Tom Baker

TV Actor

Tom Baker was born in Liverpool, England, United Kingdom on January 20th, 1934 and is the TV Actor. At the age of 90, Tom Baker biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, movies, TV shows, and networth are available.

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Date of Birth
January 20, 1934
Nationality
United Kingdom
Place of Birth
Liverpool, England, United Kingdom
Age
90 years old
Zodiac Sign
Aquarius
Networth
$10 Million
Profession
Actor, Comedian, Film Actor, Screenwriter, Television Actor
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Education
Rose Bruford College
Tom Baker Spouse(s), Children, Affair, Parents, and Family
Spouse(s)
Anna Wheatcroft ​ ​(m. 1961; div. 1966)​, Lalla Ward ​ ​(m. 1980; div. 1982)​, Sue Jerrard ​(m. 1986)​
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Tom Baker Career

Career

When Baker's first professional acting career began, he was in his thirties. He worked in provincial rep theatres. When he was first performing in a late-night pub revue at the 1968 New York Festival, he had his first break in 1968. Someone from the Royal National Theatre who encouraged him to audition for the company was greeted by him, and Laurence Olivier took over. Baker did so and was offered a job. He was born in 1968 and 1971, and understudied, one of his greatest roles was the horse Rosinante in Don Quixote.

Baker's stage experience culminated in his appearance in television shows including Dixon of Dock Green, Z-Cars, Market in Honey Lane, and Softly, Softly. After Olivier had recommended him for the role, he had his first major film role in the film Nicholas and Alexandra (1971). For his work, he was nominated for two Golden Globe Awards, one for Best Actor in a Supporting Role and another for Best Newcomer. In The Vault of Horror (1973) and as Koura, the villainous sorcerer in Ray Harryhausen's The Golden Voyage of Sinbad (1973), Baker appears as Moore, an artist whose paintings are imbued with voodoo power.

Baker also appeared in Pier Paolo Pasolini's 1972 version of Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales as the younger husband of the Wife of Bath's younger husband.

In 1974, Baker took over Jon Pertwee's role as the Doctor in the BBC television series as the Fourth Doctor. Bill Slater, the BBC's Head of Serials, recommended Baker in a Play of the Month production of Shaw's play The Millionaires', who had directed Baker. After being enthralled by Baker's reaction at his appearance in The Golden Voyage of Sinbad, Letts later became convinced that he was right for the role. At the time, Baker was working on a construction site, as acting jobs were scarce. He was initially referred to as "Boiler Suit Tom" by the media because he had been hired for a press conference with some old studio clothes to replace his modest clothing. Letts left the series after adventing Baker's debut story, Robot (1974–75), and was replaced by Philip Hinchcliffe. According to Hinchcliffe and script editor Robert Holmes, the series took on a "Gothic tone" inspired by Hammer Film Productions and was intended "a bit more to the adults in the audience."

Baker quickly portrayed himself in his first few years, delivering results for his first few years back to a level not seen before 'Dalekmania's heyday a decade ago. His eccentric style of clothing and eccentric personality (especially his trademark look of wearing a long scarf and having a penchant for jelly babies) as well as his voice made him a well-known figure in the viewing public's imagination, and he quickly captured the public's interest. Baker referred to several aspects of his Doctor's personality and became known for making "frequent and often comedic scripting techniques and ad-libs," but the scarf was not designed by accident. Begonia Pope, the costume designer who was commissioned to make the story, had far more wool than was needed to her knitter, James Acheson, intending for her to select a more neutral hue. However, Pope knitted all the wool she was given despite miscommunication.

Baker portrayed the Doctor for seven seasons, making him the longest-serving actor in the part, and his incarnation is often regarded as the most popular of the Doctors. Baker only lost the "Best Doctor" category to Sylvester McCoy in 1990 and to David Tennant in 2006. Baker admitted in a 2010 interview that he had not watched Tennant's appearance as the Doctor, but that his Hamlet was superb. Several of the stories from his early days are considered to be classics of the series, including The Ark in Space (1975), Genesis of the Daleks (1976), The Brain of Morbius (1976), and The Robots of Death (1977). However, morality campaigner Mary Whitehouse reacted vehemently to Philip Hinchcliffe's violent tone in the series. During this early period, fears of violence fueled a lightening of the tone and an "erratic decline" in both the popularity and quality of the series. Baker referred to Hinchcliffe as "amazing" in a 2014 interview, naming it as his favorite season of the series. Graham Williams, Hinchcliffe's successor, said, "fully committed" but missing his predecessor's flair and "let me get away with murder," he said. According to Baker, John Nathan-Turner, the series's final producer, made changes he didn't agree with and "did not see eye-to-eye really well." Baker also wrote a book about season 18, his last on the show and Nathan-Turner's first as producer, which resulted in a plot that was overly dependent on the Doctor (rather than other main characters) to propel the plot forward. Baker eventually admitted that he may have stayed in the role for one series too many, in hindsight, saying that he might have been safer for him to have left Williams and let Nathan-Turner recast the role as the Doctor for season 18.

"I was doing Doctor Who, it was the realization of all my childhood fantasies," Baker said. "I went 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, which is why I can't go back to it." Despite Baker's decision not to appear in the 20th anniversary of Doctor Who (1983) because he wasn't long since he'd been gone, and he "didn't want to play 20 percent of the scene" and be "a feed for other Doctors" and "a video for Doctor Who" in 1997. Baker continues to be associated with the Doctor, appearing on documentaries including those on the extras of Doctor Who's 40th anniversary broadcast in 2003, as well as other interviews about his time on the show, including for documentary films on the Extras of Doctor Who's early years as the Doctor, and he has filmed DVD commentaries for several of the stories.

In "Doctor Who (Classic Novels), Baker has been involved in the reading of old Target novelisations. Doctor Who and the Giant Robot was the first publication in Baker's range, followed by Baker's book Doctor Who and Morbius (released on October 5, 2008), Doctor Who and the Creature from Morbius (released on May 7th, 2008) and the Pyramids of Mars. Baker was interviewed on BBC Radio 4's Last Word in October 2009 to honor deceased Doctor Who producer Barry Letts. Letts, who appeared in the role, was portrayed as "the biggest link in transforming my entire life."

Baker revealed on November 20 that he would be included in "The Day of the Doctor" 50th anniversary edition, "The Doctor" commemoration. I'm not meant to tell you that, but I do tell you that I am very willing and specific; the BBC warns me not to inform anyone, but I'm telling you straight away." Baker appears 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 shot inserts from his 1992 film release of the unfinished Douglas Adams Doctor Who serial Shada, which was first published in 1979 but later cancelled due to strike action, and introduced The Tom Baker Years (1992), an examination of his time on the show with Baker watching short clips from his episodes. Baker returned to the Doctor role in November 2017 by finishing Shada. To complete the original tale, an animation was added to complete the tale. In the final episode, he also shot a new scene for inclusion in the final film.

Although Peter Davison, Colin Baker, Sylvester McCoy, and Paul McGann have all reprised their roles for audio adventures since Big Finish (and occasionally the BBC), Baker refused to voice the Doctor until 2009, saying he had not seen a script he liked. The BBC announced in July that Baker would reprise his role in a series of five audio dramas, co-starring Richard Franklin as Captain Mike Yates, which will be released in September. The five audios were assembled as a single linked tale under the banner name Hornets' Nest, written by author Paul Magrs. Demon Quest, Hornets' Nest's sequel, has returned.

Baker will return as the Fourth Doctor for two seasons of plays for Big Finish Productions, starring Leela (Louise Jameson) and Romana I (Mary Tamm). Starting in January 2012, the first series of six audiobooks was released. Big Finish had also contracted Baker to film a series of stories reuniting him with Elisabeth Sladen's character Sarah Jane Smith (for which special permission was obtained from the creators of The Sarah Jane Adventures TV series), but Sladen died in April 2011 before any stories could be published. Matthew Waterhouse, who starred Adric, and Lalla Ward, who played Romana II, recently performed multiple Big Finish audio stories (although Ward recorded her segments separately).

Baker had recorded "Return of the Cybermen" for Big Finish, an alternative version of the story "Resurrection of the Cybermen (1975), with Sadie Miller, Elisabeth Sladen's daughter, taking over the role of Sarah Jane Smith from her mother. In March 2021, the novel was published.

Baker also played The Curator for Big Finish in Big Finish, as well as appearing in The Eighth Doctor Adventures and UNIT: The New Series's cast members.

Baker portrayed Sherlock Holmes in a four-part BBC1 miniseries version of The Hound of the Baskervilles in 1982; in the United States, this film was telecast on A&E. In addition, he appeared in Blackadder II as the sea captain "Redbeard Rum" and was also on "Potato." In the 1990 BBC adaptation of C. S. Lewis' The Silver Chair, he appeared as Puddleglum, a "marsh-wiggle."

Baker was cast as Professor Plum, a "man with a degree of suspicion" in the third series of the British game show Cluedo. He appeared in the 2004 film Strange as a blind priest with a keen knowledge of the Devil. In addition,, he appeared in the BBC series Monarch of the Glen as Donald MacDonald from 2004 to 2005. He had appeared on the quiz show Have I Got News For You and was later described as the funniest visitor in the series' history by host Angus Deayton. Baker gave an anecdotal account of how, as he entered a recording studio in Wales, he was approached by a stranger of the public who told Baker, "I will never excuse you, nor will my wife, for what you did to our grammar schools." "What are you talking about, you daft bugger?" Baker replied, "What are you talking about?" The stranger replied: "I'm so sorry." For a moment, I thought you were Shirley Williams.

In 2008, Baker appeared on Have I Got News For You as a guest host. Baker appeared as the Captain in the Challenge version of Fort Boyard and has also appeared in The Book Tower, a children's literature collection. In Confidence, Tom Baker's Special was released in April 2010.

Baker was considered a front-runner for the role of Gandalf in the Lord of the Rings films in the late 1990s. Baker has since stated that he was only auditioned for "a part" in the film, and that he turned down the bid after being told that it would mean spending months in New Zealand. In Dungeons & Dragons (2000), Halvarth, the Elven healer, appeared as Halvarth.

Baker appeared on BBC Radio 4 as a narrator of Little Britain and stayed in the role until it was broadcast on television, despite his work on Lionel Nimrod's Inexplicable World. He has claimed that he was selected for the role in Little Britain due to his fame with creators Matt Lucas and David Walliams, as part of the generation for whom he is the favorite Doctor. In a DVD commentary, he said, "I am now being employed by the children who grew up watching me." The deathpan quotation of old rap songs is another feature of Little Britain's tale, particularly in the opening credit sequence. Baker, on Saturday, November 17, 2005, to mark the start of the third series of Little Britain, read the continuity announcements on BBC One from 7 p.m. GMT. Lucas and Walliams wrote the scripts; Baker assumed his Little Britain persona.

He used lines such as:

Baker has appeared in many radio shows, including Sir Edward Marshall-Hall's appearance in "Britain's Most Honed Criminal Barrister" in Charles Dickens' Hard Times (1996), "Josiah Bounderby" and a part of Sir Walter Bullivant's 2001 BBC Radio 4 version. In the 2002 episode "The Saviour of Cripplegate Square," he guest starred in The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (a pastiche series written by Bert Coules). Max Bear, a British actor, appeared in the Channel 4 (UK) Max Bear Productions animated series from 2000 to 2005. In the 2005 computer-animated film version of The Magic Roundabout, he also portrayed ZeeBad. In 2007, he played Robert Baron in the BBC animated series The Secret Show.

Baker narrates the children's computer-animated series The Beeps, which is shown on Channel 5's Milkshake. Tales of Aesop on BBC, as well as narrating Tales of Aesop, a television series based on Aesop's Fables with stunning puppet animation, was included in Aesop's Fables. Baker has returned to the role of the Fourth Doctor in a three-part audio book series: Hornet's Nest, Demon Quest, and Serpents' Crest; and now in a new series of Doctor Who audio adventures for Big Finish Productions, starring Louise Jameson as "Leela." There were seven launches in 2013 with Mary Tamm as Romana (The Auntie Matter, The Sands of Life, War Against the Laan, The Justice of Jalxar, Phantoms of the Deep, The Shadow of the Deep, The Final Phase, and The Final Phase) Baker appears on the second incarnation of Romana and Matthew Waterhouse as Adric in a subsequent series.

Baker narrated Bendu, a nimble Force-sensitive being in the third season of the animated film Star Wars Rebels.

Baker appeared in the 1997 video game Destiny of the Doctors, where he provided the voice. He has appeared in Ecco the Dolphin (1996), "Sudki" (2004), Resurrection, Hostile Waters: Antaeus Rising, and Little Britain: The Video Game (2005).

Baker is a prolific voiceover artist, and his name was named as the fourth most recognisable in the United Kingdom in 2006 after the Queen, Tony Blair, and Margaret Thatcher. Baker narrated BBC radio comedy series In 1992 and 1993, Inexplicable World, by Lionel Nimrod. He narrated the narration for Channel 4's Equinox rave documentary Rave New World in 1994. He appeared in the critically acclaimed but commercially ineffective Hostile Waters as the Narrator in 2002.

In the role-playing game Sudeki, he portrayed both the narrator and the goddess "Tetsu," but was uncredited. During the first three months of 2006, his voice was used by BT for spoken text messages to landline phones. He wrote 11,593 lines, each word in the English language, for use by the text-to-speech system. From 1 December 2006 to 8 January 2007, the BT text message service was restored, with two pence from each text going to the charity Shelter. In addition, "You Really Got Me" by Baker's text voice was released on the 18th of December 2006, with the proceeds going to the charity. Mark Murphy, the site's programmer, was the site's designer.

At the London Natural History Museum's Natural History Museum, Baker's voice can be heard in narrating a portion of Darwin's theory of natural selection. He has had three other brief forays into music: he contributes to the album "Witness to a Murder (Part Two) by Mansun, and he appears on Technocat's single "Only Human" in 1995; however, the album was not released until 2009. Baker details two British tourist attractions: the Nemesis roller coaster in Alton Towers, Staffordshire, and the London Dungeon, a museum narrating the events leading up to and including the Great Fire of London.

From 2000 to 2005, Baker appeared in "Max Bear," a series of animated stories broadcast on Channel 4 (UK Terrestrial). In 2006, Bruce Petty, an Australian cartoonist, narrated Global Haywire's documentary about world politics.

Who on Earth is Tom Baker, Baker's autobiography. In 1997, the first Kindle books were published in 1997 and then in September 2013, it was released on Kindle computers.

The Boy Who Kicked Pigs, Baker has also written a short fairytale-style book. He edited a series of poems for children in 1981: Never Wear Your Wellies in the House and Other Poems to Make You Laugh.

Scratchman, Baker's first Doctor Who book, was released in 2019. The book is co-written with James Goss and is based on a script that Tom Baker and Ian Marter wrote for a Doctor Who film in the 1970s. The Fourth Doctor meets Scratchman, who may be the devil, according to the story.

Baker performed in 1966 and 1967 in the Cambridge Theatre, London, as part of Frank Dunlop's Pop Theatre Company's production of Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale, which was performed at Edinburgh's Edinburgh International Festival and in the Cambridge Theatre, London. Other cast members included “Carry On...” stalwart Jim Dale and up-and-coming actress Jane Asher: Baker appeared in several small roles in the script, including the famous "bear."

Baker's understudy for Rosencrantz and Guildenstern is Dead, followed by small parts in The National Health by Peter Nichols (directed by Michael Blakemore).

Laurence Olivier later portrayed him as the Prince of Morocco in The Merchant of Venice after he played the horse in The Travails of Sancho Panza (directed by Joan Plowright). Jonathan Miller produced the play, with Baker appearing as Shylock alongside Olivier. Baker, who is still under National service, appeared in A Woman Killed With Kindness, opposite Anthony Hopkins and Filippo in The Rules of the Game.

Baker returned to theatre in Feasting with Panthers after leaving The Doctor in 1981. Hedda Gabler, starring Susannah York as Hedda in the West End, appeared in Judge Brack in Hedda Gabler the following year. Baker appeared Dr. Frank Bryant in a Royal Shakespeare Company production of Educating Rita in 1982, alongside Kate Fitzgerald as Rita. He returned to the National Theatre in 1984 to play Mr Hardcastle in She Stoops to Conquer in the Olivier Theatre and on a later tour. In The Mask of Moriarty by Hugh Leonard at The Gate Theatre in Dublin, he performed both Sherlock Holmes and Moriarty.

Inspector Goole was the star of a revival of An Inspector Calls directed by Peter Dews in 1987.

Baker performed a narration on the track Witness to a Murder (Part 2) of the English alternative rock band Mansun's album Six.

Baker, a Dutch producer and songwriter, and songwriter, Arjen Anthony Lucassen, announced on May 13th that he would perform "The Storyteller" on Ayreon's album, Transitus.

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Doctor Who's Tom Baker, a retired doctor who spent time in Nuneaton, was on the show with a Radio Rentals girl

www.dailymail.co.uk, December 25, 2023
The Tardis has taken the Doctor to many out of this world places since first materialising in 1963 - but have you heard about his unexpected trip to the home of a Radio Rentals worker in Nuneaton? It happened on November 13, 1976, when then Doctor Tom Baker (pictured) ended up watching one of his own episodes in Pauline Bennett's living room, causing her children's astonishment. When Baker and a BBC manager arrived in, Mrs Bennett had been at work in the Warwickshire town on Saturday. They had been returning from the show's exhibition in Blackpool and wanted to see the evening's episode. They were told that they were about to close, said Mrs Bennett, who added: 'You can come back to my house to watch it if you like, if you like', and the boys jumped at the offer.'

Doctor Who director responds to fan theories that there will be surprise CAMEOS in the next 60th Anniversary Special

www.dailymail.co.uk, November 30, 2023
Fans' wild hopes that the forthcoming 60th Anniversary could include surprise cameos have been fuelled by doctor Who's Tom Kingsley. David Tennant and Catherine Tate's second of three specials is set to air on Saturday, and unlike the first, plot details have been shrouded in secrecy. After the 50th anniversary celebrations featured unexpected cameos from actors including Tom Baker, there has been rumors that former Doctors or companions will make a surprise appearance in the Anniversary specials.

Doctor Who's Best Bits: From Tony Whittaker's debut as the first female Time Lord to Tom Baker's debut as the show's first female Time Lord, a look at the show's most memorable moments leading up to the 60th anniversary special

www.dailymail.co.uk, November 25, 2023
Doctor Who fans are eagerly awaiting the return of the beloved sci-fi franchise on Saturday night, as the much-anticipated 60th anniversary special arrives on televisions. The Tenth Doctor David Tennant will reprise his role as the titular Time Lord in the first of three special episodes, much to the delight of fans. David's first run as the Doctor hosted a slew of memorable events, including Rose Tyler's tear-jerking beach farewell. MailOnline takes a look at the franchise's most iconic moments ever since its 1963 debut from Jodie Whittaker as the first female Time Lord (top right).