Tom Baker

Biography

Thomas Stewart "Tom" Baker (born 20 January 1934) is a British actor and comedian. He is best known for playing the fourth incarnation of the Doctor in the science fiction television series, Doctor Who, a role he played from 1974–1981.

Career Overview

Tom Baker has 164 screen credits in a career dating back to 1963. Their work spans 7 cinematic universes — most prominently Blackadder Features Collection with 1 titles. Signature works include Doctor Who: Full Circle, The Golden Voyage of Sinbad, Little Britain USA. Explore the interactive character relationship maps on each title page to trace how their roles connect across franchises.

Personal Facts

Known For

Acting

Gender

male

Known Credits

164

Birth Date

1934-01-20 00:00:00

Birth Place

Liverpool, England, UK

Known For

• 

  Doctor Who: Full Circle
• 

  The Golden Voyage of Sinbad
• 

  Little Britain USA
• 

  The Traveller Comes to Maidstone
• 

  Hyperland
• 

  Doctor Who: Logopolis

Associated Universes

Universe traveler — spans 7 universes

• Blackadder Features Collection (1 titles)
• Irene Huss Collection (1 titles)
• Family Guy Trilogy Collection: Laugh It Up, Fuzzball! (1 titles)
• Dungeons and Dragons (1 titles)
• Dungeons & Dragons Collection (1 titles)
• The Chronicles of Narnia BBC Collection (1 titles)
• Sinbad Collection (1 titles)

Frequent Collaborators

• Lalla Ward (2 collaborations)
• Matthew Waterhouse (2 collaborations)
• Adrian Gibbs (2 collaborations)
• John Leeson (1 collaborations)
• George Baker (1 collaborations)
• Leonard Maguire (1 collaborations)
• James Bree (1 collaborations)
• Alan Rowe (1 collaborations)
• Tony Calvin (1 collaborations)
• Richard Willis (1 collaborations)

Credits

• actors (163 credits)

  • Have I Got a Bit More News for You

    - Episode 3 (2008) ... Himself - Presenter actor actors
    2026
  • A Christmas Carol - A Filmed Radio Play Live on Stage

    Jacob Marley

    actor

    actors
    2025
  • Worlds Within: The Life of Ian Marter

    Self

    actor

    actors
    2025
  • Doctor Who: Wish World & The Reality War

    Doctor Who (archive footage) (uncredited)

    actor

    actors
    2025
  • Doctor Who at the Proms

    The Doctor (4) (archive footage)

    actor

    actors
    2024
  • Doctor Who: The Legend of Ruby Sunday & Empire of Death

    The Doctor (archive footage) (uncredited)

    actor

    actors
    2024
  • Darkness & Light: The Life of Graham Williams

    Self

    actor

    actors
    2024
  • Doctor Who: Leela vs. The Time War

    The Doctor (archive footage)

    actor

    actors
    2024
  • Talking Doctor Who

    Self / The Doctor (4) (archive footage)

    actor

    actors
    2023
  • Return to Skaro

    actor

    actors
    2021
  • Titans of Destruction: The Evolution of Giant Monster Movies

    Self - (archive footage)

    actor

    actors
    2021
  • Titans of Destruction: The Evolution of Giant Monster Movies

    Self - (archive footage)

    actor

    actors
    2021
  • Panopticon Destiny – The Matrix Files

    actor

    actors
    2021
  • Our Sarah Jane: The Life of Elisabeth Sladen

    Self

    actor

    actors
    2020
  • Behind the Sofa - Season 14

    actor

    actors
    2020
  • The Big Night In

    Self

    actor

    actors
    2020
  • The Magnificent Obsession of Michael Reeves

    Himself

    actor

    actors
    2019
  • Geek, and You Shall Find

    The Doctor (archive footage)

    actor

    actors
    2019
  • Hanging by a Thread: The Making of Logopolis

    Self

    actor

    actors
    2019
  • Doctor Who: Galactic Glitter

    Narrator

    actor

    actors
    2018
  • Tom Baker in Conversation

    actor

    actors
    2018
  • Doctor Who: Shada

    The Doctor

    actor

    actors
    2017
  • The Doctors: The Tom Baker Years

    actor

    actors
    2017
  • Panopticon Genesis

    actor

    actors
    2017
  • Doctor Who: The Husbands of River Song

    The Doctor (4) (picture) (uncredited)

    actor

    actors
    2015
  • Little Britain Sketch

    Narrator

    actor

    actors
    2015
  • Doctor Who: The Ultimate Companion

    Self / The Doctor (archive footage)

    actor

    actors
    2014
  • Star Wars Rebels

    - Zero Hour (2) (2017) ... Bendu (voice) actor actors

    - Zero Hour (1) (2017) ... Bendu (voice) actor actors

    - Visions and Voices (2016) ... Bendu (voice) actor actors

    - The Holocrons of Fate (2016) ... Bendu (voice) actor actors

    - Steps Into Shadow (2016) ... Bendu (voice) actor actors
    2014
  • Doctor Who and the Shada Man

    The Doctor

    actor

    actors
    2013
  • Doctor Who: The Day of the Doctor

    The Doctor (4)/ The Curator

    actor

    actors
    2013
  • The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot

    The Doctor (archive footage)

    actor

    actors
    2013
  • Doctor Who Live: The Afterparty

    Self

    actor

    actors
    2013
  • Doctor Who: Tales from the TARDIS

    Self

    actor

    actors
    2013
  • Saving Santa

    Santa (voice)

    actor

    actors
    2013
  • Doctor Who: The Doctors Revisited

    Self

    actor

    actors

    - The Eleventh Doctor (2013) ... Self actor actors

    - The Tenth Doctor (2013) ... Self actor actors

    - The Ninth Doctor (2013) ... Self actor actors

    - The Eighth Doctor (2013) ... Self actor actors

    - The Seventh Doctor (2013) ... Self actor actors
    2013
  • The Sandmine Murders

    actor

    actors
    2012
  • My Sarah Jane: A Tribute to Elisabeth Sladen

    Self (archive footage)

    actor

    actors
    2011
  • The Tin Men and the Witch

    actor

    actors
    2010
  • Doctor Who: The Next Doctor

    The Doctor (4) (archive footage)

    actor

    actors
    2008
  • Max Bear & The Lucky Charm

    Max Bear (voice)

    actor

    actors
    2008
  • Blackadder's Most Cunning Moments

    Self - Captain Rum (archive footage) (uncredited)

    actor

    actors
    2008
  • Now, Get Out of That

    actor

    actors
    2008
  • Little Britain USA

    actor

    actors

    - Episode 6 (2008) ... actor actors

    - Episode 5 (2008) ... actor actors

    - Episode 4 (2008) ... actor actors

    - Episode 3 (2008) ... actor actors

    - Episode 2 (2008) ... actor actors
    2008
  • The Ties That Bind Us

    The Fourth Doctor (archive footage)

    actor

    actors
    2008
  • Celebration: Doctor Who in 1983

    (archival footage)

    actor

    actors
    2008
  • A Darker Side: The Making of Planet of Evil

    actor

    actors
    2007
  • A Matter of Time

    actor

    actors
    2007
  • Family Guy Presents: Blue Harvest

    The Doctor (archive footage)

    actor

    actors
    2007
  • Are Friends Electric?

    actor

    actors
    2007
  • A New Body at Last

    actor

    actors
    2007
  • The Crowded TARDIS

    actor

    actors
    2007
  • It Started with Swap Shop

    Self (voice)

    actor

    actors
    2006
  • The Wind in the Willows

    Judge

    actor

    actors
    2006
  • Little Britain Live

    Narrator (Voice)

    actor

    actors
    2006
  • Paranormal Pigeons

    Self

    actor

    actors
    2006
  • Global Haywire

    Narrator (voice)

    actor

    actors
    2006
  • Changing Time: Living and Leaving Doctor Who

    actor

    actors
    2006
  • A History of Flight

    Narrator (voice)

    actor

    actors
    2006
  • Tom Baker’s Beyond Belief!

    actor

    actors
    2005
  • Doctor Who: A New Dimension

    Self

    actor

    actors
    2005
  • The Magic Roundabout

    Zeebad (voice)

    actor

    actors
    2005
  • Doctor Who Confidential

    - The World of Who (2005) ... Self actor actors

    - Special Effects (2005) ... Self actor actors

    - The Dark Side (2005) ... Self actor actors

    - I Get a Sidekick Out of You (2005) ... Self actor actors

    - Aliens: the Good, the Bad and the Ugly (2005) ... Self actor actors
    2005
  • The Little Reindeer

    Santa Claus (voice)

    actor

    actors
    2004
  • A New Beginning

    (archive footage)

    actor

    actors
    2004
  • The History Channel Presents: The Race To The Moon

    Narrator

    actor

    actors
    2004
  • The Story of Doctor Who

    actor

    actors
    2003
  • Longleat '83: The Greatest Show in the Galaxy

    Himself (archive footage)

    actor

    actors
    2001
  • The Home Whovian

    actor

    actors
    2001
  • Dungeons & Dragons

    Halvarth

    actor

    actors
    2000
  • The Millennium Oak

    Narrator

    actor

    actors
    1999
  • Ray Harryhausen: Working with Dinosaurs

    Self - Narrator (voice)

    actor

    actors
    1999
  • Adventures in Space and Time

    Himself

    actor

    actors
    1999
  • Carnival of Monsters

    actor

    actors
    1999
  • Backtime

    Sarge (voice)

    actor

    actors
    1998
  • Who is Tom Baker?

    actor

    actors
    1997
  • A Sci Fi Audience with Tom Baker

    Self

    actor

    actors
    1997
  • The Traveller Comes to Maidstone

    The Traveller

    actor

    actors
    1994
  • 30 Years in the TARDIS

    Himself (archive footage)

    actor

    actors
    1993
  • Doctor Who: Dimensions in Time

    The 4th Doctor

    actor

    actors
    1993
  • Selling Hitler

    Manfred Fischer

    actor

    actors
    1993
  • Doctor Who: The Tom Baker Years

    Himself

    actor

    actors
    1992
  • Doctor Who: Shada

    The Doctor / Narrator

    actor

    actors
    1992
  • The Law Lord

    Sir Lionel Sweeting

    actor

    actors
    1992
  • Who on Earth Is... Tom Baker

    Himself

    actor

    actors
    1991
  • The Chronicles of Narnia: The Silver Chair

    Puddleglum

    actor

    actors
    1990
  • Hyperland

    Tom

    actor

    actors
    1990
  • Ray Harryhausen: Movement Into Life

    Narrator

    actor

    actors
    1990
  • Have I Got News for You

    - Tom Baker, Vince Cable, Chris Addison (2008) ... Self - Host actor actors

    - Tom Baker, Muriel Gray (1998) ... Self actor actors
    1990
  • The Wolves of Willoughby Chase

    Narrator (voice) (uncredited)

    actor

    actors
    1989
  • Christian

    actor

    actors
    1989
  • Babcock Transformers

    Narrator

    actor

    actors
    1989
  • The Chronicles of Narnia

    - The Silver Chair (6) (1990) ... Puddleglum actor actors

    - The Silver Chair (5) (1990) ... Puddleglum actor actors

    - The Silver Chair (4) (1990) ... Puddleglum actor actors

    - The Silver Chair (3) (1990) ... Puddleglum actor actors

    - The Silver Chair (2) (1990) ... Puddleglum actor actors
    1988
  • Who's Who

    actor

    actors
    1986
  • Enemy Mine

    Narrator (voice)

    actor

    actors
    1985
  • The Zany Adventures of Robin Hood

    Sir Guy de Gisbourne

    actor

    actors
    1984
  • Doctor Who: Resurrection of the Daleks

    The Doctor (4) (archive footage) (uncredited)

    actor

    actors
    1984
  • The Passionate Pilgrim

    The Lord

    actor

    actors
    1984
  • Doctor Who: The Five Doctors

    The Fourth Doctor (archive footage)

    actor

    actors
    1983
  • Doctor Who: Mawdryn Undead

    The Doctor (4) (archive footage)

    actor

    actors
    1983
  • Into Another Dimension

    Narrator

    actor

    actors
    1983
  • Natural World

    - The Millennium Oak (1999) ... Narrator actor actors

    - The Otters of Yellowstone (1998) ... Narrator actor actors
    1983
  • Blackadder

    - Potato (1986) ... Captain Rum actor actors
    1983
  • Doctor Who: Earthshock

    The Doctor (4) (archive footage)

    actor

    actors
    1982
  • Doctor Who: Castrovalva

    The Doctor (archive footage)

    actor

    actors
    1982
  • Doctor Who: Logopolis

    The Doctor

    actor

    actors
    1981
  • Doctor Who: The Keeper of Traken

    The Doctor

    actor

    actors
    1981
  • Doctor Who: Warriors' Gate

    The Doctor

    actor

    actors
    1981
  • Doctor Who: State of Decay

    The Doctor

    actor

    actors
    1980
  • Doctor Who: Full Circle

    The Doctor

    actor

    actors
    1980
  • Doctor Who: Meglos

    The Doctor / Meglos

    actor

    actors
    1980
  • Doctor Who: The Leisure Hive

    The Doctor

    actor

    actors
    1980
  • The Curse of King Tut's Tomb

    Hasan

    actor

    actors
    1980
  • Doctor Who: The Horns of Nimon

    The Doctor

    actor

    actors
    1980
  • Doctor Who: Nightmare of Eden

    The Doctor

    actor

    actors
    1979
  • Doctor Who: The Creature from the Pit

    The Doctor

    actor

    actors
    1979
  • Doctor Who: City of Death

    The Doctor

    actor

    actors
    1979
  • Doctor Who: Destiny of the Daleks

    The Doctor

    actor

    actors
    1979
  • Doctor Who: The Armageddon Factor

    The Doctor

    actor

    actors
    1979
  • Doctor Who: The Power of Kroll

    The Doctor

    actor

    actors
    1979
  • Dr. Who For Keep Australia Beautiful

    The Doctor

    actor

    actors
    1979
  • Merry Christmas Doctor Who

    The Doctor

    actor

    actors
    1978
  • Doctor Who: The Androids of Tara

    The Doctor

    actor

    actors
    1978
  • Doctor Who: The Stones of Blood

    The Doctor

    actor

    actors
    1978
  • Doctor Who: The Pirate Planet

    The Doctor

    actor

    actors
    1978
  • Doctor Who: The Ribos Operation

    The Doctor

    actor

    actors
    1978
  • Doctor Who: The Invasion of Time

    The Doctor

    actor

    actors
    1978
  • Doctor Who: Underworld

    The Doctor

    actor

    actors
    1978
  • Doctor Who: The Sun Makers

    The Doctor

    actor

    actors
    1977
  • Doctor Who: Image of the Fendahl

    The Doctor

    actor

    actors
    1977
  • Doctor Who: The Invisible Enemy

    The Doctor

    actor

    actors
    1977
  • Doctor Who: Horror of Fang Rock

    The Doctor

    actor

    actors
    1977
  • Whose Doctor Who

    actor

    actors
    1977
  • Doctor Who: The Talons of Weng-Chiang

    The Doctor

    actor

    actors
    1977
  • Doctor Who: The Robots of Death

    The Doctor

    actor

    actors
    1977
  • Doctor Who: The Face of Evil

    The Doctor / Xoanon

    actor

    actors
    1977
  • Doctor Who: The Deadly Assassin

    The Doctor

    actor

    actors
    1976
  • Doctor Who: The Hand of Fear

    The Doctor

    actor

    actors
    1976
  • Doctor Who: The Masque of Mandragora

    The Doctor

    actor

    actors
    1976
  • The Author of Beltraffio

    Mark Ambient

    actor

    actors
    1976
  • Doctor Who: The Seeds of Doom

    The Doctor

    actor

    actors
    1976
  • Doctor Who: The Brain of Morbius

    The Doctor

    actor

    actors
    1976
  • Doctor Who: The Android Invasion

    The Doctor

    actor

    actors
    1975
  • Doctor Who: Pyramids of Mars

    The Doctor

    actor

    actors
    1975
  • Doctor Who: Planet of Evil

    The Doctor

    actor

    actors
    1975
  • Doctor Who: Terror of the Zygons

    The Doctor

    actor

    actors
    1975
  • Doctor Who: Revenge of the Cybermen

    Doctor Who

    actor

    actors
    1975
  • Doctor Who: Genesis of the Daleks

    The Doctor

    actor

    actors
    1975
  • Doctor Who: The Sontaran Experiment

    The Doctor

    actor

    actors
    1975
  • Doctor Who: The Ark in Space

    The Doctor

    actor

    actors
    1975
  • Doctor Who: Robot

    The Doctor

    actor

    actors
    1975
  • Frankenstein: The True Story

    Sea Captain

    actor

    actors
    1974
  • Doctor Who: Planet of the Spiders

    The Doctor

    actor

    actors
    1974
  • The Mutations

    Lynch

    actor

    actors
    1974
  • Luther

    Pope Leo X

    actor

    actors
    1974
  • The Golden Voyage of Sinbad

    Prince Koura

    actor

    actors
    1973
  • The Vault of Horror

    Moore (segment 5 "Drawn and Quartered")

    actor

    actors
    1973
  • Dear Parents

    Karl

    actor

    actors
    1973
  • The Millionairess

    Dr. Ahmed el Kabir

    actor

    actors
    1972
  • The Canterbury Tales

    Jenkin

    actor

    actors
    1972
  • Nicholas and Alexandra

    Rasputin

    actor

    actors
    1971
  • The Winter's Tale

    actor

    actors
    1968
  • BBC Play of the Month

    - The Millionairess (1972) ... Egyptian Doctor actor actors
    1965
  • Doctor Who

    - Logopolis (4) (1981) ... The Doctor actor actors

    - Logopolis (3) (1981) ... The Doctor actor actors

    - Logopolis (2) (1981) ... The Doctor actor actors

    - Logopolis (1) (1981) ... The Doctor actor actors

    - The Keeper of Traken (4) (1981) ... The Doctor actor actors
    1963

• writing (1 credits)

  • Merry Christmas Doctor Who

    writer

    writing
    1978