Tom Baker

Tom Baker's biography

Thomas Stewart Baker is 88 years old actor born at Liverpool. He was born on Saturday 20th of January 1934. He is often nicknamed as Thomas Stewart Baker, Tom Baker. According to year of birth 1934 Tom belongs to Silent Generation. Birthday on 20th of January means he is Capricorn. These people are stable in nature. As the sign lord is “Saturn”, the person will be judgemental in his approach.

Tom is white british. He is citizen of United Kingdom. Tom is buddhist. His primary profession is to be actor. You can know Tom also as screenwriter, comedian, film actor. He is recently known as television actor.

Tom Baker's family

Tom Baker's ex wife

Lalla Ward

Tom Baker and Lalla Ward have been together since 1980 for 2 years. She is known as illustrator. Tom´s ex wife was born on Thursday 28th of June 1951 in London.

Tom Baker's schools

We found 1 school Tom attended. Name of the school: Rose Bruford College.

Detailed informations about his schools

Tom studied high school - Cheswardine Boarding School.

Tom Baker's career

Tom´s main focus is to be actor. He is famous thanks to Doctor Who.

Is Tom Baker gay ?

Tom is known to be straight.

Awards and competitions

Tom Baker's Nominations

• He was nominated for Golden Globe Award for New Star of the Year – Actor for work Nicholas and Alexandra in 1971

What Tom Baker has done for a first time

• He is the longest-lived actor to have played the Doctor in Doctor Who (1963). He surpassed his predecessor Jon Pertwee on December 5, 2010. He became the first Doctor to reach the age of 77 on January 20, 2011.
• His first wife's uncle was the famous English rose grower Harry Wheatcroft.

Tom Baker's quotes

• I wasn't interested in novelty. I was looking for good drama.
• To want to be an actor, especially these days, is to be ill.
• I am a one success man.
• I think quite often a fate worse than death is life, for lots of people.
• The Old Testament is my favourite science fantasy reading.
• I'm very interested in nostalgia because that's pretty well all that's left for me.
• I recently got a copy of the Tom Baker Friendship Group's Fan Letter. It said owing to diminishing interest the price of this fan letter is going up from 30 to 58 pence.
• [on The Magic Roundabout: The Movie (2005)] I haven't seen a script but I've accepted everything, simply because the money was excellent.
• The biggest cause of death in Maidstone is boredom.
• I learned nothing at drama school. The tutors were all far too old and out of date. Not their fault. I'm now extremely old and very dated.
• [on the Doctor Who (1963) serial Doctor Who: The Talons of Weng-Chiang: Part One (1977)] The BBC is very good at period drama but not very good at giant rats.
• I think I'm made for the role of Donald MacDonald (Monarch of the Glen (2000)). He's quite clearly from another planet.
• I enjoy overacting and I'm very good at it. I suppose you could say I've made a career out of it.
• As you get near death, as I am, you have to laugh at everything. Otherwise the alternative is to be utterly depressed.
• I've never had a problem with the fame thing, but as I get older I feel I am starting to look less and less like Tom Baker. People used to mistake me for Shirley Williams, but now they just seem to mistake me for my Great Auntie Molly.
• I don't watch television. I know better than that.
• [on David Tennant as the Tenth Doctor] I did watch a little bit of the new Doctor Who (2005) and I think the new fella, Tennant, is excellent.
• I began to get into the part and then the part began to get into me... I was the Doctor and the Doctor was me... for more than six years I left myself and floated about as a hero.
• 30-odd years later people say, 'What did it feel like when you left Doctor Who (1963)?' I never did leave Doctor Who (1963) because it never left me.
• Frank Bough said to me once, 'Don't you think, actually, your programme frightens people?' I said, 'Not nearly as much as your programme does.'
• Jon Pertwee put a big stamp on Doctor Who (1963). He found a style that was really wonderful.
• [on The Hound of the Baskervilles (1982)] I was not good in it. The BBC apologised for my performance. They didn't like it at all.
• I would rather be in Little Britain (2003) than King Lear, because there are more laughs.
• [on Doctor Who (2005)] I get sweet messages from time to time from David Tennant, yes, but I've never actually seen it, no. Of course, I didn't watch it when I was in it. Well, once, from behind the sofa.
• [on working with the robot dog K9 in Doctor Who (1963)] That's why I've got bad knees now, what with being a monk in my youth, praying to God, and then on my knees in front of bloody K9.
• The monsters on Doctor Who were never so amazing as the monsters on the sixth floor of the BBC. There were some improbable looking people there.
• Graham Williams was absolutely devoted, but he didn't have that kind of flair that Philip [Philip Hinchcliffe] had. But he let me get away with murder, so that was alright!
• [on finding Doctor Who: The Stones of Blood: Part Four (1978) tedious] What is amazing about this, of course, this is the longest episode in the history of Doctor Who.
• Now my hair is white, the other day someone mistook me in the street for Claire Rayner. I signed it "Yours sincerely, Claire Rayner." The woman was asking me all sorts of complicated questions about cystitis and things like that.
• It was more fun being Doctor Who (1963) than Tom Baker. Tom Baker was just ordinary.
• I should never have been an actor really for the simple reason I actually don't like being told what to do. I really don't. Now this is a very bad start for an actor. It really is a very bad start.
• No one has ever failed as Doctor Who, no one has ever failed. Remotely. Even the boy who did the film, I've forgotten what his name was.
• I've never worked with anybody twice. Mostly because they've died shortly after working with me.
• [on his marriage to Lalla Ward] We were deliriously happy for weeks.
• [on Lalla Ward] Apparently, somebody at a convention in Canada, I think, asked her, 'What was your favourite monster?' - an annihilatingly dull question - and Lalla went, quick as a flash, 'Tom Baker!' I remember thinking, ahh, good old Lalla.
• Actors are able to trick themselves into treating anything as fantastic. It's a kind of madness, really.
• [on the death of Jon Pertwee] I am very sorry to hear the news. I was a great admirer of such a stylish actor.
• The difference between Matt Smith and me is that he's an actor and I'm... well, I'm just Tom Baker.
• We are all quite capable of believing in anything as long as it's improbable.
• [on having a star named after him] I'm over the moon.
• [when a fan asked him why he left Doctor Who (1963)] I was pushed. By Anthony Ainley.
• The Doctor isn't really an acting part. It's a matter of being inventive enough to project credibility to scenes which aren't credible.
• [on Doctor Who (1963)] In the end it was not hard to leave the programme. I felt it in my finger-tips that the time had come to move over and give someone else a chance. There was nothing more I could do with it.
• The programme is like a hovercraft - on a fine line all the time. You don't dare touch the ground. I think it must have been the part of the Doctor that kept me fresh and young. All that fantasy is good for the mind, you know.
• I never read the scripts at all carefully and never wanted to know what was going on, because I felt that being a benevolent alien, that's the way it should be.
• [on religion] People are quite happy believing the wrong things. I wasn't unhappy believing all that shit. Now I'm not unhappy thinking about it because I can laugh at it.
• (In 1998) When the Conservatives were in I cannot tell you how much I hated them. But I realise how shallow I am because I now hate the Labour Party as much.
• I would have thought Dawn French would have been a good Doctor Who (2005) because she's got such a wry sense of humour and also has a way with her that faintly suggests she's got secrets.
• [on the Brexit referendum] I'm old, so it's not my problem. I'm amazed, actually, that they allow old people a vote. It should be for the future generations to decide. I no longer care.
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Tom Baker's height, body shape, eye color

Lets describe how Tom Baker looks. We will focus on Tom´s height, body shape, eye color and hair color. He is tall as 6' 3" (191 cm). Body build is average. Tom´s eyes are tinted brown - dark. Tom´s hair is shade of grey.