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

• 2025A Christmas Carol - A Filmed Radio Play Live on Stage — Ebenezer Scrooge
• 2025Doctor Who: Wish World & The Reality War — The Doctor (archive footage) (uncredited)
• 2024Doctor Who at the Proms — The Doctor (6) (archive footage)
• 2023Buckle Up — Nick
• 2023Christmas at the Holly Day Inn — Ben
• 2023Secrets of a Wallaby Boy — Bruce (voice)
• Tales of the Tardis — The Doctor
• 2022Minacious — DS Rawlins
• 2021The Ghosts of Borley Rectory — Charles Sutton
• 2021You Might Get Lost — Conrad
• 2019The Doctors: The Colin Baker Years
• 2016Last Man on Earth — Professor James Friedkin
• 2015A Christmas Carol — Charles Dickens
• 2015A Dozen Summers — The Narrator
• 2015Doctor Who: The Husbands of River Song — The Doctor (6) (picture) (uncredited)
• 2014Shadows of a Stranger — William Fallon
• 2013Doctor Who at the Proms — The Doctor (6) (archive footage) (uncredited)
• 2013Doctor Who: The Day of the Doctor — The Doctor (6) (archive footage)
• BBC Comedy Feeds
• 2008Celebration: Doctor Who in 1983
• 2008Doctor Who: The Next Doctor — The Doctor (6) (archive footage)
• 2008Now, Get Out of That
• 2008The Making of The Trial of a Time Lord
• 2008The Ties That Bind Us — The Sixth Doctor / Commander Maxil (archive footage)
• 2008Trials and Tribulations
• 2007Davros Connections — (archival audio)
• Kingdom — Mr. Dodds
• 2007The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (documentary)
• 2006Built for War: The Sontaran Story
• 2006Lords and Luddites: Making 'The Mark of the Rani'
• Doctor Who Confidential
• Hustle — Phil
• 2003Adventures in Time and Spain — (archive footage)
• The Afternoon Play — Judge
• 2003The Story of Doctor Who
• 2002Doctor Who: Real Time — The Doctor
• Doctor Who: Real Time — The Doctor
• 2001The Home Whovian
• 2000The Asylum — Arbuthnot
• 2000TravelWise — Jonathan Pike
• 1999Carnival of Monsters
• 1999Soul's Ark — Galico
• Sunburn — John Buchanan
• 1999The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Daredevils of the Desert — Chauvel
• 1999The Harpist
• 1999The Waiting Time — Giles Fleming
• A Dance to the Music of Time — Canon Fenneau
• Jonathan Creek — Hedley Shale
• 1997Stranger Than Fiction 3: Acting Up
• 1995Stranger than Fiction 2: From Script to Screen
• 1995The Doctors: 30 Years of Time Travel and Beyond
• 1995The Stranger: Eye of the Beholder — The Stranger / Soloman
• 1994PROBE: The Zero Imperative — Peter Russell
• 1994Stranger than Fiction
• The Knock — Donald Dewhurst, Desmond Dewhurst
• 1994The Stranger: Breach of the Peace — The Stranger / Soloman
• 1994The Stranger: The Terror Game — The Stranger / Soloman
• 1993Bigger Inside Than Out — Narrator
• 1993Doctor Who: Dimensions in Time — The 6th Doctor
• 1993The Airzone Solution — Arnold Davies
• 1993The Stranger: In Memory Alone — The Stranger
• 1992The Stranger: More Than a Messiah — The Stranger
• 1991The PanoptiCon Tapes Vol 1 - The Main Event
• The Stranger — The Stranger
• 1991The Stranger: Summoned by Shadows — The Stranger
• 1990The PanoptiCon Tapes II
• 1990The PanoptiCon Tapes III
• 1990The PanoptiCon Tapes IV
• 1990The PanoptiCon Tapes V
• Casualty — Colin Miles, David Vincent
• 1986Doctor Who: Mindwarp — The Doctor
• 1986Doctor Who: Terror of the Vervoids — The Doctor
• 1986Doctor Who: The Mysterious Planet — The Doctor
• 1986Doctor Who: The Ultimate Foe — The Doctor
• 1986The PanoptiCon Tapes VI
• 1986Who's Who
• 1985A Fix with Sontarans — The Doctor
• Doctor Who's Who's Who — Doctor Who
• 1985Doctor Who: Attack of the Cybermen — The Doctor
• 1985Doctor Who: Revelation of the Daleks — The Doctor
• 1985Doctor Who: The Mark of the Rani — The Doctor
• 1985Doctor Who: The Two Doctors — The Doctor
• 1985Doctor Who: Timelash — The Doctor
• 1985Doctor Who: Vengeance on Varos — The Doctor
• 1984Doctor Who: The Caves of Androzani — The Doctor
• 1984Doctor Who: The Twin Dilemma — The Doctor
• Swallows and Amazons Forever! — Dr. Dudgeon
• 1983Doctor Who: Arc of Infinity — Commander Maxil
• Countdown
• 1981Dangerous Davies: The Last Detective — William Lind
• Blake's 7 — Bayban
• Jim'll Fix It — Doctor Who
• Fall of Eagles — Crown Prince Willie
• The Carnforth Practice — Bob Anderson
• Orson Welles' Great Mysteries — George Barclay
• The Brothers — Paul Merroney
• The Edwardians — Joseph Laycock
• The Moonstone — John Herncastle
• Villains — Reporter
• War & Peace — Anatole Kuragin
• Cousin Bette — Count Wenceslas Steinbock
• The Adventures of Don Quick — Rebel
• The Roads to Freedom — Claude
• Happy Ever After — Receptionist
• The Mind of Mr. J.G. Reeder — Reigate
• Public Eye — Town Hall Clerk
• Doctor Who — Commander Maxil, The Doctor
• Danny Boy — Fred

Appearances as themselves (28)

• 2023Doctor Who: 60 Years of Secrets & Scandals — Self - archive
• 2023Talking Doctor Who — Self / The Doctor (6) (archive footage)
• Remembers… — Self
• 2020The Big Night In — Self
• 2019Doctor Who: The Trial — Self
• 2019Showman: The Life of John Nathan-Turner — Himself
• 2019The Doctor Who Cookbook Revisited — Self
• Doctor Who: Behind the Sofa — Self
• 2018Remembering Deborah Watling — Self
• 2014Doctor Who: The Ultimate Companion — Self / The Doctor (archive footage)
• 2014Doctor Who: The Ultimate Time Lord with Peter Davison — Self
• 2013Doctor Who Live: The Afterparty — Self
• 2013Doctor Who Live: The Next Doctor — Self
• 2013Doctor Who: Tales from the TARDIS — Self
• Doctor Who: The Doctors Revisited — Self
• 2013The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot — Self
• Tipping Point: Lucky Stars — Self - Contestant
• Celebrity Antiques Road Trip — Self - Participant
• Pointless Celebrities — Self
• 2005Doctor Who: A New Dimension — Self
• I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here! — Self
• 1999Adventures in Space and Time — Himself
• 1994Doctor Who: The Colin Baker Years — Self - Presenter
• 199330 Years in the TARDIS — Himself
• GMTV — Self
• 1992Doctor Who: Cybermen - The Early Years — Self - Host
• Pebble Mill — Self
• Wogan — Self