George Baker

ActorWriter Apr 1 (died age 80) Varna, Bulgaria 1953–2016 (63 year career)

6.3 avg rating

Biography

George Morris Baker (1 April 1931 – 7 October 2011) was an English actor and writer. He was best known for portraying Tiberius in I, Claudius, and Inspector Wexford in The Ruth Rendell Mysteries. Ian Fleming considered Baker to be the ideal candidate to play James Bond, but the role went to Sean Connery because Baker had prior commitments. Baker ended up appearing in different roles in the film series: he played Captain Benson in The Spy Who Loved Me, heraldry expert Sir Hilary Bray in On Her M…

Known For

Film

The Spy Who Loved Me

Captain Benson

Film

You Only Live Twice

NASA Engineer (uncredited)

Film

On Her Majesty's Secret Service

Sir Hilary Bray

Film

Hopscotch

Westlake

Film

The Dam Busters

Flight Lieutenant D. J. H. Maltby, D.S.O., D.F.C.

Film

North Sea Hijack

Fletcher

Film

Miss Marple: At Bertram's Hotel

Chief Inspector Fred Davy

Film

Goodbye, Mr. Chips

Lord Sutterwick

Filmography

Acting (102)

Movies (53)

Chorabali

2016

as Dr. Dasgupta

5.8

The 50 Greatest Television Dramas

2007

as Self

The Funny Blokes of British Comedy

2005

as Mr. Lewis (archive footage) (uncredited)

6.0

I, Claudius: A Television Epic

2002

as Self

7.0

Inside 'On Her Majesty's Secret Service'

2000

5.8

Back to the Secret Garden

2000

as Will Weatherstaff

6.3

Blondes: Diana Dors

1999

as self

Journey's End

as Colonel

For Queen & Country

as Kilcoyne

Coast to Coast

as Greaves

The Canterville Ghost

1986

as Uncle Hesketh

6.7

Time After Time

1986

as Valentine Swift

Bird Fancier

1985

as Albert Seers

We'll Support You Evermore

as Colonel

The Secret Adversary

as Whittington

North Sea Hijack

as Fletcher

Hopscotch

as Westlake

Doctor Who: Full Circle

1980

as Login

6.3

Print-Out

1979

as Robert Ballard

The Thirty Nine Steps

1978

as Sir Walter Bullivant

The Spy Who Loved Me

as Captain Benson

Three Piece Suite

as Brad Hunter

Intimate Games

1976

as Prof. Gottlieb

5.4

Sea Area Forties

1975

as Narrator

Chameli Memsaab

1975

as Berkeley

Three for All

1975

as Eddie Boyes

1.0

The Firefighters

1974

as Station Officer Harrison

Because of the Cats

as Boersma

A Warm December

as Dr. Henry Barlow

The Executioner

as Philip Crawford

On Her Majesty's Secret Service

as Sir Hilary Bray

Goodbye, Mr. Chips

as Lord Sutterwick

Justine

as British Ambassador David Mountolive

4.0

The Bone Grinder

1968

as George King

Mrs. Capper's Birthday

1968

as Kenny Blake

You Only Live Twice

1967

as NASA Engineer (uncredited)

Mister Ten Per Cent

as Lord Edward

Love Life

as Theodore Quill

Curse of the Fly

1965

as Martin Delambre

5.4

Alice

1965

as Rev. Charles Dodgson

5.0

The Finest Hours

1964

as Lord Randolph (voice)

Sword of Lancelot

as Sir Gawaine

The Moonraker

as Anthony, Earl of Dawlish/The Moonraker

6.8

Tread Softly Stranger

1958

as Johnny Mansell

7.6

These Dangerous Years

as Padre

No Time for Tears

as Dr. Nigel Barnes

A Hill in Korea

as Lt. Butler

The Feminine Touch

as Dr Jim Alcott

The Extra Day

as Steven Marlow

The Woman for Joe

as Joe Harrop

The Dam Busters

as Flight Lieutenant D. J. H. Maltby, D.S.O., D.F.C.

6.9

The Ship That Died of Shame

as Bill Randall

The Intruder

as Adjutant

Television (49)

New Tricks

Spooks

as Hugo Ross

Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased)

Midsomer Murders

as Charlie

Johnny and the Dead

as Alderman

Little Lord Fauntleroy

1995

as The Earl of Dorincourt

Heartbeat

as Maurice Dodson

No Job for a Lady

as Godfrey Eagan

The Ruth Rendell Mysteries

1987

as Det. Chief Insp. Reg Wexford

6.3

Miss Marple: At Bertram's Hotel

1987

as Chief Inspector Fred Davy

The Charmer

Dead Head

as Eldridge

Room at the Bottom

A Woman of Substance

as Bruce McGill

Screen Two

as Greaves

Robin of Sherwood

as Sir Richard of Leaford

7.6

Agatha Christie's Partners in Crime

as Whittington

Q.E.D.

Bergerac

as Higgins

The Chinese Detective

Triangle

as David West

The Gentle Touch

Lady Killers

as Sir Terence O'Connor, Q.C.

Hart to Hart

Minder

as Altman

I, Claudius

as Tiberius

Survivors

as Arthur Wormley

Zodiac

as Mark Braun

Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em

Bowler

as Bowler

Bowler

The Protectors

as George Dixon

The Persuaders!

as Britten

Doomwatch

as John Mitchell

The Goodies

The Main Chance

as Major Donovan

Up Pompeii!

as Jamus Bondus

The Prisoner

as The New Number Two

7.7

BBC Play of the Month

as Rev. Morell

Gideon's Way

as Bailey

Londoners

as Bruce

The Wednesday Play

as Vera

Theatre 625

as Edward Jackson

Curtain of Fear

Doctor Who

as Login

Zero One

Drama 61-67

as Peter Evett

Maigret

Armchair Theatre

as Mike

Crew (2)

Movies (2)

From Doon with Death

1991

Writer

Imaginary Friends

1982

Writer

6.0