Barry Letts
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.
Movies
Time and Atlantis: Chronicling The Time Monster
(archive footage)
Doctor Who and the Third Man
IMC Needs You!
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
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
The Story of Doctor Who
Where on Earth Is Katy Manning?
Doctor Who: Inferno
Loudspeaker Voice
Reach for the Sky
Tommy
The Cruel Sea
Raikes
A Boy, a Girl and a Bike
Syd
Scott of the Antarctic
Apsley Cherry-Garrard
To the Public Danger
Fred Lane
Frieda
Jim Merrick
San Demetrio London
Apprentice John Jones - M.V. San Demetrio
