Tom Baker

ActorWriter Jan 20 (age 92) Liverpool, England, UK 1955–2025 (70 year career)

6.8 avg rating

Biography

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

Film

Doctor Who: The Day of the Doctor

The Doctor (4)/ The Curator

Film

Doctor Who

The Doctor

Film

Enemy Mine

Narrator (voice)

Film

Doctor Who: The Husbands of River Song

The Doctor (4) (picture) (uncredited)

Film

Doctor Who: The Next Doctor

The Doctor (4) (archive footage)

Film

Little Britain

Narrator

Film

The Golden Voyage of Sinbad

Prince Koura

Film

Family Guy Presents: Blue Harvest

The Doctor (archive footage)

Filmography

Acting (187)

Movies (148)

Doctor Who: Wish World & The Reality War

2025

as Doctor Who (archive footage) (uncredited)

5.4

Lights Out

2025

as The 4th Doctor

Worlds Within: The Life of Ian Marter

2025

as Self

Doctor Who: The Legend of Ruby Sunday & Empire of Death

2024

as The Doctor (archive footage) (uncredited)

6.1

Doctor Who at the Proms

2024

as The Doctor (4) (archive footage)

7.2

Darkness & Light: The Life of Graham Williams

2024

as Self

Talking Doctor Who

2023

as Self / The Doctor (4) (archive footage)

5.0

Titans of Destruction: The Evolution of Giant Monster Movies

2021

as Self - (archive footage)

Return to Skaro

2021

Panopticon Destiny – The Matrix Files

2021

0.5

Our Sarah Jane: The Life of Elisabeth Sladen

2020

as Self

8.0

Behind the Sofa - Season 14

2020

Hanging by a Thread: The Making of Logopolis

2019

as Self

Geek, and You Shall Find

2019

as The Doctor (archive footage)

5.7

The Magnificent Obsession of Michael Reeves

2019

as Himself

Tom Baker in Conversation

2018

Doctor Who: Galactic Glitter

as Narrator

Doctor Who: Shada

as The Doctor

The Doctors: The Tom Baker Years

2017

Panopticon Genesis

2017

Doctor Who: The Husbands of River Song

2015

as The Doctor (4) (picture) (uncredited)

8.0

Little Britain Sketch

2015

as Narrator

9.5

Doctor Who: The Ultimate Companion

2014

as Self / The Doctor (archive footage)

8.1

Doctor Who and the Shada Man

2013

as The Doctor

Saving Santa

2013

as Santa (voice)

5.2

Doctor Who: The Day of the Doctor

2013

as The Doctor (4)/ The Curator

8.2

The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot

2013

as The Doctor (archive footage)

7.8

Doctor Who: Tales from the TARDIS

2013

as Self

Doctor Who Live: The Afterparty

as Self

The Sandmine Murders

My Sarah Jane: A Tribute to Elisabeth Sladen

2011

as Self (archive footage)

The Tin Men and the Witch

2010

Blackadder's Most Cunning Moments

2008

as Captain Rum/Self

4.5

Family Guy Presents: Blue Harvest

2008

as The Doctor (archive footage)

7.4

Doctor Who: The Next Doctor

2008

as The Doctor (4) (archive footage)

7.4

Max Bear & The Lucky Charm

2008

as Max Bear (voice)

The Ties That Bind Us

2008

as The Fourth Doctor (archive footage)

Celebration: Doctor Who in 1983

2008

as (archival footage)

Now, Get Out of That

A Matter of Time

The Crowded TARDIS

A New Body at Last

Are Friends Electric?

2007

A Darker Side: The Making of Planet of Evil

2007

Changing Time: Living and Leaving Doctor Who

2006

8.0

Global Haywire

2006

as Narrator (voice)

Little Britain Live

as Narrator (Voice)

A History of Flight

as Narrator (voice)

The Wind in the Willows

2006

as Judge

5.8

Paranormal Pigeons

2006

as Self

It Started with Swap Shop

2006

as Self (voice)

The Magic Roundabout

2005

as Zeebad (voice)

5.4

Doctor Who: A New Dimension

2005

as Self

Tom Baker’s Beyond Belief!

2005

The Little Reindeer

2004

as Santa Claus (voice)

6.0

The History Channel Presents: The Race To The Moon

2004

as Narrator

A New Beginning

2004

as (archive footage)

The Story of Doctor Who

2003

The Home Whovian

2001

Longleat '83: The Greatest Show in the Galaxy

2001

as Himself (archive footage)

Dungeons & Dragons

2000

as Halvarth

4.4

Adventures in Space and Time

1999

as Himself

The Millennium Oak

1999

as Narrator

Ray Harryhausen: Working with Dinosaurs

1999

as Self - Narrator (voice)

Carnival of Monsters

Backtime

as Sarge

A Sci Fi Audience with Tom Baker

1997

as Self

Who is Tom Baker? Unauthorised

1997

Doctor Who: Dimensions in Time

as The 4th Doctor

Selling Hitler

as Manfred Fischer

30 Years in the TARDIS

1993

as Himself (archive footage)

7.5

Doctor Who: The Tom Baker Years

1992

as Himself

The Law Lord

1992

as Sir Lionel Sweeting

Doctor Who: Shada

1992

as The Doctor / Narrator

6.5

Who on Earth Is... Tom Baker

1991

as Himself

Ray Harryhausen: Movement Into Life

1990

as Narrator

Hyperland

1990

as Tom

7.0

The Chronicles of Narnia: The Silver Chair

1990

as Puddleglum

6.4

Christian

1989

The Wolves of Willoughby Chase

1989

as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)

5.6

Babcock Transformers

1989

as Narrator

Who's Who

1986

Enemy Mine

1985

as Narrator (voice)

7.0

The Passionate Pilgrim

1984

as The Lord

Doctor Who: Resurrection of the Daleks

1984

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

7.9

The Zany Adventures of Robin Hood

1984

as Sir Guy de Gisbourne

5.2

Into Another Dimension

1983

as Narrator

Doctor Who: The Five Doctors

1983

as The Doctor (4) (archive footage)

7.7

Doctor Who: Mawdryn Undead

1983

as The Doctor (4) (archive footage)

7.0

Doctor Who: Castrovalva

1982

as The Doctor (archive footage)

7.8

Doctor Who: Earthshock

1982

as The Doctor (4) (archive footage)

8.1

Doctor Who: Logopolis

1981

as The Doctor

7.0

Doctor Who: Warriors' Gate

1981

as The Doctor

5.5

Doctor Who: The Keeper of Traken

1981

as The Doctor

7.5

Doctor Who: The Horns of Nimon

1980

as The Doctor

4.7

Doctor Who: The Leisure Hive

1980

as The Doctor

7.0

Doctor Who: State of Decay

1980

as The Doctor

7.5

Doctor Who: Meglos

1980

as The Doctor / Meglos

5.0

Doctor Who: Full Circle

1980

as The Doctor

6.3

The Curse of King Tut's Tomb

1980

as Hasan

4.3

Doctor Who: The Armageddon Factor

1979

as The Doctor

5.5

Dr. Who For Keep Australia Beautiful

1979

as The Doctor

Doctor Who: City of Death

1979

as The Doctor

9.0

Doctor Who: Nightmare of Eden

1979

as The Doctor

6.5

Doctor Who: Destiny of the Daleks

1979

as The Doctor

5.5

Doctor Who: The Power of Kroll

1979

as The Doctor

4.7

Doctor Who: The Creature from the Pit

1979

as The Doctor

6.0

Doctor Who: The Androids of Tara

1978

as The Doctor

7.3

Doctor Who: The Ribos Operation

1978

as The Doctor

6.8

Doctor Who: The Invasion of Time

1978

as The Doctor

6.2

Doctor Who: The Pirate Planet

1978

as The Doctor

7.0

Doctor Who: The Stones of Blood

1978

as The Doctor

7.8

Doctor Who: Underworld

1978

as The Doctor

5.5

Merry Christmas Doctor Who

1978

as The Doctor

10.0

Doctor Who: The Face of Evil

1977

as The Doctor / Xoanon

8.0

Doctor Who: The Talons of Weng-Chiang

1977

as The Doctor

8.3

Doctor Who: The Sun Makers

1977

as The Doctor

7.0

Doctor Who: The Invisible Enemy

as The Doctor

Whose Doctor Who

Doctor Who: Image of the Fendahl

1977

as The Doctor

7.2

Doctor Who: The Robots of Death

1977

as The Doctor

7.9

Doctor Who: Horror of Fang Rock

1977

as The Doctor

7.6

Doctor Who: The Seeds of Doom

1976

as The Doctor

8.8

Doctor Who: The Masque of Mandragora

1976

as The Doctor

6.7

The Author of Beltraffio

1976

as Mark Ambient

7.0

Doctor Who: The Deadly Assassin

1976

as The Doctor

8.5

Doctor Who: The Brain of Morbius

1976

as The Doctor

8.1

Doctor Who: The Hand of Fear

1976

as The Doctor

7.6

Doctor Who: The Android Invasion

as The Doctor

Doctor Who: Robot

as The Doctor

Doctor Who: Terror of the Zygons

1975

as The Doctor

8.1

Doctor Who: Pyramids of Mars

1975

as The Doctor

8.9

Doctor Who: The Sontaran Experiment

1975

as The Doctor

5.8

Doctor Who: The Ark in Space

1975

as The Doctor

7.4

Doctor Who: Genesis of the Daleks

1975

as The Doctor

8.8

Doctor Who: Planet of Evil

1975

as The Doctor

6.9

Doctor Who: Revenge of the Cybermen

1975

as Doctor Who

5.7

The Golden Voyage of Sinbad

1974

as Prince Koura

6.7

Doctor Who: Planet of the Spiders

as The Doctor

Luther

as Pope Leo X

The Mutations

as Lynch

Frankenstein: The True Story

1974

as Sea Captain

7.3

The Vault of Horror

1973

as Moore (segment 5 "Drawn and Quartered")

Dear Parents

as Karl

The Millionairess

as Dr. Ahmed el Kabir

8.5

The Canterbury Tales

1972

as Jenkin

6.1

Nicholas and Alexandra

1971

as Rasputin

6.9

The Winter's Tale

1968

Television (39)

Tales of the Tardis

2023

as The Doctor

5.4

Doctor Who: Behind the Sofa

2018

as Self

Star Wars Rebels

2014

as Bendu (voice)

7.7

Doctor Who: The Doctors Revisited

as Self

Little Britain USA

The Beeps

as Narrator

The Secret Show

Doctor Who

as The Curator

Doctor Who Confidential

as Self

Little Britain

as Narrator

Strange

as Father Bernard

Swiss Toni

Fun at the Funeral Parlour

Monarch of the Glen

as Donald MacDonald

Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased)

as Prof. Wyvern

Eurotika!

as Self

Selling Hitler

as Manfred Fischer

Have I Got News for You

as Self

Cluedo

as Professor Plum

Medics

as Prof. Geoffrey Hoyt, general surgeon

5.3

The Chronicles of Narnia

1988

as Puddleglum

7.5

The Life and Loves of a She-Devil

1986

as Father Ferguson

7.1

Doctor Who's Who's Who

1985

as Doctor Who

Blackadder

as Captain Rum

Natural World

as Narrator

The Kenny Everett Television Show

1982

as Self

7.0

The Hound of the Baskervilles

1982

as Sherlock Holmes

6.2

Late Night Story

1978

as self

Nouvelles d'Henry James

1976

as Mark Ambient

Jim'll Fix It

1975

as Self

3.5

Frankenstein: The True Story

1973

as Sea Captain

8.5

Arthur of the Britons

Softly, Softly

BBC Play of the Month

as Egyptian Doctor

Doctor Who

as The Doctor

Doctor Who

as The Doctor (4)

Z-Cars

Dixon of Dock Green

as The Man

Have I Got a Bit More News for You

as Himself - Presenter

7.0

Crew (1)

Movies (1)

Merry Christmas Doctor Who

1978

Writer

10.0