20-1490: George Baker may refer to: Arts [ edit ] George Baker (British actor) (1931–2011), British film and television actor George Baker (art historian) (born 1970), American art historian George Baker (Indian actor) (born 1946), Indian actor and politician George Baker (baritone) (1885–1976), British singer George Baker (cartoonist) (1915–1975), Sad Sack comic strip George Baker (Dutch singer) (born 1944), Dutch singer and songwriter George Baker Selection , Dutch pop music group George Baker (organist) (1773–1847), English musician George C. Baker (born 1951), composer and organist George D. Baker (1868–1933), American film director George Herbert Baker (1878–1943), American Impressionist artist George Melville Baker (1832–1890), American playwright and publisher George Pierce Baker (1866–1935), American drama professor George Philip Baker (1879–1951), British author George Augustus Baker (1821–1880), American portrait painter Politics [ edit ] George Baker (Canadian politician) (born 1942), Canadian senator George Baker (died 1723) , British politician George Barnard Baker (1834–1910), Canadian politician from Quebec George Harold Baker (1877–1916), Canadian politician and lawyer George Luis Baker (1868–1941), mayor of Portland, Oregon, 1917–1933 George W. C. Baker (1872–1953), councilman on
40-630: A leading man in The Woman for Joe (1955) opposite Diane Cilento ; The Feminine Touch (1956), playing a handsome doctor in a film about nurses; A Hill in Korea (1956), playing a heroic soldier, with Robert Shaw and Stanley Baker in support; and The Extra Day (1956), a comedy. The same year he appeared in the West End in Agatha Christie 's play Towards Zero . Baker was also
60-471: A play for television dealing with lives of poets Wilfred Owen , Siegfried Sassoon and Robert Graves ; this appeared on BBC 2 on 7 November 1980. It won him a United Nations peace award. His other writing credits included four of the Wexford screenplays. Baker was the subject of This Is Your Life in 1995 when he was surprised by Michael Aspel during a photo shoot on board a boat at Port Solent on
80-873: A season with the Old Vic company (1959–61), where he played Bolingbroke in Richard II , Jack in The Importance of Being Earnest and Warwick in Saint Joan . In 1965 he started his own touring company, Candida Plays, based at the Theatre Royal , Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk. He was Claudius in Buzz Goodbody 's celebrated, modern-dress Hamlet for the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1975. In 1980 Baker wrote Fatal Spring ,
100-568: A television actor. He had the heroic lead in Rupert of Hentzau (1964), played security chief Thallon in Undermind (1965), and was the second (to Guy Doleman ) of many actors to portray the role of " Number Two " in the series The Prisoner , appearing in the series' first episode. He portrayed the character of George King in Dennis Potter 's The Bone Grinder (1968), a metaphor for
120-480: Is a writer; her debut novel, Testament , was inspired by her paternal grandmother's experience of the Holocaust as well as her grief over Baker's death. Sherwood was selected in 2021 to write a trilogy of James Bond books , the franchise of which Baker participated in several of its film adaptations, becoming the first woman to do so. Baker died on 7 October 2011 at the age of 80. He died of pneumonia , after
140-554: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages George Baker (British actor) George Morris Baker , MBE (1 April 1931 – 7 October 2011) was an English actor and writer. He was best known for portraying Tiberius in I, Claudius , and Inspector Wexford in The Ruth Rendell Mysteries . Baker was born in Varna , Bulgaria . His father
160-588: The murder of Liam Ashley George Fisher Baker (1840–1931), American banker and philanthropist George Percival Baker (1856–1951), British botanist, mountaineer, and textile merchant and collector George P. Baker (dean of Harvard Business School) (1903–1995), fifth dean of the Harvard Business School George P. Baker (Herman C. Krannert Professor) (fl. 1987–present), American Sir George Baker, 1st Baronet (1722–1809), British physician [REDACTED] Topics referred to by
180-600: The "Chief Beefeater", as well as in the sitcom No Job for a Lady , and he is popularly known for playing Captain Benson, the James Bond ally in the film The Spy Who Loved Me , and for playing Sir Hilary Bray, a heraldry expert, in On Her Majesty's Secret Service . Later, when Bond, played by George Lazenby , impersonates Bray to gain access to Blofeld , Baker's voice was dubbed in place of Lazenby's to provide
200-759: The Hampshire coast. He has also appeared on Lily Savage's Blankety Blank . In 2007, Baker was made a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) for his charitable work helping establish a youth club in his home village. Baker's third wife, Louie Ramsay , who died earlier in 2011, played his onscreen wife Dora in The Ruth Rendell Mysteries . Baker was survived by five daughters (four from his first marriage, one from his second to Sally Home ). His granddaughter Kim Sherwood
220-587: The Los Angeles City Council, 1931–1937 George H. Baker (1859–1928), American politician in the state of Washington George Baker (mayor) (1825–1910), British industrialist, politician and philanthropist, mayor of Birmingham George Ellis Baker (1816–1887), member of the New York State Assembly Religion [ edit ] Father Divine ( c. 1876–1965), American religious leader whose real name
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#1732772850922240-526: The accent. Baker also played an (uncredited) NASA engineer in You Only Live Twice . Ian Fleming considered Baker to be the ideal candidate to play James Bond in the films but the role went to Sean Connery because Baker had prior commitments. He played a character called "Jamus Bondus" in an episode of the 1970s farcical sitcom Up Pompeii! . Baker's first theatre work was in repertory at Deal , Kent. His major stage credits include
260-471: The book series A Song of Ice and Fire , which was later adapted into TV's Game of Thrones , has stated that the historical Tiberius and Baker's performance in particular were part of the inspiration for his character Stannis Baratheon . He also appeared in an episode of Get Some In! . In 1977, he starred as Inspector Roderick Alleyn in the Ngaio Marsh Theatre ; four adaptations of
280-411: The crime and mystery novels of Ngaio Marsh with New Zealand settings, in a production for New Zealand television. From 1987 to 2000, he played Inspector Reg Wexford in numerous television adaptations of mysteries by Ruth Rendell and this is probably the role for which he became best known. In 1993, following the death of his second wife, he married the actress Louie Ramsay, who played Mrs Wexford in
300-475: The decline of the British Empire and the rise of American power in the post-war world. He appeared in his own TV comedy series Bowler . He was also in the first episode of Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em , playing a company boss interviewing the show's hapless main character. In the acclaimed 1976 drama serial, I, Claudius , Baker played the emperor Tiberius Caesar . George R.R. Martin , author of
320-824: The lead in These Dangerous Years (1957), an attempt to make a film star of Frankie Vaughan . He was a doctor again in No Time for Tears (1957) and played a royalist swashbuckling hero of the English Civil War in The Moonraker (1958). He supported Diana Dors in Tread Softly Stranger (1958). Baker's later films included Lancelot and Guinevere (1963) and Curse of the Fly (1965). Over time, Baker became better known as
340-710: The same television series. He also appeared in The Baron , Survivors , Minder in Series 1's You Gotta Have Friends , Coronation Street (as brewery owner Cecil Newton ), in the Doctor Who story Full Circle and as twin brothers in a 2005 episode of Midsomer Murders titled "The House in the Woods". Baker also appeared in the British comedy television series The Goodies ' episode " Tower of London " as
360-406: The same term This disambiguation page lists articles about people with the same name. If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=George_Baker&oldid=1222979750 " Category : Human name disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description
380-614: Was an English businessman and honorary vice consul and his mother an Irish Red Cross nurse who moved to Bulgaria to help fight cholera . He attended Lancing College , Sussex; he then appeared as an actor in repertory theatre and at the Old Vic . Baker's first film was The Intruder (1953). He made his name in The Dam Busters (1955), and his first starring role was in The Ship That Died of Shame (1955) with Richard Attenborough . Baker also starred as
400-1458: Was possibly George Baker George Baker (bishop) ( fl. 1661–1665), Bishop of Waterford and Lismore George Baker (archdeacon of Totnes) (1687–1772), British Anglican priest George Baker (dean of Antigua) (fl. 1926–1970), Barbadian Anglican priest A. George Baker (1849–1918), American Protestant clergyman who converted to Islam Sports [ edit ] George Baker (baseball) (1857–1915), Major League Baseball player George Baker (cricketer, born 1838) (1838–1870), English cricketer, played for Kent George Baker (cricketer, born 1849) (1849–1879), English cricketer, played for Middlesex George Baker (cricketer, born 1862) (1862–1938), English cricketer, played for Yorkshire and Lancashire George Baker (New Zealand cricketer) (1895–1962), New Zealand cricketer George Baker (footballer) (1936–2024), Welsh international footballer George Baker (jockey) , English jockey George Baker (field hockey) (born 2002), field hockey player from New Zealand Others [ edit ] George Baker (judge) (1910–1984), British judge George Baker (inventor) (1844–1894), American submarine inventor George Baker (surgeon) (1540–1600), English surgeon George Baker (topographer) (1781–1851), topographer and historian of Northampton, England George Baker (geologist) (1908–1975), Australian mineralogist and academic George Charlie Baker (fl. 2006), perpetrator of
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