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
2023
- Tales of the Tardis ... (Producer)
- Doctor Who: 60 Years of Secrets & Scandals as Self - archive
- Time and Atlantis: Chronicling The Time Monster as (archive footage)
2011
- Come in Number Five as (archive footage)
- Life on Earth as Self
- The Doctor's Moriarty as Self
- IMC Needs You!
2009
2007
- Exodus as Professor Marcus
- The Worst Journey in the World as Narrator
- Are Friends Electric?
- Terror Nation: Terry Nation and Doctor Who as Self
2006
- Changing Time: Living and Leaving Doctor Who
- Built for War: The Sontaran Story as (archival footage)
2004
- Dæmos Rising ... (Script Consultant)
1993
- 30 Years in the TARDIS as Himself
1986
- David Copperfield ... (Director)
1985
- EastEnders ... (Director)
1984
- The Invisible Man ... (Producer)
- The Prisoner of Zenda ... (Producer)
- Goodbye Mr Chips ... (Producer)
1983
- Jane Eyre ... (Producer)
- Dombey and Son ... (Producer)
1982
- The Hound of the Baskervilles ... (Producer)
- Gulliver in Lilliput ... (Director)
- Beau Geste ... (Producer)
- Stalky & Co ... (Producer)
1981
- Sense and Sensibility ... (Producer)
- Great Expectations ... (Producer)
- Doctor Who: Warriors' Gate ... (Executive Producer)
- Doctor Who: Logopolis ... (Executive Producer)
- Doctor Who: The Keeper of Traken ... (Executive Producer)
1980
- A Tale of Two Cities ... (Producer)
- The Swish of the Curtain ... (Producer)
- Doctor Who: Full Circle ... (Executive Producer)
- Doctor Who: The Leisure Hive ... (Executive Producer)
- Doctor Who: Meglos ... (Executive Producer)
- Doctor Who: State of Decay ... (Executive Producer)
1979
- The Old Curiosity Shop ... (Producer)
1978
- The Mill on the Floss ... (Producer)
- Pinocchio ... (Producer)
- Pinocchio ... (Director)
1977
- Nicholas Nickleby ... (Producer)
- The Children of the New Forest ... (Producer)
- Treasure Island ... (Producer)
1975
- Doctor Who: Robot ... (Producer)
- Doctor Who: The Android Invasion ... (Director)
1974
- Doctor Who: Invasion of the Dinosaurs ... (Producer)
- Doctor Who: Planet of the Spiders ... (Writer)
- Doctor Who: The Time Warrior ... (Producer)
- Doctor Who: The Monster of Peladon ... (Producer)
- Doctor Who: Death to the Daleks ... (Producer)
1973
- Moonbase 3 ... (Producer)
- Doctor Who: The Three Doctors ... (Producer)
- Doctor Who: The Green Death ... (Producer)
- Doctor Who: Frontier in Space ... (Producer)
- Doctor Who: Carnival of Monsters ... (Director)
- Doctor Who: Planet of the Daleks ... (Producer)
1972
- Doctor Who: The Sea Devils ... (Producer)
- Doctor Who: The Time Monster ... (Producer)
- Doctor Who: Day of the Daleks ... (Producer)
- Doctor Who: The Curse of Peladon ... (Producer)
- Doctor Who: The Mutants ... (Producer)
1971
- Doctor Who: The Dæmons ... (Writer)
- Doctor Who: The Claws of Axos ... (Producer)
- Doctor Who: Terror of the Autons ... (Producer)
- Doctor Who: Colony in Space ... (Producer)
- Doctor Who: The Mind of Evil ... (Producer)
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)
1963
- Doctor Who ... (Director)
1961
1960
- Maigret
- The Small House at Allington as Captain Bernard Dale
1959
1957
1956
- Armchair Theatre as Clive Epworth
- 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