Lenny Baker
Acting
Biography
Leonard Joel "Lenny" Baker (January 17, 1945 – April 12, 1982) was an American actor. He won the 1977 Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a Musical for the musical I Love My Wife, and was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for his role in Next Stop, Greenwich Village (1976).
Born: January 17, 1945
Place of Birth: Brookline, Massachusetts, U.S.
Known For
Taxi
Louie De Palma is a cantankerous, acerbic taxi dispatcher in New York City. He tries to maintain order over a collection of varied and strange characters who drive for him. As he bullies and insults them from the safety of his “cage,” they form a special bond among themselves, becoming friends and supporting each other through the inevitable trials and tribulations of life.
Kojak
A bald, lollipop sucking police detective with a fiery righteous attitude battles crime in New York City.
The Paper Chase
A first-year law student struggles with balancing his coursework and his relationship with the daughter of a stern professor.
The Hospital
Dr. Bock, the chief of medicine at a Manhattan hospital, is suicidal after the collapse of his personal life. When an intern is found dead in a hospital bed, it appears to Bock to be a case of unforgivable malpractice. Hours later, another doctor, who happens to be responsible for another case of malpractice, is found dead. Despondent, Bock finds himself drawn to Barbara, the daughter of a comatose missionary.
Next Stop, Greenwich Village
An aspiring Jewish actor moves out of his parents' Brooklyn apartment to seek his fortune in the bohemian life of Greenwich Village in 1953.
Great Performances
The best in the performing arts from across America and around the world including a diverse programming portfolio of classical music, opera, popular song, musical theater, dance, drama, and performance documentaries.
Pueblo
Dramatization showing the 1968 seizure of the spy ship, Pueblo, by the North Koreans and the treatment of the Pueblo's crew during their year of captivity through flashbacks during the 1969 investigation of the affair.
Malatesta’s Carnival of Blood
After a young man goes missing at a run-down local amusement park, his family take jobs there in an effort to uncover what happened to him and, in the process, meet a cadre of unsettling characters.
Secret Service
Set in Richmond, Virginia in October 1864, tells the story of a Union spy working to seize control of the telegraph office.
AWOL
In Sweden, young US soldier, Willy, goes a.w.o.l and teams up with other deserters in Stockholm. There, he meets leftist radical beauty, Inga, who tries to seduce him into joining her extremist group's cause.
Filmography
as Baschi
as Henry Dumont
as Larry Lapinsky
as Joyce
as William Moss
as Sonja
as Ens. T.L. Harris
as Sidney
as Dr. Schaefer
as Henry Dumont