Tom Baker

Tom Baker

Born: August 23, 1940
Died: September 2, 1982
in West Virginia, USA
American actor, best known for being a friend of Doors front man, Jim Morrison and starring in Andy Warhol's "I, A Man". Died of a drug overdose at the age of 42. Not to be confused with the better known English actor of "Doctor Who" notoriety.

Movies for Tom Baker...

Wholly Moses
Title: Wholly Moses
Character: Egyptian Captain
Released: June 13, 1980
Type: Movie
Harvey and Zoey, two tourists in Israel, discover an ancient scroll about Herschel, the man who was almost Moses. Herschel receives the command from God to free his people from slavery, but Moses keeps getting all the credit.
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More American Graffiti
Title: More American Graffiti
Character: Cop #1
Released: August 3, 1979
Type: Movie
College graduates deal with Vietnam and other issues of the late '60s.
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Fyre
Title: Fyre
Character: Nick Perrine
Released: February 1, 1979
Type: Movie
After an innocent country girl is violently raped, her family is killed in a car accident before she can come to terms with what happened. As her feelings of shame grow into self-degradation, she turns to prostitution
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Title: Starsky & Hutch
Released: September 10, 1975
Type: TV
Streetwise Detective David Starsky partners up with a more intellectual partner, Kenneth 'Hutch' Hutchinson, to protect citizens and patrol the streets of Bay City.
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Candy Stripe Nurses
Title: Candy Stripe Nurses
Character: First Mechanic
Released: May 1, 1974
Type: Movie
Young, sexy nurses and their hospital adventures: free-loving Sandy tries to cure a rock star of his sexual problems, uptight Dianne has an affair with a druggie star college basketball player all while trying to expose another doctor's malpractice, and juvenile delinquent Marisa has an affair with an accused man, in turn also trying to prove his innocence.
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Runaway, Runaway
Title: Runaway, Runaway
Character: Buddy
Released: May 17, 1971
Type: Movie
An unhappy teenager hits the road to meet up with a man in California whom she barely knows. Along the way the naive teen stumbles around trying to do her best to get by, but eventually falls prey to some unseemly characters willing to take advantage of her.
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In Search of America
Title: In Search of America
Character: Doctor
Released: March 23, 1971
Type: Movie
Michael (Jeff Bridges) drops out of college with the intention of finding himself. When his parents (Carl Betz and Vera Miles) balk, he talks them into joining him in traveling the country and educating themselves about the state of things. They, along with Grandma (Ruth McDevitt) trick out an old Greyhound bus and hit the road. The picaresque plotline brings the family into contact with a variety of colorful characters. The producers of In Search of America never declared outright that the made-for-TV film was intended as a series pilot, but it ends on an ambiguous note with plenty of loose plot ends. In Search of America was first telecast March 23, 1971.
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Angels Die Hard
Title: Angels Die Hard
Character: Blair
Released: July 8, 1970
Type: Movie
Gang of bikers try to save people in a mining disaster.
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Love and Anger
Title: Love and Anger
Character: (segment "L'indifferenza")
Released: May 29, 1969
Type: Movie
Five short stories with contemporary settings. In New York, people are indifferent to derelicts sleeping on sidewalks, to a woman's assault in front of an apartment building, and to a couple injured in a car crash. A man, stripped of his identity, dies in bed with actors expressing his agony. A cheerful, innocent young man walking a city street in a time of war pays a price for this innocence. A couple talks about cinema while it watches another couple talk of love and truth on the eve of one character's return to Cuba. Striking students take over a university classroom; an argument follows about revolution or incremental change.
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I, a Man
Title: I, a Man
Character: Himself
Released: August 24, 1967
Type: Movie
Morrissey and Warhol's commercial take on the Swedish film I, A Woman. Somebody suggested to Warhol that they wanted a sexploitation film in the vein of I, A Woman, and so he and Morrissey concocted I, A Man. They created the story of this male hustler who talks with and sleeps with a series of women over the course of the film. The women are: a young woman who worries about parental acceptance of her sexuality, a woman who is on a couch, a woman with whom he does a seance, a woman who speaks French, a lesbian, and a married woman.
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Hallucination Generation
Title: Hallucination Generation
Character: Denny
Released: December 1, 1966
Type: Movie
A juvenile is mad at his mom so he leaves his home in San Francisco to join a charismatic LSD guru's cult in Spain and turns on, tunes in, and drops out. He also gets involved in murder.
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Title: The Virginian
Character: Deputy
Released: September 19, 1962
Type: TV
The Shiloh Ranch in Wyoming Territory of the 1890s is owned in sequence by Judge Henry Garth, the Grainger brothers, and Colonel Alan MacKenzie. It is the setting for a variety of stories, many more based on character and relationships than the usual western.