Tom Baker
Thomas Stewart " Tom" Baker ( born January 20, 1934) is an English actor and comedian. His most famous role is that of the fourth Doctor from 1974 to 1981 in Doctor Who.
Life
Early life
Baker was born in Scotland Road, Liverpool, the son of Mary Jane, a cleaning lady, and John Stewart Baker, a sailor. Baker grew up in the working class. He left with 15 school and spent six years as a monk. He served from 1955 to 1957 in the British Army Medical Corps. At the time he began acting as a hobby.
Before Doctor Who
1971 Baker got his first role as Rasputin in Nicholas and Alexandra. In 1972, he starred in The Canterbury Tales.
Doctor Who (1974-1981)
1974 Baker took the lead role in Doctor Who from Jon Pertwee. He was obliged for his performance in The Golden Voyage of Sinbad.
As a doctor were his ultra long, colorful scarves and his " Jelly Babies" his trademark. Baker had the role of the Doctor's longest active pause - for seven consecutive years. He influenced many aspects of the personality of the doctor. Baker is the most popular Doctor actor. In annual surveys in Doctor Who Magazine, he was not only twice " Best Doctor ".
2013 Baker had a cameo appearance in the 50 -year-old birthday special of the series.
Baker is not related to Colin Baker, the sixth Doctor.
In 2010 he signed a contract for three seasons à seven episodes at the company Big Finish audio plays, in which he again plays the Doctor. The first season will be published from January, 2012. The third season, in which Elizabeth Sladen should take up her role as Sarah Jane Smith back at his side, was canceled because Sladen early April 2011 before the start of the shots died of cancer. In addition, Baker played the role of the Doctor in the BBC Audiobooks Hornets ' Nest (2009), Demon Quest (2010) and Serpent Crest (2011), each consisting of four parts, always in September, October, November and December of the respective year of publication were published.
Other performances during and after Doctor Who
In the 1980s, Baker played Captain Redbeard Rum in Blackadder, Sherlock Holmes in The Hound of the Baskervilles 1982 and Father Ferguson in The Life and Loves of a She -Devil (1986). In 1984 he played the Interpol agent Anatole Blaylock in an episode of Remington Steele. In the 1990s he played inter alia, the software agents in Douglas Adams ' Hyper country and the Professor Geoffrey Hoyt in Medics. In the movie Dungeons & Dragons (2000) he played Halvarth. As of 2001, Baker was the narrator of Little Britain on BBC Radio 4 and television
Personal life
Baker married in 1961 Anna Wheatcroft. They had two sons, and were divorced in 1966. In 1980 he married Lalla Ward, who played two years in Doctor Who his companion Romana. The marriage lasted 16 months. 1986 married Sue Jerrard Baker, a co-author in Doctor Who. Since 2006 he lives with her in Sussex.
References in popular culture
- The band The Human League in 1980 published a title called Tom Baker on the B -side of her single Boys and Girls. The title is also instrumental in their album Travelogue.
- The drawn according to Tom Baker Doctor fourth appears in The Simpsons in the episodes Sideshow Bob's Last Gleaming and Treehouse of Horror X.
- In the TV series Futurama drawn after the fourth Doctor Tom Baker in the episode 6x15 " Möbius Dick" can be seen.