Baker, Colin

1943 - Born on the 8th of June in London during an air raid.

1970 - Received a call to come to London to audition for a part in a BBC2 drama series called "The Roads to Freedom".

1971 - Played in the Count Wenceslas Steinbock in "Balzac's Cousin Bette".

1972 - He played the role of Prince Anatol Kuragin in an ambitious twenty-part serializations of Tolstoy's "War and Peace".

Colin Baker  also took on a wide range to theatre work, including several Shakespeare festivals, appearing in productions of "Macbeth" and "Hamlet."

Married actress Liza Goddard, who had played his on-screen wife in the series, but the marriage eventually ended in divorce.

1980 - Colin Baker  also had a few further TV roles, including one as Bayban in "Blake's 7: City at the Edge of the World".

1984-1986 - Starred in television series "Doctor Who" as 6th incarnation of the Doctor.

1993 - Played the Doctor once again in the 1993 charity special Dimensions in Time.

1995 - Baker has been writing a regular column for his local newspaper, the Bucks Free Press.  

1997 - Appeared in the first episode of Jonathan Creek.