Art Baker

Art Baker

Born: January 7, 1898
Died: August 26, 1966
in New York City, New York, USA

Movies for Art Baker...

The Wild Angels
Title: The Wild Angels
Character: Thomas - Mortician
Released: July 20, 1966
Type: Movie
A motorcycle gang arrives in a small town in search of a motorcycle that has been stolen by a rival gang; but, pursued by the police, one of its members is injured, an event that will cause an orgy of violence and destruction.
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Young Dillinger
Title: Young Dillinger
Character: Warden
Released: April 28, 1965
Type: Movie
The 1930s outlaw teams up with Pretty Boy Floyd, Baby Face Nelson and Homer Van Meter.
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Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea
Title: Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea
Character: UN Commentator (Uncredited)
Released: July 12, 1961
Type: Movie
The crew of an atomic submarine battle to save the world from global destruction.
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Twelve Hours to Kill
Title: Twelve Hours to Kill
Character: Capt. Johns
Released: April 2, 1960
Type: Movie
After witnessing a gangland murder, a young Greek immigrant flees for his life and hides out in a small town, but he soon realizes he's not as safe there as he thought.
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Exploring the Moon
Title: Exploring the Moon
Character: Self - Host
Released: January 1, 1960
Type: Movie
Join Art Baker and Dr. C.H. Cleminshaw on a tour of our lunar neighbor in this science-fact short subject.
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Title: Adventures in Paradise
Character: Brownley
Released: October 5, 1959
Type: TV
Adventures in Paradise is an American television series created by James Michener which ran on ABC from 1959 until 1962, starring Gardner McKay as Adam Troy, the captain of the schooner Tiki III, which sailed the South Pacific looking for passengers and adventure. USA Network aired reruns of this series between 1984 and 1988. The plots deal with the romantic and detective stories of Korean War veteran Troy. The supporting cast, varying from season to season, features George Tobias, Guy Stockwell, and Linda Lawson.
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Title: Tightrope
Released: September 8, 1959
Type: TV
Tightrope is an American crime drama series that aired on CBS from September 1959 to September 1960, under the alternate sponsorship of the J.B. Williams Company, and American Tobacco. Produced by Russell Rouse and Clarence Greene in association with Screen Gems, the series stars Mike Connors as an undercover agent named "Nick" who was assigned to infiltrate criminal gangs. The show was to have originally been titled Undercover Man but it was changed before going to air.
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Artists and Models
Title: Artists and Models
Character: TV Commentator (uncredited)
Released: November 7, 1955
Type: Movie
A struggling painter begins taking inspiration from the dreams of his friend and roommate, a comic book fan who narrates an adventure story while he sleeps, but unbeknownst to the latter, the artist of his favorite comic book lives in the same building as they do with the model for her drawings.
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Only the Valiant
Title: Only the Valiant
Character: Capt. Jennings
Released: April 13, 1951
Type: Movie
Only the Valiant, a classic western adventure, based on a novel by Charles Marquis Warren, the film tells the story of a Cavalry officer who volunteers for a suicidal mission to fight the hostile Apaches in an effort to prove his loyalty to his men and the woman he loves.
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Cause for Alarm!
Title: Cause for Alarm!
Character: Superintendent
Released: March 30, 1951
Type: Movie
A bedridden and gravely ill man believes his wife and doctor are conspiring to kill him, and outlines his suspicions in a letter.
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Hot Rod
Title: Hot Rod
Character: Judge David Langham
Released: October 22, 1950
Type: Movie
A young man builds a hot rod despite the disapproval of his father, a Juvenile Court judge. Circumstantial evidence points to the innocent teenager when his car is involved in a hit-and-run accident and he must reconcile with his father.
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The Underworld Story
Title: The Underworld Story
Character: Lieutenant Tilton
Released: July 26, 1950
Type: Movie
A blacklisted reporter brings his shady ways to a small-town newspaper after being fired from a big city daily.
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Easy Living
Title: Easy Living
Character: Howard Vollmer
Released: October 8, 1949
Type: Movie
A football halfback has a heart condition, a nagging wife and a team secretary who loves him.
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Task Force
Title: Task Force
Character: Sen. Vincent
Released: August 30, 1949
Type: Movie
After learning the finer points of carrier aviation in the 1920s, career officer Jonathan Scott and his pals spend the next two decades promoting the superiority of naval air power. But military and political "red tape" continually frustrate their efforts, prompting Scott to even consider leaving the Navy for a more lucrative civilian job. Then the world enters a second World War and Scott finally gets the opportunity to prove to Washington the valuable role aircraft carriers could play in winning the conflict. But what will it cost him and his comrades personally?
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Take One False Step
Title: Take One False Step
Character: Henry Pritchard
Released: August 14, 1949
Type: Movie
Catherine Sykes disappears after a midnight drive with Professor Andrew Gentling . When she's presumed murdered, his friend Martha convinces him that he's a prime suspect and should investigate before he's arrested.
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Any Number Can Play
Title: Any Number Can Play
Character: Mr. Reardon
Released: July 15, 1949
Type: Movie
When illegal casino owner Charley Kyng develops heart disease, he is advised by a doctor to spend more time with his family. However, he finds it difficult to keep his work separate from his life at home. His son, Paul, feels ashamed of Charley's career and gets into a fight at his prom because of it. Meanwhile, Charley's brother-in-law, Robbin, who works at the casino, begins fixing games due to his extreme gambling debts.
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Massacre River
Title: Massacre River
Character: Col. James Reid
Released: June 26, 1949
Type: Movie
Two Cavalry Officers clash over the Colonel's Daughter at a remote outpost with Indian troubles.
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Night Unto Night
Title: Night Unto Night
Character: Dr. Poole
Released: June 10, 1949
Type: Movie
A bleak mansion sits ominously on a cliff above the sea somewhere on Florida's east coast. In its shadows, two people meet: a scientist haunted by incurable illness and a beautiful woman haunted by the voice of her dead husband. Ronald Reagan and Hollywood-debuting Viveca Lindfors star in an eerie drama steeped in religious faith and supernatural fear, in the destructive power of sexual jealousy and the redemptive power of love. In one of his earliest directorial efforts, Don Siegel (Dirty Harry, The Shootist) displays his command of pacing and camerawork, building the action to a climactic hurricane that parallels the tumultuous emotions of characters precariously balanced between now and the hereafter.
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Impact
Title: Impact
Character: Defense Attorney
Released: March 20, 1949
Type: Movie
After surviving a murder attempt, an auto magnate goes into hiding so his wife can pay for the crime.
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Cover Up
Title: Cover Up
Character: Stu Weatherby
Released: February 25, 1949
Type: Movie
Insurance investigator Sam Donovan is looking into the apparent suicide of a man in a small Midwestern town. All clues leads him into suspecting murder. Unfortunately, no one wants to assist him with the case, including Sheriff Larry Best.
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It's Your Health
Title: It's Your Health
Character: Dr. Hendricks
Released: January 1, 1949
Type: Movie
Tommy Davis asks dentist Dr. Hendricks about his older brother Jim, a star halfback who failed his Annapolis dental examination. The doctor offers good advice, the kind one should share with his friends. Tommy invites his whole gang to hear Dr. Hendricks explain the importance of dental health and how dental disease can be controlled. Dr. Hendricks tells a fascinating story. He talks about mouth hygiene, dental care and the role foods play in protecting dental health. Tommy and his friends learn the facts, and the care of their teeth and health takes on a new, highly important light. As for Jim, he profits, too. The story ends on the note that dental health is essential in health generally, appearance and personality.
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The Decision of Christopher Blake
Title: The Decision of Christopher Blake
Character: Mr. Kurlick
Released: December 23, 1948
Type: Movie
A young boy begins to have fantasies when he learns his parents are planning to divorce. Director Peter Godfrey's 1948 drama stars Ted Donaldson, Alexis Smith, Robert Douglas, Cecil Kellaway, John Hoyt, Mary Wickes and Harry Davenport.
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The Walls of Jericho
Title: The Walls of Jericho
Character: Peddigrew
Released: November 22, 1948
Type: Movie
In a small town in Kansas, a county attorney in an unhappy marriage falls in love with another woman.
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Walk a Crooked Mile
Title: Walk a Crooked Mile
Character: Dr. Frederick Townsend
Released: September 2, 1948
Type: Movie
A security leak is found at a Southern California atomic plant. The authorities stand in fear that the information leaked would go to a hostile nation. To investigate the case more efficiently, Dan O'Hara, an FBI agent, and Philip Grayson, a Scotland Yard sleuth, join forces. Will they manage to stop the spy ring from achieving their aim?
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Daisy Kenyon
Title: Daisy Kenyon
Character: Lucille's Attorney
Released: December 25, 1947
Type: Movie
Daisy Kenyon is a Manhattan commercial artist having an affair with an arrogant and overbearing but successful lawyer and family man named Dan O'Mara. Daisy meets a single man, a war veteran named Peter Lapham, and after a brief and hesitant courtship decides to marry him, although she is still in love with Dan.
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Screen Snapshots: Laguna U.S.A.
Title: Screen Snapshots: Laguna U.S.A.
Character: Self - Narrator
Released: October 9, 1947
Type: Movie
The correct and full name of this short is "Screen Snapshots: Laguna,U.S.A." (Columbia production number 9852), in which director/producer Ralph Staub is out touring Laguna Beach. While there, he drops in at the Griffin Theatre where actors Brian Aherne, Lon Chaney Jr., Dane Clark and Eddie Bracken are rehearsing, as members of the Griffin Theatre Players, their roles in an upcoming stage presentation of "Of Mice and Men." To be precise, Lon Chaney is not in this film as "Lennie", as some sources seem to think.
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Dark Delusion
Title: Dark Delusion
Character: Sanford Burson
Released: June 24, 1947
Type: Movie
Spoiled socialite Cynthia Grace is suffering from a blood clot. Not unexpectedly, Tommy Coalt falls in love with Cynthia, much to her parents' dismay. Soon he's drawing up plans to marry the girl and setting up private practice in a smaller town.
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The Farmer's Daughter
Title: The Farmer's Daughter
Character: Anders J. Finley
Released: March 26, 1947
Type: Movie
After leaving her family's farm to study nursing in the city, a young woman finds herself on an unexpected path towards politics.
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Spellbound
Title: Spellbound
Character: Det. Lt. Cooley
Released: November 8, 1945
Type: Movie
When Dr. Anthony Edwardes arrives at a Vermont mental hospital to replace the outgoing hospital director, Dr. Constance Peterson, a psychoanalyst, discovers Edwardes is actually an impostor. The man confesses that the real Dr. Edwardes is dead and fears he may have killed him, but cannot recall anything. Dr. Peterson, however is convinced his impostor is innocent of the man's murder, and joins him on a quest to unravel his amnesia through psychoanalysis.
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Screen Snapshots (Series 25, No. 1): 25th Anniversary
Title: Screen Snapshots (Series 25, No. 1): 25th Anniversary
Character: Himself - Narrator (voice)
Released: September 6, 1945
Type: Movie
A look back at 25 years of Columbia's series of newsreels chronicling the film industry and the lives of Hollywood stars. Clips from earlier films in the series are featured, along with a montage of film greats who have passed away in the intervening years.
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Trial by Trigger
Title: Trial by Trigger
Character: Narrator (voice)
Released: May 27, 1944
Type: Movie
California logger Bill Cardigan must save his stand of redwoods from being bought by unscrupulous Dan Fallon, a logging company owner from Michigan.
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Wells Fargo Days
Title: Wells Fargo Days
Character: Narrator
Released: April 1, 1944
Type: Movie
A notorious arrives in Sunrise and turns in his gun and promises to avoid trouble. But when robbers shoot his good friend, he straps on his gun again and takes off in pursuit.
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Roaring Guns
Title: Roaring Guns
Character: Narrator (voice)
Released: February 19, 1944
Type: Movie
Farmers take up arms against miners whose high water pressure mining operations are destroying their farms with mud and water runoff.
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Gun to Gun
Title: Gun to Gun
Character: Narrator (voice)
Released: January 8, 1944
Type: Movie
Don Diego is a large ranch owner, the uncle of Dolores and the guardian of a young American, Steve Randall. Steve has just delivered a large herd of cattle to the ranch, where Don Diego has just found out that he must pay the local tax commissioner, Harkness a fine for unpaid taxes on a herd of over one-thousand cattle. Steve offers to drive the cattle to the commissioners office, even though he fells the fine is unjust. Arriving at the office, Steve learns that Harkness (who he has never met), who has a reputation for dishonesty, is out. Dropping by the cantina, Steve gets into a fight with Harkness, and Harkness swears vengeance on Steve, especially after Steve stampedes the cattle through the town.
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The Winged Scourge
Title: The Winged Scourge
Character: Narrator
Released: November 4, 1943
Type: Movie
The Seven Dwarfs fight malaria.
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Screen Snapshots (Series 23, No. 1): Hollywood in Uniform
Title: Screen Snapshots (Series 23, No. 1): Hollywood in Uniform
Character: Himself - Narrator (voice)
Released: August 15, 1943
Type: Movie
Actors are seen in their new roles as military men during WWII: Robert Stack displaying his remarkable skill as an artillery training officer; Tyrone Power as a Marine drill instructor; Rudy Vallee leading a military band; and Glenn Ford in the everyday grind of a Marine private.
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Victory Through Air Power
Title: Victory Through Air Power
Character: Narrator
Released: July 17, 1943
Type: Movie
This is a unique film in Disney Production's history. This film is essentially a propaganda film selling Major Alexander de Seversky's theories about the practical uses of long range strategic bombing. Using a combination of animation humorously telling about the development of air warfare, the film switches to the Major illustrating his ideas could win the war for the allies.
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Slightly Honorable
Title: Slightly Honorable
Character: Radio Announcer
Released: December 22, 1939
Type: Movie
A lawyer is framed for the murder of a young party girl and tries to clear his name.
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Trade Winds
Title: Trade Winds
Character: Police Announcer (Voice) (Uncredited)
Released: December 28, 1938
Type: Movie
After committing a murder, Kay assumes a new identity and boards a ship. But, Kay is unaware that Sam, a skirt chasing detective, is following her and must outwit him to escape imprisonment.
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Torchy Blane in Panama
Title: Torchy Blane in Panama
Character: Assistant Bank Manager (uncredited)
Released: May 7, 1938
Type: Movie
Torchy, Steve, and Gahagan are on the trail of a bank robber aboard an ocean liner traveling from New York to L.A. via the Panama Canal.
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Artists & Models
Title: Artists & Models
Character: 2nd Announcer (uncredited)
Released: August 4, 1937
Type: Movie
An ad man gets his model girlfriend to pose as a debutante for a new campaign.