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Tom Baker

English actor (born 1934)

  • Fame65.0
  • Momentum6.4
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    36 languages
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  • Age
    92
    Born 1934
  • Known for
    The Golden Voyage of S…
    1973
Summary
Updated 2026-06-15

He held the sonic screwdriver longer than anyone — seven years as the fourth Doctor, the one with the scarf and the wild eyes, the performance that still defines the role decades later.

Biography

About

Thomas Stewart Baker was born 20 January 1934 in Liverpool, raised devoutly Catholic and initially aiming for the priesthood before acting pulled him another direction. He joined the National Theatre in 1968 and broke through as Rasputin in Nicholas and Alexandra (1971), earning two Golden Globe nominations. After supporting turns in The Vault of Horror and The Golden Voyage of Sinbad (both 1973), he was working part-time on a building site when the call came: lead in Doctor Who. From 1974 to 1981 he played the fourth incarnation, folding his own eccentric streak into the character, and became…

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Sourced, dated quotes from Tom Baker

Tom Baker
said
Would you like to go to New Zealand to do a commercial?" That's the sort of question an actor likes to hear from his agent in freezing mid -January.
— Baker's autobiography published by HarperCollins.
Tom Baker
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But it was drama, high drama: fires at night, the fires that burned people's houses away; bombs fell and left exotically shaped fragments in the form of shrapnel.
— Describing The Blitz
Tom Baker
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We even copied the way the Americans walked, though Father Leonard didn't like that bit of admiration. He disapproved of rolling buttocks.
— Baker's autobiography published by HarperCollins.
Tom Baker
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The chaos of our lives suited me; I don't think I wanted it to end.
— Baker's autobiography published by HarperCollins.
Tom Baker
said
The notion that God was everywhere put paid to any possible peace of mind by the time I was six.
— Baker's autobiography published by HarperCollins.
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Historical25.4
Now attention20.8
Source confidence70.0
Completeness80.0
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