor Who since childhood, Simpsons creator Matt Groening favours Tom Baker's Doctor.[64] Simpsons writer Ron Hauge said, "There are several Doctor Who actors but Tom Baker is the one we always go with."[64]
- Impressionist On one episode of Dead Ringers, Culshaw called Baker himself using his impersonation, introducing himself as the Doctor. An amused Baker replied, "No, there must be a mistake. I'm the Doctor!" The episode was so well received, that Baker later appeared with Culshaw in the 2001 TV movie Alter Ego. Dressed identically, Culshaw as Baker said "It's very nice to meet me." Whereupon Baker replied "Yes, well it's very nice to be met."
- A fictional version of Baker appears in the Kevin Sampson novel Tranmere Rovers hooligans) accidentally gatecrash. They befriend him and try to persuade him to tour the country as the Doctor sets fire to his farts. This scene was not included in the film version of the novel. In the DVD of the film the producer wanted to include extras with scenes of Baker in Doctor Who in it from the time but the BBC was not forthcoming because of the violent nature of the film.[67]
Filmography
Film
Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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1967 | The Winter's Tale | Minor role | |
1971 | Nicholas and Alexandra | Grigori Rasputin | |
1972 | The Canterbury Tales | Jenkin | |
1973 | Cari Genitori | Karl | |
The Vault of Horror | Moore | ||
Luther |
Pope Leo X | Does not appear in some versions of the film | |
Frankenstein: The True Story | Sea captain | ||
The Golden Voyage of Sinbad | Koura | ||
1974 | The Mutations | Lynch | |
1980 | The Curse of King Tut's Tomb | Hasan | |
1984 | The Passionate Pilgrim | Sir Tom | Short film |
The Zany Adventures of Robin Hood | Sir Guy de Gisbourne |
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1985 | Enemy Mine | Narrator | |
1989 | The Wolves of Willoughby Chase | Narrator | |
1998 | Backtime | Sarge | |
2000 | Dungeons & Dragons | Halvarth | |
2005 | The Magic Roundabout | Zeebad | Voice; UK dub |
2006 | Global Haywire | Narrator | |
2010 | The Genie in the Bottle | Narrator | Short film |
2013 | Break Glass in Case Of... | Monica | Voice |
Saving Santa | Santa | Voice; UK dub | |
2019 | Wonder Park | Boomer | Voice; UK dub[68] |
Television
Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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1968 | Dixon of Dock Green | The man | Episode: "The Attack" |
Market in Honey Lane | Doorman | Episode: "The Matchmakers" | |
George and the Dragon | Porter | Episode: "The 10:15 Train" | |
Z-Cars | Harry Russell | Episode: "Hudson's Way" | |
Dixon of Dock Green | Foreman | Episode: "Number 13" | |
1969 | Thirty-Minute Theatre | Corporal Schabe | Episode: "The Victims: Frontier" |
1970 | Softly, Softly | Site foreman | Episode: "Like Any Other Friday" |
1972 | Play of the Month | Dr. Ahmed el Kabir | Episode: "The Millionairess" |
1973 | Arthur of the Britons | Brandreth / Gavron | Episode: "Go Warily" |
1974–1981 | Doctor Who | Fourth Doctor | 172 episodes |
1975 | Jim'll Fix It | Fourth Doctor | 1 episode |
1976 | Piccadilly Circus | Mark Ambient | |
1977 | Nouvelles de Henry James | ||
1978 | Late Night Story | Host | 4 episodes[69] |
1979–1981 | The Book Tower | Presenter | 21 episodes |
1982 | The Hound of the Baskervilles |
Sherlock Holmes | 4 episodes (mini series) |
1983 | Jemima Shore Investigates | Dr. Norman Ziegler | Episode: "Dr. Ziegler's Casebook" |
Doctor Who | Fourth Doctor | Episode: The Five Doctors (previously untransmitted archive footage only) | |
1984 | Remington Steele | Anatole Blaylock | Episode: "Hounded Steele" |
1985 | Jackanory | Storyteller | Episode: "The Iron Man" |
1986 | The Life and Loves of a She-Devil | Father Ferguson | Episode 4 |
Redwall Friar | Hugo | (voice) | |
Blackadder II | Captain Redbeard Rum | Episode: "Potato" | |
The Kenny Everett Television Show | Patient/John Thompson/Blu-Tac/Tom | Series 4, Episode 1 | |
1990 | The Silver Chair |
Puddleglum | |
Tales of Aesop | Narrator | ||
Hyperland | Software agent | ||
Boom | Co-presenter | ||
1991 | Selling Hitler | Manfred Fischer | 4 episodes |
1992 | Cluedo | Professor Plum | 6 episodes |
Screen Two | Sir Lionel Sweeting | Episode: "The Law Lord" | |
Doctor Who: The Tom Baker Years | Presenter | Video | |
1992–1995 | Medics | Professor Geoffrey Hoyt | 34 episodes |
1993 | Doctor Who | Fourth Doctor | Episode: "Dimensions in Time" |
1994 | The Imaginatively Titled Punt & Dennis Show | Actor in supermarket | Cameo |
1998 | Have I Got News for You | Himself | |
2000 | This Is Your Life | ||
The Canterbury Tales | Simpkin | Voice only. Episode: "The Journey Back" | |
Max Bear | Max Bear | Voice only | |
2000–2001 | Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased) | Professor Wyvern | 10 episodes |
2001 | Fun at the Funeral Parlour | Quimby | Episode: "The Jaws of Doom" |
2003 | Swiss Toni | Derek Asquith | Episode: "Cars Don't Make You Fat" |
2DTV | Fourth Doctor | Voice only. Series 4, Episode 1 | |
Strange | Father Bernard | Episode: "Asmoth" | |
Fort Boyard | Captain Baker | 20 episodes | |
2003–2005, 2019 | Little Britain | Narrator | 21 episodes |
2004 | The Little Reindeer | Santa Claus | Voice |
2004–2005 | Monarch of the Glen | Donald MacDonald | 12 episodes |
2005, 2007, 2015, 2016 | Comic Relief Does Little Britain | Narrator | 5 episodes |
2006 | The Secret Show | Robert Baron | Voice only. Episode: "The Secret Room" |
2006–2007 | Little Britain Abroad |
Narrator | 2 episodes |
2007 | Agatha Christie's Marple | Frederick Treves | Episode: "Towards Zero" |
2007–2008 | The Beeps | Narrator | 45 episodes |
2008 | Little Britain USA | 6 episodes | |
Have I Got News for You | Himself | ||
2010 | Tom Baker: In Confidence | Interviewed by Professor Laurie Taylor | |
2013 | Doctor Who[70] | The Curator | Episode: "The Day of the Doctor" |
2016–2017 | Star Wars Rebels | Bendu | Voice[71] 6 Episodes |
2017 | Doctor Who | Fourth Doctor | Episode: "Shada" (voice for animation and new live action scene)[72] |
2020 | The Big Night In | Narrator | Little Britain special |
Video games
Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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1995 | Little Red Riding Hood | Narrator | Voice[73] |
1997 | Destiny of the Doctors |
Fourth Doctor | Voice and likeness |
2000 | Ecco the Dolphin: Defender of the Future | Narrator | Voice |
2001 | Hostile Waters: Antaeus Rising | ||
2003 | Warhammer 40,000: Fire Warrior | ||
2004 | Sudeki | ||
2005 | Heretic Kingdoms: The Inquisition | ||
MediEvil: Resurrection | Death | ||
2006 | Cold Winter | John Gray | |
Little Britain : The Game |
Narrator | ||
2007 | Little Britain : The Video Game
| ||
2015 | Lego Dimensions | Fourth Doctor | Voice; archive sound |
Nelly Cootalot: The Fowl Fleet | Sebastian J. Coot | Voice | |
2018 | Shadows: Awakening | Krenze |
Radio and audio drama
Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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1976 | Doctor Who and the Pescatons | Fourth Doctor | |
Exploration Earth: The Time Machine | |||
1992–1993 | Lionel Nimrod's Inexplicable World | Lionel Nimrod | |
1994 | The Russia House | Barley Blair | |
Lost Empires | Nick Ollanton | ||
1995 | Bomber | Narrator | |
1998 | Hard Times | Josiah Bounderby | |
1999 | Nicholas Nickleby | Vincent Crummles | |
2003 | Tom's Diner | Tom Plum | 4 episodes |
2009 | Doctor Who: Hornets' Nest
|
Fourth Doctor | 5 episodes |
2010 | Doctor Who: Demon Quest | 5 episodes | |
2011 | Doctor Who: Serpent Crest | 5 episodes | |
2012–present | Doctor Who: The Audio Adventures | Fourth Doctor, The Curator | 110 episodes |
2015 | Sky Adverts
|
Himself | |
2018 | The Diary of River Song
|
Fourth Doctor | Episode: "Someone I Once Knew" |
2019 | Little Brexit
|
Narrator |
Publications
Year | Title | Publisher | ISBN |
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1981 | Never Wear Your Wellies in the House and Other Poems
to Make You Laugh (edited by Tom Baker) |
Random House | ISBN 978-0099273400
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1997 | Who on Earth is Tom Baker? | HarperCollins | ISBN 0-00-638854-X
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1999 | The Boy Who Kicked Pigs | Faber and Faber | ISBN 0-571-19771-X
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2014 | Tom Baker at 80 | Big Finish | ISBN 9781781783764
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2019 | Doctor Who: Scratchman | Penguin Group | ISBN 978-1785943904
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Discography
Year | Artist | Album | Role |
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1982 | Serafina - the Story of a Whale | Adamus Plato[74] | |
1998 | Mansun | Six | Narrator on track "Witness to a Murder (Part 2)" |
2020 | Ayreon | Transitus | The Storyteller[55] |
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External links
- Official website
- Tom Baker at IMDb
- Tom Baker at the Internet Off-Broadway Database
- Tom Baker Biography – British Film Institute
- Tom Baker as Doctor Who in Denis Allen Print Birthday Cards circa 1978 at Doctor Who Appreciation Society Online Archive