Tom Baker

Jan 20, 1934 (91 years old) in Liverpool, England, UK

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.

Known For

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Doctor Who

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Star Wars Rebels

Bendu (voice)

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Blackadder

Captain Rum

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Natural World

Narrator

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BBC Play of the Month

Egyptian Doctor

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Saving Santa

Santa (voice)

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Little Britain

Narrator

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The Canterbury Tales

Jenkin

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The Chronicles of Narnia

Puddleglum

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The Millionairess

Dr. Ahmed el Kabir

Credits

Worlds Within: The Life of Ian Marter 2025

Self

★ NR
Doctor Who: Wish World & The Reality War 2025

Doctor Who (archive footage) (uncredited)

★ 5.3
Doctor Who at the Proms 2024

The Doctor (4) (archive footage)

★ 7.2
Doctor Who: The Legend of Ruby Sunday & Empire of Death 2024

The Doctor (archive footage) (uncredited)

★ 6.1
Darkness & Light: The Life of Graham Williams 2024

Self

★ NR
Talking Doctor Who 2023

Self / The Doctor (4) (archive footage)

★ 5
Tales of the Tardis 2023

The Doctor

★ 5
Return to Skaro 2021

★ NR
Titans of Destruction: The Evolution of Giant Monster Movies 2021

Self - (archive footage)

★ NR
Panopticon Destiny – The Matrix Files 2021

★ 0.5
Our Sarah Jane: The Life of Elisabeth Sladen 2020

Self

★ 8
Behind the Sofa - Season 14 2020

★ NR
The Magnificent Obsession of Michael Reeves 2019

Himself

★ NR
Geek, and You Shall Find 2019

The Doctor (archive footage)

★ 5.7
Hanging by a Thread: The Making of Logopolis 2019

Self

★ NR
Doctor Who: Galactic Glitter 2018

Narrator

★ 7
Tom Baker in Conversation 2018

★ NR
The Doctors: The Tom Baker Years 2017

★ NR
Panopticon Genesis 2017

★ NR
Doctor Who: The Husbands of River Song 2015

The Doctor (4) (picture) (uncredited)

★ 8
Little Britain Sketch 2015

Narrator

★ 9.5
Star Wars Rebels 2014

Bendu (voice)

★ 7.7
Doctor Who: The Ultimate Companion 2014

Self / The Doctor (archive footage)

★ 8.1
Doctor Who and the Shada Man 2013

The Doctor

★ NR
Doctor Who Live: The Afterparty 2013

Self

★ 9
The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot 2013

The Doctor (archive footage)

★ 7.8
Doctor Who: The Day of the Doctor 2013

The Doctor (4)/ The Curator

★ 8.2
Doctor Who: Tales from the TARDIS 2013

Self

★ NR
Saving Santa 2013

Santa (voice)

★ 5.2
Doctor Who: The Doctors Revisited 2013

Self

★ 6.4
The Sandmine Murders 2012

★ 8
My Sarah Jane: A Tribute to Elisabeth Sladen 2011

Self (archive footage)

★ NR
The Tin Men and the Witch 2010

★ NR
Doctor Who: The Next Doctor 2008

The Doctor (4) (archive footage)

★ 7.4
Max Bear & The Lucky Charm 2008

Max Bear (voice)

★ NR
Blackadder's Most Cunning Moments 2008

Captain Rum/Self

★ 4.5
Now, Get Out of That 2008

★ NR
Little Britain USA 2008

★ 6.8
Celebration: Doctor Who in 1983 2008

(archival footage)

★ NR
The Ties That Bind Us 2008

The Fourth Doctor (archive footage)

★ NR
Family Guy Presents: Blue Harvest 2008

The Doctor (archive footage)

★ 7.4
A Darker Side: The Making of Planet of Evil 2007

★ NR
A Matter of Time 2007

★ NR
Are Friends Electric? 2007

★ NR
The Beeps 2007

Narrator

★ 6
A New Body at Last 2007

★ NR
The Crowded TARDIS 2007

★ NR
It Started with Swap Shop 2006

Self (voice)

★ NR
The Wind in the Willows 2006

Judge

★ 5.8
Little Britain Live 2006

Narrator (Voice)

★ 7.3
The Secret Show 2006

★ 8.8
Paranormal Pigeons 2006

Self

★ NR
Global Haywire 2006

Narrator (voice)

★ NR
Changing Time: Living and Leaving Doctor Who 2006

★ 8
A History of Flight 2006

Narrator (voice)

★ 10
Tom Baker’s Beyond Belief! 2005

★ NR
Doctor Who: A New Dimension 2005

Self

★ NR
Doctor Who Confidential 2005

Self

★ 8.2
The Little Reindeer 2004

Santa Claus (voice)

★ 6
The Magic Roundabout 2004

Zeebad (voice)

★ 5.4
A New Beginning 2004

(archive footage)

★ NR
The History Channel Presents: The Race To The Moon 2004

Narrator

★ NR
The Story of Doctor Who 2003

★ NR
Little Britain 2003

Narrator

★ 7.1
Strange 2003

Father Bernard

★ 6.5
Swiss Toni 2003

★ 7
Longleat '83: The Greatest Show in the Galaxy 2001

Himself (archive footage)

★ NR
The Home Whovian 2001

★ NR
Fun at the Funeral Parlour 2001

★ 7
Dungeons & Dragons 2000

Halvarth

★ 4.3
Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased) 2000

Prof. Wyvern

★ 6.5
Monarch of the Glen 2000

Donald MacDonald

★ 7.3
The Millennium Oak 1999

Narrator

★ NR
Ray Harryhausen: Working with Dinosaurs 1999

Self - Narrator (voice)

★ 7
Adventures in Space and Time 1999

Himself

★ NR
Carnival of Monsters 1999

★ NR
Eurotika! 1999

Self

★ 8
Backtime 1998

Sarge

★ 4.4
Who is Tom Baker? Unauthorised 1997

★ NR
A Sci Fi Audience with Tom Baker 1997

Self

★ NR
30 Years in the TARDIS 1993

Himself (archive footage)

★ 7.5
Doctor Who: Dimensions in Time 1993

The 4th Doctor

★ 4.4
Selling Hitler 1993

Manfred Fischer

★ 7
Doctor Who: The Tom Baker Years 1992

Himself

★ NR
Doctor Who: Shada 1992

The Doctor / Narrator

★ 6.5
The Law Lord 1992

Sir Lionel Sweeting

★ NR
Who on Earth Is... Tom Baker 1991

Himself

★ NR
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Silver Chair 1990

Puddleglum

★ 5.9
Medics 1990

Prof. Geoffrey Hoyt, general surgeon

★ 5.3
Hyperland 1990

Tom

★ 7
Cluedo 1990

Professor Plum

★ 6.4
Ray Harryhausen: Movement Into Life 1990

Narrator

★ NR
The Wolves of Willoughby Chase 1989

Narrator (voice) (uncredited)

★ 5.6
Christian 1989

★ NR
Babcock Transformers 1989

Narrator

★ NR
The Chronicles of Narnia 1988

Puddleglum

★ 7.4
The Life and Loves of a She-Devil 1986

Father Ferguson

★ 7.1
Who's Who 1986

★ NR
Enemy Mine 1985

Narrator (voice)

★ 6.9
Doctor Who's Who's Who 1985

Doctor Who

★ NR
The Zany Adventures of Robin Hood 1984

Sir Guy de Gisbourne

★ 5.2
Doctor Who: Resurrection of the Daleks 1984

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

★ 7.8
The Passionate Pilgrim 1984

The Lord

★ NR
Doctor Who: The Five Doctors 1983

The Doctor (4) (archive footage)

★ 7.7
Natural World 1983

Narrator

★ 7.2
Blackadder 1983

Captain Rum

★ 8
Doctor Who: Mawdryn Undead 1983

The Doctor (4) (archive footage)

★ 7
Into Another Dimension 1983

Narrator

★ NR
The Hound of the Baskervilles 1982

Sherlock Holmes

★ 6.2
Doctor Who: Earthshock 1982

The Doctor (4) (archive footage)

★ 8.1
The Kenny Everett Television Show 1982

Self

★ 7
Doctor Who: Castrovalva 1982

The Doctor (archive footage)

★ 7.8
Doctor Who: Logopolis 1981

The Doctor

★ 6.8
Doctor Who: The Keeper of Traken 1981

The Doctor

★ 7.4
Doctor Who: Warriors' Gate 1981

The Doctor

★ 5.2
Doctor Who: State of Decay 1980

The Doctor

★ 8
Doctor Who: Full Circle 1980

The Doctor

★ 6.3
Doctor Who: Meglos 1980

The Doctor / Meglos

★ 6
Doctor Who: The Leisure Hive 1980

The Doctor

★ 7
The Curse of King Tut's Tomb 1980

Hasan

★ 4.3
Doctor Who: The Horns of Nimon 1980

The Doctor

★ 4
Doctor Who: Nightmare of Eden 1979

The Doctor

★ 6.5
Doctor Who: The Creature from the Pit 1979

The Doctor

★ 6
Doctor Who: City of Death 1979

The Doctor

★ 8.9
Doctor Who: Destiny of the Daleks 1979

The Doctor

★ 5.2
Doctor Who: The Armageddon Factor 1979

The Doctor

★ 5
Doctor Who: The Power of Kroll 1979

The Doctor

★ 4
Dr. Who For Keep Australia Beautiful 1979

The Doctor

★ NR
Late Night Story 1978

self

★ NR
Merry Christmas Doctor Who 1978

The Doctor

★ 10
Doctor Who: The Androids of Tara 1978

The Doctor

★ 7.3
Doctor Who: The Stones of Blood 1978

The Doctor

★ 8
Doctor Who: The Pirate Planet 1978

The Doctor

★ 6.8
Doctor Who: The Ribos Operation 1978

The Doctor

★ 7
Doctor Who: The Invasion of Time 1978

The Doctor

★ 6
Doctor Who: Underworld 1978

The Doctor

★ 5.5
Doctor Who: The Sun Makers 1977

The Doctor

★ 7
Doctor Who: Image of the Fendahl 1977

The Doctor

★ 7.2
Doctor Who: The Invisible Enemy 1977

The Doctor

★ 7.2
Doctor Who: Horror of Fang Rock 1977

The Doctor

★ 7.7
Whose Doctor Who 1977

★ 2
Doctor Who: The Talons of Weng-Chiang 1977

The Doctor

★ 8.4
Doctor Who: The Robots of Death 1977

The Doctor

★ 7.9
Doctor Who: The Face of Evil 1977

The Doctor / Xoanon

★ 8
Doctor Who: The Deadly Assassin 1976

The Doctor

★ 8.5
Doctor Who: The Hand of Fear 1976

The Doctor

★ 7.5
Doctor Who: The Masque of Mandragora 1976

The Doctor

★ 6.6
The Author of Beltraffio 1976

Mark Ambient

★ 7
Nouvelles d'Henry James 1976

Mark Ambient

★ NR
Doctor Who: The Seeds of Doom 1976

The Doctor

★ 9
Doctor Who: The Brain of Morbius 1976

The Doctor

★ 8.2
Doctor Who: The Android Invasion 1975

The Doctor

★ 7
Doctor Who: Pyramids of Mars 1975

The Doctor

★ 8.9
Doctor Who: Planet of Evil 1975

The Doctor

★ 6.8
Doctor Who: Terror of the Zygons 1975

The Doctor

★ 8.1
Jim'll Fix It 1975

Self

★ 3.5
Doctor Who: Revenge of the Cybermen 1975

Doctor Who

★ 5.7
Doctor Who: Genesis of the Daleks 1975

The Doctor

★ 8.8
Doctor Who: The Sontaran Experiment 1975

The Doctor

★ 5.8
Doctor Who: The Ark in Space 1975

The Doctor

★ 7.4
Doctor Who: Robot 1975

The Doctor

★ 6.8
Frankenstein: The True Story 1974

Sea Captain

★ 7.3
Doctor Who: Planet of the Spiders 1974

The Doctor

★ 7.4
The Mutations 1974

Lynch

★ 5
Luther 1974

Pope Leo X

★ 5.6
The Golden Voyage of Sinbad 1973

Prince Koura

★ 6.7
The Vault of Horror 1973

Moore (segment 5 "Drawn and Quartered")

★ 6.3
Dear Parents 1973

Karl

★ 6
Arthur of the Britons 1972

★ 7.3
The Millionairess 1972

Dr. Ahmed el Kabir

★ 8.5
The Canterbury Tales 1972

Jenkin

★ 6.1
Nicholas and Alexandra 1971

Rasputin

★ 6.9
The Winter's Tale 1968

★ NR
Softly, Softly 1966

★ 5
BBC Play of the Month 1965

Egyptian Doctor

★ 5
Doctor Who 1963

★ 7.9
Z-Cars 1962

★ 7
Dixon of Dock Green 1955

The Man

★ 5.3