George Baker

[billy farmer]

A photograph of George Baker with his third wife Louie Ramsay (who played his on-screen wife Dora Wexford in The Ruth Rendell Mysteries).



R.I.P. George Baker, you were a wonderful Actor and a great human being.

I hope that George and Louie are now reunited.

[Elaine]

What a lovely photo billy, let's hope you are right. They were both very nice people

[billy farmer]

Another wonderful photograph of George Baker with his third wife Louie Ramsay.

[billy farmer]

A TV Times listing from May 13th 1968.






A picture of George Baker as George King in the
ITV Playhouse episode The Bonegrinder, from page
10 of the same issue of TV Times as the above
listing (May 11th - 17th 1968)


Some interesting information about the ITV
Playhouse episode The Bonegrinder, from the
same page of TV Times as the above picture

[cornershop15]

Thanks for posting those TVTimes extracts, billy. Interesting to see Liz Gebhardt (Maureen in Please Sir!) among the names. Of course, we also lost Margaret Tyzack a few months ago, and Diane Cilento the day before George. This is all too much. On the bright side, I'm sure he'll be reunited with them and other co-stars in Heaven, along with his wives. I believe that's at least three stars who have died shortly after their spouses this year - Henry Cooper, Flick Colby and now George Baker. Being a romantic, I am kind of happy for all of them.

My favourite capture of George (so far). As Frank Ashton in The Baron episode So Dark the Night (filmed June 1966):

More from this episode in post #21, by threadstarter billy farmer.

I really liked his performance as Tiberius in I Claudius and, for once, am old enough to remember the original broadcast, though I haven't seen the programme since it was repeated in 1985/86. I'll have to buy the DVD while it's still under £15 at Amazon. Among George's more obscure credits are two series from 1964: Rupert of Hentzau, a sequel to The Prisoner of Zenda, and Curtain of Fear (would that be 'The Iron Curtain'?). Sadly, both shows have all six episodes missing from the BBC archives. I wish I was as optimistic about seeing them in Heaven.

R,I.P., George

[Dame Starry]

Another wonderful photograph of George Baker with his third wife Louie Ramsay.

What a beautiful photo, billy!
I met Louie in the 60s with her, then, husband Ronan O'Casey. I was very young and they were both really lovely to me.

[billy farmer]

An interview with George Baker, the embedding for the YouTube Video below was disabled by request but you can watch the interview with George Baker on YouTube (George Baker was actually born in 1931).

[billy farmer]

A photograph of George Baker with Sharon Maughan (who played Imogen Ide in the Inspector Wexford story A New Lease Of Death which was shown in 1991).



George Baker Actor who made Ruth Rendell's Inspector Wexford famous on Television with Actress Sharon Maughan, dated 1991.

[billy farmer]

Here are some pictures from the Super Sleuths episode which was about Inspector Wexford, this episode of Super Sleuths was first shown on ITV3 on October 24th 2006.



Here is a link to the Inspector Wexford Tabard Road site where you can listen to an audio clip from the Super Sleuths episode which was about Inspector Wexford - Super Sleuths | 2006 | Archive | Inspector Wexford | Tabard Road

Here is another link to the Inspector Wexford Tabard Road site where you can listen to some audio clips featuring George Baker talking about his favourite Inspector Wexford stories - Wexford and Me | Inspector Wexford | Tabard Road

[billy farmer]

[billy farmer]

A very interesting TV Times article (featuring a wonderful photograph of George Baker with his second wife Sally Home) from the September 17th - 23rd 1988 issue of TV Times.

[billy farmer]

A wonderful tribute to George Baker.

West Lavington club honours George Baker (From The Wiltshire Gazette and Herald)

[Elaine]

What a great tribute to a great human being, George Baker. I have always liked George, and after reading his autobiography admired him further. He was someone who quietly got on with being a throughly nice fellow, while being one of our best actors in this country of very good actors. Shame he didn't get to be knighted.

[billy farmer]

A wonderful tribute to George Baker.

West Lavington club honours George Baker (From The Wiltshire Gazette and Herald)

Lavington youth club honour for TV actor George Baker (From The Wiltshire Gazette and Herald)

[billy farmer]

The front cover of the September 14th - 20th 1958 issue of TV Times featuring George Baker and Susan Stephen (two of the stars of the Armchair Theatre episode The Pillars of Midnight) as Dr Stephen Monks and Julie Monks.

[Gerald Lovell]

Interesting post, thank you, billy. "The Pillars of Midnight" was subsequently made into a film I watched not long ago made by Val Guest called 80,000 Suspects with Richard Johnson and Claire Bloom in those roles.

[Elaine]

Just looking through these photo's of George Baker makes me feel good, he had such a lovely smile he makes me want to.

[billy farmer]

An Associated British press photo still (from 1958) featuring George Baker, Sylvia Syms and Peter Arne in the popular Technicolor Swashbuckler The Moonraker (filmed 1957 - released 1958).

[billy farmer]

I am now reading The Way to Wexford and cannot put it down. George Baker seemed to me more of a theatre actor than a film star, and reading his book confims this. A great guy

I ordered a copy of The Way To Wexford (George Baker's Autobiography) yesterday, i am looking forward to reading about George Baker (one of my all time favourite Actors) when i receive the Book through the post.

[billy farmer]

BELOW: Here is George Baker (centre) in another of his early roles under his Associated British contract, again with Sylvia Syms in a Front-of-House still from No Time For Tears, released in 1957 and a drama set in a children's hospital. That's George Rose on the left as the hospital porter; the little girl is Carla Challoner and for years, the twin little boys were billed as being The Boulting Twins, but IMDb now says they were The Blake Twins (whoever they were). I don't know the name of the actress on the right. No Time For Tears was filmed in CinemaScope and Eastman Colour at Elstree Studios.

There are 2 copies (from different sellers) of No Time For Tears currently available for sale on ioffer, i can't remember ever having seen No Time For Tears, have any Brit Movie Members ever seen the film.