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Art Baker is a Actor American born on 7 january 1898 at New York City (USA)
Art Baker (born Arthur Shank; January 7, 1898 – August 26, 1966) was an American film, television and radio actor of the 1930s, 1940s, 1950s and 1960s.
Born in New York City, he was best known for his radio and television work, which began in the mid-1930s. On September 8, 1938, he began "Art Baker's Notebook" on Los Angeles' KFI radio station, which lasted for two decades. The program was syndicated to other stations via electrical transcription.
Baker appeared in over forty films including:
Spellbound (1945)
The Farmer's Daughter (1947)
A Southern Yankee (1948)
State of the Union (1948)
Any Number Can Play (1949)
Illegal Entry (1949)
Take One False Step (1949)
The Underworld Story (1950)
His tall, slim frame, snow white hair, smooth slightly nasal voice and genial nature made him a natural choice to play business executives, doctors, and senators in film. Baker grew up in New York and, after working at a number of different jobs, eventually became an actor.
He had four children, Virginia, who died of TB, Arthur (Bart), Robert and Dorothy, all by his first wife. The family lived in Iowa.
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Birth name Arthur Shank
Nationality USA
Birth 7 january 1898 at New York City (USA)
Death 26 august 1966 (at 68 years) at Los Angeles (USA)
Nationality USA
Birth 7 january 1898 at New York City (USA)
Death 26 august 1966 (at 68 years) at Los Angeles (USA)
Born in New York City, he was best known for his radio and television work, which began in the mid-1930s. On September 8, 1938, he began "Art Baker's Notebook" on Los Angeles' KFI radio station, which lasted for two decades. The program was syndicated to other stations via electrical transcription.
Baker appeared in over forty films including:
Spellbound (1945)
The Farmer's Daughter (1947)
A Southern Yankee (1948)
State of the Union (1948)
Any Number Can Play (1949)
Illegal Entry (1949)
Take One False Step (1949)
The Underworld Story (1950)
His tall, slim frame, snow white hair, smooth slightly nasal voice and genial nature made him a natural choice to play business executives, doctors, and senators in film. Baker grew up in New York and, after working at a number of different jobs, eventually became an actor.
He had four children, Virginia, who died of TB, Arthur (Bart), Robert and Dorothy, all by his first wife. The family lived in Iowa.
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The Wild Angels (1966)
, 1h33Directed by Roger Corman
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action
Themes Transport films, Films about automobiles, Motocyclette, Road movies
Actors Peter Fonda, Nancy Sinatra, Bruce Dern, Diane Ladd, Norman Alden, Michael J. Pollard
Roles Thomas - Mortician
Rating56%
In between sprees featuring drugs, fights, sexual assault, loud revving Harley chopper engines and bongo drums, the Angels ride out to Mecca, California in the desert to look for the Loser's stolen motorcycle. They blame a group of Mexicans in a repair shop, and the two groups brawl. The police arrive, chasing the Angels on foot, and the Loser escapes by stealing a police motorcycle. After a chase on mountain roads, one of the officers shoots the Loser in the back, putting him in the hospital.
Young Dillinger (1965)
, 1h42Origin USA
Genres Drama, Crime
Themes Gangster films
Actors John Ashley, Nick Adams, Robert Conrad, Mary Ann Mobley, Victor Buono, John Hoyt
Roles Warden
Rating53%
With help from Elaine, his girlfriend, young John Dillinger breaks into her father's safe. They are caught, but Dillinger takes the rap by himself.
Swingin' Along (1961)
Directed by Charles Barton
Genres Comedy
Actors Tommy Noonan, Peter Marshall, Barbara Eden, Ted Knight, Connie Gilchrist, Carol Christensen
Rating48%
Freddy Merkle never finishes anything. He has a half-done painting, half a sculpture and a sonata he's been composing for quite a while. His girlfriend Ginny encourages him to finish something he starts, but Freddy, a delivery boy, never quite gets around to it.
, 1h40Directed by Irwin Allen
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Adventure
Themes La fin du monde, Seafaring films, Transport films, Underwater action films, Submarine films, Children's films, Arme nucléaire, Disaster films, American disaster films, Films about seafaring accidents or incidents
Actors Walter Pidgeon, Joan Fontaine, Barbara Eden, Peter Lorre, Robert Sterling, Michael Ansara
Roles UN Commentator (Uncredited)
Rating59%
The new, state of the art nuclear submarine Seaview is on diving trials in the Arctic Ocean. The Seaview is designed and built by scientist and engineering genius Admiral Harriman Nelson (USN-Ret) (Walter Pidgeon). Captain Lee Crane (Robert Sterling) is the Seaview's Commanding Officer. One of the on-board observers is Dr. Susan Hiller (Joan Fontaine), studying crew-related stress. The mission includes being out of radio contact for 96 hours while under the Arctic ice cap, but the ice begins to crack and melt, with boulder-size pieces crashing into the ocean around the submarine. Surfacing, they discover fire burning in the sky. After the rescue of a scientist and his dog at Ice Floe Delta, Miguel Alvarez (Michael Ansara), the sub receives radio contact from Mission Director Inspector Bergan at the Bureau of Marine Exploration. He advises that a meteor shower pierced the Van Allen radiation belt causing it to catch fire, resulting in a world-threatening increase in heat all across the Earth. Nelson's on-board friend and scientist, retired Commodore Lucius Emery (Peter Lorre) concurs that it is possible. Bergan informs Nelson that the President wants him at a UN Emergency Scientific Meeting as soon as possible.
Twelve Hours to Kill (1960)
, 1h23Directed by Edward L. Cahn
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Crime
Actors Barbara Eden, Russ Conway, Grant Richards, Art Baker, Gavin MacLeod, Kitty Kelly
Roles Capt. Johns
Rating56%
Martin Filones (Nico Minardos). a young Greek man, witnesses the murder of gangster Frankie Russo, and is ushered off into the relative "safety" of suburban obscurity by Lt. Jim Carnevan (Grant Richards), unaware that he is being double-crossed by a crooked gendarme. Barbara Eden plays the femme fatale of the story.
Artists and Models (1955)
, 1h42Directed by Frank Tashlin
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Musical theatre, Musical
Themes La bande dessinée, Spy films, Films about music and musicians, Musical films, Political films
Actors Dean Martin, Jerry Lewis, Dorothy Malone, Shirley MacLaine, Eva Gabor, Anita Ekberg
Roles TV Commentator (uncredited)
Rating65%
Rick Todd (Dean Martin) is a struggling painter and smooth-talking ladies' man. His goofy young roommate Eugene Fullstack (Jerry Lewis) is an aspiring children's author who has a passion for comic books, especially those of the mysterious and sexy "Bat Lady."
Living It Up (1954)
, 1h35Directed by Norman Taurog
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Musical
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films, Films based on plays, Films based on musicals
Actors Dean Martin, Jerry Lewis, Janet Leigh, Edward Arnold, Sheree North, Fred Clark
Roles le présentateur radio
Rating64%
Homer Flagg is a railroad worker in the small town of Desert Hole, New Mexico. His big dream in life is to visit New York City while he is young.
Only the Valiant (1951)
, 1h45Directed by Gordon Douglas
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action, Adventure, Western
Actors Gregory Peck, Barbara Payton, Ward Bond, Gig Young, Lon Chaney, Jr., Neville Brand
Roles Capt. Jennings
Rating64%
Gregory Peck, in a role he considered a low-point of his career, plays Captain Richard Lance, a by-the-book West Point graduate who is not very popular with the men under his command.
Cause for Alarm! (1951)
, 1h14Directed by Tay Garnett
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Noir, Crime
Actors Loretta Young, Barry Sullivan, Bruce Cowling, Margalo Gillmore, Irving Bacon, Georgia Backus
Roles Superintendent
Rating63%
A flashback shows how Ellen met George in a naval hospital during World War II while she was dating his friend, Lieutenant Ranney Grahame (Bruce Cowling), a young military doctor whose busy schedule left little time for her. George was a pilot and Ellen swiftly fell in love with him, although the flashback strongly hints he had some capacity for arrogance and selfishness. Nevertheless, they soon married and after the war wound up in a leafy suburban Los Angeles neighborhood.
Belle Le Grand (1951)
, 1h35Directed by Allan Dwan
Origin USA
Genres Western
Actors John Carroll, Vera Ralston, William Ching, Hope Emerson, Grant Withers, John Qualen
Rating60%
Un propriétaire de mines d'or dans le Montana hésite entre deux sœurs, une chanteuse classique et une tenancière d'une maison de jeu, Belle Le Grand, tout juste sortie de prison après avoir été emprisonnée à la place de son mari.
The Underworld Story (1950)
, 1h31Directed by Cy Endfield
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Noir, Crime
Themes Films about writers, Films about journalists
Actors Dan Duryea, Herbert Marshall, Gale Storm, Howard Da Silva, Michael O'Shea, Mary Anderson
Roles Lieutenant Tilton
Rating69%
When newspaper reporter Mike Reese (Duryea) loses his job at a big city paper he finds that no one else will hire him. Reese borrows money from a gangster and buys half the interest in a small-town newspaper, The Lakewood Gazette, in the town of Lakeville. The newspaper is owned by Catherine Harris (Storm), who immediately has differences with Reese on how the paper should operate. Reese, trying to use the paper as a step up, latches onto a murder of a woman who happens to be the daughter-in-law of a newspaper magnate. When a local black woman is suspected, Reese turns the story into a media circus and soon his reporting is back in the spotlight again. The film is notable for the pejorative use of the word "nigger", though this is clearly dubbed, not what was originally filmed.
Easy Living (1949)
, 1h17Directed by Jacques Tourneur
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Sports films, American football films
Actors Victor Mature, Lucille Ball, Lizabeth Scott, Sonny Tufts, Lloyd Nolan, Paul Stewart
Roles Howard Vollmer
Rating62%
Star professional quarterback Pete Wilson (Victor Mature) thinks nothing of his future after football, not even after longtime teammate Bill "Holly" Holloran (Gordon Jones) is released by the team. Pete gets advance after advance on his salary from Anne (Lucille Ball), the secretary of team owner and coach Lenahan (Lloyd Nolan).
Task Force (1949)
, 1h56Directed by Delmer Daves
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Noir, Romance
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films, Aviation films, Political films, United States Armed Forces in films
Actors Gary Cooper, Jane Wyatt, Wayne Morris, Walter Brennan, Julie London, Bruce Bennett
Roles Sen. Vincent
Rating65%
As a 1917 graduate of the Naval Academy, Naval Aviator Jonathan L. "Scotty" Scott (Gary Cooper) spends 28 years, from 1921 to 1949, promoting U.S. Naval Aviation and the power of the aircraft carrier. During that period, he antagonizes powerful people in the U.S. Navy and the U.S. Congress, and marries Mary Morgan (Jane Wyatt), the widow of a fellow flier who died in a crash during a carrier takeoff aboard the USS Langley. Throughout, Scott has the help and friendship of his mentor and superior officer, Pete Richard (Walter Brennan).
Impact (1949)
, 1h51Directed by Arthur Lubin
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Noir, Crime
Actors Brian Donlevy, Ella Raines, Charles Coburn, Helen Walker, Mae Marsh, Robert Warwick
Roles Defense Attorney
Rating69%
Millionaire industrialist Walter Williams (Brian Donlevy) has a young wife, Irene (Helen Walker), who is trying to kill him with the help of her young lover, Jim Torrance (Tony Barrett). The plan falls apart when Williams survives a hit on the head from the would-be killer. Attempting to flee the scene in Williams' Packard Clipper convertible, Torrance dies in a fiery head-on collision. The body is mistakenly identified as Williams.
Take One False Step (1949)
, 1h34Directed by Chester Erskine
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime
Actors William Powell, Shelley Winters, Marsha Hunt, Dorothy Hart, James Gleason, Felix Bressart
Roles Henry Pritchard
Rating63%
A married college professor agrees to have a drink with an old girlfriend; the next day he's being hunted for her murder.