Colin Baker
Known For
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
Jun 8, 1943 (83 years old)
Place of Birth
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
| 2025 | Doctor Who: Wish World & The Reality WarThe Doctor (archive footage) (uncredited) | |
| 2025 | Doctor Who: Slipback6th Doctor | |
| 2025 | Doctor Who: The Ultimate EvilThe 6th Doctor | |
| 2024 | Doctor Who at the PromsThe Doctor (6) (archive footage) | |
| 2023 | Secrets of a Wallaby BoyBruce (voice) | |
| 2023 | Buckle UpNick | |
| 2023 | Talking Doctor WhoSelf / The Doctor (6) (archive footage) | |
| 2023 | Doctor Who: 60 Years of Secrets & ScandalsSelf - archive | |
| 2023 | Christmas at the Holly Day InnBen | |
| 2023 | Tales of the TardisThe Doctor | |
| 2022 | MinaciousDS Rawlins | |
| 2022 | Doctor Who: The Power of the DoctorThe Doctor | |
| 2022 | Remembers…Self | |
| 2021 | You Might Get LostConrad | |
| 2021 | The Ghosts of Borley RectoryCharles Sutton | |
| 2020 | The Big Night InSelf | |
| 2019 | Doctor Who: The TrialSelf | |
| 2019 | The Doctors: The Colin Baker Years | |
| 2019 | Showman: The Life of John Nathan-TurnerHimself | |
| 2019 | The Doctor Who Cookbook RevisitedSelf | |
| 2018 | Remembering Deborah WatlingSelf | |
| 2018 | Doctor Who: Behind the SofaSelf | |
| 2016 | Last Man on EarthProfessor James Friedkin | |
| 2015 | A Dozen SummersThe Narrator | |
| 2015 | A Christmas CarolCharles Dickens | |
| 2015 | Doctor Who: The Husbands of River SongThe Doctor (6) (picture) (uncredited) | |
| 2014 | Shadows of a StrangerWilliam Fallon | |
| 2014 | Doctor Who: The Ultimate Time Lord with Peter DavisonSelf | |
| 2014 | Doctor Who: The Ultimate CompanionSelf / The Doctor (archive footage) | |
| 2013 | Doctor Who Live: The AfterpartySelf | |
| 2013 | The Five(ish) Doctors RebootSelf | |
| 2013 | Doctor Who: The Day of the DoctorThe Doctor (6) (archive footage) | |
| 2013 | Doctor Who Live: The Next DoctorSelf | |
| 2013 | Doctor Who: Tales from the TARDISSelf | |
| 2013 | Doctor Who: GallifreyThe Doctor | |
| 2013 | Doctor Who: The Doctors RevisitedSelf | |
| 2012 | BBC Comedy Feeds | |
| 2011 | Pointless CelebritiesSelf | |
| 2011 | Celebrity Antiques Road TripSelf - Participant | |
| 2008 | Celebration: Doctor Who in 1983 | |
| 2008 | Trials and Tribulations | |
| 2008 | The Making of The Trial of a Time Lord | |
| 2008 | Doctor Who: The Next DoctorThe Doctor (6) (archive footage) | |
| 2008 | The Ties That Bind UsThe Sixth Doctor / Commander Maxil (archive footage) | |
| 2008 | Now, Get Out of That | |
| 2007 | Davros Connections(archival audio) | |
| 2007 | The Good, the Bad and the Ugly | |
| 2007 | KingdomMr. Dodds | |
| 2006 | Built for War: The Sontaran Story | |
| 2006 | Lords and Luddites: Making 'The Mark of the Rani' | |
| 2005 | Doctor Who: A New DimensionSelf | |
| 2005 | Doctor Who Confidential | |
| 2004 | HustlePhil | |
| 2003 | The Story of Doctor Who | |
| 2003 | Adventures in Time and Spain(archive footage) | |
| 2003 | The Afternoon PlayJudge | |
| 2002 | Doctor Who: Real TimeThe Doctor | |
| 2002 | Doctor Who: Real TimeThe Doctor | |
| 2002 | I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here!Self | |
| 2001 | The Home Whovian | |
| 2000 | TravelWiseJonathan Pike | |
| 2000 | The AsylumArbuthnot | |
| 1999 | The Waiting TimeGiles Fleming | |
| 1999 | Soul's ArkGalico | |
| 1999 | The Harpist | |
| 1999 | The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Daredevils of the DesertChauvel | |
| 1999 | Adventures in Space and TimeHimself | |
| 1999 | Carnival of Monsters | |
| 1999 | SunburnJohn Buchanan | |
| 1997 | Stranger Than Fiction 3: Acting Up | |
| 1997 | Jonathan CreekHedley Shale | |
| 1997 | A Dance to the Music of TimeCanon Fenneau | |
| 1995 | The Stranger: Eye of the BeholderThe Stranger / Soloman | |
| 1995 | Stranger than Fiction 2: From Script to Screen | |
| 1995 | The Doctors: 30 Years of Time Travel and Beyond | |
| 1994 | Doctor Who: The Colin Baker YearsSelf - Presenter | |
| 1994 | PROBE: The Zero ImperativePeter Russell | |
| 1994 | The Stranger: The Terror GameThe Stranger / Soloman | |
| 1994 | The Stranger: Breach of the PeaceThe Stranger / Soloman | |
| 1994 | Stranger than Fiction | |
| 1994 | The KnockDonald Dewhurst | |
| 1994 | The KnockDesmond Dewhurst | |
| 1993 | The Airzone SolutionArnold Davies | |
| 1993 | Doctor Who: Dimensions in TimeThe 6th Doctor | |
| 1993 | The Stranger: In Memory AloneThe Stranger | |
| 1993 | 30 Years in the TARDISHimself | |
| 1993 | Bigger Inside Than OutNarrator | |
| 1993 | GMTVSelf | |
| 1992 | Doctor Who: Cybermen - The Early YearsSelf - Host | |
| 1992 | The Stranger: More Than a MessiahThe Stranger | |
| 1991 | The PanoptiCon Tapes Vol 1 - The Main Event | |
| 1991 | The Stranger: Summoned by ShadowsThe Stranger | |
| 1991 | Pebble MillSelf | |
| 1991 | The StrangerThe Stranger | |
| 1990 | The PanoptiCon Tapes III | |
| 1990 | The PanoptiCon Tapes II | |
| 1990 | The PanoptiCon Tapes IV | |
| 1990 | The PanoptiCon Tapes V | |
| 1986 | Who's Who | |
| 1986 | The PanoptiCon Tapes VI | |
| 1986 | Doctor Who: The Ultimate FoeThe Doctor | |
| 1986 | Doctor Who: The Mysterious PlanetThe Doctor | |
| 1986 | Doctor Who: MindwarpThe Doctor | |
| 1986 | Doctor Who: Terror of the VervoidsThe Doctor | |
| 1986 | CasualtyColin Miles | |
| 1986 | CasualtyDavid Vincent | |
| 1985 | Doctor Who: Vengeance on VarosThe Doctor | |
| 1985 | Doctor Who: TimelashThe Doctor | |
| 1985 | Doctor Who: Attack of the CybermenThe Doctor | |
| 1985 | Doctor Who: Revelation of the DaleksThe Doctor | |
| 1985 | Doctor Who: The Two DoctorsThe Doctor | |
| 1985 | Doctor Who: The Mark of the RaniThe Doctor | |
| 1985 | A Fix with SontaransThe Doctor | |
| 1985 | Doctor Who's Who's WhoDoctor Who | |
| 1984 | Doctor Who: The Caves of AndrozaniThe Doctor | |
| 1984 | Doctor Who: The Twin DilemmaThe Doctor | |
| 1984 | Swallows and Amazons Forever!Dr. Dudgeon | |
| 1983 | Doctor Who: Arc of InfinityCommander Maxil | |
| 1982 | Countdown | |
| 1982 | WoganSelf | |
| 1981 | Dangerous Davies: The Last DetectiveWilliam Lind | |
| 1978 | Blake's 7Bayban | |
| 1975 | Drive Carefully, DarlingBrain | |
| 1975 | Jim'll Fix ItDoctor Who | |
| 1974 | Fall of EaglesCrown Prince Willie | |
| 1974 | The Carnforth PracticeBob Anderson | |
| 1973 | Orson Welles' Great MysteriesGeorge Barclay | |
| 1972 | The MoonstoneJohn Herncastle | |
| 1972 | War & PeaceAnatole Kuragin | |
| 1972 | The Brothers | |
| 1972 | The MoonstoneJohn Herncastle | |
| 1972 | The EdwardiansJoseph Laycock | |
| 1971 | Cousin BetteCount Wenceslas Steinbock | |
| 1970 | The Roads to FreedomClaude | |
| 1970 | The Adventures of Don QuickRebel | |
| 1969 | The Mind of Mr. J.G. ReederReigate | |
| 1965 | Public EyeTown Hall Clerk | |
| 1963 | Doctor WhoCommander Maxil | |
| 1963 | Doctor WhoThe Doctor | |
| - | Danny BoyFred |