Colin Baker

Colin Baker (born June 8, 1943 in London ) is an English actor . His best-known role is the sixth doctorate in Doctor Who from 1984 to 1986.

Life

Colin Baker was born in London, but his family soon moved to Rochdale . He went to school at St Bede's College in Manchester and studied to be a lawyer. At 23 he changed his job and enrolled at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art (LAMDA). Colin married actress Liza Goddard .

In 1983 his son Jack died. Baker began the fight against Sudden Infant Death Syndrome by fundraising for the Foundation for the Study of Infant Deaths and was its president from 1997 to 2005.

Baker is currently married to actress Marion Wyatt and lives in Buckinghamshire with four daughters and lots of animals.

job

Before Doctor Who

In 1972 Colin Baker played Anatole Kuragin on the BBC series War and Peace . He was best known in the 1970s as the evil Paul Merroney in The Brothers . In the final episode of Fall of Eagles , Baker portrayed the German Crown Prince Wilhelm .

Doctor Who (1984-1986)

Baker's first appearance in Doctor Who was the Timelord commander Maxil in the episode Arc of Infinity , where he shot the fifth Doctor, played by Peter Davison . Until then, Baker was the only doctoral actor who had previously starred in the series. Colin Baker is not related to Tom Baker , the fourth doctor. Baker first appeared as a doctor at the end of The Caves of Androzani . His first full episode was The Twin Dilemma . The characteristic of his outfit was his extremely colorful clothes.

While Baker portrayed the doctor, there was an 18-month break from the series. The then controller of BBC One , Michael Grade , criticized Doctor Who as too violent and trivial: unlike his predecessors, the sixth Doctor was not only positive but also had fits of anger, attacked enemies with physical violence and was extremely arrogant and conceited. The last episode with the sixth doctor was The Trial of a Time Lord . After this, the sixth doctor's time was over after only eleven stories.

According to Doctor Who

After Doctor Who he mostly appeared in the theater. In 2012, he took part in the twelfth season of the British television show I'm a Celebrity… Get Me Out of Here! part.

Filmography (selection)

1956: My Wife's Sister (TV series, 1 episode)
1970: No, That's Me Over Her (TV series, 2 episodes)
1970: Roads to Freedom (TV series, 13 episodes)
1971: Cousin Bette (TV series, 5 episodes)
1972: War and Peace (TV series, 4 episodes)
1973: Harriet's Back in Town (TV series, 2 episodes)
1974: Fall of the Eagles (TV series, 2 episodes)
1974–1976: The Brothers (TV series, 46 episodes)
1984–1986: Doctor Who (TV series, 35 episodes)
1992–2014: The Stranger (film series, 6 films)
1993: Doctor Who: Dimensions in Time
1993: The Airzone Solution
1994: PROBE (film series, The Zero Imperative)
1997: Five Friends (TV series, 2 episodes)
1997: The Knock (TV series, 4 episodes)
1999: The Harpist
1999: Soul's Ark
2000: TravelWise
2000: The Asylum
2002: Doctor Who: Real Time (miniseries, 6 episodes)
2005: The three musketeers
2013: The Five (ish) Doctors Reboot
2015: A Dozen Summers
2015: A Christmas Carol

Web links

Individual evidence

^ Rob Cope: Colin's Official Biog . In: Colin Baker Online . 2007. Archived from the original on March 27, 2007. Retrieved October 25, 2008.
↑ I'm A Celebrity line-up: Helen Flanagan, an ex Time Lord, controversial MP Nadine Dorries and boxing champ David Haye get ready to rumble in the jungle , November 7, 2012, Daily Mail

personal data
SURNAME	Baker, Colin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	English actor
DATE OF BIRTH	June 8, 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH	London

[1] Rob Cope: Colin's Official Biog . In: Colin Baker Online . 2007. Archived from the original on March 27, 2007. Retrieved October 25, 2008.

[2] I'm A Celebrity line-up: Helen Flanagan, an ex Time Lord, controversial MP Nadine Dorries and boxing champ David Haye get ready to rumble in the jungle , November 7, 2012, Daily Mail