Portrait of Tom Baker

Acting

Tom Baker

Career

Active from 1963 to 2025, busiest in 1975 with 9 main titles.

Leading roles
71
top three billing
Average score
GoodWatch score68/100
Highest rated
Poster for Doctor Who: Genesis of the Daleks
Doctor Who: Genesis of the Daleks
GoodWatch score88/100

What stands out

Compared with the average well-known movie, over 44 of their titles. Select a trait to filter titles.

Energy: 4.7 versus catalog average 4.6EnergyHeart: 3.9 versus catalog average 4.2HeartHumor: 3.2 versus catalog average 2.6HumorWorld: 5.9 versus catalog average 5.6WorldCraft: 5.3 versus catalog average 5.3CraftStyle: 5.9 versus catalog average 5.9Style
Tom Baker Catalog average

Rarely in their work

  • Contemporary Realism
    2.4, average 5.4
  • Romance
    2.2, average 3.8
  • Melancholy
    3.2, average 4.7
  • Family Dynamics
    3.3, average 4.8

Main genres

Select a genre to see those titles.

Recurring tags

  • Classic Doctor Who 7
  • Classic Sci-Fi Adventure 5
  • Time Travel 5
  • Sci-Fi Adventure 4
  • Character-Driven 3
  • Retro Aesthetic 3
  • Intriguing Plot 3
  • Good vs. Evil 3
  • Classic Sci-Fi Horror 3
  • British Television 2
  • Ethical Dilemmas 2
  • British Sketch Comedy 2

Works often with

People in at least two of their main titles.

Movies and TV shows

135
Type
Role
Score
Decade
Genre
Group by

2020s

6 titles ยท average score 66
Doctor Who: Wish World & The Reality War
Doctor Who: Wish World & The Reality War (2025)

as Doctor Who (archive footage) (uncredited)

A Christmas Carol - A Filmed Radio Play Live on Stage
A Christmas Carol - A Filmed Radio Play Live on Stage (2025)

as Jacob Marley

Doctor Who at the Proms
Doctor Who at the Proms (2024)

as The Doctor (4) (archive footage)

Doctor Who: The Legend of Ruby Sunday & Empire of Death
Doctor Who: The Legend of Ruby Sunday & Empire of Death (2024)

as The Doctor (archive footage) (uncredited)

Doctor Who: Leela vs. The Time War
Doctor Who: Leela vs. The Time War (2024)

as The Doctor (archive footage)

Tales of the Tardis
Tales of the Tardis (2023)
GoodWatch score 66

TV show ยท as The Doctor

2010s

10 titles ยท average score 73
Geek, and You Shall Find
Geek, and You Shall Find (2019)

as The Doctor (archive footage)

Doctor Who: Galactic Glitter
Doctor Who: Galactic Glitter (2018)

as Narrator

Doctor Who: Shada
Doctor Who: Shada (2017)
GoodWatch score 71

as The Doctor

Little Britain Sketch
Little Britain Sketch (2015)

as Narrator

Doctor Who: The Husbands of River Song
Doctor Who: The Husbands of River Song (2015)
GoodWatch score 82

as The Doctor (4) (picture) (uncredited)

Star Wars Rebels
Star Wars Rebels (2014)
GoodWatch score 83

TV show ยท as Bendu (voice)

Doctor Who: The Day of the Doctor
Doctor Who: The Day of the Doctor (2013)
GoodWatch score 86

as The Doctor (4)/ The Curator

Saving Santa
Saving Santa (2013)
GoodWatch score 33

as Santa (voice)

The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot
The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot (2013)
GoodWatch score 81

as The Doctor (archive footage)

Doctor Who at the Proms
Doctor Who at the Proms (2013)

as The Doctor (4) (archive footage) (uncredited)

2000s

22 titles ยท average score 60
Little Britain USA
Little Britain USA (2008)
GoodWatch score 65

TV show

The Beeps
The Beeps (2007)

TV show ยท as Narrator

Family Guy Presents: Blue Harvest
Family Guy Presents: Blue Harvest (2007)
GoodWatch score 77

as The Doctor (archive footage)

Global Haywire
Global Haywire (2006)

as Narrator (voice)

Little Britain Live
Little Britain Live (2006)
GoodWatch score 74

as Narrator (Voice)

The Secret Show
The Secret Show (2006)
GoodWatch score 52

TV show

The Magic Roundabout
The Magic Roundabout (2005)
GoodWatch score 27

as Zeebad (voice)

The Little Reindeer
The Little Reindeer (2004)

as Santa Claus (voice)

Little Britain
Little Britain (2003)
GoodWatch score 74

TV show ยท as Narrator

Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased)
Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased) (2000)
GoodWatch score 67

TV show ยท as Prof. Wyvern

Monarch of the Glen
Monarch of the Glen (2000)
GoodWatch score 50

TV show ยท as Donald MacDonald

Dungeons & Dragons
Dungeons & Dragons (2000)
GoodWatch score 23

as Halvarth

1990s

14 titles ยท average score 62
The Millennium Oak
The Millennium Oak (1999)

as Narrator

Backtime
Backtime (1998)

as Sarge (voice)

Doctor Who: Dimensions in Time
Doctor Who: Dimensions in Time (1993)
GoodWatch score 47

as The 4th Doctor

Selling Hitler
Selling Hitler (1993)

as Manfred Fischer

Doctor Who: Shada
Doctor Who: Shada (1992)
GoodWatch score 71

as The Doctor / Narrator

The Law Lord
The Law Lord (1992)

as Sir Lionel Sweeting

Selling Hitler
Selling Hitler (1991)

TV show ยท as Manfred Fischer

Medics
Medics (1990)

TV show ยท as Prof. Geoffrey Hoyt, general surgeon

Hyperland
Hyperland (1990)

as Tom

The Chronicles of Narnia: The Silver Chair
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Silver Chair (1990)
GoodWatch score 68

as Puddleglum

Tales of Aesop
Tales of Aesop (1990)

TV show ยท as Narrator (voice)

Cluedo
Cluedo (1990)

TV show ยท as Professor Plum

1980s

27 titles ยท average score 69
The Chronicles of Narnia
The Chronicles of Narnia (1988)
GoodWatch score 74

TV show ยท as Puddleglum

Enemy Mine
Enemy Mine (1985)
GoodWatch score 64

as Narrator (voice)

The Passionate Pilgrim
The Passionate Pilgrim (1984)

as The Lord

Doctor Who: The Five Doctors
Doctor Who: The Five Doctors (1983)
GoodWatch score 79

as The Fourth Doctor (archive footage)

Blackadder
Blackadder (1983)
GoodWatch score 80

TV show ยท as Captain Rum

Natural World
Natural World (1983)
GoodWatch score 80

TV show ยท as Narrator

The Hound of the Baskervilles
The Hound of the Baskervilles (1982)
GoodWatch score 66

TV show ยท as Sherlock Holmes

Doctor Who: Logopolis
Doctor Who: Logopolis (1981)

as The Doctor

Doctor Who: The Keeper of Traken
Doctor Who: The Keeper of Traken (1981)

as The Doctor

The Curse of King Tut's Tomb
The Curse of King Tut's Tomb (1980)
GoodWatch score 47

as Hasan

Doctor Who: Full Circle
Doctor Who: Full Circle (1980)

as The Doctor

Doctor Who: Meglos
Doctor Who: Meglos (1980)

as The Doctor / Meglos

1970s

49 titles ยท average score 70
Doctor Who: The Masque of Mandragora
Doctor Who: The Masque of Mandragora (1976)
GoodWatch score 71

as The Doctor

Doctor Who: The Seeds of Doom
Doctor Who: The Seeds of Doom (1976)
GoodWatch score 87

as The Doctor

Doctor Who: Genesis of the Daleks
Doctor Who: Genesis of the Daleks (1975)
GoodWatch score 88

as The Doctor

Doctor Who: Robot
Doctor Who: Robot (1975)
GoodWatch score 73

as The Doctor

Doctor Who: The Sontaran Experiment
Doctor Who: The Sontaran Experiment (1975)
GoodWatch score 66

as The Doctor

Doctor Who: Terror of the Zygons
Doctor Who: Terror of the Zygons (1975)
GoodWatch score 81

as The Doctor

Doctor Who: Revenge of the Cybermen
Doctor Who: Revenge of the Cybermen (1975)
GoodWatch score 65

as Doctor Who

Doctor Who: The Ark in Space
Doctor Who: The Ark in Space (1975)
GoodWatch score 79

as The Doctor

Doctor Who: The Android Invasion
Doctor Who: The Android Invasion (1975)
GoodWatch score 74

as The Doctor

The Mutations
The Mutations (1974)
GoodWatch score 45

as Lynch

The Golden Voyage of Sinbad
The Golden Voyage of Sinbad (1973)
GoodWatch score 70

as Prince Koura

Dear Parents
Dear Parents (1973)

as Karl

1960s

6 titles ยท average score 69
Trapped
Trapped (1967)

TV show ยท as Porter

Softly, Softly
Softly, Softly (1966)

TV show

BBC Play of the Month
BBC Play of the Month (1965)
GoodWatch score 61

TV show ยท as Egyptian Doctor

Thirty-Minute Theatre
Thirty-Minute Theatre (1965)

TV show ยท as Corporal Schabe

Doctor Who
Doctor Who (1963)
GoodWatch score 76

TV show ยท as The Doctor

Z-Cars
Z-Cars (1962)
GoodWatch score 72

TV show

1950s

1 title ยท average score 64
Dixon of Dock Green
Dixon of Dock Green (1955)
GoodWatch score 64

TV show ยท as Foreman / The Man