Frank Baker

Actor

October 10, 1892 (88 years)

† December 30, 1980

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Biography

No biography available.

Filmography

8.1

Columbo

Theatre Patron (uncredited)

Columbo is a friendly, verbose, disheveled-looking police detective who is consistently underestimated by his suspects. Despite his unprepossessing appearance and apparent absentmindedness, he shrewdly solves all of his cases and secures all evidence needed for indictment. His formidable eye for detail and meticulously dedicated approach often become clear to the killer only late in the storyline.

7.9

Get Smart

Gambler (uncredited)

Get Smart is an American comedy television series that satirizes the secret agent genre. Created by Mel Brooks with Buck Henry, the show stars Don Adams, Barbara Feldon, and Edward Platt. Henry said they created the show by request of Daniel Melnick, who was a partner, along with Leonard Stern and David Susskind, of the show's production company, Talent Associates, to capitalize on "the two biggest things in the entertainment world today"—James Bond and Inspector Clouseau. Brooks said: "It's an insane combination of James Bond and Mel Brooks comedy." This is the only Mel Brooks production to feature a laugh track. The success of the show eventually spawned the follow-up films The Nude Bomb and Get Smart, Again!, as well as a 1995 revival series and a 2008 film remake. In 2010, TV Guide ranked Get Smart's opening title sequence at No. 2 on its list of TV's Top 10 Credits Sequences, as selected by readers.

8.5

The Twilight Zone

Hotel Guest

An anthology series containing drama, psychological thriller, fantasy, science fiction, suspense, and/or horror, often concluding with a macabre or unexpected twist.

7.2

Theatre 625

Norman

Theatre 625 is a British television drama anthology series, produced by the BBC and transmitted on BBC2 from 1964 to 1968. It was one of the first regular programmes in the line-up of the channel, and the title referred to its production and transmission being in the higher-definition 625-line format, which only BBC2 used at the time.

7.7

The Sound of Music

Party Guest (uncredited)

In the years before World War II, a tomboyish postulant at an Austrian abbey is hired as a governess in the home of a widowed naval captain with seven children and brings a new love of life and music into the home.

7.6

The Graduate

Hotel Guest (uncredited)

A disillusioned college graduate finds himself torn between his older lover and her daughter.

6.6

Sex and the Single Girl

Pretzel Vendor (uncredited)

A womanizing reporter for a sleazy tabloid magazine impersonates his hen-pecked neighbor in order to get an expose on renowned psychologist Helen Gurley Brown.

5.3

The Baroness and the Butler

Member of Parliament

A Butler gets elected to the Hungarian parliament where he opposes his master's government.

8.1

All About Eve

Waiter (uncredited)

From the moment she glimpses her idol at the stage door, Eve Harrington is determined to take the reins of power away from the great actress Margo Channing. Eve maneuvers her way into Margo's Broadway role, becomes a sensation and even causes turmoil in the lives of Margo's director boyfriend, her playwright and his wife. Only the cynical drama critic sees through Eve, admiring her audacity and perfect pattern of deceit.

7.5

My Fair Lady

Gentleman (uncredited)

A snobbish phonetics professor agrees to a wager that he can take a flower girl and make her presentable in high society.

8.0

Judgment at Nuremberg

Courtroom Spectator (uncredited)

In 1947, four German judges who served on the bench during the Nazi regime face a military tribunal to answer charges of crimes against humanity. Chief Justice Haywood hears evidence and testimony not only from lead defendant Ernst Janning and his defense attorney Hans Rolfe, but also from the widow of a Nazi general, an idealistic U.S. Army captain and reluctant witness Irene Wallner.

7.4

The Man Who Knew Too Much

Royal Albert Hall Attendee (uncredited)

An American doctor and his wife, a former singing star, witness a murder while vacationing in Morocco, and are drawn into a twisting plot of international intrigue when their young son is kidnapped.

7.5

East of Eden

Townsman (uncredited)

In the Salinas Valley in and around World War I, Cal Trask feels he must compete against overwhelming odds with his brother for the love of their father. Cal is frustrated at every turn, from his reaction to the war, how to get ahead in business and in life, and how to relate to his estranged mother.

6.7

Around the World in 80 Days

(uncredited)

Based on the famous book by Jules Verne the movie follows Phileas Fogg on his journey around the world. Which has to be completed within 80 days, a very short period for those days.

7.8

The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance

Gambler (uncredited)

Questions arise when Senator Stoddard attends the funeral of a local man named Tom Doniphon in a small Western town. Flashing back, we learn Doniphon saved Stoddard, then a lawyer, when he was roughed up by a crew of outlaws terrorizing the town, led by Liberty Valance. As the territory's safety hung in the balance, Doniphon and Stoddard, two of the only people standing up to him, proved to be very important, but different, foes to Valance.

6.2

Doctor Dolittle

Trial Spectator (uncredited)

A veterinarian who can communicate with animals travels abroad to search for a giant sea snail.

7.5

Gaslight

Pedestrian (uncredited)

A newlywed fears she's going mad when strange things start happening at the family mansion.

7.0

Hello, Dolly!

Restaurant Patron (uncredited)

Dolly Levi is a strong-willed matchmaker who travels to Yonkers, New York in order to see the miserly "well-known unmarried half-a-millionaire" Horace Vandergelder. In doing so, she convinces his niece, his niece's intended, and Horace's two clerks to travel to New York City.

7.6

Stagecoach

Bit Part (uncredited)

A group of people traveling on a stagecoach find their journey complicated by the threat of Geronimo, and learn something about each other in the process.

7.3

The Quiet Man

Man in Bar (uncredited)

An American man returns to the village of his birth in Ireland, where he finds love and conflict.