Barry Letts
Born: 1925-03-26
Died: 2009-10-09
Known For: Production
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.
Filmography
2025
- Doctor Who: The Sea Devils ... (Producer)
2023
- Doctor Who: 60 Years of Secrets & Scandals as Self - archive
- Tales of the Tardis ... (Producer)
- Time and Atlantis: Chronicling The Time Monster as (archive footage)
2013
- The One with the Maggots as Self
- Treasures Lost and Found as Self (Archive)
2012
- The Village that Came to Life as Self
- People, Power and Puppetry as Self
- The Devil Rides Out: Making the Daemons as Self
- Remembering Barry Letts as Self
- When Worlds Collide as Self
2011
- IMC Needs You!
- Come in Number Five as (archive footage)
- The Final Curtain as Self
- The Doctor's Moriarty as Self
- Life on Earth as Self
- Mutt Mad: The Making of 'The Mutants' as Self
- Destroy All Monsters! as Self
- Blasting the Past as Self
2010
2009
2008
2007
- Exodus as Professor Marcus
- The Worst Journey in the World as Narrator
- Terror Nation: Terry Nation and Doctor Who as Self
- Beginning the End: Making 'The Time Warrior' as Self
- Are Friends Electric?
2006
- Genesis of a Classic as Self
- Changing Time: Living and Leaving Doctor Who
- Built for War: The Sontaran Story as (archival footage)
- Can You Hear the Earth Scream? as Self
2004
- Dæmos Rising ... (Script Consultant)
1997
- Myth Makers 37: Roger Delgado as Self
1993
- 30 Years in the TARDIS as Himself
- Myth Makers 25: Barry Letts and Terrance Dicks (Part 1) as Self
1986
- David Copperfield ... (Director)
1985
- EastEnders ... (Director)
1984
- The Prisoner of Zenda ... (Producer)
- Goodbye Mr Chips ... (Producer)
- The Invisible Man ... (Producer)
1983
- Jane Eyre ... (Producer)
- Dombey and Son ... (Producer)
1982
- The Hound of the Baskervilles ... (Producer)
- Gulliver in Lilliput ... (Adaptation)
1981
- Doctor Who: The Keeper of Traken ... (Executive Producer)
- Doctor Who: Logopolis ... (Executive Producer)
- Doctor Who: Warriors' Gate ... (Executive Producer)
- Sense and Sensibility ... (Producer)
- Great Expectations ... (Producer)
1980
- Doctor Who: The Leisure Hive ... (Executive Producer)
- Doctor Who: State of Decay ... (Executive Producer)
- Doctor Who: Full Circle ... (Executive Producer)
- Doctor Who: Meglos ... (Executive Producer)
- A Tale of Two Cities ... (Producer)
- The Swish of the Curtain ... (Producer)
1979
- The Old Curiosity Shop ... (Producer)
1978
- The Mill on the Floss ... (Producer)
- Pinocchio ... (Director)
1977
- Treasure Island ... (Producer)
- Nicholas Nickleby ... (Producer)
1975
- Doctor Who: Robot ... (Producer)
- Doctor Who: The Android Invasion ... (Director)
1974
- Doctor Who: Invasion of the Dinosaurs ... (Producer)
- Doctor Who: Death to the Daleks ... (Producer)
- Doctor Who: Planet of the Spiders ... (Director)
- Doctor Who: The Monster of Peladon ... (Producer)
- Doctor Who: The Time Warrior ... (Producer)
1973
- Doctor Who: The Three Doctors ... (Producer)
- Doctor Who: Frontier in Space ... (Producer)
- Doctor Who: The Green Death ... (Producer)
- Doctor Who: Planet of the Daleks ... (Producer)
- Doctor Who: Carnival of Monsters ... (Director)
- Moonbase 3 ... (Producer)
1972
- Doctor Who: The Curse of Peladon ... (Producer)
- Doctor Who: The Sea Devils ... (Producer)
- Doctor Who: The Mutants ... (Producer)
- Doctor Who: Day of the Daleks ... (Producer)
- Doctor Who: The Time Monster ... (Producer)
1971
- Doctor Who: The Mind of Evil ... (Producer)
- Doctor Who: The Claws of Axos ... (Producer)
- Doctor Who: The Dæmons ... (Writer)
- Doctor Who: Colony in Space ... (Producer)
- Doctor Who: Terror of the Autons ... (Director)
1970
- Doctor Who: The Ambassadors of Death ... (Producer)
- Doctor Who and the Silurians ... (Producer)
- Doctor Who: Inferno as Loudspeaker Voice
1968
- Doctor Who: The Enemy of the World ... (Director)
- Adventure Weekly ... (Director)
1966
1963
- Doctor Who ... (Director)
1961
1960
- Maigret
- The Small House at Allington as Captain Bernard Dale
1959
1957
1956
- Reach for the Sky as Tommy
1953
- The Cruel Sea as Raikes
1949
- A Boy, a Girl and a Bike as Syd
1948
- Scott of the Antarctic as Apsley Cherry-Garrard
- To the Public Danger as Fred Lane
1947
- Frieda as Jim Merrick
1943
- San Demetrio London as Apprentice John Jones - M.V. San Demetrio