Thomas Baptiste

Thomas Baptiste

Born: March 17, 1929
Died: December 6, 2018
in Georgetown, British Guiana
Thomas Baptiste was born on March 17, 1929 in Georgetown, British Guiana. He was an actor, known for The Wild Geese (1978), The Ipcress File (1965) and for playing Coronation Street's first black character. He died on December 6, 2018 in Brighton & Hove, East Sussex, England.

Movies for Thomas Baptiste...

The Secret Laughter of Women
Title: The Secret Laughter of Women
Character: Papa Fola
Released: November 26, 1999
Type: Movie
Oscar-winner Colin Firth stars in this heart-warming cross-cultural romantic comedy set in the idyllic South of France. Nimi, a beautiful Nigerian single mother to son Sammy, is under pressure from her family to find a suitable husband and who better than the local Reverend? After making friends with Matthew, a British comic-book writer and one of his heros, Sammy has other ideas. He successfully plots to get them together but they've still a few obsticles to overcome. (from Amazon)
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The Attendant
Title: The Attendant
Character: The Attendant
Released: September 10, 1993
Type: Movie
Memory mixes with desire as a museum attendant is caught up in sado-masochistic fantasies inspired by a 19th century painting of slaves in chains called Scene on the coast of Africa. The man remembers his past as a singer and delivers Dido's lament from Purcell's opera.
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Black and White in Colour
Title: Black and White in Colour
Character: Himself
Released: June 27, 1992
Type: Movie
A two part documentary that details the contribution of black and Asian people to television history from the birth of television in 1936 to 1992. Interviewees include: Pearl Connor, Thomas Baptiste, Lenny Henry, Norman Beaton, Horace Ové, Carmen Munroe, and Stuart Hall.
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Ama
Title: Ama
Character: Babs
Released: September 6, 1991
Type: Movie
A golden floppy disk becomes a prophetic device through which a young Ghanaian girl living in England, Ama, rediscovers her African identity. She learns its contents at the office where her mother cleans. The disk, through magic realism and by way of ancestors, warns her of the dangers of forgetting one's heritage.
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Escape From Kampala
Title: Escape From Kampala
Character: Minawa
Released: August 8, 1991
Type: Movie
The true story of a daring prison break. Wycliffe Kato, Director of Civil Aviation in Idi Amin's Uganda was at the airport to catch a flight to Canada for a conference when he was arrested by Amin's secret police, members of the notorious State Research Bureau, and thrown into the Nakasero prison. This should have meant certain death, but, along with his cell mates, army officers who had come under suspicion of organizing a coup, he escaped and made it on foot to Nairobi. This TV movie is based on Wycliffe Kato's own account in his book "Escape From Idi Amin's Slaughterhouse".
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Drums Along Balmoral Drive
Title: Drums Along Balmoral Drive
Character: Badinga
Released: August 6, 1986
Type: Movie
'I don't think at first I thought at all. I had a nice house, lovely kids. I didn't think about blacks at all. I should've done, but I didn't. They were just there.'
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Title: EastEnders
Character: Henry Chadwick
Released: February 19, 1985
Type: TV
The everyday lives of working-class residents of Albert Square, a traditional Victorian square of terrace houses surrounding a park in the East End of London's Walford borough.
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King
Title: King
Character: Mr. King
Released: April 3, 1984
Type: Movie
A man who has had a good life in England wants to retire to Jamaica, but the celebration with his daughters doesn't go as expected.
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Nairobi Affair
Title: Nairobi Affair
Released: January 1, 1984
Type: Movie
A former green beret is hired by the Kenyan government to stop increasingly bold and violent poachers. As if that wasn't hard enough, he has to deal with his estranged father, now a safari guide, and with the woman they both love.
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Rise and Fall of Idi Amin
Title: Rise and Fall of Idi Amin
Character: Dr. Michael Oloya
Released: July 16, 1981
Type: Movie
The chronicle of Ugandan dictator Idi Amin and his tyranic rule from 1971 to his overthrow in 1979.
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Title: Minder
Character: Mr. Mikabwe
Released: October 29, 1979
Type: TV
This comedy drama series featured Terry McCann, a former boxer with a conviction for G.B.H., and Arthur Daley, a second-hand car dealer with an eye for a nice little earner. Alongside his many business ventures, Arthur would regularly hire Terry out as a minder or bodyguard, later replaced by nephew, Ray Daley.
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The Music Machine
Title: The Music Machine
Character: Claire's Father
Released: May 1, 1979
Type: Movie
At a famous London disco venue, a competition is announced to select two dancers to star in a new film.
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The Class Of Miss MacMichael
Title: The Class Of Miss MacMichael
Character: Visitor
Released: January 27, 1979
Type: Movie
A dedicated teacher tries to reach out to juvenile delinquent students at a London alternative school.
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Title: Return of the Saint
Character: President Obono
Released: September 10, 1978
Type: TV
Follow the swashbuckling exploits of Simon Templar, a modern-day Robin Hood of sorts.
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The Wild Geese
Title: The Wild Geese
Character: Col. Mboya
Released: June 28, 1978
Type: Movie
A British multinational company seeks to overthrow a vicious dictator in central Africa. It hires a band of (largely aged) mercenaries in London and sends them in to save the virtuous but imprisoned opposition leader who is also critically ill and due for execution. Just when the team has performed a perfect rescue, the multinational does a deal with the vicious dictator leaving the mercenary band to escape under their own steam and exact revenge.
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Title: The Professionals
Character: Huntley
Released: December 30, 1977
Type: TV
The lives of Bodie and Doyle, top agents for Britain's CI5 (Criminal Intelligence 5), and their controller, George Cowley. The mandate of CI5 was to fight terrorism and similar high-profile crimes. Cowley, a hard ex-MI5 operative, hand-picked each of his men. Bodie is a cynical ex-SAS paratrooper and mercenary whose nature ran to controlled violence, while his partner, Doyle, comes to CI5 from the regular police force, and is more of an open minded liberal. Their relationship is often contentious, but they are the top men in their field, and the ones to whom Cowley always assigned to the toughest cases.
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Countdown at Kusini
Title: Countdown at Kusini
Character: John Okello
Released: April 16, 1976
Type: Movie
An American musician working in Nigeria becomes involved with a patriot hunted by a mercenary in Africa.
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Honeybaby, Honeybaby
Title: Honeybaby, Honeybaby
Character: Gen. Christian Awani
Released: October 1, 1974
Type: Movie
Liv, a mercenary, is drawn into a mission to rescue a kidnapped politician. He travels to the volatile Mideast and is assisted by Laura, a translator, where their lives are imperiled.
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Shaft in Africa
Title: Shaft in Africa
Character: Kopo
Released: June 14, 1973
Type: Movie
Detective John Shaft travels incognito to Ethiopia, then France, to bust a human trafficking ring.
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Black Snake
Title: Black Snake
Character: Isiah
Released: March 28, 1973
Type: Movie
A man searches for his brother on an island where a vicious woman keeps slaves on a plantation.
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Title: Divorce His, Divorce Hers
Character: Minister
Released: February 6, 1973
Type: TV
The dissolution of an 18-year marriage, seen first from his point-of-view and then from hers.
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Ghost in the Noonday Sun
Title: Ghost in the Noonday Sun
Character: Abdullah
Released: January 1, 1973
Type: Movie
A pirate crewman kills his captain after learning where he has hidden his buried treasure. However, as he begins to lose his memory, he relies more and more on the ghost of the man he just murdered to help him find the loot.
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Title: Crown Court
Released: October 11, 1972
Type: TV
Crown Court is an afternoon television courtroom drama produced by Granada Television for the ITV network that ran from 1972, when the Crown Court system replaced Assize courts and Quarter sessions in the legal system of England and Wales, to 1984.
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Title: Crown Court
Character: Haverstock Brown QC
Released: October 11, 1972
Type: TV
Crown Court is an afternoon television courtroom drama produced by Granada Television for the ITV network that ran from 1972, when the Crown Court system replaced Assize courts and Quarter sessions in the legal system of England and Wales, to 1984.
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In the Beautiful Caribbean
Title: In the Beautiful Caribbean
Character: Zikky
Released: February 3, 1972
Type: Movie
Play set in the Caribbean showing how life is hard and a struggle, with problems of unemployment and lack of money.
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Pal
Title: Pal
Character: Norman
Released: December 2, 1971
Type: Movie
Two sworn enemies, one black and the other white, are forced to confront their prejudices when they are forced together by circumstance.
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Sunday Bloody Sunday
Title: Sunday Bloody Sunday
Character: Prof. Johns
Released: July 1, 1971
Type: Movie
Recently divorced career woman Alex Greville begins a romantic relationship with glamorous mod artist Bob Elkin, fully aware that he's also intimately involved with middle-aged doctor Daniel Hirsh. For both Alex and Daniel, the younger man represents a break with their repressive pasts, and though both know that Bob is seeing both of them, neither is willing to let go of the youth and vitality he brings to their otherwise stable lives.
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The Comedians
Title: The Comedians
Character: Haitian Soldier (uncredited)
Released: October 31, 1967
Type: Movie
American and British tourists get caught up in political unrest in Haiti.
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Jemima + Johnny
Title: Jemima + Johnny
Character: Jemima's Dad (as Tommy Baptiste)
Released: September 26, 1966
Type: Movie
A white boy and a black Jamaican girl have a day out in a city where racial hostility prevails.
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Help!
Title: Help!
Released: July 29, 1965
Type: Movie
An obscure Eastern cult that practices human sacrifice pursues Ringo after he unknowingly puts on a ceremonial ring (that, of course, won't come off). On top of that, a pair of mad scientists, members of Scotland Yard, and a beautiful but dead-eyed assassin all have their own plans for the Fab Four.
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The Ipcress File
Title: The Ipcress File
Character: Barney
Released: March 18, 1965
Type: Movie
Sly and dry intelligence agent Harry Palmer is tasked with investigating British Intelligence security, and is soon enmeshed in a world of double-dealing, kidnap and murder when he finds a traitor operating at the heart of the secret service.
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Dr. Terror's House of Horrors
Title: Dr. Terror's House of Horrors
Character: Dambala (Segment 3 "Voodoo")
Released: February 23, 1965
Type: Movie
Five strangers board a train and are joined by a mysterious fortune teller who offers to read their Tarot cards. Five separate stories unfold: An architect returns to his ancestoral home to find a werewolf out for revenge; a doctor discovers his new wife is a vampire; a huge plant takes over a house; a musician gets involved with voodoo; an art critic is pursued by a disembodied hand.
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Fable
Title: Fable
Character: Mark
Released: January 27, 1965
Type: Movie
In Great Britain a reversal of African apartheid comes into place, and the country is governed by black people with whites as the subservients.
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Guns at Batasi
Title: Guns at Batasi
Released: October 30, 1964
Type: Movie
An anachronistic martinet RSM on a remote Colonial African army caught in a local coup d'etat must use his experience to defend those in his care.
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In the Cool of the Day
Title: In the Cool of the Day
Character: Murray Logan's chauffeur (uncredited)
Released: May 29, 1963
Type: Movie
After he mends a marital rift between a vacationing young couple, the bored, fragile wife falls hopelessly in love with the husband's ex-colleague who is married to a long-suffering and emotionally and physically scarred woman. The couple soon runs off to Greece together to pursue the romance.
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The Small World of Sammy Lee
Title: The Small World of Sammy Lee
Character: Café Patron
Released: April 20, 1963
Type: Movie
The compère of a seedy strip club struggles to keep one step ahead of the bookies to whom he owes money.
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Title: The Saint
Character: Grant
Released: October 4, 1962
Type: TV
Simon Templar is The Saint, a handsome, sophisticated, debonair, modern-day Robin Hood who recovers ill-gotten wealth and redistributes it to those in need.
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Title: The Saint
Character: Police Sergeant
Released: October 4, 1962
Type: TV
Simon Templar is The Saint, a handsome, sophisticated, debonair, modern-day Robin Hood who recovers ill-gotten wealth and redistributes it to those in need.
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Flame in the Streets
Title: Flame in the Streets
Character: Boyfriend
Released: June 19, 1961
Type: Movie
Flame in the Streets is a 1961 British drama film directed by Roy Ward Baker. Racial tensions manifest themselves at home, work and on the streets during Bonfire Night in the burgeoning West Indian community of early 1960s Britain. Trades union leader (Mills) fights for the rights of a black worker but struggles with the news that his own daughter is planning to marry a West Indian, much against his own logic and the prejudice of his wife.
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Title: Maigret
Released: October 31, 1960
Type: TV
BBC series based on the novels by Georges Simenon which starred Rupert Davies as Inspector Maigret, a French police detective who preferred to watch and listen in order to solve crimes. The series ran from 1960-63 on British television.
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Sapphire
Title: Sapphire
Character: Man on the Street
Released: November 2, 1959
Type: Movie
Two Scotland Yard detectives investigate the murder of a young woman of mixed race who had been passing for white. As they interview a spate of suspects -- including the girl's white boyfriend and his disapproving parents -- the detectives wade through a stubbornly entrenched sludge of racism and bigotry.
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Web of Evidence
Title: Web of Evidence
Character: Haydock
Released: April 28, 1959
Type: Movie
A World War II evacuee returns years later to England and finds his father in prison framed for murder.