Colin Baker

Actor Jun 8 (age 82) Waterloo, London, England, UK 1963–2025 (62 year career)

6.3 avg rating

Biography

Colin Baker (born 8 June 1943) is an English actor who played Paul Merroney in the BBC drama series The Brothers from 1974 to 1976 and the sixth incarnation of the Doctor in the long-running science fiction television series Doctor Who from 1984 to 1986. Baker's tenure as the Doctor proved to be a controversial era for the series, which included a hiatus in production and his subsequent replacement on the orders of BBC executive Michael Grade.

Known For

Film

Doctor Who: The Day of the Doctor

The Doctor (6) (archive footage)

Film

Doctor Who

The Doctor

Film

Doctor Who: The Husbands of River Song

The Doctor (6) (picture) (uncredited)

Film

Doctor Who: The Next Doctor

The Doctor (6) (archive footage)

Film

The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot

Self

Film

Doctor Who: The Caves of Androzani

The Doctor

Film

Doctor Who

The Doctor (archive footage)

Film

Doctor Who: Revelation of the Daleks

The Doctor

Filmography

Acting (140)

Movies (98)

Doctor Who: Wish World & The Reality War

2025

as The Doctor (archive footage) (uncredited)

5.4

Doctor Who: The Ultimate Evil

2025

as The 6th Doctor

7.0

Doctor Who: Slipback

2025

as 6th Doctor

Doctor Who: Yellow Fever

2025

as 6th Doctor

8.0

Doctor Who at the Proms

2024

as The Doctor (6) (archive footage)

7.2

Secrets of a Wallaby Boy

2023

as Bruce (voice)

10.0

Talking Doctor Who

2023

as Self / The Doctor (6) (archive footage)

5.0

Christmas at the Holly Day Inn

as Ben

Buckle Up

as Nick

Doctor Who: 60 Years of Secrets & Scandals

as Self - archive

Minacious

as DS Rawlins

Doctor Who: The Power of the Doctor

2022

as The Doctor

The Ghosts of Borley Rectory

as Charles Sutton

You Might Get Lost

as Conrad

Doctor Who: The Trial

2019

as Self

Showman: The Life of John Nathan-Turner

2019

as Himself

The Doctors: The Colin Baker Years

2019

The Doctor Who Cookbook Revisited

2019

as Self

Remembering Deborah Watling

2018

as Self

Last Man on Earth

2016

as Professor James Friedkin

Doctor Who: The Husbands of River Song

2015

as The Doctor (6) (picture) (uncredited)

A Christmas Carol

as Charles Dickens

A Dozen Summers

as The Narrator

Shadows of a Stranger

2014

as William Fallon

6.0

Doctor Who: The Ultimate Companion

2014

as Self / The Doctor (archive footage)

8.1

Doctor Who: The Ultimate Time Lord with Peter Davison

2014

as Self

Doctor Who: Yellow Fever

2013

as The Doctor

8.0

Doctor Who Live: The Next Doctor

2013

as Self

5.0

Doctor Who: The Day of the Doctor

2013

as The Doctor (6) (archive footage)

8.2

The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot

2013

as Self

7.8

Doctor Who: Tales from the TARDIS

2013

as Self

Doctor Who Live: The Afterparty

2013

as Self

9.0

Doctor Who: Gallifrey

2013

as The Doctor

7.0

Doctor Who: The Next Doctor

2008

as The Doctor (6) (archive footage)

7.4

Trials and Tribulations

2008

The Ties That Bind Us

2008

as The Sixth Doctor / Commander Maxil (archive footage)

Celebration: Doctor Who in 1983

2008

Now, Get Out of That

2008

The Making of The Trial of a Time Lord

2008

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

2007

Davros Connections

2007

as (archival audio)

Built for War: The Sontaran Story

2006

7.0

Lords and Luddites: Making 'The Mark of the Rani'

2006

Doctor Who: A New Dimension

2005

as Self

Adventures in Time and Spain

2003

as (archive footage)

The Story of Doctor Who

2003

Doctor Who: Real Time

as The Doctor

The Home Whovian

TravelWise

as Jonathan Pike

The Asylum

2000

as Arbuthnot

5.0

Adventures in Space and Time

1999

as Himself

Soul's Ark

1999

as Galico

The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Daredevils of the Desert

as Chauvel

The Harpist

The Waiting Time

as Giles Fleming

Carnival of Monsters

Stranger Than Fiction 3: Acting Up

1997

The Doctors: 30 Years of Time Travel and Beyond

1995

7.0

The Stranger: Eye of the Beholder

1995

as The Stranger / Soloman

9.0

Stranger than Fiction 2: From Script to Screen

1995

Doctor Who: The Colin Baker Years

1994

as Self - Presenter

PROBE: The Zero Imperative

1994

as Peter Russell

7.0

The Stranger: The Terror Game

1994

as The Stranger / Soloman

6.5

Stranger than Fiction

1994

The Stranger: Breach of the Peace

1994

as The Stranger / Soloman

5.0

The Stranger: In Memory Alone

as The Stranger

The Airzone Solution

as Arnold Davies

Bigger Inside Than Out

1993

as Narrator

Doctor Who: Dimensions in Time

1993

as The 6th Doctor

4.6

30 Years in the TARDIS

1993

as Himself

7.5

The Stranger: More Than a Messiah

1992

as The Stranger

Doctor Who: Cybermen - The Early Years

1992

as Self - Host

The PanoptiCon Tapes Vol 1 - The Main Event

1991

The Stranger: Summoned by Shadows

1991

as The Stranger

6.0

The PanoptiCon Tapes V

1990

The PanoptiCon Tapes II

1990

The PanoptiCon Tapes IV

1990

The PanoptiCon Tapes III

1990

Who's Who

1986

The PanoptiCon Tapes VI

1986

Doctor Who: The Mysterious Planet

1986

as The Doctor

6.2

Doctor Who: The Ultimate Foe

as The Doctor

Doctor Who: Mindwarp

as The Doctor

Doctor Who: Terror of the Vervoids

as The Doctor

Doctor Who: Timelash

as The Doctor

A Fix with Sontarans

as The Doctor

Doctor Who: Revelation of the Daleks

1985

as The Doctor

8.7

Doctor Who: The Mark of the Rani

1985

as The Doctor

6.0

Doctor Who: Vengeance on Varos

1985

as The Doctor

7.4

Doctor Who: Attack of the Cybermen

1985

as The Doctor

7.0

Doctor Who: The Two Doctors

1985

as The Doctor

7.4

Doctor Who: The Twin Dilemma

1984

as The Doctor

3.2

Doctor Who: The Caves of Androzani

1984

as The Doctor

9.8

Doctor Who: Arc of Infinity

1983

as Commander Maxil

7.3

Dangerous Davies: The Last Detective

1981

as William Lind

5.9

Drive Carefully, Darling

1975

as Brain

The Moonstone

1972

as John Herncastle

8.0

Danny Boy

as Fred

Television (42)

Tales of the Tardis

2023

as The Doctor

5.4

Remembers…

2022

as Self

Doctor Who: Behind the Sofa

2018

as Self

Doctor Who: The Doctors Revisited

2013

as Self

6.4

BBC Comedy Feeds

2012

Pointless Celebrities

2011

as Self

6.3

Celebrity Antiques Road Trip

2011

as Self - Participant

Kingdom

as Mr. Dodds

Doctor Who

as The Doctor (archive footage)

7.6

Doctor Who Confidential

Hustle

as Phil

The Afternoon Play

as Judge

I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here!

2002

as Self

6.1

Doctor Who: Real Time

2002

as The Doctor

Sunburn

as John Buchanan

Jonathan Creek

as Hedley Shale

A Dance to the Music of Time

as Canon Fenneau

The Knock

as Donald Dewhurst

GMTV

as Self

Pebble Mill

as Self

The Stranger

as The Stranger

Casualty

1986

as Colin Miles

6.2

Doctor Who's Who's Who

1985

as Doctor Who

Swallows and Amazons Forever!

as Dr. Dudgeon

Wogan

as Self

Countdown

Blake's 7

as Bayban

Jim'll Fix It

as Doctor Who

Fall of Eagles

as Crown Prince Willie

6.9

The Carnforth Practice

1974

as Bob Anderson

Orson Welles' Great Mysteries

as George Barclay

The Brothers

The Edwardians

as Joseph Laycock

War & Peace

as Anatole Kuragin

The Moonstone

as John Herncastle

Cousin Bette

as Count Wenceslas Steinbock

2.7

The Roads to Freedom

1970

as Claude

3.7

The Adventures of Don Quick

1970

as Rebel

5.0

The Mind of Mr. J.G. Reeder

as Reigate

Public Eye

as Town Hall Clerk

Doctor Who

as The Doctor

Doctor Who

as Commander Maxil