Barry Letts
- Production
- March 26, 1925
- October 9, 2009
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.
Known for
Filmography
- Doctor Who: 60 Years of Secrets & Scandals · Self
- Tales of the Tardis · Producer
- Time and Atlantis: Chronicling The Time Monster · (archive footage)
- Doctor Who and the Third Man
- IMC Needs You!
- Life on Earth · Self
- The Doctor's Moriarty · Self
- Come in Number Five · (archive footage)
- The Tin Men and the Witch
- Warriors of Mars
- The Perfect Scenario: Lost Frontiers
- The Perfect Scenario: The End of Dreams
- Roger Delgado: The Master
- The Frighten Factor
- Hello Sailor!
- Musical Scales: An Era of Experimentation
- Terror Nation: Terry Nation and Doctor Who · Self
- Exodus · Professor Marcus
- Are Friends Electric?
- The Worst Journey in the World · Narrator
- Built for War: The Sontaran Story · (archival footage)
- Changing Time: Living and Leaving Doctor Who
- Terrance Dicks: Fact & Fiction
- Dæmos Rising · Script Consultant
- The Story of Doctor Who
- Where on Earth Is Katy Manning?
- 30 Years in the TARDIS · Self
- David Copperfield · Director, Creator
- EastEnders · Director
- The Prisoner of Zenda · Producer, Creator
- The Invisible Man · Producer, Creator
- Goodbye Mr Chips · Producer
- Jane Eyre · Producer, Creator
- Dombey and Son · Producer
- Beau Geste · Producer
- The Hound of the Baskervilles · Producer
- Stalky & Co · Producer
- Gulliver in Lilliput · Adaptation, Director
- Great Expectations · Producer
- Doctor Who: Logopolis · Executive producer
- Doctor Who: The Keeper of Traken · Executive producer
- Sense and Sensibility · Producer, Creator
- Doctor Who: Warriors' Gate · 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, Creator
- Doctor Who: The Leisure Hive · Executive producer
- The Swish of the Curtain · Producer, Creator
- The Old Curiosity Shop · Producer
- The Mill on the Floss · Producer, Creator
- Pinocchio · Director
- Pinocchio · Producer, Director
- Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm · Producer
- The Children of the New Forest · Producer
- Treasure Island · Producer
- Nicholas Nickleby · Producer, Creator
- Little Lord Fauntleroy · Producer
- The Prince and the Pauper · Director
- Doctor Who: The Android Invasion · Director
- Ten from the Twenties · Director
- Doctor Who: Robot · Producer
- Doctor Who: Planet of the Spiders · Writer, Director
- Doctor Who: The Monster of Peladon · Producer
- Doctor Who: Death to the Daleks · Producer
- Doctor Who: Invasion of the Dinosaurs · Producer
- Doctor Who: The Time Warrior · Producer
- Moonbase 3 · Producer, Writer
- Doctor Who: The Green Death · Producer
- Doctor Who: Planet of the Daleks · Producer
- Doctor Who: Frontier in Space · Producer
- Doctor Who: Carnival of Monsters · Director, Producer
- Doctor Who: The Three Doctors · Producer
- Doctor Who: The Time Monster · Producer, Writer
- Doctor Who: The Mutants · Producer
- Doctor Who: The Sea Devils · Producer
- Doctor Who: The Curse of Peladon · Producer
- Doctor Who: Day of the Daleks · Producer
- Doctor Who: The Dæmons · Writer, Producer
- Doctor Who: Colony in Space · Producer