Monarch of the Glen, Little Britain & return to Doctor Who

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 Tom’s role

Currently Big Finish Productions Doctor Who
Tom plays the fourth Doctor again in numerous new stories with full cast.
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 The Fourth Doctor
 2013 BBC Television series The Day of the Doctor: 50th anniversary special
Tom made a surprise appearance at the end of this feature length movie for TV.
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 The Curator
 2012 Big Finish Productions Treasure Island
A full-cast audiobook adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson’s classic adventure.
 Long John Silver
 2012 BBC AudioGo A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens (audiobook)  Narrator
 2008 Big Finish Productions Doctor Who
Tom plays the fourth Doctor again in numerous new stories with full cast.
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 The Fourth Doctor
 2009 BBC AudioGo Doctor Who audio stories
• Doctor Who: Hornets Nest
• Doctor Who: Demon Quest
• Doctor Who: Serpent Crest
 The Fourth Doctor
 2008 BBC Television series Have I Got News For You
The satirical panel show with regular panellists Ian Hislop and Paul Merton.
Click here to see a clip on YouTube.
 Chairman
 2008  BBC Television series Little Britain in America
Matt Lucas’s and David Walliams’ award-winning comedy sketch show.
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 Narrator
 2007  ITV series Miss Marple: Towards Zero
Series based on Agatha Christie’s crime novels with Geraldine McEwan as Miss Marple.
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 Freddie Treves
 2003 – 06  BBC Television series Little Britain: 22 episodes,
the Computer Game and the Video Game.
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 Narrator
 2005  Channel 4 Television series 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
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 Donald MacDonald
 2005  Feature Film The Magic Roundabout
Film based on the popular children’s television series.
 Zeebad, the villain
 2003  Television 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.
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 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.
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 Derek Asquith

Breaking the mould, Medics, writing & comedy

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 Tom’s role

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.
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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 – 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.
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Prof. Wyvern
2000 TV series(BBC) This Is Your Life
Michael Aspel surprised Tom while signing copies of his book, “The Boy Who Kicked Pigs”.
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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.
Go to the Max Bear channel on YouTube
Max Bear (voice)
1998 BBC Television Have I Got News for You
Tom appeared as a guest.
Himself
1998 Video game Destiny of the Doctors The Doctor (voice)
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
1993 BBC Television Doctor Who: Dimensions in Time
Produced for a charity TV special to celebrate the 30th anniversary of Doctor Who.
The Doctor
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
1992 TV series Cluedo
The game show based on Anthony E. Pratt’s classic board game. Tom appears in 6 episodes in Season 3
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Prof. Plum
1991 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
1991 Video Doctor Who: The Tom Baker Years Himself

After Doctor Who

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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.
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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
1986 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.
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Father Ferguson
1986 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.
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Captain Rum
1986 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
1985 Gate Theatre, Dublin The Mask of Moriarty
The first production of Hugh Leonard’s play.
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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.
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Mr Hardcastle
1984 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
1984 American TV series Remington Steele
With Pierce Brosnan as Remington Steele
Anatole Blaylock
1984 Film for Cinema 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.
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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.
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Frank, the professor
1982 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.
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Sherlock Holmes

Established career & Doctor Who

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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.
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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
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The Doctor
1980 – 81 BBC Television Doctor 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
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The Doctor
1979 – 80 BBC Television Doctor Who season 17
Destiny of the Daleks
City of Death
The Creature from the Pit
Nightmare of Eden
The Horns of Nimon
Shada
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1978 – 79 BBC Television Doctor 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)
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1977 – 78 BBC Television Doctor Who season 15
Horror of Fang Rock
The Invisible Enemy
Image of the Fendahl
The Sun Makers
Underworld
The Invasion of Time
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1976 – 77 BBC Television Doctor 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
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1975 – 76 BBC Television Doctor Who season 13
Terror of the Zygons
Planet of Evil
Pyramids of Mars
The Android Invasion
The Brain of Morbius
The Seeds of Doom
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1974 – 75 BBC Television Doctor Who season 12
Robot
The Ark in Space
The Sontaran Experiment
Genesis of the Daleks
Revenge of the Cybermen
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The National Theatre & pre Doctor Who

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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 storyDirected 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
1973 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
1973 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.
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Dr. Ahmed el Kabir
1972 Feature Film The Canterbury Tales
Directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini
Jenkin
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
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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
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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.
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Rozinante the horse

Early career

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1968 BBC TV Dixon of Dock Green (2 episodes)
BBC Television police drama series
Foreman
1968 BBC TV Z Cars: Hudson’s Way (2 episodes)
BBC Television police drama series
Harry Russell
1968 ITV George and the Dragon  (1 episode)
ATV television sitcom starring Sid James as George, Peggy Mount as Gabrielle
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Porter
1968 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
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Arthur ClarkeBlack Will, a murdererAlphonse SilkenhandRichard Greatham
1967 Theatre Late Night Lowther
An Edinburgh Fringe production written and performed with Laurie Taylor
The dog
1967 Theatre Dial M for MurderThe 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