Tom Baker

Award won Role or nomination

1. 1934 age 0

   Born

2. 1971 age 37

   CreditNicholas and Alexandra

3. 1973 age 39

   CreditThe Golden Voyage of Sinbad

• ESElisabeth Sladen2 titles
• NCNicholas Courtney2 titles
• MLMatt Lucas2 titles
• JGJulian Glover1 title
• JSJohn Shrapnel1 title
• JHJohn Hurt1 title
• MGMurray Gold1 title
• SMSylvester McCoy1 title
• SASamuel Anderson1 title
• PMPearl Mackie1 title

• Spouse

  • LWLalla Ward

Nothing recorded for: Partner, Parents, Children, Siblings, Influenced by, Studied under, Taught.

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  Photo:Legend PhotographyCC BY-SA 4.0

• "Would you like to go to New Zealand to do a commercial?" That's the sort of question an actor likes to hear from his agent in freezing mid -January.

  Tom Baker, CC BY-SA 4.0

• But it was drama, high drama: fires at night, the fires that burned people's houses away; bombs fell and left exotically shaped fragments in the form of shrapnel. And we collected it and traded it. As long as we were not hurt -- and I wasn't -- life seemed wonderful.

  Tom Baker, CC BY-SA 4.0

• We even copied the way the Americans walked, though Father Leonard didn't like that bit of admiration. He disapproved of rolling buttocks.

  Tom Baker, CC BY-SA 4.0

• These days when I see a child in Waitrose and smile and say, "Hello, are you going to visit your Mum in her sheltered accommodation when you grow up?" it provokes glistening eyes and hollow laughter. And if you pursue it with, "Or are you going to be a drug dealer?" it may result in a snub.

  Tom Baker, CC BY-SA 4.0

• The chaos of our lives suited me; I don't think I wanted it to end.

  Tom Baker, CC BY-SA 4.0

• The notion that God was everywhere put paid to any possible peace of mind by the time I was six.

  Tom Baker, CC BY-SA 4.0