Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1943-06-08
- Works
- 36
Top works
- Would prescription drug importation reduce U.S. drug spending?
- Poems, Paintings & Pontification
- Education and Research in Public Administration in Africa
- A fine chest of medals
- Sixth Sense
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Film & TV
Acting · Waterloo, London, England, UK
Colin Baker (born 8 June 1943) is an English actor who played Paul Merroney in the BBC drama series The Brothers from 1974 to 1976 and the sixth incarnation of the Doctor in the long-running science fiction television series Doctor Who from 1984 to 1986. Baker's tenure as the Doctor proved to be a controversial era for the series, which included a hiatus in production and his subsequent…
Known for
- Doctor Who: Wish World & The Reality War — The Doctor (archive footage) (uncredited)2025
- Doctor Who: Slipback — 6th Doctor2025
- Doctor Who: The Ultimate Evil — The 6th Doctor2025
- A Christmas Carol - A Filmed Radio Play Live on Stage — Ebenezer Scrooge2025
- Doctor Who at the Proms — The Doctor (6) (archive footage)2024
- Secrets of a Wallaby Boy — Bruce (voice)2023
- Buckle Up — Nick2023
- Talking Doctor Who — Self / The Doctor (6) (archive footage)2023
- Doctor Who: 60 Years of Secrets & Scandals — Self - archive2023
- Christmas at the Holly Day Inn — Ben2023
via TMDB
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 366
- Total plays
- 7,183
Colin Baker is an English character actor best known for portraying the Sixth incarnation of the science fiction character The Doctor in the BBC television show Doctor Who. <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Colin+Baker">Read more on Last.fm</a>
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Cancer incidence and mortality worldwide: Sources, methods and major patterns in GLOBOCAN 2012
· 2014 · cited 21,543x
- Reproducible, interactive, scalable and extensible microbiome data science using QIIME 2
· 2019 · cited 19,959x
- RSEM: accurate transcript quantification from RNA-Seq data with or without a reference genome
· 2011 · cited 19,551x
- A global reference for human genetic variation
· 2015 · cited 17,370x
- Operating Characteristics of a Rank Correlation Test for Publication Bias
· 1994 · cited 14,275x
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Key dates
- Born
- 8 June 1943
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Colin
- Family name
- Baker
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom
- Place of birth
- Waterloo
- Occupation
- television actor
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Native language
- English language
- Official website
- www.colinbakeronline.com
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Categories
1943 births20th-century English male actors21st-century English male actorsAlumni of the London Academy of Music and Dramatic ArtEnglish male film actorsEnglish male radio actorsEnglish male soap opera actorsEnglish male stage actorsEnglish male television actorsLiving peopleMale actors from LondonMale actors from Rochdale