Person
Colin Baker
Acting · Born 1943-06-08 · Waterloo, London, England, UK
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
Doctor Who
Commander Maxil
Casualty
Colin Miles
Wogan
Self
Hustle
Phil
GMTV
Self
Pebble Mill
Self
Blake's 7
Bayban
Celebrity Antiques Road Trip
Self - Participant
Pointless Celebrities
Self
Jonathan Creek
Hedley Shale
Filmography
- 2025A Christmas Carol - A Filmed Radio Play Live on StageEbenezer Scrooge
- 2025Doctor Who: Wish World & The Reality WarThe Doctor (archive footage) (uncredited)
- 2024Doctor Who at the PromsThe Doctor (6) (archive footage)
- 2023Doctor Who: 60 Years of Secrets & ScandalsSelf - archive
- 2023Christmas at the Holly Day InnBen
- 2023Talking Doctor WhoSelf / The Doctor (6) (archive footage)
- 2023Tales of the TardisThe Doctor
- 2023Buckle UpNick
- 2023Secrets of a Wallaby BoyBruce (voice)
- 2022MinaciousDS Rawlins
- 2022Remembers…Self
- 2021The Ghosts of Borley RectoryCharles Sutton
- 2021You Might Get LostConrad
- 2020The Big Night InSelf
- 2019Showman: The Life of John Nathan-TurnerHimself
- 2019The Doctor Who Cookbook RevisitedSelf
- 2019The Doctors: The Colin Baker Years
- 2019Doctor Who: The TrialSelf
- 2018Doctor Who: Behind the SofaSelf
- 2018Remembering Deborah WatlingSelf
- 2016Last Man on EarthProfessor James Friedkin
- 2015Doctor Who: The Husbands of River SongThe Doctor (6) (picture) (uncredited)
- 2015A Christmas CarolCharles Dickens
- 2015A Dozen SummersThe Narrator
- 2014Shadows of a StrangerWilliam Fallon
- 2014Doctor Who: The Ultimate CompanionSelf / The Doctor (archive footage)
- 2014Doctor Who: The Ultimate Time Lord with Peter DavisonSelf
- 2013Doctor Who Live: The AfterpartySelf
- 2013The Five(ish) Doctors RebootSelf
- 2013Doctor Who: The Day of the DoctorThe Doctor (6) (archive footage)
- 2013Doctor Who: Tales from the TARDISSelf
- 2013Doctor Who Live: The Next DoctorSelf
- 2013Tipping Point: Lucky StarsSelf - Contestant
- 2013Doctor Who: The Doctors RevisitedSelf
- 2012BBC Comedy Feeds
- 2011Celebrity Antiques Road TripSelf - Participant
- 2011Pointless CelebritiesSelf
- 2008Doctor Who: The Next DoctorThe Doctor (6) (archive footage)
- 2008Trials and Tribulations
- 2008The Making of The Trial of a Time Lord
- 2008Now, Get Out of That
- 2008Celebration: Doctor Who in 1983
- 2008The Ties That Bind UsThe Sixth Doctor / Commander Maxil (archive footage)
- 2007Davros Connections(archival audio)
- 2007The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (documentary)
- 2007KingdomMr. Dodds
- 2006Built for War: The Sontaran Story
- 2006Lords and Luddites: Making 'The Mark of the Rani'
- 2005Doctor Who: A New DimensionSelf
- 2005Doctor Who Confidential
- 2004HustlePhil
- 2003The Story of Doctor Who
- 2003Adventures in Time and Spain(archive footage)
- 2003The Afternoon PlayJudge
- 2002Doctor Who: Real TimeThe Doctor
- 2002I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here!Self
- 2002Doctor Who: Real TimeThe Doctor
- 2001The Home Whovian
- 2000TravelWiseJonathan Pike
- 2000The AsylumArbuthnot
- 1999Adventures in Space and TimeHimself
- 1999Carnival of Monsters
- 1999The Waiting TimeGiles Fleming
- 1999The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Daredevils of the DesertChauvel
- 1999The Harpist
- 1999SunburnJohn Buchanan
- 1999Soul's ArkGalico
- 1997A Dance to the Music of TimeCanon Fenneau
- 1997Stranger Than Fiction 3: Acting Up
- 1997Jonathan CreekHedley Shale
- 1995The Doctors: 30 Years of Time Travel and Beyond
- 1995The Stranger: Eye of the BeholderThe Stranger / Soloman
- 1995Stranger than Fiction 2: From Script to Screen
- 1994The Stranger: Breach of the PeaceThe Stranger / Soloman
- 1994The KnockDonald Dewhurst
- 1994Doctor Who: The Colin Baker YearsSelf - Presenter
- 1994PROBE: The Zero ImperativePeter Russell
- 1994The Stranger: The Terror GameThe Stranger / Soloman
- 1994Stranger than Fiction
- 199330 Years in the TARDISHimself
- 1993Doctor Who: Dimensions in TimeThe 6th Doctor
- 1993Bigger Inside Than OutNarrator
- 1993The Airzone SolutionArnold Davies
- 1993The Stranger: In Memory AloneThe Stranger
- 1993GMTVSelf
- 1992Doctor Who: Cybermen - The Early YearsSelf - Host
- 1992The Stranger: More Than a MessiahThe Stranger
- 1991Pebble MillSelf
- 1991The PanoptiCon Tapes Vol 1 - The Main Event
- 1991The Stranger: Summoned by ShadowsThe Stranger
- 1991The StrangerThe Stranger
- 1990The PanoptiCon Tapes V
- 1990The PanoptiCon Tapes IV
- 1990The PanoptiCon Tapes III
- 1990The PanoptiCon Tapes II
- 1986Doctor Who: The Ultimate FoeThe Doctor
- 1986The PanoptiCon Tapes VI
- 1986Doctor Who: Terror of the VervoidsThe Doctor
- 1986Doctor Who: MindwarpThe Doctor
- 1986Doctor Who: The Mysterious PlanetThe Doctor
- 1986CasualtyColin Miles
- 1986Who's Who
- 1985Doctor Who: Revelation of the DaleksThe Doctor
- 1985Doctor Who: TimelashThe Doctor
- 1985Doctor Who: The Two DoctorsThe Doctor
- 1985A Fix with SontaransThe Doctor
- 1985Doctor Who: The Mark of the RaniThe Doctor
- 1985Doctor Who: Vengeance on VarosThe Doctor
- 1985Doctor Who: Attack of the CybermenThe Doctor
- 1985Doctor Who's Who's WhoDoctor Who
- 1984Doctor Who: The Twin DilemmaThe Doctor
- 1984Doctor Who: The Caves of AndrozaniThe Doctor
- 1984Swallows and Amazons Forever!Dr. Dudgeon
- 1983Doctor Who: Arc of InfinityCommander Maxil
- 1982Countdown
- 1982WoganSelf
- 1981Dangerous Davies: The Last DetectiveWilliam Lind
- 1978Blake's 7Bayban
- 1975Jim'll Fix ItDoctor Who
- 1975Drive Carefully, DarlingBrain
- 1974The Carnforth PracticeBob Anderson
- 1974Fall of EaglesCrown Prince Willie
- 1973Orson Welles' Great MysteriesGeorge Barclay
- 1972The EdwardiansJoseph Laycock
- 1972War & PeaceAnatole Kuragin
- 1972VillainsReporter
- 1972The BrothersPaul Merroney
- 1972The MoonstoneJohn Herncastle
- 1972The MoonstoneJohn Herncastle
- 1971Cousin BetteCount Wenceslas Steinbock
- 1970The Adventures of Don QuickRebel
- 1970The Roads to FreedomClaude
- 1969The Mind of Mr. J.G. ReederReigate
- 1965Public EyeTown Hall Clerk
- 1963Doctor WhoCommander Maxil
- —Danny BoyFred
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