Barry Letts

ProducerActorWriterDirectorDirecting Mar 26 (died age 84) 1943–2023 (80 year career)

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Biography

Barry Leopold Letts (26 March 1925 – 9 October 2009) was an English actor, television director, writer and producer, best known for being the producer of Doctor Who from 1969 to 1974. Born in Leicester, he worked as an actor in theatre, films and television before retiring in his early forties and becoming a television director. He then became the producer of the BBC science fiction series Doctor Who for five years, overseeing almost the entirety of Jon Pertwee's tenure as the Third Doctor and …

Known For

Film

Doctor Who

Director

Film

The Cruel Sea

Raikes

Film

Scott of the Antarctic

Apsley Cherry-Garrard

Film

Reach for the Sky

Tommy

Film

Jane Eyre

Producer

Film

EastEnders

Director

Film

Doctor Who: The Three Doctors

Producer

Film

Doctor Who: The Mind of Evil

Producer

Filmography

Acting (42)

Movies (33)

Time and Atlantis: Chronicling The Time Monster

2023

as (archive footage)

Doctor Who: 60 Years of Secrets & Scandals

2023

as Self - archive

4.7

Doctor Who and the Third Man

2019

IMC Needs You!

2011

Life on Earth

2011

as Self

The Doctor's Moriarty

2011

as Self

Come in Number Five

2011

as (archive footage)

The Tin Men and the Witch

Warriors of Mars

The Frighten Factor

The Perfect Scenario: Lost Frontiers

2009

The Perfect Scenario: The End of Dreams

2009

Roger Delgado: The Master

2009

Hello Sailor!

2008

Musical Scales: An Era of Experimentation

2008

Terror Nation: Terry Nation and Doctor Who

2007

as Self

Exodus

2007

as Professor Marcus

5.8

The Worst Journey in the World

2007

as Narrator

6.5

Are Friends Electric?

2007

Changing Time: Living and Leaving Doctor Who

2006

8.0

Built for War: The Sontaran Story

2006

as (archival footage)

7.0

Terrance Dicks: Fact & Fiction

2005

The Story of Doctor Who

2003

Where on Earth Is Katy Manning?

1998

9.0

30 Years in the TARDIS

as Himself

Doctor Who: Inferno

as Loudspeaker Voice

Reach for the Sky

as Tommy

The Cruel Sea

as Raikes

A Boy, a Girl and a Bike

1949

as Syd

4.5

Scott of the Antarctic

1948

as Apsley Cherry-Garrard

To the Public Danger

as Fred Lane

Frieda

as Jim Merrick

San Demetrio London

as Apprentice John Jones - M.V. San Demetrio

7.0

Television (9)

Doctor Who

as Self

Z-Cars

City Beneath the Sea

The Avengers

Maigret

The Small House at Allington

1960

as Captain Bernard Dale

No Hiding Place

The Silver Sword

Armchair Theatre

as Clive Epworth

Crew (74)

Movies (43)

Dæmos Rising

2004

Script Consultant

5.7

Doctor Who: Logopolis

1981

Executive Producer

7.0

Doctor Who: Warriors' Gate

1981

Executive Producer

5.5

Doctor Who: The Keeper of Traken

1981

Executive Producer

7.5

Doctor Who: The Leisure Hive

1980

Executive Producer

7.0

Doctor Who: State of Decay

Executive Producer

Doctor Who: Meglos

Executive Producer

Doctor Who: Full Circle

1980

Executive Producer

6.3

Pinocchio

1978

Director

Treasure Island

1977

Producer

Doctor Who: The Android Invasion

Director

Doctor Who: Robot

Producer

Doctor Who: The Monster of Peladon

1974

Producer

5.3

Doctor Who: The Time Warrior

1974

Producer

7.4

Doctor Who: Planet of the Spiders

1974

Director

7.4

Doctor Who: Planet of the Spiders

1974

Producer

7.4

Doctor Who: Planet of the Spiders

1974

Writer

7.4

Doctor Who: Death to the Daleks

1974

Producer

6.2

Doctor Who: Invasion of the Dinosaurs

1974

Producer

6.8

Doctor Who: The Green Death

1973

Producer

8.4

Doctor Who: Frontier in Space

1973

Producer

7.5

Doctor Who: The Three Doctors

1973

Producer

7.4

Doctor Who: Planet of the Daleks

1973

Producer

7.0

Doctor Who: Carnival of Monsters

1973

Director

8.0

Doctor Who: Carnival of Monsters

1973

Producer

8.0

Doctor Who: The Time Monster

1972

Producer

5.9

Doctor Who: The Time Monster

1972

Writer

5.9

Doctor Who: The Curse of Peladon

1972

Producer

7.6

Doctor Who: The Sea Devils

1972

Producer

7.6

Doctor Who: Day of the Daleks

1972

Producer

7.9

Doctor Who: The Mutants

1972

Producer

7.5

Doctor Who: The Dæmons

1971

Producer

7.5

Doctor Who: The Dæmons

1971

Writer

7.5

Doctor Who: The Claws of Axos

1971

Producer

6.8

Doctor Who: Terror of the Autons

1971

Director

7.8

Doctor Who: Terror of the Autons

1971

Producer

7.8

Doctor Who: The Mind of Evil

1971

Producer

7.5

Doctor Who: Colony in Space

Producer

Doctor Who: Inferno

Co-Director

Doctor Who: Inferno

Producer

Doctor Who and the Silurians

1970

Producer

7.3

Doctor Who: The Ambassadors of Death

1970

Producer

7.3

Doctor Who: The Enemy of the World

1968

Director

7.9

Television (31)

Tales of the Tardis

Producer

David Copperfield

Director

EastEnders

Director

The Invisible Man

Producer

Goodbye Mr Chips

Producer

The Prisoner of Zenda

Producer

Jane Eyre

Producer

Dombey and Son

Producer

Beau Geste

Producer

Gulliver in Lilliput

Adaptation

Gulliver in Lilliput

Director

The Hound of the Baskervilles

1982

Producer

6.2

Stalky & Co

1982

Producer

Great Expectations

1981

Producer

5.0

Sense and Sensibility

Producer

A Tale of Two Cities

Producer

The Swish of the Curtain

1980

Producer

The Old Curiosity Shop

1979

Producer

6.0

The Mill on the Floss

1978

Producer

5.5

Pinocchio

1978

Director

Pinocchio

1978

Producer

Nicholas Nickleby

1977

Producer

5.5

The Children of the New Forest

1977

Producer

Moonbase 3

Producer

Moonbase 3

Writer

Adventure Weekly

Director

Doctor Who

Director

Doctor Who

Executive Producer

Doctor Who

Producer

Doctor Who

Writer

Z-Cars

Director