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.

Filmography

• 2025A Christmas Carol - A Filmed Radio Play Live on Stage — Jacob Marley
• 2025Doctor Who: Wish World & The Reality War — Doctor Who (archive footage) (uncredited)
• 2024Doctor Who at the Proms — The Doctor (4) (archive footage)
• 2024Doctor Who: Leela vs. The Time War — The Doctor (archive footage)
• 2024Doctor Who: The Legend of Ruby Sunday & Empire of Death — The Doctor (archive footage) (uncredited)
• Tales of the Tardis — The Doctor
• 2021Panopticon Destiny – The Matrix Files
• 2021Return to Skaro
• 2020Behind the Sofa - Season 14
• 2019Geek, and You Shall Find — The Doctor (archive footage)
• 2018Doctor Who: Galactic Glitter — Narrator
• 2018Tom Baker in Conversation
• 2017Doctor Who: Shada — The Doctor
• 2017Panopticon Genesis
• 2017The Doctors: The Tom Baker Years
• 2015Doctor Who: The Husbands of River Song — The Doctor (4) (picture) (uncredited)
• 2015Little Britain Sketch — Narrator
• Star Wars Rebels — Bendu (voice)
• 2013Doctor Who at the Proms — The Doctor (4) (archive footage) (uncredited)
• 2013Doctor Who: The Day of the Doctor — The Doctor (4)/ The Curator
• 2013Saving Santa — Santa (voice)
• 2013The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot — The Doctor (archive footage)
• 2012The Sandmine Murders
• 2010The Tin Men and the Witch
• 2008Celebration: Doctor Who in 1983 — (archival footage)
• 2008Doctor Who: The Next Doctor — The Doctor (4) (archive footage)
• Little Britain USA
• 2008Max Bear & The Lucky Charm — Max Bear (voice)
• 2008Now, Get Out of That
• 2008The Ties That Bind Us — The Fourth Doctor (archive footage)
• 2007A Darker Side: The Making of Planet of Evil
• 2007A Matter of Time
• 2007A New Body at Last
• 2007Are Friends Electric?
• 2007Family Guy Presents: Blue Harvest — The Doctor (archive footage)
• The Beeps — Narrator
• 2007The Crowded TARDIS
• 2006A History of Flight — Narrator (voice)
• 2006Changing Time: Living and Leaving Doctor Who
• 2006Global Haywire — Narrator (voice)
• 2006Little Britain Live — Narrator (Voice)
• The Secret Show
• 2006The Wind in the Willows — Judge
• 2005The Magic Roundabout — Zeebad (voice)
• 2005Tom Baker’s Beyond Belief!
• 2004A New Beginning — (archive footage)
• 2004The History Channel Presents: The Race To The Moon — Narrator
• 2004The Little Reindeer — Santa Claus (voice)
• Little Britain — Narrator
• Strange — Father Bernard
• Swiss Toni
• 2003The Story of Doctor Who
• Fun at the Funeral Parlour
• 2001The Home Whovian
• 2000Dungeons & Dragons — Halvarth
• Monarch of the Glen — Donald MacDonald
• Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased) — Prof. Wyvern
• 1999Carnival of Monsters
• 1999The Millennium Oak — Narrator
• 1998Backtime — Sarge (voice)
• 1997Who is Tom Baker?
• 1994The Traveller Comes to Maidstone — The Traveller
• 1993Doctor Who: Dimensions in Time — The 4th Doctor
• 1993Selling Hitler — Manfred Fischer
• 1992Doctor Who: Shada — The Doctor / Narrator
• 1992The Law Lord — Sir Lionel Sweeting
• Selling Hitler — Manfred Fischer
• Cluedo — Professor Plum
• 1990Hyperland — Tom
• Medics — Prof. Geoffrey Hoyt, general surgeon
• 1990Ray Harryhausen: Movement Into Life — Narrator
• 1990The Chronicles of Narnia: The Silver Chair — Puddleglum
• 1989Babcock Transformers — Narrator
• 1989Christian
• 1989The Wolves of Willoughby Chase — Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
• The Chronicles of Narnia — Puddleglum
• The Life and Loves of a She-Devil — Father Ferguson
• 1986Who's Who
• Doctor Who's Who's Who — Doctor Who
• 1985Enemy Mine — Narrator (voice)
• 1984Doctor Who: Resurrection of the Daleks — The Doctor (4) (archive footage) (uncredited)
• 1984The Passionate Pilgrim — The Lord
• 1984The Zany Adventures of Robin Hood — Sir Guy de Gisbourne
• Blackadder — Captain Rum
• 1983Doctor Who: Mawdryn Undead — The Doctor (4) (archive footage)
• 1983Doctor Who: The Five Doctors — The Fourth Doctor (archive footage)
• Dramarama — Voiceover Narration (uncredited)
• 1983Into Another Dimension — Narrator
• Natural World — Narrator
• 1982Doctor Who: Castrovalva — The Doctor (archive footage)
• 1982Doctor Who: Earthshock — The Doctor (4) (archive footage)
• The Hound of the Baskervilles — Sherlock Holmes
• 1981Doctor Who: Logopolis — The Doctor
• 1981Doctor Who: The Keeper of Traken — The Doctor
• 1981Doctor Who: Warriors' Gate — The Doctor
• 1980Doctor Who: Full Circle — The Doctor
• 1980Doctor Who: Meglos — The Doctor / Meglos
• 1980Doctor Who: State of Decay — The Doctor
• 1980Doctor Who: The Horns of Nimon — The Doctor
• 1980Doctor Who: The Leisure Hive — The Doctor
• 1980The Curse of King Tut's Tomb — Hasan
• 1979Doctor Who: City of Death — The Doctor
• 1979Doctor Who: Destiny of the Daleks — The Doctor
• 1979Doctor Who: Nightmare of Eden — The Doctor
• 1979Doctor Who: The Armageddon Factor — The Doctor
• 1979Doctor Who: The Creature from the Pit — The Doctor
• 1979Doctor Who: The Power of Kroll — The Doctor
• 1979Dr. Who For Keep Australia Beautiful — The Doctor
• 1978Doctor Who: The Androids of Tara — The Doctor
• 1978Doctor Who: The Invasion of Time — The Doctor
• 1978Doctor Who: The Pirate Planet — The Doctor
• 1978Doctor Who: The Ribos Operation — The Doctor
• 1978Doctor Who: The Stones of Blood — The Doctor
• 1978Doctor Who: Underworld — The Doctor
• 1978Merry Christmas Doctor Who — The Doctor, Writer
• 1977Doctor Who: Horror of Fang Rock — The Doctor
• 1977Doctor Who: Image of the Fendahl — The Doctor
• 1977Doctor Who: The Face of Evil — The Doctor / Xoanon
• 1977Doctor Who: The Invisible Enemy — The Doctor
• 1977Doctor Who: The Robots of Death — The Doctor
• 1977Doctor Who: The Sun Makers — The Doctor
• 1977Doctor Who: The Talons of Weng-Chiang — The Doctor
• 1977Whose Doctor Who
• 1976Doctor Who: The Brain of Morbius — The Doctor
• 1976Doctor Who: The Deadly Assassin — The Doctor
• 1976Doctor Who: The Hand of Fear — The Doctor
• 1976Doctor Who: The Masque of Mandragora — The Doctor
• 1976Doctor Who: The Seeds of Doom — The Doctor
• Henry James Stories — Mark Ambient
• 1976The Author of Beltraffio — Mark Ambient
• 1975Doctor Who: Genesis of the Daleks — The Doctor
• 1975Doctor Who: Planet of Evil — The Doctor
• 1975Doctor Who: Pyramids of Mars — The Doctor
• 1975Doctor Who: Revenge of the Cybermen — Doctor Who
• 1975Doctor Who: Robot — The Doctor
• 1975Doctor Who: Terror of the Zygons — The Doctor
• 1975Doctor Who: The Android Invasion — The Doctor
• 1975Doctor Who: The Ark in Space — The Doctor
• 1975Doctor Who: The Sontaran Experiment — The Doctor
• 1974Doctor Who: Planet of the Spiders — The Doctor
• 1974Frankenstein: The True Story — Sea Captain
• 1974Luther — Pope Leo X
• 1974The Mutations — Lynch
• 1973Dear Parents — Karl
• Frankenstein: The True Story — Sea Captain
• 1973The Golden Voyage of Sinbad — Prince Koura
• 1973The Vault of Horror — Moore (segment 5 "Drawn and Quartered")
• Arthur of the Britons
• 1972The Canterbury Tales — Jenkin
• 1972The Millionairess — Dr. Ahmed el Kabir
• 1971Nicholas and Alexandra — Rasputin
• 1968The Winter's Tale
• Trapped — Porter
• Softly, Softly
• BBC Play of the Month — Egyptian Doctor
• Thirty-Minute Theatre — Corporal Schabe
• Doctor Who — The Doctor
• Z-Cars
• Dixon of Dock Green — The Man, Foreman

Appearances as themselves (33)

• 2025Worlds Within: The Life of Ian Marter — Self
• 2024Darkness & Light: The Life of Graham Williams — Self
• 2023Talking Doctor Who — Self / The Doctor (4) (archive footage)
• 2021Titans of Destruction: The Evolution of Giant Monster Movies — Self - (archive footage)
• 2020Our Sarah Jane: The Life of Elisabeth Sladen — Self
• 2020The Big Night In — Self
• 2019Hanging by a Thread: The Making of Logopolis — Self
• 2019The Magnificent Obsession of Michael Reeves — Himself
• Doctor Who: Behind the Sofa — Self
• 2014Doctor Who: The Ultimate Companion — Self / The Doctor (archive footage)
• 2013Doctor Who Live: The Afterparty — Self
• 2013Doctor Who: Tales from the TARDIS — Self
• Doctor Who: The Doctors Revisited — Self
• 2011My Sarah Jane: A Tribute to Elisabeth Sladen — Self (archive footage)
• 2008Blackadder's Most Cunning Moments — Self - Captain Rum (archive footage) (uncredited)
• 2006It Started with Swap Shop — Self (voice)
• 2006Paranormal Pigeons — Self
• Doctor Who Confidential — Self
• 2005Doctor Who: A New Dimension — Self
• 2001Longleat '83: The Greatest Show in the Galaxy — Himself (archive footage)
• 1999Adventures in Space and Time — Himself
• Eurotika! — Self
• 1999Ray Harryhausen: Working with Dinosaurs — Self - Narrator (voice)
• 1997A Sci Fi Audience with Tom Baker — Self
• 199330 Years in the TARDIS — Himself (archive footage)
• 1992Doctor Who: The Tom Baker Years — Himself
• 1991Who on Earth Is... Tom Baker — Himself
• Have I Got News for You — Self - Host
• Tales of Aesop — Himself
• The Kenny Everett Television Show — Self
• Late Night Story — self
• Jim'll Fix It — Self
• Have I Got a Bit More News for You — Himself - Presenter