Colin Baker
Acting • Born 1943-06-08
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.
Filmography
141 credits
Shadows of a Stranger
Movie • 2014
William Fallon
Stranger Than Fiction 3: Acting Up
Movie • 1997
Doctor Who Live: The Afterparty
Movie • 2013
Self
TravelWise
Movie • 2000
Jonathan Pike
A Dozen Summers
Movie • 2015
The Narrator
The Waiting Time
Movie • 1999
Giles Fleming
Doctor Who: The Ultimate Time Lord with Peter Davison
Movie • 2014
Self
You Might Get Lost
Movie • 2021
Conrad
Secrets of a Wallaby Boy
Movie • 2023
Bruce (voice)
Buckle Up
Movie • 2023
Nick
The Airzone Solution
Movie • 1993
Arnold Davies
Soul's Ark
Movie • 1999
Galico
Doctor Who: Dimensions in Time
Movie • 1993
The 6th Doctor
The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot
Movie • 2013
Self
Talking Doctor Who
Movie • 2023
Self / The Doctor (6) (archive footage)
Who's Who
Movie • 1986
The Home Whovian
Movie • 2001
Doctor Who: 60 Years of Secrets & Scandals
Movie • 2023
Self - archive
Drive Carefully, Darling
Movie • 1975
Brain
Doctor Who: The Day of the Doctor
Movie • 2013
The Doctor (6) (archive footage)
Doctor Who: The Trial
Movie • 2019
Self
The PanoptiCon Tapes Vol 1 - The Main Event
Movie • 1991
The PanoptiCon Tapes II
Movie • 1990
The PanoptiCon Tapes III
Movie • 1990
The PanoptiCon Tapes IV
Movie • 1990
The PanoptiCon Tapes V
Movie • 1990
The PanoptiCon Tapes VI
Movie • 1986
Doctor Who: The Colin Baker Years
Movie • 1994
Self - Presenter
PROBE: The Zero Imperative
Movie • 1994
Peter Russell
Remembering Deborah Watling
Movie • 2018
Self
Christmas at the Holly Day Inn
Movie • 2023
Ben
The Doctors: The Colin Baker Years
Movie • 2019
Doctor Who: The Caves of Androzani
Movie • 1984
The Doctor
Doctor Who: The Ultimate Companion
Movie • 2014
Self / The Doctor (archive footage)
Doctor Who: Vengeance on Varos
Movie • 1985
The Doctor
Doctor Who: Cybermen - The Early Years
Movie • 1992
Self - Host
The Harpist
Movie • 1999
Doctor Who: A New Dimension
Movie • 2005
Self
The Asylum
Movie • 2000
Arbuthnot
A Christmas Carol
Movie • 2015
Charles Dickens
The Moonstone
Movie • 1972
John Herncastle
Doctor Who: The Ultimate Foe
Movie • 1986
The Doctor
Doctor Who: Terror of the Vervoids
Movie • 1986
The Doctor
Doctor Who: Mindwarp
Movie • 1986
The Doctor
Doctor Who: The Mysterious Planet
Movie • 1986
The Doctor
Doctor Who: The Twin Dilemma
Movie • 1984
The Doctor
Doctor Who: Revelation of the Daleks
Movie • 1985
The Doctor
Doctor Who: Timelash
Movie • 1985
The Doctor
Doctor Who: The Two Doctors
Movie • 1985
The Doctor
Doctor Who: The Mark of the Rani
Movie • 1985
The Doctor
Doctor Who: Attack of the Cybermen
Movie • 1985
The Doctor
Dangerous Davies: The Last Detective
Movie • 1981
William Lind
The Stranger: More Than a Messiah
Movie • 1992
The Stranger
The Stranger: In Memory Alone
Movie • 1993
The Stranger
The Stranger: The Terror Game
Movie • 1994
The Stranger / Soloman
The Stranger: Breach of the Peace
Movie • 1994
The Stranger / Soloman
The Stranger: Summoned by Shadows
Movie • 1991
The Stranger
The Stranger: Eye of the Beholder
Movie • 1995
The Stranger / Soloman
Stranger than Fiction
Movie • 1994
Stranger than Fiction 2: From Script to Screen
Movie • 1995
The Doctors: 30 Years of Time Travel and Beyond
Movie • 1995
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Daredevils of the Desert
Movie • 1999
Chauvel
Adventures in Space and Time
Movie • 1999
Himself
30 Years in the TARDIS
Movie • 1993
Himself
Celebration: Doctor Who in 1983
Movie • 2008
Davros Connections
Movie • 2007
(archival audio)
Built for War: The Sontaran Story
Movie • 2006
The Story of Doctor Who
Movie • 2003
Carnival of Monsters
Movie • 1999
Showman: The Life of John Nathan-Turner
Movie • 2019
Himself
The Doctor Who Cookbook Revisited
Movie • 2019
Self
Doctor Who Live: The Next Doctor
Movie • 2013
Self
The Making of The Trial of a Time Lord
Movie • 2008
Trials and Tribulations
Movie • 2008
Last Man on Earth
Movie • 2016
Professor James Friedkin
Doctor Who: Arc of Infinity
Movie • 1983
Commander Maxil
The Ghosts of Borley Rectory
Movie • 2021
Charles Sutton
Doctor Who: Real Time
Movie • 2002
The Doctor
Doctor Who at the Proms
Movie • 2024
The Doctor (6) (archive footage)
Doctor Who: The Next Doctor
Movie • 2008
The Doctor (6) (archive footage)
Doctor Who: The Husbands of River Song
Movie • 2015
The Doctor (6) (picture) (uncredited)
Bigger Inside Than Out
Movie • 1993
Narrator
A Fix with Sontarans
Movie • 1985
The Doctor
The Ties That Bind Us
Movie • 2008
The Sixth Doctor / Commander Maxil (archive footage)
Doctor Who: Tales from the TARDIS
Movie • 2013
Self
Doctor Who: Wish World & The Reality War
Movie • 2025
The Doctor (archive footage) (uncredited)
Now, Get Out of That
Movie • 2008
Adventures in Time and Spain
Movie • 2003
(archive footage)
Doctor Who: Gallifrey
Movie • 2013
The Doctor
Lords and Luddites: Making 'The Mark of the Rani'
Movie • 2006
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
Movie • 2007
Doctor Who: Slipback
Movie • 2025
6th Doctor
Minacious
Movie • 2022
DS Rawlins
The Big Night In
Movie • 2020
Self
Doctor Who: The Ultimate Evil
Movie • 2025
The 6th Doctor
Doctor Who: Yellow Fever
Movie • 2025
6th Doctor
Doctor Who: The Power of the Doctor
Movie • 2022
The Doctor
Danny Boy
Movie
Fred
Doctor Who
TV • 1963
Commander Maxil
Doctor Who Confidential
TV • 2005
Jonathan Creek
TV • 1997
Hedley Shale
Blake's 7
TV • 1978
Bayban
War & Peace
TV • 1972
Anatole Kuragin
Hustle
TV • 2004
Phil
Countdown
TV • 1982
Jim'll Fix It
TV • 1975
Doctor Who
Fall of Eagles
TV • 1974
Crown Prince Willie
Orson Welles' Great Mysteries
TV • 1973
George Barclay
The Brothers
TV • 1972
Pebble Mill
TV • 1991
Self
The Stranger
TV • 1991
The Stranger
GMTV
TV • 1993
Self
Pointless Celebrities
TV • 2011
Self
Sunburn
TV • 1999
John Buchanan
Swallows and Amazons Forever!
TV • 1984
Dr. Dudgeon
The Mind of Mr. J.G. Reeder
TV • 1969
Reigate
Kingdom
TV • 2007
Mr. Dodds
Casualty
TV • 1986
Colin Miles
Casualty
TV • 1986
David Vincent
Tales of the Tardis
TV • 2023
The Doctor
Wogan
TV • 1982
Self
A Dance to the Music of Time
TV • 1997
Canon Fenneau
Cousin Bette
TV • 1971
Count Wenceslas Steinbock
Doctor Who's Who's Who
TV • 1985
Doctor Who
Public Eye
TV • 1965
Town Hall Clerk
Celebrity Antiques Road Trip
TV • 2011
Self - Participant
The Roads to Freedom
TV • 1970
Claude
Doctor Who
TV • 1963
The Doctor
Doctor Who: The Doctors Revisited
TV • 2013
Self
Doctor Who: Real Time
TV • 2002
The Doctor
I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here!
TV • 2002
Self
BBC Comedy Feeds
TV • 2012
The Moonstone
TV • 1972
John Herncastle
The Afternoon Play
TV • 2003
Judge
The Edwardians
TV • 1972
Joseph Laycock
The Adventures of Don Quick
TV • 1970
Rebel
The Carnforth Practice
TV • 1974
Bob Anderson
The Knock
TV • 1994
Donald Dewhurst
The Knock
TV • 1994
Desmond Dewhurst
Remembers…
TV • 2022
Self
Doctor Who: Behind the Sofa
TV • 2018
Self