Virginia Weidler

She died of a heart attack in Los Angeles, California, after suffering the effects of heart disease for several years.
. She married after her retirement and distanced herself from her Hollywood career, and for the rest of her life politely refused any requests for interviews.
. By her retirment at the age of 17 she had appeared in more than forty films, and had acted with some of the biggest stars of her era, including Clark Gable and Myrna Loy in Too Hot to Handle (1938), Bette Davis in All This and Heaven Too (1940), and Mickey Rooney and Judy Garland in Babes on Broadway (1941), but she was not able to make continue her success as an actor into adulthood. Tom sold his school house to his Randall and Hopkirk co-star Vic Reeves. After a string of box-office disappointments, her film career ended with her final performance in 1943. They moved to a converted school in Maidstone, Kent where they kept lots of cats before emigrating to France in 2002.

She continued acting but by this time was maturing, and as a teenager was less popular with audiences. In 1987, Baker married Sue Jerrard, who had been an assistant editor on Doctor Who. Her next major success, and the film for which she is perhaps best remembered was The Philadelphia Story (1941) in which she played the wise-cracking younger sister of Katharine Hepburn. In 1981 he married Lalla Ward who had co-starred in Doctor Who with him for two years - their marriage lasted only 16 months. She was one of the all-female cast of The Women (1939), as Norma Shearer's daughter, a role that was uncharacteristically sentimental for her. In response to the numerous inquiries he gets about his time as the Doctor he often replies 'You will have to excuse me but I was drunk at the time.'. The film was a success and over the next few years Weidler was regularly employed by the studio, usually playing precocious tom-boys. Several reference books published in the late 1980s erroneously reported that Baker died of a drug overdose in 1982. Baker does have a reputation, acknowledged in his autobiography, of being a heavy drinker like fellow Doctor actor William Hartnell, and sometimes makes humourous reference to it.

Her first film for them was opposite their leading male star Mickey Rooney in Love Is A Headache (1938). His distinctive voice has become a gift for impressionists, and he is regularly impersonated in the popular comedy series Dead Ringers. Neither studio made full use of her abilities, and when Paramount did not extend her contract, she was signed by MGM. He has also written an autobiography, entitled Who on Earth is Tom Baker (ISBN 000638854X ). Over the next few years she played minor roles in films for RKO and Paramount Studios. Also a talented writer, Baker created a short fairytale-style novel titled The Boy Who Kicked Pigs (ISBN 057119771X), which has been described as "A Grotesque Masterpiece". Born in Eagle Rock, California, Weidler made her first film appearance in 1933. Baker had a brief foray into the world of music, providing the monologue to the track Witness to a Murder (Part Two) on the album Six by Mansun.

Virginia Weidler (March 21, 1926 – July 1, 1968) was an American child actor, popular in Hollywood films during the 1930s and 1940s. He plays Donald McDonald, an eccentric former race car champion who, having been away since early childhood, returns home after hearing of the death of his brother Hector (who was played by Richard Briers until his departure at the end of the previous season). More recently, Baker completed filming a season of Monarch of the Glen, a popular BBC drama series. He also narrated the comedic BBC radio series Lionel Nimrod's Inexplicable World and later Little Britain and continues to narrate the television series of the same name. He had a part in the 2001 BBC Radio 4 version of The Thirty-Nine Steps as Sir Walter Bullivant.

In the late 1990s he had a recurring role in the revival of Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased). He became mostly known, however, for doing advertising voiceovers. He played character parts on television and radio (including an Elizabethan sea captain in Blackadder and Puddleglum in the BBC's production of The Chronicles of Narnia), and also hosted the children's literature show The Book Tower. Baker's subsequent career was relatively unremarkable.

However, Sylvester McCoy is considered by some to be the longest serving Doctor, on and off screen, having assumed the role in 1987 and, despite the series' cancellation in 1989, only relinquishing it to Paul McGann in 1996. Baker's tenure as the Doctor on screen lasted the longest. Prior to leaving Doctor Who, Baker had married, as his second wife, his co-star Lalla Ward, but they divorced after 16 months. His decision to move on in 1981 was regretted by many of the programme's fans, and his incarnation is generally regarded as the most popular of the Doctors.

His eccentric style of dress, particularly with his trademark long scarf, and speech made him an immediately recognisable figure, and the viewing public quickly forgot his predecessors. In 1974, Baker took on the role of the Doctor from Jon Pertwee, and quickly made it his own. In 1971, he got his first big break with the role of Rasputin in the film Nicholas and Alexandra. He left school at 15 to become a novice monk and remained in the monastic life for six years, but left and went into the Merchant Navy, at the same time taking up acting, at first as a hobby.

His father was a sailor who was rarely at home resulting in Tom being raised largely by his mother in her Roman Catholic faith. Baker was born in Liverpool. Thomas Stewart Baker (born January 20, 1934) is a British actor, mainly associated with the role of the Doctor in the long-running science fiction television series Doctor Who, whom he played for seven years.