Fred Baker
Acting
Biography
Fred Baker was an American filmmaker , director , screenwriter , film producer, actor and jazz musician .
Born: July 26, 1932
Place of Birth: Los Angeles, California, USA
Known For
Dawn of the Dead
During an ever-growing epidemic of zombies that have risen from the dead, two Philadelphia SWAT team members, a traffic reporter, and his television-executive girlfriend seek refuge in a secluded shopping mall.
Affair in Trinidad
A nightclub singer enlists her brother-in-law to track down her husband's killer.
Working Girls
A lesbian college graduate, trying to bankroll her own photography business, works as a high-priced New York City escort.
Doorway to Suspicion
American band-leader in Germany marries girl working for "The Party". She is kidnapped into Eastern Zone, but in return the band-leader kidnaps the girlfriend of a Russian General.
Lenny Bruce: Without Tears
The outrageous, groundbreaking comic Lenny Bruce, whose iconoclastic material in a conservative era got him into tragic trouble, is profiled by a close friend, Fred Baker, who prefers to remember the laughs Lenny Bruce's memory evokes instead of the tears. By presenting Bruce's landmark skits on the Steve Allen Show, his failed TV pilot episode and a candid interview with Nat Hentoff, Bruce's genius and anguish show through the dramatic and tragic trajectory of his career from aspiring artist to hunted "lawbreaker".
Fred Baker - filmmaker
The house he lived In: A conversation with Fred Baker (1932-2011) filmmaker , director , screenwriter , film producer, actor and jazz musician. A shining example of America's bohemian underground that has been around since the days of Walt Whitman. A sensualist. His favorite topics are sex, art, food and politics. To the rhythm of New York and Lenny Bruce.
Filmography
as Druggist
as Police Commander
as Narrator (voice)
as Chippy
as Baker, Airport Clerk (uncredited)