Barry Letts
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Born 1925-03-26
Died 2009-10-09
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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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Filmography
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Producing
34 credits
Jane Eyre
Tales of the Tardis
Moonbase 3
Beau Geste
The Invisible Man
Stalky & Co
The Old Curiosity Shop
Nicholas Nickleby
Great Expectations
Doctor Who: Full Circle
The Mill on the Floss
A Tale of Two Cities
The Hound of the Baskervilles
Sense and Sensibility
The Prisoner of Zenda
Dombey and Son
Doctor Who: Inferno
Goodbye Mr Chips
The Children of the New Forest
Doctor Who: Logopolis
The Swish of the Curtain
Doctor Who: Meglos
Doctor Who: The Mutants
Doctor Who: Robot
Doctor Who: The Keeper of Traken
Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm
Doctor Who: Planet of the Daleks
Pinocchio
Doctor Who: The Mind of Evil
Doctor Who: The Leisure Hive
Doctor Who: The Curse of Peladon
Doctor Who: Day of the Daleks
Doctor Who: The Claws of Axos
Doctor Who: The Ambassadors of Death
Writing
14 credits
Doctor Who
The Wednesday Play
Thirty-Minute Theatre
Jane Eyre
Moonbase 3
The Invisible Man
David Copperfield
Nicholas Nickleby
The Mill on the Floss
A Tale of Two Cities
Sense and Sensibility
The Prisoner of Zenda
The Swish of the Curtain
Doctor Who: Planet of the Spiders
Directing
12 credits
Doctor Who
EastEnders
Z-Cars
Ten from the Twenties
David Copperfield
Gulliver in Lilliput
Doctor Who: Planet of the Spiders
The Prince and the Pauper
Pinocchio
Pinocchio
Doctor Who: The Enemy of the World
Doctor Who: The Android Invasion
Acting
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The Cruel Sea
Gulliver in Lilliput
Armchair Theatre
Scott of the Antarctic
Doctor Who: Inferno
Reach for the Sky
The Small House at Allington
Terror Nation: Terry Nation and Doctor Who
Frieda
Other credits
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