Which 'Dr. Who' actor came between Patrick Troughton and Tom Baker?
"footage. Tom Baker did reappear, but as ""the Curator"", an ambiguously different character who he was not credited for playing. A voice actor, John Guilor, recorded a line of audio impersonating the First Doctor, for which he was credited as ""Voice Over Artist"". In other multi-Doctor stories, the multiple actors are all credited as ""The Doctor"", the exception being ""The Three Doctors"" (1972–73), which credited William Hartnell, Patrick Troughton and Jon Pertwee as ""Doctor Who"" as the 1972 serial preceded the practice of crediting the character as ""The Doctor"". In ""Human Nature"" (2007), the plot involves the Tenth Doctor altering"
"Patrick Troughton Patrick George Troughton (, 25 March 1920 – 28 March 1987) was an English actor. Classically trained, he played the second incarnation of the Doctor in the long-running British science-fiction television series ""Doctor Who"", which he played from 1966 to 1969; he reprised the role in 1973, 1983 and 1985. He appeared in several fantasy, science fiction and horror films. Troughton was born on 25 March 1920 in Mill Hill, Middlesex, England, to Alec George Troughton (1887–1953), a solicitor, and Dorothy Evelyn Offord (1886–1979), who married in 1914 in Edmonton. Patrick had an elder brother, Alec Robert (1915–1994),"
"Tom Baker Thomas Stewart Baker (born 20 January 1934) is an English actor. He is best known for his portrayal of the fourth incarnation of the Doctor in the science fiction series ""Doctor Who"" from 1974 to 1981, a longer tenure than any other actor, and for the narration of the comedy series ""Little Britain"". Baker's voice, which has been described as ""sonorous"", was voted the fourth-most recognisable in the UK. At the age of 15, Baker began study as a religious brother. He gradually lost his vocation and at 21 he left religious life and undertook National Service in"
"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."" Tom Baker Thomas Stewart Baker (born 20 January 1934) is an English actor. He is best known for his portrayal of the fourth incarnation of the Doctor in the science fiction series ""Doctor Who"" from 1974 to 1981, a longer tenure than any other actor, and for the narration of the comedy series ""Little Britain"". Baker's voice, which has been described as ""sonorous"", was voted the fourth-most recognisable in the UK. At the"
"He maintained a deception of having stayed with his original family that was so successful that his own mother died unaware of the truth. While Troughton never married ""Bunny"", in 1976 he did marry Sheila Holdup. Troughton had two daughters, four sons, one stepdaughter and one stepson: Troughton's grandchildren include: Patrick Troughton Patrick George Troughton (, 25 March 1920 – 28 March 1987) was an English actor. Classically trained, he played the second incarnation of the Doctor in the long-running British science-fiction television series ""Doctor Who"", which he played from 1966 to 1969; he reprised the role in 1973, 1983"
"Baker era, as production unit manager under producer Graham Williams from 1977 to 1979. He accepted the post of producer for Season 18, the last to feature Tom Baker as the central character, the Doctor. He subsequently cast the next three actors to play the role: Peter Davison (1982–84), Colin Baker (1984–86) and Sylvester McCoy (1987-89). Nathan-Turner's experience of working with Graham Williams helped form his views on the future direction of the ""Doctor Who"" series. He strongly felt that many people working on the programme (including Williams himself and star Tom Baker) no longer took the show seriously: it"
"Tom Baker serials on affiliates of the American Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) network. Nathan-Turner became a familiar face among the many ""Doctor Who"" celebrities who made appearances during PBS fundraising drives, held to finance the purchase of more ""Doctor Who"" serials for screening in the USA. In addition to his work on the television series, for some years during the Eighties Nathan-Turner's interest in light entertainment led to him producing an annual Christmas Pantomime, at the Tunbridge Wells Theatre, starring the incumbent Doctor and other members of the cast. The first of these, in December 1982, starred Peter Davison and"
"to acting, appearing in the ITV series ""Breathless"". He has also completed a number of audio dramatisations for Big Finish. Troughton appeared in the 2014 ""Doctor Who"" Christmas Special ""Last Christmas"" as Professor Albert. Troughton married Caroline M. Marston in 1981; they had a son, Matthew and a daughter, Sally. The family moved to Suffolk from London in 1988. Caroline developed MS, and died in the summer of 2012. Michael Troughton Michael Troughton (born 2 March 1955) is an English actor, writer, and teacher. He is the son of actor Patrick Troughton (known as the Second Doctor in ""Doctor Who"""
"Michael Troughton Michael Troughton (born 2 March 1955) is an English actor, writer, and teacher. He is the son of actor Patrick Troughton (known as the Second Doctor in ""Doctor Who"" in the 1960s) and the younger brother of David Troughton. He has appeared in many film, television and theatre roles, most notably as Melish in ""Minder"" and Sir Piers Fletcher-Dervish in ""The New Statesman"" from 1987 to 1992. Troughton also starred in the first series of ""Backs to the Land"". His more recent roles include senior science master Derek Halliday in the ""Taggart"" episode ""Out of Bounds"", 1998, a"
"Sam Troughton Sam Troughton (born 21 March 1977) is an English actor. He is the son of David Troughton and the grandson of ""Doctor Who"" actor Patrick Troughton. His younger brothers are the former Warwickshire cricketer Jim Troughton, and actor William Troughton. Troughton studied drama at the University of Hull, graduating in 1998. Troughton is a Shakespearean actor who has worked with the Royal Shakespeare Company. He has starred in the horror films ""Spirit Trap"" (with Billie Piper) and ""Alien vs. Predator"", and several television productions including Sky One's ""Hex"". He has appeared in the SAS drama Ultimate Force. From"
"Tom Baker (American actor) Tom Baker (August 23, 1940 – September 2, 1982) was an American actor who starred in the Andy Warhol film ""I, A Man"" (1967). He was a close friend of Jim Morrison of The Doors. Baker was the son of Tom Baker Jr. and Ellie, military parents who retired in San Francisco. His older sister married and then divorced a well-known British Formula 1 racer. Baker started his career as a stage actor in New York City and assisted Norman Mailer in the stage adaptation of Mailer's novel ""The Deer Park"". Once he moved to Hollywood,"
"Jim Troughton Jamie Oliver Troughton (born 2 March 1979) is an English former professional cricketer. He was mainly an attack-minded left-handed batsman but also an occasional slow left-arm orthodox bowler. He played for (and captained) the county side Warwickshire. He also played for the England one day international team. Troughton was born into a well-known British acting family. He is the son of the stage and television actor David Troughton, who is a leading member of the Royal Shakespeare Company, and the nephew of Michael Troughton. His grandfather, Patrick Troughton, was best known for playing the Second Doctor in ""Doctor"
"as well as in other roles with Tom Baker's Fourth Doctor. The serial was repeated on BBC2 in November 1981, daily (Monday–Thursday, 9–12 November 1981) at 5:40 pm as part of ""The Five Faces of Doctor Who"", a series of repeats to bridge the long gap between seasons 18 and 19. At the time, it was the only four-part Patrick Troughton serial that existed in the BBC Archives. The viewing figures for the repeats were 4.4, 4.6, 4.6 and 4.5 million viewers respectively. According to the BBC's Audience Research Report on the first episode the story received a mixed reception"
"the production team on the basis that the incoming Fourth Doctor could be portrayed by an older actor who would not be able to handle the more physical action scenes. After 40-year-old Tom Baker was cast, such concerns were allayed and Harry was written out after only one season. TV appearances Marter remained involved with ""Doctor Who"" after his departure from the regular cast. He co-wrote the script for a feature film version, provisionally titled ""Doctor Who Meets Scratchman"" (also known as ""Doctor Who and the Big Game""), in collaboration with Baker and director James Hill; due to a lack"
"Pertwee (for ""Tomb of the Cybermen""), Tom Baker (for ""Evil of the Daleks""), and Colin Baker (for ""The Macra Terror"") to narrate Troughton-era stories which, at that time, were missing from the BBC's film archives. Many of these double-cassette releases were subsequently re-released on CD after 2001. Nathan-Turner also co-wrote the 1993 charity special ""Dimensions in Time"" for the show's 30th Anniversary, and co-presented the ""BSB"" ""31 Who"" programmes during their 1990 ""Doctor Who Weekend"". He made his final contribution to the series when he appeared in a retrospective on the 2001 DVD release of ""Resurrection of the Daleks"". A"
"Arizona to see The Rolling Stones in concert. Both he and fellow traveller Baker were charged with ""interfering with the flight of an intercontinental aircraft and public drunkenness"". Baker died of a drug overdose in 1982 on the Lower East Side in New York City, in a seedy junk-house for heroin addicts. His death caused confusion in the media. British actor Tom Baker was more well-known at the time, due to his portrayal of the Doctor on the BBC programme ""Doctor Who"", and was also a heavy drinker. Some publications mistakenly reported that the British actor had died. Baker is"
"""The Troughton Years"", ""The Pertwee Years"", ""The Tom Baker Years"", ""The Colin Baker Years"", ""Daleks: The Early Years"", ""Cybermen: The Early Years"", and a special release of the unfinished story ""Shada"". In the early 1990s he also produced the earliest ""Doctor Who"" commercial releases on audio cassette, for the BBC Radio Collection, creating narrated adaptations of television serials for which only the soundtrack remained. In these, he mixed the surviving soundtrack with a narration (written by himself) explaining the missing pictures, using as narrator actors who had played the Doctor. In the aftermath of Patrick Troughton's death, he contracted Jon"
"more wool than was necessary to the knitter, Begonia Pope, intending for her to choose a suitable colour. However, due to miscommunication Pope knitted all the wool she was given. It was Baker who suggested that he wear the ridiculously long scarf, which he did once it had been shortened a bit to make it more manageable. The Doctor played by Tom Baker (1974–81) is often regarded as the most popular of the Doctors. In polls conducted by ""Doctor Who Magazine"", Baker has lost the ""Best Doctor"" category only three times: once to Sylvester McCoy in 1990, and twice to"
"David Troughton David Troughton (born 9 June 1950 in Hampstead, London) is an English actor, known for his Shakespearean roles on the British stage and for his many roles on British television, including Dr Bob Buzzard in ""A Very Peculiar Practice"" and Ricky Hansen in ""New Tricks"". David Troughton was born in Hampstead, London. He comes from a Jewish theatrical family; he attended Orange Hill Grammar School in Edgware with his brother Michael, he is the son of actor Patrick Troughton, elder brother of Michael Troughton, and father of actors Sam Troughton and William Troughton. Another son is the Warwickshire"
"years, succeeding Tom Baker (the Fourth Doctor) and, at age 29, was at the time the youngest actor to have played the lead role, a record he retained for nearly thirty years until Matt Smith (the Eleventh Doctor) took the role in 2009 at age 26. Attracting such a high-profile actor as Davison was as much of a coup for the programme's producers as getting the role was for him, but he did not renew his contract because he feared being typecast. Patrick Troughton (who had played the Second Doctor and whom Davison had watched on the programme as a"
"season. During production of season eleven, it was known that Jon Pertwee would be leaving his role as the Third Doctor and that a new Fourth Doctor would need to be cast for the part. Tom Baker was an out-of-work actor, working in construction at the time. Baker had been a television and film actor, having major parts in several films including ""The Vault of Horror"" (1973) and as the main antagonist in ""The Golden Voyage of Sinbad"" the same year. He had written to Bill Slater, the Head of Serials at the BBC, asking for work. Slater suggested Baker"
"Soap Opera Digest Award for Outstanding Male Newcomer, for his role as Colton in ""General Hospital"". He also received two nominations in 1990, for Outstanding Super Couple: Daytime (shared with Kristina Wagner) and Outstanding Hero: Daytime, for the same role. However, he lost to Doug Davidson, as Paul in ""The Young and the Restless"", and A Martinez and Marcy Walker, for Cruz and Eden in ""Santa Barbara"". Scott Thompson Baker Scott Thompson Baker (born September 15, 1960) is an American television actor, from Golden Valley, Minnesota. Some of his most notable roles are Colton Shore on ""General Hospital"", Craig Lawson"
"prior to taking on the leading role (in 2013 Peter Capaldi was announced as the Twelfth Doctor after having previously appeared in another role in the 2008 episode ""The Fires of Pompeii""). When Baker was cast to replace Davison, many fans cited that shooting scene in ""Arc of Infinity"", prompting Baker to say jokingly that he got the part of the Doctor by killing the incumbent. He is no relation to Tom Baker, who previously played the Fourth Doctor in ""Doctor Who"". Baker's first appearance as the Doctor occurred at the final minutes of ""The Caves of Androzani"", where he"
"James Warwick (actor) James Warwick (born 17 November 1947) is an English actor and director, best known for his roles on television and London's West End and New York's Broadway theatre. Warwick was born in Broxbourne, Hertfordshire UK. James Warwick has had leading roles in UK TV including ""Agatha Christie's Partners in Crime"" (alongside Francesca Annis as the sleuthing couple Tommy and Tuppence), the detective series 'The Terracotta Horse' and the BBC serial ""The Nightmare Man"". He also appeared in the ""Doctor Who"" serial ""Earthshock"" as Lieutenant Scott. Other Agatha Christie works he acted in were ""Why Didn't They Ask"
"her death from cancer on 26 July 2012. They had one daughter, Lauren, born November 1979. Her autobiography, entitled ""First Generation"", was published in September 2009 by Fantom Films. Before her death she had been working on a second part of her autobiography, ""Second Generation"", which was published in 2014. Mary Tamm Mary Tamm (22 March 1950 – 26 July 2012) was a British actress, known for her role as Romana in the BBC's science fiction television series ""Doctor Who"", starring opposite Tom Baker in the 1978–79 story arc ""The Key to Time"". Tamm was born in Bradford (then part"
"character actor Patrick Troughton, having previously considered another actor, Peter Jeffrey, as well as Peter Cushing, who had played Dr. Who in two Dr. Who movies. Troughton first appeared in November 1966 after the changeover from Hartnell had been seen at the end of the story ""The Tenth Planet"". Lloyd's era as producer of ""Doctor Who"" became known as a monster era. It saw the introduction of recurring monsters such as the Cybermen, the Ice Warriors and the Yeti. He also terminated the purely historical stories prominent in the first three seasons of classic ""Doctor Who"". Innes Lloyd also worked"
"without Tennant. In 2006, readers of ""Doctor Who Magazine"" voted Tennant's Doctor ""Best Doctor"" over perennial favourite Tom Baker. He also won the National Television Awards award for Most Popular Actor in 2006 and 2007, and the award for Outstanding Drama Performance in 2008 and 2010. In a poll conducted by ""Radio Times"" in March 2007, Tennant's Doctor was named the ""coolest character on television"". IGN ranked the Tenth Doctor the best Doctor in 2011. In 2013, IGN again ranked Tennant as the best Doctor, along with the ""Daily Mail"" and ""Radio Times"", with Billie Piper also being voted as"
"""definite sense of Englishness"". When Hartnell left the programme after three years due to ill health, the role was handed over to character actor Patrick Troughton. , official television productions have depicted thirteen distinct incarnations of the Doctor. The longest-lasting on-screen incarnation is the Fourth Doctor, played by Tom Baker for seven years. Within the narrative, these changes were explained as regeneration, a biological process which heals a Time Lord when their incarnation is about to die. Consequently, the Time Lord is given a wholly new body. In ""The Deadly Assassin"", the concept of a regeneration limit is introduced, giving"
"actors to play the character of the Doctor in the series (Tom Baker, Peter Davison, Colin Baker, Sylvester McCoy, Paul McGann, and David Tennant), as well as many of the regular supporting actors over the many years of the programme. The late Jon Pertwee's voice is featured in the 40th-anniversary story ""Zagreus"". His part in the story was pieced together from snippets of Pertwee's dialogue from the fan-produced ""Doctor Who"" video ""Devious"". The actor John Hurt also recorded appearances as the War Doctor for Big Finish prior to his death in 2017. Of the living Doctors, Tom Baker for years"
"and Pertwee returned to star with Peter Davison, and Tom Baker appeared in previously unseen footage from the uncompleted ""Shada"" episode. For this episode, Richard Hurndall replaced William Hartnell. Patrick Troughton again returned in 1985's ""The Two Doctors"" with Colin Baker. In 2007, Peter Davison returned in the Children in Need short ""Time Crash"" alongside David Tennant, and in 2013's 50th anniversary special episode, ""The Day of the Doctor"", David Tennant's Tenth Doctor appeared alongside Matt Smith as the Eleventh Doctor and John Hurt as the War Doctor, as well as brief footage from all of the previous actors. In"
"Mary Tamm Mary Tamm (22 March 1950 – 26 July 2012) was a British actress, known for her role as Romana in the BBC's science fiction television series ""Doctor Who"", starring opposite Tom Baker in the 1978–79 story arc ""The Key to Time"". Tamm was born in Bradford (then part of the administrative area called the West Riding of Yorkshire) to Estonian immigrant parents, and attended Bradford Girls' Grammar School. She was a graduate and an associate member of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art where she studied from 1969-71. Tamm began acting on the stage with the Birmingham Repertory"
"Bob Baker (scriptwriter) Robert John ""Bob"" Baker (born 26 July 1939) is a British television and film writer. He is best known as the co-author (with Nick Park) of the Wallace and Gromit films ""The Wrong Trousers"", ""A Close Shave"" and """" and ""A Matter of Loaf and Death"" (in which a character (Baker Bob) is named after him). Baker and Dave Martin began writing for Harlech Television (HTV), the local ITV franchise. One of their earliest works was Thick As Thieves starring Leonard Rossiter. Baker wrote for ""Doctor Who"" between 1971 and 1979. For all but the last of"
"for the programme. Letts had intended to cast an older actor as the Fourth Doctor, to hark back to Hartnell's portrayal in the 1960s, but after a long search he eventually selected Tom Baker, who was suggested to him by the incoming Head of Serials, Bill Slater. Baker was only forty years old, almost fifteen years Pertwee's junior, but despite not being the type of actor Letts had originally been looking for, he went on to become arguably the most popular and best-remembered to play the role. He starred in the series for seven years, longer than any of his"