Barry Letts
Biography
Barry Leopold Letts (26 March 1925 – 9 October 2009) was an English actor, television director, writer and producer, best known for being the producer of Doctor Who from 1969 to 1974.
Born in Leicester, he worked as an actor in theatre, films and television before retiring in his early forties and becoming a television director. He then became the producer of the BBC science fiction series Doctor Who for five years, overseeing almost the entirety of Jon Pertwee's tenure as the Third Doctor and casting Tom Baker as the Fourth Doctor. He produced or directed many of the BBC's Sunday Classic drama serials from 1976 to 1986, and returned to Doctor Who in 1980 to be the executive producer for its eighteenth season.
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Full filmography
- The Avengers (1961)
- Z-Cars (1962)
- No Hiding Place (1959)
- Maigret (1960)
- Armchair Theatre (1956) as Clive Epworth
- Armchair Theatre (1956) as Jamie Peatie
- The Cruel Sea (1953) as Raikes
- City Beneath the Sea (1962)
- Reach for the Sky (1956) as Tommy
- Hello Sailor! (2008)
- The Small House at Allington (1960) as Captain Bernard Dale
- Scott of the Antarctic (1948) as Apsley Cherry-Garrard
- The Silver Sword (1957)
- Doctor Who: Inferno (1970) as Loudspeaker Voice
- Frieda (1947) as Jim Merrick
- 30 Years in the TARDIS (1993) as Himself
- A Boy, a Girl and a Bike (1949) as Syd
- The Worst Journey in the World (2007) as Narrator
- Dial M for Murder (1962) as Max Halliday
- San Demetrio London (1943) as Apprentice John Jones - M.V. San Demetrio
- To the Public Danger (1948) as Fred Lane
- Come in Number Five (2011) as (archive footage)
- The Doctor's Moriarty (2011) as Self
- The Story of Doctor Who (2003)