John Baker

John Baker

Born: August 8, 1917
Died: December 2, 2002
in Newport, Monmouthshire, Wales, UK

Movies for John Baker...

Title: The Brittas Empire
Character: Old Man
Released: January 3, 1991
Type: TV
The Brittas Empire is a British sitcom created and originally written by Andrew Norriss and Richard Fegen. Chris Barrie plays Gordon Brittas, the well-meaning but incompetent manager of Whitbury New Town Leisure Centre. The show ran for seven series and 53 episodes — including two Christmas specials — from 1991 to 1997 on BBC1. Norriss and Fegen wrote the first five series, after which they left the show. The Brittas Empire enjoyed a long and successful run throughout the 1990s, and gained itself large mainstream audiences. In 2004 the show came 47th on the BBC's Britain's Best Sitcom poll, and all series have been released on DVD. The creators Andrew Norriss and Richard Fegen often combine farce with either surreal or dramatic elements in episodes. For example in the first series, the leisure centre prepares for a royal visit, only for the doors to seal, the boiler room to flood and a visitor to become electrocuted. Unlike the traditional sitcom, deaths were quite common in The Brittas Empire.
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The Dark Angel
Title: The Dark Angel
Character: Old Giles
Released: February 1, 1987
Type: Movie
The Dark Angel is a sensual and stylish adaptation of Uncle Silas - Sheridan le Fanu’s influential Victorian literary masterpiece. Sheltered heiress Maud Ruthyn's troubles begin when her father hires a new governess. Madame De La Rougierre (played with considerable relish by Jane Lapotaire) is a cruel, brandy-swigging schemer with an unhealthy interest in Maud's inheritance and an approach to childcare that would make Mary Poppins faint. When Maud's father dies she has no choice but to live with her wicked uncle Silas, who will inherit the family fortune if Maud should happen to die. This is not a recipe for domestic bliss and soon it seems that everyone but Maud is either bad, mad, or both.
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A Mother Like Him
Title: A Mother Like Him
Character: Dad
Released: November 16, 1982
Type: Movie
A family of five orphaned children are going to be split up into different homes. What will happen if the eldest is officially made their foster parent?
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Doctor Who: The Visitation
Title: Doctor Who: The Visitation
Character: Ralph
Released: February 23, 1982
Type: Movie
In 17th century England, the Doctor and itinerant thespian Richard Mace uncover a plot by a crew of criminal Terileptils to wipe out humanity.
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Title: Gulliver in Lilliput
Character: Frelach
Released: January 3, 1982
Type: TV
Gulliver washes ashore on Lilliput and attempts to prevent war between that tiny kingdom and its equally minuscule rival Blefuscu.
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Title: Bergerac
Character: Butler
Released: October 18, 1981
Type: TV
Bergerac is a British television show set on Jersey. Produced by the BBC in association with the Seven Network, and first screened on BBC1, it stars John Nettles as the title character Detective Sergeant Jim Bergerac, a detective in Le Bureau des Étrangers, part of the States of Jersey Police.
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Title: Secret Army
Character: Jacques Lamboit
Released: September 7, 1977
Type: TV
World War II drama about covert organisation Lifeline helping allied airmen escape after being shot down in occupied Europe, working with the Resistance and hiding from the Gestapo.
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The Love of a Good Woman
Title: The Love of a Good Woman
Character: Mr. Baste
Released: October 15, 1976
Type: Movie
Isabella and Henry were childhood sweethearts. Isabella dreams of the arrival of a vulgar woman named Emily.
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Doctor Who: Colony in Space
Title: Doctor Who: Colony in Space
Character: Time Lord
Released: May 15, 1971
Type: Movie
When the Master steals the Time Lords' secret file on the Doomsday Weapon, they grant the Doctor a temporary reprieve from his exile on Earth to deal with the crisis. He and Jo arrive on the planet Uxarieus and become enmeshed in a struggle between an agrarian colony and a powerful mining corporation.
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Trog
Title: Trog
Character: Anaesthetist
Released: October 24, 1970
Type: Movie
Anthropologist Dr. Brockton unearths a primitive troglodyte -- an Ice Age "missing link": half-caveman, half-ape -- in a local cave. Through medical experimentation, she manages to communicate with him and domesticate him before he's let loose by an irate land developer and goes on a rampage, terrorizing the local citizenry.
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It!
Title: It!
Character: Guard
Released: July 1, 1967
Type: Movie
After a warehouse fire, museum director Grove and assistant Pimm find everything destroyed, only one statue withstood the fire mysteriously undamaged. Suddenly Grove is lying dead on the ground, killed by the statue? Pimm finds out that the cursed statue has been created by Rabbi Loew in 16th century and will withstand every human attempt to destroy it. Pimm decides to use it to his own advantage.
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Rotten to the Core
Title: Rotten to the Core
Character: Drainpipe Fred
Released: July 14, 1965
Type: Movie
Rogues Jelly Knight, Scapa Flood, and Lennie the Dip leave prison expecting boss The Duke to have their stash ready to share out. Instead, Duke's girl Sara gives them the news Duke is dead and the money gone on nursing care. They soon discover that Duke is actually running Hope Springs Nature Clinic with the help of most of the local villains. Very strange - and the nearby army camp and Sara's encouragement of Lieutenant Vine would seem to be no coincidence either. Written by Jeremy Perkins
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Five to One
Title: Five to One
Character: Waiter
Released: December 1, 1963
Type: Movie
Alan Roper tells Bookie Larry Hart that he is planning to steal £60,000 and Hart offers to launder the money for him. What Hart doesn't know is that it is actually his money Roper intends to steal.
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Title: Doctor Who
Character: Time Lord
Released: November 23, 1963
Type: TV
The adventures of The Doctor, a time-traveling humanoid alien known as a Time Lord. He explores the universe in his TARDIS, a sentient time-traveling spaceship. Its exterior appears as a blue British police box, which was a common sight in Britain in 1963 when the series first aired. Along with a succession of companions, The Doctor faces a variety of foes while working to save civilizations, help ordinary people, and right many wrongs.
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The Frightened City
Title: The Frightened City
Character: Warder
Released: September 1, 1961
Type: Movie
A small time thief is recruited by a mobster to help with the racketeering. He doesn't like the job, but with the mob on his back, a femme fatale in his bed and a sick friend to care for, he will have to keep all his wits about him.
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The Unstoppable Man
Title: The Unstoppable Man
Character: Reporter
Released: June 21, 1961
Type: Movie
Mitchell is a rich American businessman whose son is kidnapped in England. Naturally, there's a huge ransom demand, but Scotland Yard tells Mitchell to butt out.
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Title: The Avengers
Character: Hallam
Released: January 7, 1961
Type: TV
The Avengers is a British television series created in the 1960s. It initially focused on Dr. David Keel and his assistant John Steed. Hendry left after the first series and Steed became the main character, partnered with a succession of assistants. His most famous assistants were intelligent, stylish and assertive women: Cathy Gale, Emma Peel and Tara King. Later episodes increasingly incorporated elements of science fiction and fantasy, parody and British eccentricity.
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Title: The Avengers
Character: Vicar
Released: January 7, 1961
Type: TV
The Avengers is a British television series created in the 1960s. It initially focused on Dr. David Keel and his assistant John Steed. Hendry left after the first series and Steed became the main character, partnered with a succession of assistants. His most famous assistants were intelligent, stylish and assertive women: Cathy Gale, Emma Peel and Tara King. Later episodes increasingly incorporated elements of science fiction and fantasy, parody and British eccentricity.
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Cover Girl Killer
Title: Cover Girl Killer
Character: Plainclothes Officer
Released: September 26, 1959
Type: Movie
A madman is on the loose... killing fashion models that appear on the cover of magazines. The police start a manhunt in an attempt to capture the killer.
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Cat Girl
Title: Cat Girl
Character: Male Nurse (uncredited)
Released: September 1, 1957
Type: Movie
A psychiatrist treats a woman who is convinced that she turns into a killer leopard because of a family curse.
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Satellite in the Sky
Title: Satellite in the Sky
Character: Official (uncredited)
Released: July 21, 1956
Type: Movie
A bomb dooms the first space satellite, manned by a selfless crew, a stowaway reporter (Lois Maxwell) and a mad scientist (Donald Wolfit).
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Nineteen Eighty-Four
Title: Nineteen Eighty-Four
Character: First Man
Released: December 12, 1954
Type: Movie
A man who works for 'The Party' (an all powerful empire led by a man known only as 'Big Brother') begins to have thoughts of rebellion and love for a fellow member. Together they look to help bring down the party.
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The Black Rider
Title: The Black Rider
Character: Van Driver
Released: December 1, 1954
Type: Movie
When young reporter and amateur biker Jerry Marsh investigates a mysterious hooded figure on a motorbike, he discovers crooks hiding out in a ruined castle with atomic sabotage on their minds...
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The End of the Road
Title: The End of the Road
Character: Foreman
Released: January 1, 1954
Type: Movie
Having been given enforced retirement due to his age, Mick-Mack creates strain upon his extended family.
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The Beggar's Opera
Title: The Beggar's Opera
Character: 2nd Chairman
Released: August 24, 1953
Type: Movie
Adaptation of John Gay's 18th century opera, featuring Laurence Olivier as MacHeath and Hugh Griffith as the Beggar.
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R.U.R.
Title: R.U.R.
Character: Marius, a robot
Released: March 4, 1948
Type: Movie
A story of robots leading a revolution against their human creators. It explored dehumanization through technology and the failure of a technologically driven utopia.
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Morning Departure
Title: Morning Departure
Character: Petty Officer Barlow
Released: December 1, 1946
Type: Movie
At the end of World War II, a Royal Navy submarine on routine patrol strikes and detonates a mine. The subsequent explosion sinks the submarine, killing most of its crew. Frantic efforts are taken to rescue those remaining alive.
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Hotel Reserve
Title: Hotel Reserve
Character: Policeman
Released: June 1, 1944
Type: Movie
A hunt for a spy, in a hotel in the South of France just before World War Two.