Colin Baker
Colin Baker
Colin Bakeris an English actor, best known for playing Paul Merroney in 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...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionTV Actor
Date of Birth8 June 1943
CityLondon, England
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I never have reservations about doing anything as long as I'm being paid.
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If you turn down work because you are frightened of getting typecast, you'll never do anything good.
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I am a big man, but I've allowed my condition to deteriorate by being overweight.
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I hope I'm always convincing when I act!
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I like challenges that test your ingenuity.
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I loathe cheese, it makes me ill.
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It's not so much a thankless task, it's more a job with no thanks
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I do adore food. If I have any vice it's eating. If I was told I could only eat one food for the rest of my life, I could put up with sausage and mash forever.
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Small though it is, the human brain can be quite effective when working at full efficiency, not unlike myself!
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New Geeks visit pubs, clubs and bars more than twice as often as the average person, ... (A) new, more chic geek has emerged from the bedroom.
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Now I am very clear about what is important in my life. Once I might have lived to work, now I work to live for my family.
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I'd enjoyed playing the part enormously; it's not often in an actor's career that he gets a plum part like Doctor Who, and to say that I foresaw myself going on a little longer is a bit of an understatement.
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Nobody actually told us this was going to happen. It was just announced in the Lords last week.
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The audition went quite well until I fell off the stage at the end. I cut my leg open and was rushed off to hospital in an ambulance. I didn't get the part and I have never stepped onto the Leatherhead stage since. Needless to say I will be extremely careful this time.