Barry Letts
Production
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.
TV Shows(8)
Movies(33)
Doctor Who: 60 Years of Secrets & Scandals
Self - archive
2023
Time and Atlantis: Chronicling The Time Monster
(archive footage)
2023
Doctor Who and the Third Man
2019
IMC Needs You!
2011
Life on Earth
Self
2011
The Doctor's Moriarty
Self
2011
Come in Number Five
(archive footage)
2011
The Tin Men and the Witch
2010
Warriors of Mars
2010
The Perfect Scenario: Lost Frontiers
2009
The Perfect Scenario: The End of Dreams
2009
Roger Delgado: The Master
2009
The Frighten Factor
2009
Hello Sailor!
2008
Musical Scales: An Era of Experimentation
2008
Terror Nation: Terry Nation and Doctor Who
Self
2007
Exodus
Professor Marcus
2007
Are Friends Electric?
2007
The Worst Journey in the World
Narrator
2007
Built for War: The Sontaran Story
(archival footage)
2006
Changing Time: Living and Leaving Doctor Who
2006
Terrance Dicks: Fact & Fiction
2005
The Story of Doctor Who
2003
Where on Earth Is Katy Manning?
1998
30 Years in the TARDIS
Himself
1993
Doctor Who: Inferno
Loudspeaker Voice
1970
Reach for the Sky
Tommy
1956
The Cruel Sea
Raikes
1953
A Boy, a Girl and a Bike
Syd
1949
Scott of the Antarctic
Apsley Cherry-Garrard
1948
To the Public Danger
Fred Lane
1948
Frieda
Jim Merrick
1947
San Demetrio London
Apprentice John Jones - M.V. San Demetrio
1943