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Thomas Stewart "Tom" Baker (born 20 January 1934) is a British actor. He is best known for playing the fourth incarnation of the Doctor in the science fiction television series Doctor Who, a role he played from 1974 to 1981 (he is to date the longest serving actor to play the part). In later years Baker played the roles of Professor Geoffrey Hoyt in Medics (1992-95) and Donald Ulysses MacDonald in Monarch of the Glen (2004-05). He also narrated the sketch show Little Britain from 2003 to 2006.
Baker was born in Scotland Road, Liverpool, Lancashire, the son of Mary Jane (née Fleming), a cleaner and John Stewart Baker, a sailor who was rarely at home. His parents were working class Liverpudlians. Baker left school at 15 to become a Roman Catholic monk and remained in the monastic life for six years, but left after losing his faith, and did his national service in the Royal Army Medical Corps, serving for two years from 1955 until 1957. At the same time he took up acting, at first as a hobby and finally turning professional towards the end of the 1960s.
Actors: Peter Jackson (actor), Peter Davison (writer), Sean Pertwee (actor), Nicholas Briggs (actor), David Tennant (actor), Carole Ann Ford (actress), Frank Skinner (actor), Paul McGann (actor), Peter Davison (actor), Colin Baker (actor), Jon Culshaw (actor), Sylvester McCoy (actor), Ian McKellen (actor), Peter Davison (director), John Barrowman (actor),
Plot: Three actors who had played Doctor Who, 'Peter Davison (I)' (qv), 'Colin Baker (I)' (qv) and 'Sylvester McCoy' (qv), are anxious to appear in the 50th anniversary special. A humorous look at the production of the long running TV show and the 50th anniversary special, with a plethora of famous cameos including 'Olivia Coleman' (qv) who can't believe that she hasn't been invited to take part in it. "I'm usually in everything." 'Sylvester McCoy' (qv) must take time off from shooting The Hobbit so there are also cameos from 'Peter Jackson (I)' (qv) and Sir 'Ian McKellen' (qv) as well as show-runners 'Russell T. Davies' (qv) and 'Steven Moffat (I)' (qv). Written and directed by 'Peter Davison (I)' (qv).
Genres: Comedy, Drama,Actors: Patrick Flynn (director), Patrick Flynn (actor), Patrick Flynn (producer), Patrick Flynn (writer), Jeff Crocker (actor), Kelley Flynn (producer), Kelley Flynn (actor), Erin Christine Buckley (actress), Andre Meadows (actor), David Neptune (actor), Burl Moseley (actor), Christopher Mathieu (actor), Andrew Stubblefield (actor), Scott Palmason (actor), Cat Davis (actress),
Genres: Comedy, Short,Actors: Shawn Levy (producer), Adam Shankman (director), Hilary Duff (actress), Bonnie Hunt (actress), John Debney (composer), Adam Shankman (producer), Adam Shankman (actor), Eugene Levy (actor), Taylor Lautner (actor), Carmen Electra (actress), Peter Keleghan (actor), Steve Martin (actor), Shawn Levy (actor), Laurel Bresnahan (miscellaneous crew), Cassandra Barbour (miscellaneous crew),
Genres: Adventure, Comedy, Family,Actors: Hilary Duff (actress), Alan Ruck (actor), Vanessa Bell Calloway (actress), Holmes Osborne (actor), Regis Philbin (actor), Steve Martin (actor), Eileen Brennan (actress), Rex Linn (actor), Wayne Knight (actor), Ashton Kutcher (actor), Richard Jenkins (actor), David Bowe (actor), Shawn Levy (actor), Bonnie Hunt (actress), Amy Hill (actress),
Plot: The Bakers, a family of 12, move from small-town Illinois to the big city after Tom Baker gets his dream job to coach his alma mater's football team. Meanwhile, his wife also gets her dream of getting her book published. While she's away promoting the book, Tom has a hard time keeping the house in order while at the same time coaching his football team, as the once happy family starts falling apart.
Keywords: actor, american-football, aspiring-actor, balancing-family-and-career, bandanna, based-on-novel, bathroom, beeping, bicycle, big-familyActors: Tom Baker (actor), Jon Culshaw (actor), Jon Culshaw (actor), Jon Culshaw (actor), Jon Culshaw (actor), Jon Culshaw (writer), Chris Tarrant (actor), Dale Winton (actor), Patrick Moore (actor), Derek Wheeler (director), Richard Hearsey (producer), Neil Armstrong (director), David Albon (writer), Robin Greene (producer),
Genres: Comedy, Short,Actors: William McNamara (actor), Philip Baker Hall (actor), Priscilla Barnes (actress), Frederic Forrest (actor), Richard Tyson (actor), Dan Winthrop (miscellaneous crew), Margery Kimbrough (miscellaneous crew), Elizabeth Barondes (actress), Amy Locane (actress), Dennis Sugasawara (producer), Shelly Gant (actress), Roger Clinton (actor), Jeana Keough (miscellaneous crew), Terri Hoyos (actress), Michelle Gold (miscellaneous crew),
Genres: Crime, Drama, Thriller,Actors: Lili Taylor (actress), Christine Vachon (producer), Martha Plimpton (actress), Anna Levine (actress), Michael Imperioli (actor), Lynn Cohen (actress), Mark Margolis (actor), Bill Sage (actor), Justin Theroux (actor), John Ventimiglia (actor), Jared Harris (actor), Gabriel Mann (actor), Stephen Dorff (actor), John Cale (composer), Jill Hennessy (actress),
Plot: Based on the true story of Valerie Solanas who was a 60s radical preaching hatred toward men in her "Scum" manifesto. She wrote a screenplay for a film that she wanted Andy Warhol to produce, but he continued to ignore her. So she shot him. This is Valerie's story.
Keywords: 1960s, anger, art, assassination, battle-of-the-sexes, breasts, character-name-in-title, decadence, degradation, dominatrixActors: Michael Madsen (actor), Andrew Lauer (actor), Adolf Hitler (actor), Kyle MacLachlan (actor), Martin Luther King (actor), Val Kilmer (actor), Bret Culpepper (actor), Kevin Dillon (actor), Robert F. Kennedy (actor), Allan Graf (actor), Dennis Burkley (actor), Crispin Glover (actor), John Capodice (actor), Jack McGee (actor), Costas Mandylor (actor),
Plot: Oliver Stone's homage to 1960s rock group The Doors also doubles as a biography of the group's late singer, the "Electric Poet" Jim Morrison. The movie follows Morrison from his days as a film student in Los Angeles to his death in Paris in 1971, at the age of 27. The movie features a tour-de-force performance by Val Kilmer, who not only looks like Jim Morrison's long-lost twin brother, but also sounds so much like him that he did much of his own singing. It has been written that even the surviving Doors had trouble distinguishing Kilmer's vocals from Morrison's originals.
Keywords: 1940s, 1960s, 1970s, 27-year-old, acid-the-drug, acid-trip, airplane, alcohol, alcohol-abuse, alcoholicActors: Jesse L. Lasky (miscellaneous crew), Walter Woods (writer), James Cruze (director), Edward Everett Horton (actor), Arthur Hoyt (actor), Theodore Roberts (actor), Mary Astor (actress), Louise Dresser (actress), Helen Jerome Eddy (actress), Patricia Palmer (actress), James Cruze (producer), Marc Connelly (writer), George S. Kaufman (writer), Jack Gardner (actor), Z. Wall Covington (actor),
Genres: Comedy,Actors: Tom Coventry (actor), Fred Paul (director), Fred Rains (actor), Manora Thew (actress), Benedict James (writer), Brian Daly (actor), Edward Sass (actor), James Welch (actor), Richard Lindsay (actor), Kathleen Blake (actress), E.C. Arundell (actor), Marjory Day (actress), H.M. Paull (writer), Arthur Milton (actor),
Genres: Comedy,[Instrumental]