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Tom Baker Age, Bio, Height, Parents, Career, Net worth, Wife

Tom Baker is an Actor and writer of American nationality. Tom Baker is popular for featuring in The Book Tower, Doctor Who, Randall & Hopkirk etc.

Tom Baker Age

He is 88 years old.

Tom Baker Height

6 ft 0 in (1.83 m)

Tom Baker Nationality

He is American.

Tom Baker Biography

He was born on August 23, 1940, in West Virginia.

Baker attended Cheswardine Boarding School. At age 15, he became a novice religious brother with the Brothers of Ploermel (Brothers of Christian Instruction) in Jersey and later in Shropshire, but left the monastery six years later after losing his faith. 

Since his debut in 1967, he was featured in several movies as well as TV shows.

The role that rose his fame was in Doctor Who (TV Series). Here he played the role of the Fourth Doctor from 1974 to 1981.

Also, he increased his fame after signing for The Hound of the Baskervilles (TV Mini-Series) as Sherlock Holmes, Jackanory (TV Series) as Storyteller, Tales of Aesop (TV Series) as Narrator, etc.

Tom Baker Parents

His mother, Mary Jane (née Fleming) was a cleaner and devout Catholic. His (Jewish) father, John Stewart Baker, was a seaman and largely absent from the family due to being away at sea. 

Tom Baker Siblings

His sister is Lulu Baker and brother is John Baker.

Tom Baker Career

He is the longest-lived actor to have played the Doctor in Doctor Who (1963). He surpassed his predecessor Jon Pertwee on December 5, 2010. He became the first Doctor to reach the age of 77 on January 20, 2011.

In his autobiography, he said he realised he wanted to break each of the Ten Commandments in order and thought he should get out before he did something serious.

He did his national service in the Royal Army Medical Corps, serving from 1955 until 1957. He took up acting around 1956, joining the Rose Bruford College of Speech and Drama in Sidcup, where he met his first wife.

He went on to become a professional actor in the late 1960s after the marriage broke down.

Tom Baker wife

Tom Baker got married three times. He is presently married to his wife, Sue Jerrard Baker whom he met when they were working for the BBC.

They exchanged vows on 1 April 1986 and are still together.

When Tom was studying acting, he met Anna Wheatcroft and started to date her. Then they
married in the year 1961 and welcomed their two sons named Daniel and Piers. But this union was disconnected in 1966 due to which Tom lost contact with his kids too.

But he reunited with them in a pub in New Zealand. After divorcing his first spouse, he for the
second time walked the aisle with an actress Lalla Ward on 13 Dec 1980.

Tom Baker Children

Baker’s first marriage was in 1961, to Anna Wheatcroft, niece of rose grower Harry Wheatcroft; they had met and started dating in acting school. They had two sons, Daniel and Piers, and divorced in 1966.

Tom Baker net worth

His net worth is 10million naira.

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