Thomas Baptiste

Thomas Baptiste

Birth : 1929-03-17, Georgetown, British Guiana

Death : 2018-12-06

History

Thomas Baptiste was born on March 17, 1929 in Georgetown, British Guiana. He was an actor, known for The Wild Geese (1978), The Ipcress File (1965) and for playing Coronation Street's first black character. He died on December 6, 2018 in Brighton & Hove, East Sussex, England.

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Thomas Baptiste

Movies

The Secret Laughter of Women
Papa Fola
Oscar-winner Colin Firth stars in this heart-warming cross-cultural romantic comedy set in the idyllic South of France. Nimi, a beautiful Nigerian single mother to son Sammy, is under pressure from her family to find a suitable husband and who better than the local Reverend? After making friends with Matthew, a British comic-book writer and one of his heros, Sammy has other ideas. He successfully plots to get them together but they've still a few obsticles to overcome. (from Amazon)
The Attendant
The Attendant
Memory mixes with desire as a museum attendant is caught up in sado-masochistic fantasies inspired by a 19th century painting of slaves in chains called Scene on the coast of Africa. The man remembers his past as a singer and delivers Dido's lament from Purcell's opera.
Black and White in Colour
Himself
A two part documentary that details the contribution of black and Asian people to television history from the birth of television in 1936 to 1992. Interviewees include: Pearl Connor, Thomas Baptiste, Lenny Henry, Norman Beaton, Horace Ové, Carmen Munroe, and Stuart Hall.
Ama
Babs
A golden floppy disk becomes a prophetic device through which a young Ghanaian girl living in England, Ama, rediscovers her African identity. She learns its contents at the office where her mother cleans. The disk, through magic realism and by way of ancestors, warns her of the dangers of forgetting one's heritage.
Escape From Kampala
Minawa
The true story of a daring prison break. Wycliffe Kato, Director of Civil Aviation in Idi Amin's Uganda was at the airport to catch a flight to Canada for a conference when he was arrested by Amin's secret police, members of the notorious Sate Research Bureau, and thrown into the Nakasero prison. This should have meant certain death, but, along with his cell mates, army officers who had come under suspicion of organizing a coup, he escaped and made it on foot to Nairobi. This TV movie is based on Wycliffe Kato's own account in his book "Escape From Idi Amin's Slaughterhouse".
Drums Along Balmoral Drive
Badinga
'I don't think at first I thought at all. I had a nice house, lovely kids. I didn't think about blacks at all. I should've done, but I didn't. They were just there.'
King
Mr. King
A man who has had a good life in England wants to retire to Jamaica, but the celebration with his daughters doesn't go as expected.
Rise and Fall of Idi Amin
Dr. Michael Oloya
The chronicle of Ugandan dictator Idi Amin and his tyranic rule from 1971 to his overthrow in 1979.
The Music Machine
Claire's Father
At a famous London disco venue, a competition is announced to select two dancers to star in a new film.
The Class Of Miss MacMichael
Visitor
A dedicated teacher tries to reach out to juvenile delinquent students at a London alternative school.
The Wild Geese
Col. Mboya
A British multinational company seeks to overthrow a vicious dictator in central Africa. It hires a band of (largely aged) mercenaries in London and sends them in to save the virtuous but imprisoned opposition leader who is also critically ill and due for execution. Just when the team has performed a perfect rescue, the multinational does a deal with the vicious dictator leaving the mercenary band to escape under their own steam and exact revenge.
Countdown at Kusini
John Okello
An American musician working in Nigeria becomes involved with a patriot hunted by a mercenary in Africa.
Honeybaby, Honeybaby
Gen. Christian Awani
Liv, a mercenary, is drawn into a mission to rescue a kidnapped politician. He travels to the volatile Mideast and is assisted by Laura, a translator, where their lives are imperiled.
Ghost in the Noonday Sun
Abdullah
A pirate crewman kills his captain after learning where he has hidden his buried treasure. However, as he begins to lose his memory, he relies more and more on the ghost of the man he just murdered to help him find the loot.
Shaft in Africa
Kopo
Detective John Shaft travels incognito to Ethiopia, then France, to bust a human trafficking ring.
Black Snake
Isiah
A man searches for his brother on an island where a vicious woman keeps slaves on a plantation.
In the Beautiful Caribbean
Zikky
Play set in the Caribbean showing how life is hard and a struggle, with problems of unemployment and lack of money.
Pal
Norman
Two sworn enemies, one black and the other white, are forced to confront their prejudices when they are forced together by circumstance.
Sunday Bloody Sunday
Prof. Johns
Recently divorced career woman Alex Greville begins a romantic relationship with glamorous mod artist Bob Elkin, fully aware that he's also intimately involved with middle-aged doctor Daniel Hirsh. For both Alex and Daniel, the younger man represents a break with their repressive pasts, and though both know that Bob is seeing both of them, neither is willing to let go of the youth and vitality he brings to their otherwise stable lives.
The Comedians
Haitian Soldier (uncredited)
American and British tourists get caught up in political unrest in Haiti.
Jemima + Johnny
Jemima's Dad (as Tommy Baptiste)
A white boy and a black Jamaican girl have a day out in a city where racial hostility prevails.
Help!
An obscure Eastern cult that practices human sacrifice pursues Ringo after he unknowingly puts on a ceremonial ring (that, of course, won't come off). On top of that, a pair of mad scientists, members of Scotland Yard, and a beautiful but dead-eyed assassin all have their own plans for the Fab Four.
The Ipcress File
Barney
Sly and dry intelligence agent Harry Palmer is tasked with investigating British Intelligence security, and is soon enmeshed in a world of double-dealing, kidnap and murder when he finds a traitor operating at the heart of the secret service.
Dr. Terror's House of Horrors
Dambala (Segment 3 "Voodoo")
Five strangers board a train and are joined by a mysterious fortune teller who offers to read their Tarot cards. Five separate stories unfold: An architect returns to his ancestoral home to find a werewolf out for revenge; a doctor discovers his new wife is a vampire; a huge plant takes over a house; a musician gets involved with voodoo; an art critic is pursued by a disembodied hand.
Fable
In Great Britain a reversal of African apartheid comes into place, and the country is governed by black people with whites as the subservients.
In the Cool of the Day
Murray Logan's chauffeur (uncredited)
After he mends a marital rift between a vacationing young couple, the bored, fragile wife falls hopelessly in love with the husband's ex-colleague who is married to a long-suffering and emotionally and physically scarred woman. The couple soon runs off to Greece together to pursue the romance.
The Small World of Sammy Lee
Café Patron
The compère of a seedy strip club struggles to keep one step ahead of the bookies to whom he owes money.
Flame in the Streets
Boyfriend
Flame in the Streets is a 1961 British drama film directed by Roy Ward Baker. Racial tensions manifest themselves at home, work and on the streets during Bonfire Night in the burgeoning West Indian community of early 1960s Britain. Trades union leader (Mills) fights for the rights of a black worker but struggles with the news that his own daughter is planning to marry a West Indian, much against his own logic and the prejudice of his wife.
Sapphire
Man on the Street
Two Scotland Yard detectives investigate the murder of a young woman of mixed race who had been passing for white. As they interview a spate of suspects -- including the girl's white boyfriend and his disapproving parents -- the investigators wade through a stubbornly entrenched sludge of racism and bigotry.
Beyond This Place
Haydock
A World War II evacuee (Van Johnson) returns years later to England and finds his father in prison framed for murder.