Tom Baker

Tom Baker

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Birthday: 
20 January 1934, Liverpool, England, UK
Birth Name: 
Thomas Stewart Baker
Height: 
191 cm
The British character actor Tom Baker, best known as the fourth incarnation of The Doctor, was born in 1934 in Liverpool, England, to Mary Jane (Fleming) and John Stewart Baker. His father was of English and Scottish descent, while his mother's family was originally from Ireland. Tom, along with his younger sister, Lulu, and younger brother, J... Show more »
The British character actor Tom Baker, best known as the fourth incarnation of The Doctor, was born in 1934 in Liverpool, England, to Mary Jane (Fleming) and John Stewart Baker. His father was of English and Scottish descent, while his mother's family was originally from Ireland. Tom, along with his younger sister, Lulu, and younger brother, John, was raised in a poor Catholic community by his mother, a house-cleaner and barmaid, who was a devout Catholic, and his father, a sailor, who was rarely at home. At age fifteen, Baker left school to become a monk with the Brothers of Ploermel on the island of Jersey. Six years later, he abandoned the monastic life and performed his National Service in the Royal Army Medical Corps., where he became interested in acting. Baker then served on the Queen Mary for seven months as a sailor in the Merchant Navy before attending Rose Bruford College of Speech and Drama in Kent, England, on scholarship. Baker acted in repertory theaters around Britain until the late 1960s when he joined up with the National Theatre, where he performed with such respected actors as Maggie Smith, Anthony Hopkins and Laurence Olivier, who helped him get his first prominent film role as Rasputin in Nicholas and Alexandra (1971). His performance in this film earned him two Golden Globe Award nominations, one for best actor in a supporting role and another for best new star of the year. A couple of years earlier, Baker had made his theatrical film debut in The Winter's Tale (1967). Despite appearances in a spate of films, including Pier Paolo Pasolini's I racconti di Canterbury (1972), The Mutations (1974), The Vault of Horror (1973) and The Golden Voyage of Sinbad (1973), Baker was working as a labourer at a building site when he landed the role of the main character in the popular, long-running British television series Doctor Who (1963), a role that brought him international fame and popularity. After his seven-year stint as Dr. Who from 1974 to 1981, Baker returned to theatre and made occasional television and film appearances, playing Sherlock Holmes in The Hound of the Baskervilles (1982), Puddleglum in The Chronicles of Narnia story The Silver Chair (1990) and Hallvarth, Clan Leader of the Hunter Elves, in Dungeons & Dragons (2000). Throughout his career, Baker's acting style has been to portray his characters with a "larger-than-life" air. Show less «

Tom Baker's FILMOGRAPHY

Have I Got News for You - Season 65

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Have I Got News for You - Season 66

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Talking Doctor Who

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Doctor Who - Season 14

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Have I Got News for You - Season 64

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Have I Got News for You - Season 63

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Doctor Who - Season 13

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Have I Got News for You - Season 61

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Have I Got News for You - Season 62

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Doctor Who - Season 12

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Have I Got News for You - Season 59

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Have I Got News for You - Season 60

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Have I Got News for You - Season 58

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Have I Got News for You - Season 57

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Wonder Park [Audio: Russian]

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Wonder Park

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Have I Got News for You - Season 55

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Have I Got News for You - Season 56

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Doctor Who - Season 11

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Star Wars Rebels - Season 4

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Have I Got News for You - Season 54

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Doctor Who: Shada

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Doctor Who - Season 10

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Tom Baker'S roles

Koura
Koura
Cobra Commander
Cobra Commander
The Bendu
The Bendu
Donald MacDonald
Donald MacDonald
The Doctor
The Doctor
Himself, Himself - Guest Presenter
Himself, Himself - Guest Presenter
Himself, Himself - Guest Presenter
Himself, Himself - Guest Presenter