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George Baker (British actor) (George Morris Baker) was born on 1 April, 1931 in Varna, Bulgaria, is an English actor and writer (1931-2011). Discover George Baker (British actor)'s Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 80 years old?

Popular As George Morris Baker
Occupation Actor, writer
Age 80 years old
Zodiac Sign Aries
Born 1 April 1931
Birthday 1 April
Birthplace Varna, Bulgaria
Date of death 7 October, 2011
Died Place West Lavington, Wiltshire, England
Nationality Bulgaria

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Who Is George Baker (British actor)'s Wife?

His wife is Julia Squire (m. 1950–1974, divorced, died 1989) Sally Home (m. 1974–1992, her death) Louie Ramsay (m. 1993–2011, her death)

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Wife Julia Squire (m. 1950–1974, divorced, died 1989) Sally Home (m. 1974–1992, her death) Louie Ramsay (m. 1993–2011, her death)
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Children 5 daughters

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1931

George Morris Baker, MBE (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.

Baker was born in Varna, Bulgaria.

His father was an English businessman and honorary vice consul and his mother an Irish Red Cross nurse who moved to Bulgaria to help fight cholera.

He attended Lancing College, Sussex; he then appeared as an actor in repertory theatre and at the Old Vic.

1953

Baker's first film was The Intruder (1953).

1955

He made his name in The Dam Busters (1955), and his first starring role was in The Ship That Died of Shame (1955) with Richard Attenborough.

Baker also starred as a leading man in The Woman for Joe (1955) opposite Diane Cilento; The Feminine Touch (1956), playing a handsome doctor in a nurse film; A Hill in Korea (1956), playing a heroic soldier, with Robert Shaw and Stanley Baker in support; and The Extra Day (1956), a comedy.

1957

Baker was also the lead in These Dangerous Years (1957), an attempt to make a film star of Frankie Vaughan.

He was a doctor again in No Time for Tears (1957) and played a royalist swashbuckling hero of the English Civil War in The Moonraker (1958).

1958

He supported Diana Dors in Tread Softly Stranger (1958).

1959

His major stage credits include a season with the Old Vic company (1959–61), where he played Bolingbroke in Richard II, Jack in The Importance of Being Earnest and Warwick in Saint Joan.

1963

Baker's later films included Lancelot and Guinevere (1963) and Curse of the Fly (1965).

Over time, Baker became better known as a television actor.

1964

He had the heroic lead in Rupert of Hentzau (1964), played security chief Thallon in Undermind (1965), and was the second (to Guy Doleman) of many actors to portray the role of "Number Two" in the series The Prisoner, appearing in the series' first episode.

1965

In 1965 he started his own touring company, Candida Plays, based at the Theatre Royal, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk.

1968

He portrayed the character of George King in Dennis Potter's The Bone Grinder (1968), a metaphor for the decline of the British Empire and the rise of American power in the post-war world.

He appeared in his own TV comedy series Bowler.

He was also in the first episode of Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em, playing a company boss interviewing the show's hapless main character.

1970

He played a character called "Jamus Bondus" in an episode of the 1970's farcical sitcom Up Pompeii!.

Baker's first theatre work was in repertory at Deal, Kent.

1975

He was Claudius in Buzz Goodbody's celebrated, modern-dress Hamlet for the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1975.

1976

In the acclaimed 1976 drama serial, I, Claudius, Baker played the emperor Tiberius Caesar.

George R.R. Martin, author of the book series A Song of Ice and Fire, which was later adapted into TV's Game of Thrones, has stated that the historical Tiberius and Baker's performance in particular were part of the inspiration for his character Stannis Baratheon.

He also appeared in an episode of Get Some In!.

1977

In 1977, he starred as Inspector Roderick Alleyn in the Ngaio Marsh Theatre; four adaptations of the crime and mystery novels of Ngaio Marsh with New Zealand settings, in a production for New Zealand television.

1980

In 1980 Baker wrote Fatal Spring, a play for television dealing with lives of poets Wilfred Owen, Siegfried Sassoon and Robert Graves; this appeared on BBC 2 on 7 November 1980.

It won him a United Nations peace award.

His other writing credits included four of the Wexford screenplays.

1987

From 1987 to 2000, he played Inspector Reg Wexford in numerous television adaptations of mysteries by Ruth Rendell and this is probably the role for which he became best known.

1993

In 1993, following the death of his second wife, he married the actress Louie Ramsay, who played Mrs Wexford in the same television series.

1995

Baker was the subject of This Is Your Life in 1995 when he was surprised by Michael Aspel during a photo shoot on board a boat at Port Solent on the Hampshire coast.

He has also appeared on Lily Savage's Blankety Blank.

2005

He also appeared in The Baron, Survivors, Minder in Series 1's You Gotta Have Friends, Coronation Street (as brewery owner Cecil Newton), in the Doctor Who story Full Circle and as twin brothers in a 2005 episode of Midsomer Murders titled "The House in the Woods".

Baker also appeared in the British comedy television series The Goodies ' episode "Tower of London" as the "Chief Beefeater", as well as in the sitcom No Job for a Lady, and he is popularly known for playing Captain Benson, the James Bond ally in the film The Spy Who Loved Me, and for playing Sir Hilary Bray, a heraldry expert, in On Her Majesty's Secret Service.

Later, when Bond, played by George Lazenby, impersonates Bray to gain access to Blofeld, Baker's voice was dubbed in place of Lazenby's to provide the accent.

Baker also played an (uncredited) NASA engineer in You Only Live Twice.

Ian Fleming considered Baker to be the ideal candidate to play James Bond in the films but the role went to Sean Connery because Baker had prior commitments.

2007

In 2007, Baker was made a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) for his charitable work helping establish a youth club in his home village.

2011

Baker's third wife, Louie Ramsay, who died earlier in 2011, played his onscreen wife Dora in The Ruth Rendell Mysteries.