Tom Baker Net Worth
Tom Baker Net Worth is
$700,000
Tom Baker Bio/Wiki, Net Worth, Married 2018
Thomas Stewart "Tom" Baker is an English actor. He is best known for his role as the fourth incarnation of the Doctor in the science fiction television series Doctor Who,. In a 2005 poll, Baker's voice was found to be the fourth most recognisable in Britain. At the age of 15... | Full Name | Tom Baker |
| Date Of Birth | January 20, 1934 |
| Place Of Birth | Liverpool, United Kingdom |
| Height | 6 ft 3 in (1.91 m) |
| Profession | Actor, Comedian |
| Education | Rose Bruford College |
| Nationality | United Kingdom |
| Spouse | Sue Jerrard (m. 1986), Lalla Ward (m. 1980–1982), Anna Wheatcroft (m. 1961–1966) |
| Children | Piers Baker, Daniel Baker |
| Parents | Mary Jane Fleming Baker, John Stewart Baker |
| Siblings | Lulu Baker, John Baker |
| Nicknames | Thomas Stewart Baker , Thomas Stewart "Tom" Baker |
| Nominations | Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture, Golden Globe Award for Best New Star of the Year – Actor |
| Movies | The Five Doctors, The Golden Voyage of Sinbad, Nicholas and Alexandra, The Mutations, The Vault of Horror, The Magic Roundabout, The Deadly Assassin, The Hand of Fear, The Zany Adventures of Robin Hood, The Keeper of Traken, Dungeons & Dragons, The Curse of King Tut's Tomb, The Canterbury Tales, Hyp... |
| TV Shows | Little Britain USA, Little Britain, Randall & Hopkirk, Hyperland, The Silver Chair, Doctor Who, Fort Boyard, The Hound of the Baskervilles, Medics, Whose Doctor Who |
| Star Sign | Aquarius |
| # | Trademark |
|---|---|
| 1 | Towering height |
| 2 | Eccentric, humorous and garrulous personality |
| 3 | His iconic, long-running role as The Doctor. |
| 4 | Powerful, velvety voice |
| 5 | Manic toothy grin |
| 6 | Staring eyes |
| 7 | Curly hair |
| # | Quote |
|---|---|
| 1 | [championing transvestite comic Eddie Izzard for the role of Doctor Who (2005)] Eddie Izzard is so mysterious and strange. He seems like he has lots of secrets. You always feel Eddie Izzard knows something you don't, or has been somewhere you haven't been. I like the way he dresses. He could probably do his own wardrobe. |
| 2 | [on his Catholic upbringing] I see it as absolutely f*****g preposterous. I absolutely chortle with derisive laughter at it and chuck another pint down my neck. The whole vile thing about that fundamentalist Christianity is that we are unworthy. If you keep telling a child, 'You are nothing', the child cannot possibly grow up with self-esteem. |
| 3 | (In 1998) When the Conservatives were in I cannot tell you how much I hated them. But I realise how shallow I am because I now hate the Labour Party as much. |
| 4 | My faith vanished swiftly when I bumped into a couple of girls in Germany. It was incredible. God must have been livid. When you're young - me especially with all those years of chastity - I had this amazing, vital libido. So when I had nothing but a toothbrush and a libido, and I'd ditched my guardian angel and stopped being inhibited by him, it was wonderful. |
| 5 | [on religion] People are quite happy believing the wrong things. I wasn't unhappy believing all that shit. Now I'm not unhappy thinking about it because I can laugh at it. |
| 6 | I was playing Rasputin and what was motivating him was crumpet really, and I was extremely keen on crumpet so I was really rather good as Rasputin. And my next catastrophic failure was Macbeth, who I played in the style of a crumpet-lover, and then when Doctor Who (1963) came along, I embraced this lunacy, this cloud-cuckoo-land where people had to be convinced by absolute nonsense. I came from a very religious background, so it was easy for me to believe in something I knew nothing about. |
| 7 | I never read the scripts at all carefully and never wanted to know what was going on, because I felt that being a benevolent alien, that's the way it should be. |
| 8 | I was terribly out of work when I got the Doctor Who (1963) job. I was temporarily on a building site when the BBC asked me. A few weeks later some of the men went out to buy the racing edition of the Standard and there was my picture on the front page. The BBC had told me not to tell anyone. Those men just couldn't believe it, their cement mixer becoming Doctor Who (1963). |
| 9 | I went to one of the Doctor Who (1963) conventions in Los Angeles. These people were coming up with theories about the Doctor I could not understand. I asked them what they wanted and they all wanted the same thing. Would I take them with me in the TARDIS? It was very strange. |
| 10 | The programme is like a hovercraft - on a fine line all the time. You don't dare touch the ground. I think it must have been the part of the Doctor that kept me fresh and young. All that fantasy is good for the mind, you know. |
| 11 | I remember, I was returning with a colleague from Blackpool on a Saturday afternoon and I wanted to see the episode being shown that day. So we stopped at a television shop and asked if we could watch the programme. The assistant said she was just closing, but we could go to her house nearby and see it. When we got there we found her two children glued to the programme which had just started. I sat down quietly. Suddenly one of the children looked across at me. The he looked back at the set. The he looked back at me again. He couldn't believe his eyes! |
| 12 | [on Doctor Who (1963)] In the end it was not hard to leave the programme. I felt it in my finger-tips that the time had come to move over and give someone else a chance. There was nothing more I could do with it. |
| 13 | The Doctor isn't really an acting part. It's a matter of being inventive enough to project credibility to scenes which aren't credible. |
| 14 | But we can't escape into the future like we can escape into the past. So those of us who are not certain of things, and there are an awful lot of us, often rush back to the past. And each one has a particular past he prefers to the present. Sometimes I feel that any past is preferable to the present. |
| 15 | [when a fan asked him why he left Doctor Who (1963)] I was pushed. By Anthony Ainley. |
| 16 | [on having a star named after him] I'm over the moon. |
| 17 | [on army food] Once a man next to me found the handle of a radiator in his mashed potato; he said nothing, merely moving it to the side of his plate after sucking the mashed potato off it first. Nobody else said anything either. If the truth was known several of us were probably jealous. |
| 18 | We are all quite capable of believing in anything as long as it's improbable. |
| 19 | The difference between Matt Smith and me is that he's an actor and I'm... well, I'm just Tom Baker. |
| 20 | [on the death of Jon Pertwee] I am very sorry to hear the news. I was a great admirer of such a stylish actor. |
| 21 | Actors are able to trick themselves into treating anything as fantastic. It's a kind of madness, really. |
| 22 | [on Lalla Ward] Apparently, somebody at a convention in Canada, I think, asked her, 'What was your favourite monster?' - an annihilatingly dull question - and Lalla went, quick as a flash, 'Tom Baker!' I remember thinking, ahh, good old Lalla. |
| 23 | Not long ago, I was walking in Oxford Street and a man stopped me: He said, '-Tom Baker??', and I said, 'Yeah.' And he said, 'Tom Baker, Christ...' As he looked at me, I could see him being catapulted back somewhere. And he said, 'When I was a kid, I was in a home in North Wales and, uh, it wasn't very good. They didn't like us, and nobody wanted us. And you made Saturday night good for us, you know?' ...Now, to make a little speech to an old man in Oxford Street thirty-odd years later showed the power, didn't it? Of a benevolent character on children's television. |
| 24 | [on his marriage to Lalla Ward] We were deliriously happy for weeks. |
| 25 | I've never worked with anybody twice. Mostly because they've died shortly after working with me. |
| 26 | No one has ever failed as Doctor Who, no one has ever failed. Remotely. Even the boy who did the film, I've forgotten what his name was. |
| 27 | I should never have been an actor really for the simple reason I actually don't like being told what to do. I really don't. Now this is a very bad start for an actor. It really is a very bad start. |
| 28 | It was more fun being Doctor Who (1963) than Tom Baker. Tom Baker was just ordinary. |
| 29 | Now my hair is white, the other day someone mistook me in the street for Claire Rayner. I signed it "Yours sincerely, Claire Rayner." The woman was asking me all sorts of complicated questions about cystitis and things like that. |
| 30 | [on finding Doctor Who: The Stones of Blood: Part Four (1978) tedious] What is amazing about this, of course, this is the longest episode in the history of Doctor Who. |
| 31 | John Nathan-Turner and I did not see eye-to-eye really about very much. It was only afterwards when he'd gone that I got to realise what he was doing for Doctor Who - he was promoting it all over the world, which was all to my advantage. We became quite good friends as time passed - we forgot all about those disagreements. |
| 32 | Graham Williams was absolutely devoted, but he didn't have that kind of flair that Philip [Philip Hinchcliffe] had. But he let me get away with murder, so that was alright! |
| 33 | Jon [Jon Pertwee] found it physically impossible to buy a drink. He liked the idea of big sums of money for voice-overs, so I would say in Jon's earshot that someone had offered me £15,000 for a voiceover, but I turned it down because it was going to take a whole hour. This wasn't true, but I could hear Jon's heart pounding. In fact, he died of a heart attack shortly after that. I think that's why. |
| 34 | [on Black-Adder II: Potato (1986)] I keep getting money because they repeat my appalling Blackadder performance. Did you ever see me as the legless sea captain? For which someone should have taken away my Equity card. It was terrible and the buggers keep playing it. |
| 35 | I turned down The Five Doctors [Doctor Who: The Five Doctors (1983)] because it wasn't long since I'd left - I had left Doctor Who because I think I'd run my course. I didn't want to play 20% of the part. I didn't fancy being a feed for other Doctors - in fact, it filled me with horror. |
| 36 | The monsters on Doctor Who were never so amazing as the monsters on the sixth floor of the BBC. There were some improbable looking people there. |
| 37 | [on working with the robot dog K9 in Doctor Who (1963)] That's why I've got bad knees now, what with being a monk in my youth, praying to God, and then on my knees in front of bloody K9. |
| 38 | [on Doctor Who (2005)] I get sweet messages from time to time from David Tennant, yes, but I've never actually seen it, no. Of course, I didn't watch it when I was in it. Well, once, from behind the sofa. |
| 39 | I would rather be in Little Britain (2003) than King Lear, because there are more laughs. |
| 40 | [on David Walliams and Matt Lucas] I've been with them a long time so we're effortlessly friendly. I am very fond of those boys, they're very young, so I feel rather paternal towards them. I'm also full of admiration for what they do and I'm devoted to their bad taste. |
| 41 | [on the death of Barry Letts] He was the big link in changing my entire life really because it was he who decided to cast me in Doctor Who (1963). It was left down to Barry Letts deciding to employ me or not. He was very anxious at the time because replacing Jon Pertwee was considered a big hurdle. He filled me with great confidence. He was a good man, you know, a really good man. He was a gentleman, you know, that old fashioned gentleman, so kind, so kind. There's no substitute for kindness is there really? |
| 42 | [on The Hound of the Baskervilles (1982)] I was not good in it. The BBC apologised for my performance. They didn't like it at all. |
| 43 | The whole of television seemed to be staffed entirely by producers, directors and script editors and people like that were all actors, because where did the original people come from? At that time, you see, when television got going, the only people that knew anything about theatricality and plays were actors. So lots of the producers had been actors in their day. |
| 44 | Jon Pertwee put a big stamp on Doctor Who (1963). He found a style that was really wonderful. |
| 45 | Frank Bough said to me once, 'Don't you think, actually, your programme frightens people?' I said, 'Not nearly as much as your programme does.' |
| 46 | 30-odd years later people say, 'What did it feel like when you left Doctor Who (1963)?' I never did leave Doctor Who (1963) because it never left me. |
| 47 | [Speaking in 2009] I think it is quite difficult now to surprise an audience with special effects, you may please an audience, but visually you can't actually amaze an audience can you? In a sense you just watch them trying, but if people can appear and disappear and walk through walls and disappear and then carry on fencing or kissing girls, that amazes me. |
| 48 | [on returning to the part of the Doctor] I don't know what it will be like and they haven't approached me yet and I'd want to have some say about the script. I'm not asking for Tom Stoppard to write the script but for it to be as I remember it and as the others remember their time. |
| 49 | [on the sexual portrayal of the Doctor in the revived series, Doctor Who (2005)] It was inconceivable during our time. We didn't think like that. I played him entirely... I never did handle the girls. Or if I did handle the girls, I always did it clumsily, because I reasoned that the Doctor wouldn't know about that. |
| 50 | [on winning a poll in the Radio Times as the best star of Doctor Who (1963)] The readers' vote is very pleasing and reassuring. I was lucky because all my stuff was in colour, the scripts were coming along, the effects were getting more refined, the sets didn't fall over so often. |
| 51 | Dickens (Charles Dickens) is full of all that theatricality from simple times when people could be heroic, ridiculous and strike attitude. And, of course, all that pretentiousness and snobbery is right up my street. I was born to play Mr Crummles. Even when I played Macbeth, someone said to me that I would make a great Crummles. |
| 52 | I began to get into the part and then the part began to get into me... I was the Doctor and the Doctor was me... for more than six years I left myself and floated about as a hero. |
| 53 | Doctor Who (1963) is watched at several levels in an average household. The smallest child terrified behind a sofa or under a cushion, and the next one up laughing at him, and the elder one saying 'sh, I want to listen', and the parents saying 'isn't this enjoyable'. |
| 54 | [on leaving Doctor Who (1963)] I began to realize that I was not much fun to work with from the point of view of the producer because I got very, very opinionated. I thought that I knew what worked. It meant that I was quite difficult to deal with. And so when I offered my resignation I was quite astounded at how swiftly it was accepted. |
| 55 | [on David Tennant, who began playing the Tenth Doctor in Doctor Who (2005)]: I did watch a little bit of the new Doctor Who and I think the new fella, Tennant, is excellent. |
| 56 | I don't watch television. I know better than that. |
| 57 | I've never had a problem with the fame thing, but as I get older I feel I am starting to look less and less like Tom Baker. People used to mistake me for Shirley Williams, but now they just seem to mistake me for my Great Auntie Molly. |
| 58 | As you get near death, as I am, you have to laugh at everything. Otherwise the alternative is to be utterly depressed. |
| 59 | I enjoy overacting and I'm very good at it. I suppose you could say I've made a career out of it. |
| 60 | I think I'm made for the role of Donald MacDonald (Monarch of the Glen (2000)). He's quite clearly from another planet. |
| 61 | [on the Doctor Who (1963) serial Doctor Who: The Talons of Weng-Chiang: Part One (1977)] The BBC is very good at period drama but not very good at giant rats. |
| 62 | I learned nothing at drama school. The tutors were all far too old and out of date. Not their fault. I'm now extremely old and very dated. |
| 63 | The biggest cause of death in Maidstone is boredom. |
| 64 | [on Sprung! The Magic Roundabout (2005)]: I haven't seen a script but I've accepted everything, simply because the money was excellent. |
| 65 | I recently got a copy of the Tom Baker Friendship Group's Fan Letter. It said owing to diminishing interest the price of this fan letter is going up from 30 to 58 pence. |
| 66 | I'm a sort of Buddhist, like all actors are, you know, that nonsense about not bathing in the same river twice - you're not even the same person bathing in the same river. So actors, it seems to me, I don't know much about them, I avoid them like the plague, especially the ones at my age, but inevitably I do meet them and they do seem to me to be a bit like me in that they are not really certain who they are. |
| 67 | I'm very interested in nostalgia because that's pretty well all that's left for me. |
| 68 | The Old Testament is my favourite science fantasy reading. |
| 69 | I think quite often a fate worse than death is life, for lots of people. |
| 70 | I am a one success man. |
| 71 | To want to be an actor, especially these days, is to be ill. |
| 72 | I wasn't interested in novelty. I was looking for good drama. |
| # | Fact |
|---|---|
| 1 | He was cast as The Doctor after producers were impressed by his performance as Koura in ''The Golden Voyage of Sinbad (1973)''. |
| 2 | The famous scarf he wore as The Doctor was created by accident. James Acheson, the costume designer assigned to his first story, had provided far more wool than was necessary to the knitter, Begonia Pope; Pope knitted all the wool she was given. Baker decided to wear it anyway. |
| 3 | He was voted the world's fourth most eccentric star by nearly 6,000 readers of the BBC's Homes and Antiques magazine in 2006. |
| 4 | He has two roles in common with Basil Rathbone: (1) Rathbone played Sir Guy of Gisbourne in The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938) while Baker played him in The Zany Adventures of Robin Hood (1984) and (2) Rathbone played Sherlock Holmes in 14 films from The Hound of the Baskervilles (1939) to Dressed to Kill (1946) and Baker played him in The Hound of the Baskervilles (1982). |
| 5 | He has two roles in common with Christopher Lee: (1) Lee played Sherlock Holmes in Sherlock Holmes and the Deadly Necklace (1962), Sherlock Holmes and the Leading Lady (1991) and Incident at Victoria Falls (1992) while Baker played him in The Hound of the Baskervilles (1982) and (2) Lee played Grigory Rasputin in Rasputin: The Mad Monk (1966) while Baker played him in Nicholas and Alexandra (1971). |
| 6 | In a 2005 survey of British adults, Baker's voice was found to be the fourth most recognizable after Queen Elizabeth II, Tony Blair and Margaret Thatcher. |
| 7 | Laurence Olivier suggested him for the role of Grigori Rasputin in Nicholas and Alexandra (1971). |
| 8 | Was working as a bricklayer and between homes when he was cast as The Doctor. |
| 9 | In 2006, he and his wife Sue Jerrard moved back to England after spending four years living in south west France. |
| 10 | He was considered for the cameo role of Doctor Armstrong in Lifeforce (1985). Patrick Stewart was eventually cast in the role. |
| 11 | He has two roles in common with Peter Cushing: (1) Cushing played Sherlock Holmes in The Hound of the Baskervilles (1959), Sherlock Holmes (1964) and Sherlock Holmes and the Masks of Death (1984) while Baker played him in The Hound of the Baskervilles (1982) and (2) Baker played the Doctor in Doctor Who (1963) while Cushing played him in Dr. Who and the Daleks (1965) and Daleks' Invasion Earth 2150 A.D. (1966). |
| 12 | Did not start acting until he was in his thirties. |
| 13 | During his 2 years National Service in the Royal Army Medical Corps he worked as the curator of a small museum on his base which no one visited and then as an orderly at a military hospital in Germany. |
| 14 | Married his Doctor Who (1963) co-star Lalla Ward (who played the Doctor's companion Romana) when they were both leaving the program. They divorced 16 months later. She later married Richard Dawkins, one of the world's biggest proponents of atheism. Baker was once an apprentice Catholic monk but has since rejected religion and in interviews and in his autobiography has spoken rather cynically about the religious indoctrination he experienced as a youth. |
| 15 | Already possesses his own gravestone, with his name and year of birth carved onto it (but the year of death left blank). It resided in the graveyard next to the converted schoolhouse he used to live in before he moved. |
| 16 | His first wife's uncle was the famous English rose grower Harry Wheatcroft. |
| 17 | He used to do lots of drinking in the pubs and bars of London and old drinking buddies included the artist Francis Bacon, the journalist Jeffrey Barnard, and Anthony Hopkins. |
| 18 | After leaving Doctor Who (1963) in 1981, he was often reluctant to reprise his role as the Fourth Doctor. He refused to appear in the 1983 anniversary special The Five Doctors (footage of him from the unfinished story Shada was used instead), although he did appear in the 1993 Comic Relief special Dimensions In Time. When Big Finish Productions started making new Doctor Who audio stories in 1999, he repeatedly turned down offers from them until recently he changed his mind and a series of stories starring him as the Fourth Doctor started being released from January 2012. |
| 19 | He is a voracious reader of books. |
| 20 | His period on Doctor Who (1963) was the ratings high point of the series and produced many of the most enduringly popular stories. In a 1998 poll in Doctor Who (1963) Magazine, five of the stories voted into the top ten were from his period: Doctor Who: City of Death: Part One (1979), Doctor Who: The Robots of Death: Part One (1977), Doctor Who: Pyramids of Mars: Part One (1975), Doctor Who: The Talons of Weng-Chiang: Part One (1977) and the story voted into first place, Doctor Who: Genesis of the Daleks: Part One (1975). In fan site Outpost Gallifrey's 40th anniversary poll, six of the stories voted into the top ten were from his period: Doctor Who: The Deadly Assassin: Part One (1976), Doctor Who: The Robots of Death: Part One (1977), Doctor Who: City of Death: Part One (1979), Doctor Who: Genesis of the Daleks: Part One (1975), Doctor Who: Pyramids of Mars: Part One (1975) and the serial voted into first place, Doctor Who: The Talons of Weng-Chiang: Part One (1977). In addition to this, in 2003 he was voted the best star of Doctor Who (1963) in a poll in the Radio Times and again in 2005 by readers of science fiction magazine SFX. |
| 21 | At 6'3", he was the tallest actor to play the Doctor in Doctor Who (1963). His immediate predecessor, Jon Pertwee, was marginally shorter at 6'2". |
| 22 | He is the longest-lived actor to have played the Doctor in Doctor Who (1963). He surpassed his predecessor Jon Pertwee on December 5, 2010. He became the first Doctor to reach the age of 77 on January 20, 2011. |
| 23 | During his youth he was an apprentice monk for six years and lived in a monastery on the island of Jersey. |
| 24 | Tom is the son of John Stewart Baker and Mary Jane (Fleming). Tom's paternal grandparents were Thomas Victor Baker, a farmer's son, and Sarah Grieve, who had Scottish ancestry, and was the daughter of Robert Grieve and Agnes Stewart. Tom's maternal grandfather, William Henry Fleming, was born in Liverpool, to Irish parents, Bridget and John Fleming. Tom's maternal grandmother, Christina Usher, was also born in Liverpool, to James Usher, who was from Drogheda, County Louth, Ireland, and Rose Ann Colligan, who was born in Glasgow, Lanarkshire, and had Irish ancestry. |
| 25 | Trained at Rose Bruford Drama School, Sidcup, Kent, UK alongside Freddie Jones. Later members include actors Ray Fearon, Gary Oldman and Stephen Armourae. |
| 26 | He has been mistaken by members of the public for Jon Pertwee. |
| 27 | Known for his rich, resonant voice, he has done a lot of voiceover work during his post-Doctor Who career, including many television commercials in the UK. |
| 28 | Children, with Anna Wheatcroft: Daniel and Piers. |
| 29 | Has performed with the National Theatre, the Bristol Old Vic and the Royal Shakespeare Company. |
| 30 | Tom was a largely unknown, unemployed actor who had actually written to the BBC seeking work shortly before he was cast in his most famous role, as the star of Doctor Who (1963). His appointment as Jon Pertwee's successor came after series producer Barry Letts had already considered for the role more famous actors Jim Dale, Richard Hearne, Michael Bentine, Graham Crowden and Fulton Mackay, all of whom had been discounted for various reasons. |
| 31 | With the death of Jon Pertwee on May 20, 1996, he is both the oldest and earliest surviving Doctor from Doctor Who (1963). |
| 32 | He is the longest-serving actor to have portrayed the Doctor in Doctor Who (1963), having played the role for seven seasons from 1974 to 1981, producing 172 episodes. In second place is his immediate predecessor, Jon Pertwee, who played the Third Doctor for five seasons from 1970 to 1974. |
| 33 | His incarnation of the Doctor has made silent cameo appearances several times in both The Simpsons (1989) and Futurama (1999). Matt Groening is said to be fan of Doctor Who (1963). However Baker himself has never been a guest star on either show. |
Actor
| Title | Year | Status | Character |
|---|---|---|---|
| Star Wars Rebels | 2016 | TV Series | The Bendu |
| Nelly Cootalot: The Fowl Fleet | 2016 | Video Game | Sebastian J. Coot (voice) |
| Doctor Who | 2013 | TV Series | The Doctor |
| Saving Santa | 2013 | Video | Santa (British version, voice) |
| Break Glass in Case Of... | 2013 | Monica (voice) | |
| The Genie in the Bottle | 2010 | Short | Narrator |
| Little Britain USA | 2008 | TV Series | Narrator |
| The Beeps | 2007-2008 | TV Series | Narrator |
| Agatha Christie's Marple | 2007 | TV Series | Frederick Treves |
| Little Britain: The Video Game | 2007 | Video Game | Narrator (voice) |
| Little Britain | 2003-2006 | TV Series | Narrator |
| The Wind in the Willows | 2006 | TV Movie | Judge (uncredited) |
| Little Britain: Live | 2006 | Video | Narrator (voice) |
| Little Britain: The Game | 2006 | Video Game | Narrator (voice) |
| The Secret Show | 2006 | TV Series | Robert Baron |
| Monarch of the Glen | 2004-2005 | TV Series | Donald MacDonald |
| MediEvil: Resurrection | 2005 | Video Game | Narrator / Grim Reaper (voice) |
| Cold Winter | 2005 | Video Game | John Gray (voice) |
| Heretic Kingdoms: The Inquisition | 2005 | Video Game | Narrator (English version, voice) |
| Sprung! The Magic Roundabout | 2005 | Zeebad (English version, voice) | |
| The Little Reindeer | 2004 | TV Short | Santa Claus (voice) |
| Sudeki | 2004 | Video Game | Opening Narrator (voice, uncredited) |
| Fort Boyard | 2003 | TV Series | Captain Baker |
| Warhammer 40,000: Fire Warrior | 2003 | Video Game | Narrator (voice) |
| Strange | 2003 | TV Series | Father Bernard |
| Swiss Toni | 2003 | TV Series | Derek Asquith |
| Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased) | 2000-2001 | TV Series | Prof. Wyvern |
| Hostile Waters: Antaeus Rising | 2001 | Video Game | The Narrator (voice) |
| Fun at the Funeral Parlour | 2001 | TV Series | Quimby |
| Ecco the Dolphin: Defender of the Future | 2000 | Video Game | Narrator (voice) |
| Dungeons & Dragons | 2000 | Halvarth | |
| The Canterbury Tales | 2000 | TV Series | Simpkin |
| Max Bear | 2000 | TV Series | Max Bear (voice) |
| Silver | 1999 | Video Game | Narrator (voice) |
| Backtime | 1998 | Sarge | |
| Doctor Who: Destiny of the Doctors | 1997 | Video Game | The Doctor (voice) |
| Medics | 1992-1995 | TV Series | Prof. Geoffrey Hoyt, general surgeon Geoffrey Hoyt |
| The Imaginatively Titled Punt & Dennis Show | 1994 | TV Series | |
| Doctor Who: Dimensions in Time | 1993 | TV Short | The Fourth Doctor |
| Doctor Who: Shada | 1992 | Video | Doctor Who / Narrator |
| Cluedo | 1992 | TV Series | Professor Plum |
| Screen Two | 1992 | TV Series | Sir Lionel Sweeting |
| Selling Hitler | 1991 | TV Mini-Series | Manfred Fischer |
| The Silver Chair | 1990 | TV Series | Puddleglum |
| Tales of Aesop | 1990 | TV Series | Narrator |
| The Life and Loves of a She-Devil | 1986 | TV Mini-Series | Father Ferguson |
| The Kenny Everett Television Show | 1986 | TV Series | |
| Roland Rat: The Series | 1986 | TV Series | Doctor Who / BBC 3 Presenter |
| Black-Adder II | 1986 | TV Series | Captain Rum |
| The Passionate Pilgrim | 1984 | Short | Sir Tom |
| The Zany Adventures of Robin Hood | 1984 | TV Movie | Sir Guy de Gisbourne |
| Remington Steele | 1984 | TV Series | Anatole Blaylock |
| Jemima Shore Investigates | 1983 | TV Series | Dr. Norman Ziegler |
| The Hound of the Baskervilles | 1982 | TV Mini-Series | Sherlock Holmes |
| Doctor Who | 1974-1981 | TV Series | Doctor Who |
| The Curse of King Tut's Tomb | 1980 | TV Movie | Hasan |
| Another World | 1980 | Short | |
| Good King Memorex | 1979 | Video | Doctor Who |
| White Powder Christmas | 1978 | Video short | Doctor Who |
| Piccadilly Circus | 1977 | TV Series | Mark |
| Nouvelles de Henry James | 1976 | TV Series | Mark Ambient |
| Jim'll Fix It | 1975 | TV Series | The Doctor |
| The Mutations | 1974 | Lynch | |
| Luther | 1974 | Pope Leo X (uncredited) | |
| The Golden Voyage of Sinbad | 1973 | Koura | |
| Frankenstein: The True Story | 1973 | TV Movie | Sea Captain |
| Arthur of the Britons | 1973 | TV Series | Brandreth / Gavron |
| The Vault of Horror | 1973 | Moore (segment 5 "Drawn and Quartered") | |
| Cari genitori | 1973 | ||
| BBC Play of the Month | 1972 | TV Series | Dr. Ahmed el Kabir - Egyptian Doctor |
| The Canterbury Tales | 1972 | Jenkin | |
| Jackanory | 1972 | TV Series | The Storyteller |
| Nicholas and Alexandra | 1971 | Rasputin | |
| Softly Softly: Task Force | 1970 | TV Series | Site Foreman |
| Thirty-Minute Theatre | 1969 | TV Series | Corporal Schabe |
| Dixon of Dock Green | 1968 | TV Series | Foreman / The Man |
| Z Cars | 1968 | TV Series | Harry Russell |
| George and the Dragon | 1968 | TV Series | Porter |
| Market in Honey Lane | 1968 | TV Series | Doorman |
| The Winter's Tale | 1967 | Minor Role (uncredited) |
Writer
| Title | Year | Status | Character |
|---|---|---|---|
| Doctor Who | 1976 | TV Series additional material - 1 episode |
Self
| Title | Year | Status | Character |
|---|---|---|---|
| Doctor Who Live: The Afterparty | 2013 | TV Movie documentary | Himself (uncredited) |
| Doctor Who Explained | 2013 | TV Movie | Himself / The Doctor |
| Doctor Who: The Doctors Revisited | 2013 | TV Mini-Series documentary | Himself |
| Timeshift | 2010-2011 | TV Series documentary | Himself - Narrator |
| Animal Rites | 2011 | TV Series documentary voice | |
| In Confidence | 2010 | TV Series documentary | Himself - Guest |
| The Girls Aloud Party | 2008 | TV Movie | Himself (voice) |
| Have I Got News for You | 1998-2008 | TV Series | Himself - Guest Presenter / Himself |
| Have I Got News for You: The Inevitable Internet Spin-Off | 2008 | TV Series short | Himself - Guest Presenter |
| Blue Peter at 50 | 2008 | TV Movie documentary | Himself - Narrator (voice) |
| Comedy Connections | 2008 | TV Series documentary | Himself |
| The Rise and Fall of Gallifrey | 2008 | Video documentary short | The Doctor |
| A Darker Side | 2007 | Video short | Himself / The Doctor |
| Planetary Performance: Acting in Doctor Who | 2007 | Video documentary short | Himself / The Doctor |
| A Matter of Time | 2007 | Video documentary | Himself / The Doctor |
| Hammer Horror | 2007 | Video documentary short | Himself |
| Late Night Story | 1978-2007 | TV Series short | Himself - Reader |
| Perfect Night In | 2007 | TV Series documentary | Himself |
| The Dame Edna Treatment | 2007 | TV Series | Himself |
| Are Friends Electric | 2007 | Video documentary short | Himself |
| Brit Awards 2007 | 2007 | TV Special | Himself (voice) |
| A New Body at Last | 2007 | Video documentary | Himself - The Fourth Doctor Who |
| The Crowded TARDIS | 2007 | Video documentary short | Himself - The 4th Doctor |
| Ultimate Sci-Fi Quiz | 2006 | Video Game | Himself - Presenter |
| Global Haywire | 2006 | Documentary | Narrator |
| Changing Time: Living and Leaving Doctor Who | 2006 | Video documentary | Himself |
| Genesis of a Classic | 2006 | Video documentary | Himself / The Doctor |
| Today with Des and Mel | 2006 | TV Series | Himself |
| Richard & Judy | 2006 | TV Series | Himself |
| Little Documentary | 2005 | Video documentary short | Himself (uncredited) |
| Shameful Secrets of the 70s | 2005 | TV Movie documentary | Himself - Presenter |
| Magical Voices | 2005 | Video documentary short | Himself |
| Re-Imagining the Magic | 2005 | Video documentary short | Narrator (voice) |
| The Magic of Music | 2005 | Video documentary short | Narrator (voice) |
| The Sound of Magic | 2005 | Video documentary short | Narrator (voice) |
| Doctor Who Confidential | 2005 | TV Series documentary | Himself |
| Rewriting History | 2005 | TV Series documentary | Narrator |
| Britain's 50 Greatest Comedy Sketches | 2005 | TV Movie documentary | Narrator (voice) |
| 'Doctor Who': A New Dimension | 2005 | TV Movie documentary | Himself |
| Harry Price: Ghost Hunter | 2005 | TV Movie documentary | Himself - Presenter |
| GMTV | 2004 | TV Series | Himself |
| The Heaven and Earth Show | 2004 | TV Series | Himself |
| A New Beginning | 2004 | Video documentary short | Himself / The Doctor |
| Terry & Liz | 2004 | TV Short documentary | Narrator |
| The Story of 'Doctor Who' | 2003 | TV Movie documentary | Himself |
| Top 10 Comic Book Heroes | 2002 | TV Movie documentary | Himself / Host |
| Top Ten | 2001 | TV Series documentary | Himself - Host |
| Alter Ego | 2001 | TV Short | Himself |
| This Is Your Life | 2000 | TV Series documentary | Himself |
| Carnival of Monsters | 1999 | TV Special | Himself |
| The Great Events of Our Century: Disaster/Freedom | 1999 | Video documentary | Narrator |
| The Great Events of Our Century: Fame/Obsession | 1999 | Video documentary | Narrator |
| The Great Events of Our Century: Legacy/Into the Unknown | 1999 | Video documentary | Narrator |
| The Great Events of Our Century: Politics of Violence/Death & Glory | 1999 | Video documentary | Narrator |
| The Great Events of Our Century: Scandal/I Am the Greatest | 1999 | Video documentary | Narrator |
| Ray Harryhausen: Working with Dinosaurs | 1999 | TV Special | Narrator (voice) |
| Adventures in Space and Time | 1999 | TV Special documentary short | Himself |
| This Morning | 1992-1997 | TV Series | Himself |
| Century | 1997 | TV Series documentary | Himself - Narrator |
| Equinox | 1994 | TV Series | Narrator |
| The Diary of Jack the Ripper: Beyond Reasonable Doubt? | 1993 | Video documentary | Narrator |
| Science Fiction | 1992 | TV Series | Himself - Host |
| 'Doctor Who': The Tom Baker Years | 1992 | Video documentary | Himself - Presenter |
| Pebble Mill at One | 1992 | TV Series | Himself - Guest |
| Doctor... Who on Earth Is Tom Baker | 1991 | Video documentary | Himself / Interviewer / Man on Bicycle / ... |
| Hyperland | 1990 | TV Movie documentary | Tom |
| Ray Harryhausen: Movement Into Life | 1990 | Documentary short | Narrator (voice) |
| Myth Makers Vol. 8: Tom Baker | 1989 | Video documentary | Himself |
| 'Doctor Who' Who's Who | 1986 | TV Special documentary | Himself |
| Nationwide | 1976-1980 | TV Series documentary | Himself |
| The Book Tower | 1979 | TV Series | Himself - Presenter |
| Call My Bluff | 1977 | TV Series | Himself |
| The Lively Arts | 1977 | TV Series documentary | Himself / The Doctor |
| Multi-Coloured Swap Shop | 1976 | TV Series | Himself |
| Disney Time | 1973 | TV Movie | Himself - Guest Host |
| The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson | 1972 | TV Series | Himself |
| The David Frost Show | 1971 | TV Series | Himself |
Archive Footage
| Title | Year | Status | Character |
|---|---|---|---|
| 12 Again | 2013 | TV Series | The Doctor |
| The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot | 2013 | TV Movie | The Doctor (uncredited) |
| The Culture Show | 2005-2013 | TV Series documentary | Himself / The Doctor |
| Doctor Who Live: The Next Doctor | 2013 | TV Movie | The Doctor (uncredited) |
| Geek Crash Course | 2013 | TV Series | The Fourth Doctor |
| Nice or Nasty?: The Making of Vengeance on Varos | 2012 | Video documentary | The Doctor (uncredited) |
| Tales of Television Centre | 2012 | TV Movie documentary | Acting Role (uncredited) |
| The Nightmare of TV Centre | 2012 | Video documentary short | The Doctor (uncredited) |
| The Village That Came to Life | 2012 | Video documentary short | The Doctor |
| Jacqueline Hill: A Life in Pictures | 2011 | Video short | The Doctor (uncredited) |
| Running from the Taxman | 2011 | Video documentary | The Doctor |
| Phelous & the Movies | 2011 | TV Series | The Fourth Doctor |
| Come in Number Five | 2011 | Video documentary | The Doctor (uncredited) |
| The Sarah Jane Adventures | 2009-2010 | TV Series | The Doctor |
| BBC Proms | 2010 | TV Series | The Doctor |
| Great TV Mistakes | 2010 | TV Movie documentary | The Doctor (uncredited) |
| Doctor Who: Team Erato | 2010 | Documentary short | The Doctor (uncredited) |
| Into the Unknown: The Making of 'Underworld' | 2010 | Video documentary short | Himself / The Doctor (uncredited) |
| Who Wants to Live Forever? | 2009 | Video documentary short | The Doctor |
| Cybermen | 2009 | Video short | The Doctor (uncredited) |
| Doctor Who Confidential | 2009 | TV Series documentary | The Doctor |
| All Aboard the Starliner: The Making of 'Full Circle' | 2009 | Video documentary short | The Doctor (uncredited) |
| Lalla's Wardrobe: A Frockumentary | 2009 | Video short | The Doctor |
| The Dreaming | 2009 | Video documentary short | The Doctor |
| The Vampire Lovers: The Making of 'State of Decay' | 2009 | Video documentary short | The Doctor |
| Out of Time | 2008 | Video documentary short | The Doctor |
| Blackadder's Most Cunning Moments | 2008 | TV Movie documentary | Captain Rum (uncredited) |
| Designs on Karn | 2008 | Video documentary short | The Doctor (uncredited) |
| Getting a Head | 2008 | Video documentary short | The Doctor |
| The Ties That Bind Us | 2008 | Video documentary short | The Doctor |
| New Heroes of Comedy | 2008 | TV Series documentary | 'Little Britain' Narrator |
| Celebration | 2008 | Video documentary | Himself |
| The Cyber Story | 2008 | Video documentary short | The Doctor |
| Davros Connections | 2007 | Video documentary | The Doctor |
| Defining Shadows | 2007 | Video short | The Doctor |
| Directing 'Who': Michael Hayes | 2007 | Video documentary short | The Doctor |
| Double Trouble | 2007 | Video documentary short | The Doctor |
| Getting Blood from the Stones | 2007 | Video documentary short | The Doctor |
| Parrot Fashion | 2007 | Video documentary short | The Doctor |
| Philip Madoc: A Villain for All Seasons | 2007 | Video documentary short | The Doctor |
| The Humans of Tara | 2007 | Video documentary short | The Doctor |
| There's Something About Mary | 2007 | Video documentary short | The Doctor |
| The Ribos File | 2007 | Video documentary short | The Doctor |
| Weird Science | 2007 | Video short | The Doctor |
| Family Guy | 2007 | TV Series | The Doctor |
| Directing 'Who': Ken Grieve | 2007 | Video documentary short | The Doctor |
| Terror Nation: Terry Nation and Doctor Who | 2007 | Video documentary short | The Doctor |
| Would I Lie to You? | 2007 | TV Series | The Doctor |
| Mouth on Legs | 2007 | Video documentary short | The Doctor |
| Jackie Magazine: A Girl's Best Friend | 2007 | TV Movie documentary | The Doctor (uncredited) |
| Being Nice to Each Other: Making 'The Keeper of Traken' | 2007 | Video documentary short | The Doctor (uncredited) |
| The Return of the Master | 2007 | Video documentary short | The Doctor |
| Built for War | 2006 | Video documentary short | The Doctor |
| Love Off-Air | 2006 | Video documentary short | The Doctor |
| The Dalek Tapes | 2006 | Video documentary | The Doctor |
| Paris in the Springtime | 2005 | Video | The Doctor |
| Paddy Russell: A Life in Television | 2005 | Video short | The Doctor |
| Terrance Dicks: Fact & Fiction | 2005 | Video documentary short | The Doctor |
| Directing 'Who': Peter Moffatt | 2004 | Video documentary short | The Doctor |
| Behind the Sofa: Robert Holmes and Doctor Who | 2003 | Video documentary | The Doctor |
| Celebrity Naked Ambition | 2003 | TV Movie documentary | |
| Osirian Gothic | 2003 | Video documentary short | The Doctor (uncredited) |
| Serial Thrillers | 2003 | Video documentary short | The Doctor (uncredited) |
| Putting the Shock Into 'Earthshock' | 2003 | Video documentary short | The Doctor |
| The Very Best of 'Have I Got News for You' | 2002 | Video | Himself |
| The Greatest | 2001 | TV Series documentary | The Doctor |
| Longleat 83: The Greatest Show in the Galaxy | 2001 | Video documentary | Himself |
| Doctor Who: 30 Years in the Tardis | 1993 | TV Movie documentary | The Doctor |
| 'Doctor Who': The Pertwee Years | 1992 | Video documentary | Himself |
| Resistance Is Useless | 1992 | TV Movie documentary | The Doctor |
| Doctor Who | 1982-1984 | TV Series | The Doctor |
| Multi-Coloured Swap Shop | 1977-1982 | TV Series | The Doctor |
| Blue Peter | 1980 | TV Series | The Doctor |
| Lego Dimensions | 2015 | Video Game | The Fourth Doctor |
| Doctor Who | 2008-2015 | TV Series | The Doctor |
| Doctor Who: The Ultimate Companion | 2014 | TV Movie | The Doctor |
| Top of the Pops: The Story of 1979 | 2014 | TV Movie documentary | The Doctor |
| Ian Levine: Shada | 2013 | Video | The Doctor |
Nominated Awards
| Year | Award | Ceremony | Nomination | Movie |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1972 | Golden Globe | Golden Globes, USA | Best Supporting Actor - Motion Picture | Nicholas and Alexandra (1971) |
| 1972 | Golden Globe | Golden Globes, USA | Most Promising Newcomer - Male | Nicholas and Alexandra (1971) |
Known for movies
Doctor Who (1974-1984)
as Doctor Who
The Golden Voyage of Sinbad (1973)
as Koura
Sprung! The Magic Roundabout (2005)
as Zeebad
Nicholas and Alexandra (1971)
as Rasputin