Don Henderson Baker

Don Henderson Baker

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Palm Sunday
Title: Palm Sunday
Character: Pastor John Evans
Released: May 14, 2023
Type: Movie
A southern gothic drama about a young Black Caribbean Immigrant who attempts to assimilate into an all-white church in 1970s Raleigh, North Carolina.
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Talk Black
Title: Talk Black
Character: Johnny
Released: June 15, 2022
Type: Movie
A timid engineer develops a wild and expressive split personality to help her speak up to the boy's club at work.
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Lizzie
Title: Lizzie
Character: Marshall Hilliard
Released: September 14, 2018
Type: Movie
Massachusetts, 1892. An unmarried woman of 32 and a social outcast, Lizzie lives a claustrophobic life under her father's cold and domineering control. When Bridget Sullivan, a young maid, comes to work for the family, Lizzie finds a sympathetic, kindred spirit, and a secret intimacy soon blossoms into a wicked plan.
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Hover
Title: Hover
Character: Charles Raymond
Released: June 30, 2018
Type: Movie
In a near future when environmental havoc is causing food shortages and compelling the government to protect its organized crop system by deploying sentinel drones, a handful of locals discover a sinister connection between sick farmland inhabitants and the tech that’s meant to be protect them.
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Sophie and the Rising Sun
Title: Sophie and the Rising Sun
Character: Dr. Gilbert
Released: January 27, 2016
Type: Movie
In a small Southern town in the autumn of 1941, Sophie’s lonely life is transformed when an Asian man arrives under mysterious circumstances. Their love affair becomes the lightning rod for long-buried conflicts that erupt in bigotry and violence with the outbreak of World War ll.
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Well Wishes
Title: Well Wishes
Character: Durwood
Released: September 24, 2015
Type: Movie
After losing his job on a coin-toss a man concocts a fantastical plan to build an enterprise of harvesting coins from wishing fountains.
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Don't Know Yet
Title: Don't Know Yet
Character: Bob
Released: October 17, 2014
Type: Movie
A feel-good road movie about a broken man who lets the hitchhikers he picks up determine his direction and destiny. Everything changes when he meets a free-spirited woman who guides him on a journey of self-discovery while hiding a secret of her own.
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Infliction
Title: Infliction
Character: Joe Stiles
Released: March 16, 2014
Type: Movie
"Infliction" is the actual assembled footage taken from the cameras belonging to two brothers, who documented a murder spree in North Carolina.
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Lincoln
Title: Lincoln
Character: Walter Appleton
Released: November 9, 2012
Type: Movie
The revealing story of the 16th US President's tumultuous final months in office. In a nation divided by war and the strong winds of change, Lincoln pursues a course of action designed to end the war, unite the country and abolish slavery. With the moral courage and fierce determination to succeed, his choices during this critical moment will change the fate of generations to come.
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When Walt Whitman Was a Little Girl
Title: When Walt Whitman Was a Little Girl
Character: Narrator
Released: February 17, 2012
Type: Movie
As the title suggests, this is a speculative biography of the artistic side of Walt Whitman. Starting out as an ordinary nine year old girl, young Walt is soon catapulted into the world with all her senses ablaze. Combining drama, dance, puppetry, and potato cannons, the film is a sometimes funny, sometimes sad rumination on growing up as a 'sensitive kid.'
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Crystal River
Title: Crystal River
Character: Mr. Bryant
Released: May 13, 2008
Type: Movie
The story is of a married woman who, grieving her inability to have children, finds comfort and healing in her friendship with another man. It's about discovering grace in darkness and the unexpected places we find healing.
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Forgiven
Title: Forgiven
Character: Randall Fuller
Released: January 1, 2006
Type: Movie
On the eve of his campaign launch for a seat in the US Senate, a small town District Attorney receives word that the governor has exonerated a death row inmate whom the DA prosecuted five years earlier for the murder of a local police officer. In the wake of the ex-inmate's release and through the prism of the media frenzy, what unfolds is a public vetting of the DA's record. When hard evidence of actual impropriety finds its way into his possession, the exonerated man seeks out the DA for answers.
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The Work and the Glory II: American Zion
Title: The Work and the Glory II: American Zion
Character: Ezra Booth
Released: October 21, 2005
Type: Movie
"The Work and The Glory: American Zion" sets the story of the fictional Steed family against the historically factual backdrop of the Mormon people's move into the West. Divided by their diverse reactions to a nascent ideology, the Steeds struggle to hold together as the strength of their convictions and their filial bonds are tested. The stirring narrative of the faith that led a persecuted people to Missouri and beyond is one of the most poignant untold tales of American history. It is the account of a valiant struggle to exercise the rights promised by a fledgling nation. "The Work and the Glory: American Zion" unearths the story of the passion behind the movement which eventually launched the largest American migration and the colonization of the West: the vision of a promised land in America.
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Title: Surface
Character: Dave Wolff
Released: September 19, 2005
Type: TV
A marine biologist, an insurance salesman and a teenage boy find their lives changed when a new and often dangerous sea life species emerges, while the government tries to keep the affair under wraps.
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A Touch of Fate
Title: A Touch of Fate
Character: Det. Joe
Released: February 28, 2003
Type: Movie
One night in a small town in North Carolina, fate brings together three lives: an entertainment lawyer returning home to his dying mother after years in escape of his past, a woman trying to reclaim her supposed love, and a boy with a penchant for the sixth sense who struggles with the death of his father and overbearing love of his single mother. When the past and future suddenly bind these people together on a journey of need, forgiveness and discovery, they realize they've gained something when they least expected it
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Runaway Jury
Title: Runaway Jury
Character: Thernstrom
Released: January 16, 2003
Type: Movie
A juror on the inside and a woman on the outside manipulate a court trial involving a major gun manufacturer.
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The Angel Doll
Title: The Angel Doll
Character: Somber Man
Released: September 14, 2002
Type: Movie
The story of two small town boys from different sides of the tracks: 1950's childhood and self-redemption. Young "Whitey" Black (so called because of a tuft of blanched hair on the left side of his head) lives in poverty with his single mother and ailing, four-year old sister, Sandy. Just across town, young Jerry Barlow lives the advantages of a middle class lifestyle with both parents and his younger brother. When mischief casts Whitey and Jerry into a shared paper route, Jerry quickly learns of Whitey's desire to buy his sister an angel doll for Christmas. Even though no such dolls exist in their hometown, Whitey, Jerry and a host of colorful characters set out in search of Sandy's gift. Along the way, reversals of fortune, theft, prejudice and, ultimately, the boy's friendship opens their eyes to the vastness of the small town around them.
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Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood
Title: Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood
Character: Confessional Priest
Released: June 7, 2002
Type: Movie
A mother and daughter dispute is resolved by the "Yaya sisterhood" - long time friends of the mother.
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New Best Friend
Title: New Best Friend
Released: April 12, 2002
Type: Movie
Alicia is a poor girl starting college. Hadley, Julianne and Sydney are three well-off girls in a row house. Classes begin and Alicia is paired with Hadley to work on a sociology class project. At first rejected, Alicia is finally accepted into Hadley's clique where she is introduced to a world of privilege and dangerous thrills. But her attempts to become one of them ultimately land her in the hospital.
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Leo
Title: Leo
Character: Jack (as Don Baker)
Released: March 12, 2002
Type: Movie
A young mother is plagued by a tragic mistake and alienates her little boy. A brilliant writer is released from prison after serving a 15-year sentence and begins working at Vic's Diner. Their stories converge when the man must overcome obstacles of the past to save the little boy and ultimately himself.
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October Sky
Title: October Sky
Character: Jensen
Released: February 19, 1999
Type: Movie
Based on the true story of Homer Hickam, a coal miner's son who was inspired by the first Sputnik launch to take up rocketry against his father's wishes, and eventually became a NASA scientist.
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Title: Mama Flora's Family
Character: Clerk (1955)
Released: November 8, 1998
Type: TV
A black matriarch in the early 20th century is determined to free her children from the bonds of prejudice.
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Perfect Crime
Title: Perfect Crime
Character: Bob's Dad
Released: July 7, 1997
Type: Movie
Mitzi Kapture portrays a military investigator trying to convict an officer of killing his wife. Convinced the officer committed the crime but hindered by lack of physical evidence (including a body), she must interview military personnel who have differing views of the events and circumstances surrounding the murder.
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Title: American Gothic
Released: September 22, 1995
Type: TV
Everything is not what it seems in Trinity, South Carolina. Sheriff Lucas Buck develops a sinister interest in Caleb. Caleb's cousin Gail tries to protect him, but that's complicated since she has feelings for Sheriff Buck. And Caleb's dead sister, Merlyn, returns as an angel, warning him that Buck is an incarnation of evil - and may not be human.