Tom Baker TV, Film & Theatre | Tom Baker's roles and appearances

These are some of Tom’s roles in film, theatre and television. He has also voiced numerous commentaries and commercials, and appeared on various talk shows and documentaries.

To France & back, Monarch of the Glen & Little Britain
Year	TV / Film / Theatre	Programme	Tom’s role
2008	BBC Television series	Have I Got News For You The satirical panel show with regular panellists Ian Hislop and Paul Merton.	Chairman
2008	BBC Television series	Little Britain in America Matt Lucas’s and David Walliams’ award-winning comedy sketch show. Click here to visit the BBC’s Little Britain website	Narrator
2007	ITV series	Miss Marple: Towards Zero Series based on Agatha Christie’s crime novels with Geraldine McEwan as Miss Marple. Click to view pictures in the gallery Click here to visit ITV’s Miss Marple site	Freddie Treves
2003 - 06	BBC Television series	Little Britain: 22 episodes, the Computer Game and the Video Game. Click here to visit the BBC’s Little Britain website	Narrator
2005	Channel 4 Television	Britain’s 50 Greatest Comedy Sketches	Narrator
2004 - 05	BBC Television series	Monarch of the Glen Series loosely based on Compton Mackenzie's Highland novels. Tom is in series 6 & 7 Click to view pictures in the gallery Click here to visit the BBC’s site	Donald MacDonald
2005	Feature Film	The Magic Roundabout Film based on the popular children’s television series.	Zeebad, the villain
2003	TV series	Fort Boyard French game show created by Jacques Antoine adopted by numerous other countries and shot in Fort Boyard off the west coast of France near La Rochelle.	Captain Baker
2003	BBC Television series	Strange Tom appears in series 7 playing a blind monk who warns John Strange of the return of the deadliest of demons. Click to view a picture in the gallery Click here to visit the BBC’s site	Father Bernard
2003	BBC Television series	Swiss Toni: Cars Don’t Make you Fat Tom appears in episode 1 of the first series of this situation comedy spin-off from The Fast Show created by Charlie Higson and others. Click to view a picture in the gallery Click here to visit the BBC's site	Derek Asquith
Back to the top Breaking the mould, Medics, writing & comedy
Year	TV / Film / Theatre	Programme	Tom’s role
2000 - 01	BBC Television series	Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased) 2 series (10 episodes) Tom plays the ghostly mentor of the dead detective played by Vic Reeves, in this remake of the 1969 series with Bob Mortimer playing the other detective. Click to view pictures in the gallery	Prof. Wyvern
2002	Discovery Channel	Top 10 Comic Book Heroes Documentary about the comic book hero, and its role in our society	Himself/Host
2001	BBC Television series	Fun at the Funeral Parlour A comedy series set in a Welsh funeral parlour created by various contributors to The Fast Show and other comedians. Click to view a picture in the gallery	Quimby
2001	Channel 4 television	Top Ten TV Sci-Fi Documentary	Himself - Host
2001	ITV Television	Alter Ego Celebrities interviewed by "themselves" (played by impressionist Jon Culshaw).	Himself
2000	TV series (BBC)	This Is Your Life Michael Aspel surprised Tom while signing copies of his book, “The Boy Who Kicked Pigs”. Click to view pictures in the gallery
2000	Feature film	Dungeons & Dragons The fantasy movie in which Profion, a tyrant, attempts to overthrow a peaceful kingdom ruled by a tough empress.	Halvarth
2000	Channel 4 Television	Max Bear A children’s cartoon series. Click to view a video	Max Bear (voice)
1998	BBC Television	Have I Got News for You Tom appeared as a guest.	Himself
	Video game	Destiny of the Doctors	The Doctor (voice)
1992 - 95	TV series	Medics 34 episodes The hospital-based drama series made by Granada Television. Click to view pictures in the gallery	Prof. Geoffrey Hoyt
1994	Theatre UK tour	Arsenic and Old Lace The play written by American playwright Joseph Kesselring in 1939. Tom played the part originally played by Boris Karloff.	Jonathan Brewster
1993	Television	The Diary of Jack the Ripper: Beyond Reasonable Doubt?	Narrator
	BBC Television	Doctor Who: Dimensions in Time Produced for a charity TV special to celebrate the 30th anniversary of Doctor Who.	The Doctor
1992	TV series	Cluedo The game show based on Anthony E. Pratt's classic board game. Tom appears in 6 episodes in Season 3 Click to view pictures in the gallery	Prof. Plum
	Video	Doctor Who: Shada Tom presented material from this unfinished Doctor Who story.	The Doctor / Narrator
1991	ITV mini-series	Selling Hitler Series based on the infamous Hitler Diaries publishing scandal.	Manfred Fischer
1991	Television	The Law Lord Directed by Simon Passmore	Sir Lionel Sweeting
	Video	Doctor Who: The Tom Baker Years	Himself
Back to the top After Dr Who
Year	TV / Film / Theatre	Programme	Tom’s role
1990	BBC Television	Hyperland A “Fantasy documentary” written by Douglas Adams.	Tom
1990	BBC Television	The Silver Chair Chronicles of Narnia Adaptation of the CS Lewis novel in which Tom plays a Marshwiggle from the Eastern Marshes of Narnia. Click to view pictures in the gallery	Puddleglum
1988	Greenwich Theatre	The Musical Comedy Murders of 1940 Comedy by John Bishop first performed on Broadway in 1987, based on several 1940s mystery movies, including The Cat and the Canary.	Ken de la Maize
1987	Westminster Theatre	An Inspector Calls J B Priestley’s play in which Tom played the inspector with Pauline Jameson and Peter Baldwin as the Birlings. Directed by Peter Dews. It opened in Theatr Clwyd before transferring to the Westminster.	Inspector Goole
1986	US PBS Television	Doctor Who Who's Who Documentary	Himself
	BBC TV series	The Life and Loves of a She-Devil Series based on Fay Weldon's cautionary tale of adultery. Cast included Patricia Hodge and Dennis Waterman. Click to view a picture in the gallery	Father Ferguson
	BBC TV series	Blackadder II Acclaimed historical sitcom written by Richard Curtis and Ben Elton with Rowan Atkinson playing Edmund Blackadder. Tom made a popular appearance as an old legless sea captain.	Captain Rum
1985	Gate Theatre, Dublin	The Mask of Moriarty The first production of Hugh Leonard’s play. Click to view pictures in the gallery	Sherlock Holmes/Moriarty
1984	National Theatre	She Stoops to Conquer Oliver Goldsmith’s 18th century comedy directed by Giles Block. The cast included Dora Bryan, Julia Watson and Tony Haygarth. Click to view pictures in the gallery	Mr Hardcastle
	Feature Film	The Zany Adventures of Robin Hood American film directed by Ray Austen with George Segal as Robin Hood and Morgan Fairchild as Maid Marion.	Sir Guy de Gisbourne
	American TV series	Remington Steele With Pierce Brosnan as Remington Steele	Anatole Blaylock
1984	Film for Television	The Passionate Pilgrim Short comedy filmed at Hever Castle in Kent set in medieval times about the rivalry between Eric Morecambe's Lord and Tom Baker's Knight over the affections of the gorgeous Madeline Smith.	Sir Tom
1983	Thames Television series	Jemima Shore Investigates: Dr Ziegler’s Casebook With Patricia Hodge playing Jemima Shore	Dr. Norman Ziegler
1982 - 83	Theatre	Educating Rita Royal Shakespeare Company tour of Willy Russell’s play with Kate Fitzgerald as Rita. Directed by Mike Ockrent. Click to view pictures in the gallery	Frank, the professor
	Theatre	Hedda Gabler Directed by Donald McWhinnie at the Cambridge Theatre, the cast included Susannah York playing Hedda.	Judge Brack
1982	BBC Television	The Hound of the Baskervilles Barry Letts produced this Sherlock Holmes mini-series, Peter Duguid directed and Terence Rigby played Watson. Click to view pictures in the gallery	Sherlock Holmes
Back to the top Established career & Dr Who
Year	TV / Film / Theatre	Programme	Tom’s role
1981	Theatre	Feasting With Panthers Peter Coe directed this production (also known as The Trials of Oscar Wilde) at the Chichester Festival.	Oscar Wilde
1980	Film	The Curse of King Tut's Tomb Directed by Philip Leacock, the cast included Patricia Routledge, Robin Ellis, Wendy Hiller, and Eva Marie Saint.	Hasan
1979	ITV series	The Book Tower 22 episodes of a television series for children about books. Click to view pictures in the gallery	Himself - Presenter
1981	Mermaid Theatre	Treasure Island Directed by Ron Pember.	Long John Silver
1974 - 81	BBC Television	Doctor Who 178 episodes over 7 seasons Click to view pictures in the gallery	The Doctor
1980 - 81	BBC Television	Dr Who season 18 The Leisure Hive Meglos Full Circle (The E-Space Trilogy 1) State of Decay (The E-Space Trilogy 2) Warriors' Gate (The E-Space Trilogy 3) The Keeper of Traken Logopolis Click to view pictures in the gallery	The Doctor
1979 - 80	BBC Television	Dr Who season 17 Destiny of the Daleks City of Death The Creature from the Pit Nightmare of Eden The Horns of Nimon Shada Click to view pictures in the gallery
1978 - 79	BBC Television	Dr Who season 16 The Ribos Operation (Key to Time 1) The Pirate Planet (Key to Time 2) The Stones of Blood (The Key to Time 3) The Androids of Tara (The Key to Time 4) The Power of Kroll (The Key to Time 5) The Armageddon Factor (Key to Time 6) Click to view pictures in the gallery
1977 - 78	BBC Television	Dr Who season 15 Horror of Fang Rock The Invisible Enemy Image of the Fendahl The Sun Makers Underworld The Invasion of Time Click to view pictures in the gallery
1976 - 77	BBC Television	Dr Who season 14 The Masque of Mandragora The Hand of Fear The Deadly Assassin The Face of Evil The Robots of Death The Talons of Weng-Chiang Click to view pictures in the gallery
1975 - 76	BBC Television	Dr Who season 13 Terror of the Zygons Planet of Evil Pyramids of Mars The Android Invasion The Brain of Morbius The Seeds of Doom Click to view pictures in the gallery
1974 - 75	BBC Television	Dr Who season 12 Robot The Ark in Space The Sontaran Experiment Genesis of the Daleks Revenge of the Cybermen Click to view pictures in the gallery
Back to the top The National Theatre & pre Dr Who
Year	TV / Film / Theatre	Programme	Tom’s role
1974	BBC Television	Call My Bluff The long-running British game show between two teams of celebrity contestants.	Himself
1974	Feature Film	The Author of Beltraffio A Henry James short story Directed by Tony Scott	Mark Ambient
1974	Feature Film	The Mutations About a scientist who experiments with crossing humans and plants. Directed by Jack Cardiff.	Lynch
1974	Film	The Golden Voyage of Sinbad Sinbad and his crew intercept a homunculus carrying a golden tablet. Koura wants the tablet back and pursues Sinbad. Produced by Ray Harryhausen and directed by Gordon Hessler.	Koura
1974	Stage	The Trials of Oscar Wilde Directed by Peter Coe at the Playhouse, Beaumont Street for the Oxford Festival	Oscar Wilde
1973	Theatre	Macbeth Shaw Theatre, London	Macbeth
	Film for television	Frankenstein: The True Story A more psychological telling of the Mary Shelley story with a different kind of monster, directed by Jack Smight.	Sea Captain
	Feature film	The Vault of Horror Five men trapped in the basement vault of an office building share visions with each other of their demise. Directed by Roy Ward Baker	Moore
1973	Feature film	Cari genitori aka Dear Parents With Maria Schneider as Antonia, directed by Enrico Maria Salerno.
1972	BBC Television	The Millionairess Play of the Month by George Bernard Shaw with Maggie Smith playing Epiphania. Click to view pictures in the gallery	Dr. Ahmed el Kabir
1972	Feature Film	The Canterbury Tales Directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini	Jenkin
1972	BBC Television	Jackanory “The Iron Man” - a story by Ted Hughes - in the series for children in which celebrities read stories in ways to amuse the most restless of children.	The Storyteller
1972	The Bristol Old Vic Theatre	Troilus and Cressida The White Devil Don Juan
1971	National Theatre	The Rules of the Game Pirandello’s play directed by Anthony Page starring Paul Scofield.	Filippo
1971	National Theatre	A Woman Killed With Kindness Thomas Heywood’s 17th century play directed by John Dexter, the cast including Joan Plowright and Anthony Hopkins Click to view a picture in the gallery	Sir Francis Acton
1971	Feature Film	Nicholas and Alexandra Directed by Franklin J. Schaffner with Michael Jayston playing Tsar Nicholas II, and Janet Suzman the Empress Alexandra. Tom was nominated for a Golden Globe Award.	Rasputin
1970	National Theatre	The Idiot Directed by Anthony Quayle, the cast of Simon Gray’s play based on the novel by Dostoevsky included Derek Jacobi, Edward Hardwicke and Ronald Pickup.	Parfyon Rogozhin
1970	National Theatre	The Merchant of Venice Jonathan Miller’s production with Laurence Olivier as Shylock Click to view a picture in the gallery	Prince of Monaco
1970	Television	Softly Softly (1 episode) BBC Television police drama series	Site Foreman
1969	BBC TV	Thirty-Minute Theatre: The Victims: Frontier	Corporal Schabe
1969	National Theatre	The Travails of Sancho Panza The play by James Saunders based on Cervantes' story of Don Quixote and his long-suffering servant Sancho Panza. Joan Plowright and Donald McKechnie directed. Click to view a picture in the gallery	Rozinante the horse
Back to the top Early career
Year	TV / Film / Theatre	Programme	Tom’s role
1968	BBC TV	Dixon of Dock Green (2 episodes) BBC Television police drama series	Foreman
	BBC TV	Z Cars: Hudson’s Way (2 episodes) BBC Television police drama series	Harry Russell
	ITV	George and the Dragon (1 episode) ATV television sitcom starring Sid James as George, Peggy Mount as Gabrielle Click to view pictures in the gallery	Porter
	ITV	Market in Honey Lane (1 episode) The ATV television soap opera set in an east London street market	Doorman
1968	Film	The Winter's Tale Frank Dunlop’s film of his theatre production of Shakespeare’s play	The Bear, Rogero, Autolycus, a gentleman, two dancers
1968		Tom joined the National Theatre
1968	The Library Theatre, Scarborough	A Bout In The Backyard By David Bramley Arden Of Faversham The Strongbox by Carl Sternheim Hay Fever by Noel Coward	Arthur Clarke Black Will, a murderer Alphones Silkenhand Richard Greatham
1967	Theatre	Late Night Lowther An Edinburgh Fringe production written and performed with Laurie Taylor	The dog
1967	Theatre	Dial M for Murder The Reluctant Debutante Henley-on-Thames
1967	Theatre	Apple a Day Stand Still and Retreat Onwards Shop in the High Street Edinburgh Festival
1966	Theatre	The Winter's Tale Shakespeare’s play directed by Frank Dunlop at the Edinburgh Festival, Cambridge Theatre and Teatro La Fenice in Venice	The Bear, Rogero, Autolycus, a gentleman, two dancers

To France & back, Monarch of the Glen & Little Britain

Breaking the mould, Medics, writing & comedy

After Dr Who

Established career & Dr Who

The National Theatre & pre Dr Who

Early career