C. Graham Baker

Nacimiento : 1883-07-16, Evansville, Indiana, USA

Muerte : 1950-05-15

Historia

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Charles Graham Baker (July 16, 1883 – May 15, 1950) was an American screenwriter and director. He wrote for more than 170 films between 1915 and 1948. He and his father invented the game of Gin rummy in 1909. He was born in Evansville, Indiana on July 16, 1883 to Elwood T. Baker and Leslie S. Barrows. By 1918 he was working as a "playwright" for the Vitagraph company in Brooklyn, New York City. Baker died in Reseda, Los Angeles, California on May 15, 1950.

Películas

El jugador
Screenplay
Un tahúr y un pistolero forman una pareja invencible que nadie consigue derrotar, pero llega un momento en que tendrán que enfrentarse entre sí por causa de una mujer.
Cuatro caras del Oeste
Writer
El vaquero Ross McEwen llega a la ciudad y pide un crédito de 2.000 dólares al banco local; cuando el banquero le pregunta por el aval para cubrir el crédito, McEwen le muestra su garantía de seis tiros y le firma un recibo con el nombre de "Jefferson Davis". McEwen se va de la ciudad y sube a un tren, no sin antes ser mordido por una cascabel. En el tren, Miss Hollister, una enfermera, le cura la herida. Persiguiendo a McEwen hay una partida, un sheriff, un misterioso mexicano... ¿quién se hará con la recompensa?
La mujer de fuego
Screenplay
En una comarca ganadera del Medio Oeste americano se reproduce la eterna guerra entre vaqueros y ovejeros. Worl, un ovejero que pretende asentarse en el lugar, se ve obligado a abandonar sus tierras. El problema es que está ligado sentimentalmente a Connie, la hija del ranchero que lo ha expulsado. Con el apoyo del ayudante de Worl, Connie se enfrentará a su padre.
Shadow of a Woman
Screenplay
Brooke's marital life with Eric takes a downturn when she starts suspecting that her husband is starving his son from a prior marriage to death in order to claim his inheritance.
Danger Signal
Screenplay
After robbing and murdering his married lover and then making her death look like suicide, conniving philanderer Ronnie Mason relocates to Los Angeles. Under a new identity and claiming to be a writer, Ronnie finds lodging at the home of Hilda Fenchurch and her mother. He woos Hilda, knowing she has money, but when he discovers that Hilda's sister, Anne, has just inherited $25,000, he switches his attentions to her.
Crime Doctor
Screenplay
Robert is found beside the highway with a head injury and amnesia. His amnesia motivates him to become a Physician and the country's leading criminal psychologist.
El valle del sol
Producer
En 1868, el explorador del Ejército Johnny Ware es obligado a ayudar a los indios contra sus opresores blancos, pero escapa y se encuentra en la pedanía de Desert Center. Allí se cruza con Christine Larson, que está a punto de casarse con uno de los malvados agentes indios... pero no si Johnny puede evitarlo.
Tom Brown's School Days
Screenplay
When private tutor Thomas Arnold (Sir Cedric Hardwicke) becomes headmaster at Rugby, a boy's preparatory school in England, he puts into place a policy of strict punishment for unruliness and bulying. Arnold finds an ally in Tom Brown (Jimmy Lydon), a new student who is subjected to hazing and abuse by a group of older boys and is pressured by his friends to keep quiet about it. Fed up, he leads his fellow classmates in an underground rebellion against their tormentors. But certain unspoken rules still apply at the school and Brown loses his hero status when he is accussed of breaking the Rugby code of silence.
Tom Brown's School Days
Producer
When private tutor Thomas Arnold (Sir Cedric Hardwicke) becomes headmaster at Rugby, a boy's preparatory school in England, he puts into place a policy of strict punishment for unruliness and bulying. Arnold finds an ally in Tom Brown (Jimmy Lydon), a new student who is subjected to hazing and abuse by a group of older boys and is pressured by his friends to keep quiet about it. Fed up, he leads his fellow classmates in an underground rebellion against their tormentors. But certain unspoken rules still apply at the school and Brown loses his hero status when he is accussed of breaking the Rugby code of silence.
La familia Robinson suiza
Producer
Cuando una tormenta los hace naufragar, la familia Robinson debe unirse para crear un hogar en una isla desierta. Pero el reto definitivo se presenta cuando un grupo de piratas despiadados amenaza con destruir su paraíso improvisado.
La familia Robinson suiza
Writer
Cuando una tormenta los hace naufragar, la familia Robinson debe unirse para crear un hogar en una isla desierta. Pero el reto definitivo se presenta cuando un grupo de piratas despiadados amenaza con destruir su paraíso improvisado.
Eternamente tuya
Writer
Una joven de vida sencilla conoce un día a un ilusionista, El gran Arturo. Deslumbrada por su excitante personalidad, se enamora del mago y, poco después, se casa con él y abandona su pueblo natal para seguirlo en sus giras artísticas. Después de varios años de vida nómada, la mujer se da cuenta de que la felicidad para ella consiste en tener una casa, una familia y un marido a quien cuidar. Una vida que el ilusionista, más preocupado por sus trucos que por su esposa, no parece dispuesto a ofrecerle.
Joy of Living
Screenplay
Falling in love with the voice of Broadway chanteuse Margaret Garret, cocksure young tycoon Daniel Brewster decides to rescue the star from her hectic lifestyle of frenzied fans and mooching relatives. When Margaret has her ardent suitor arrested, the judge appoints her as Daniel's probation officer, forcing the duo to spend time together. As Daniel teaches Margaret to let her hair down and enjoy life, she begins to fall for her fun-loving admirer.
Ali Baba Goes to Town
Story
While visiting Hollywood a starstruck movie fan (Eddie Cantor) fantasizes about himself cast in an Arabian adventure. Director David Butler's comedy--with many songs--also features Tony Martin, Roland Young, Gypsy Rose Lee (billed as Rose Hovick), John Carradine, June Lang, Virginia Field, Charles Lane, The Peters Sisters and many big-name guest stars playing themselves.
Siempre Eva
Screenplay
Un tímido contable (Leslie Howard) trata de salvar de la bancarrota a un estudio de Hollywood con la ayuda de una sexy mujer (Joan Blondell) y un cínico productor de buen corazón (Humphrey Bogart).
Cena de medianoche
Screenplay
Un maître de hotel conoce a una joven multimillonaria norteamericana y vive con ella una extraña aventura a bordo de un trasatlántico que va de París a Nueva York.
Sólo se vive una vez
Screenplay
Un delincuente de poca monta (Henry Fonda), condenado ya tres veces, es acusado de un asesinato que no ha cometido. Aunque consigue escapar de la cárcel, la fatalidad le impide seguir el camino recto, a pesar de contar con el apoyo de una mujer que le ama.
The Case Against Mrs. Ames
Writer
Una mujer se empeña con todas sus fuerzas en mantener la custodia de su hijo, después de que su marido fuera asesinado, y que haya quedado flotando sobre ella la sombra de una duda sobre su relación con el caso.
Mary Burns, Fugitive
Screenplay
A young woman who owns a coffee shop falls for a handsome young customer, unaware that he is a gangster.
Grand Exit
Story
A Stumped insurance company is forced to re-hire the most expensive, most big-headed, but best arson investigator to solve a string of major losses.
She Couldn't Take It
Story
The wealthy Van Dyke family are constantly in the media for outrageous behavior, much to the frustration of the patriarch, Dan Van Dyke. His self-centered wife has a fondness for foreign imports, including "pet projects" like dancers and such and his spoiled children Tony and Carol have constant run-ins with the law. When Dan himself ends up in the clink for five years for tax evasion, he becomes bunk-mates with ex-bootlegger Joe "Spots" Ricardi. Ricardi lectures him on being such a push-over for an out-of-control family, so a dying Dan makes Ricardi his estate trustee once he is released from prison. Ricardi is then thrust into high society and must do everything he once nagged Dan to do.
This Is the Life
Story
A popular child star, exploited and overworked by her greedy guardians, decides enough is enough--and takes it on the lam.
The Girl Friend
Story
An actor and two songwriters become rural con men.
Every Night at Eight
Screenplay
Three young girls working in an agency have build a singing trio. They want to "lease" the Dictaphone of their boss to make a record of their singing, but they are caught and fired. When they are not able to pay their rent any longer, they decide to try it on an amateur contest at a radio station.
Shanghai
Writer
A New York socialite travels to Shanghai to visit her ailing aunt and falls in love with a Russian banker, who harbors a family secret.
Broadway Thru a Keyhole
Writer
Racketeer Frank Rocci is smitten with Joan Whelan, a dancer at Texas Guinan's famous Broadway night spot. He uses his influence to help her get a starring role in the show, hoping that it will also get Joan to fall in love with him. After scoring a hit, Joan accepts Frank's marriage proposal, more out of gratitude than love. The situation gets even stickier when she falls for a handsome band leader during a trip to Florida. Can she tell Frank she's in love with someone else?
Bombshell
Writer
A glamorous film star rebels against the studio, her pushy press agent and a family of hangers-on.
I Love That Man
Writer
Innocent Nancy Carroll falls in love with con man Edmund Lowe and the pair swindle their way across the country until they decide to settle down in a small town and give up their life of crime. He goes into business and all seems to be going well until some ex-partners he double crossed show up in town demanding the money he cheated them out of.
Song of the Eagle
Story
This drama centers on the fight for certain post-Prohibitionist groups to gain total control over the liquor industry. Much of the tale is focused upon a family endeavoring to keep their little brewery.
Glad Rag Doll
Screenplay
She sought to conquer...but found Cupid her master! This is one of many lost films of the 1920s, no prints or Vitaphone discs survive, but the song with the same title and the trailer survives.
Sonny Boy
Writer
Sonny Boy's parents are in the midst of a bitter divorce when the boy's mother talks her sister into kidnapping him because she is terrified that her husband will take the boy out of the country after the divorce.
Fancy Baggage
Screenplay
In order to get back some very important papers from her father's business rival, a young woman pretends to be the rival's new secretary. Complications ensue.
Conquest
Writer
Two pilots are in love with the same girl. On a flight over the Antarctic, the plane suddenly spins out of control and crashes into a snowbank. One of the pilots is injured and the other leaves him to die, so he can have the girl all to himself. However, the injured pilot survives and when he recovers he vows vengeance on the man who left him to die--especially after he finds out that he married the girl they were both after.
The Air Circus
Story
Two eager young pilots at flight school compete over their flight instructor's aviatrix sister.
Domestic Troubles
Screenplay
A Silent film comedy directed by Ray Enright.
The Girl from Chicago
Writer
Mary Carlton, who lives with her invalid father on a cotton plantation, receives a letter from Bob, her brother, in New York, stating that he faces death in the electric chair for a crime of which he claims to be innocent. Determined to save him, she goes there, learns of his association with an underworld gang, and begins to suspect Handsome Joe of a connection with the crime.
Slightly Used
Writer
Slightly Used film
The Heart of Maryland
Scenario Writer
At the outbreak of the War Between the States, Maryland Calvert is loved by Maj. Alan Kendrick, son of a Virginia general, and Capt. Fulton Thorpe. Nancy, whom Thorpe has loved unwisely, follows him to Washington and commits suicide when she learns he will not marry her; as a result, Alan is forced to request his resignation. When Fort Sumter is fired upon, Alan, who admires Lincoln's principles, joins the Union Army though his father is among the Secessionist leaders; as a result, he is estranged from Maryland. Thorpe, who has joined the Confederacy as a spy, is responsible for Alan's arrest, but Maryland victoriously comes to his aid by ringing the alarm bell.
Irish Hearts
Adaptation
Sheila, a feisty Irish girl, loves Emmett, a somewhat shady Irish boy. When Emmett goes to America, Sheila and her father follow and join him. However, when he loses his job, Sheila is forced to get a job in a cheap restaurant. There she meets Rory, a poor American boy who works in a shipyard. Rory falls in love with her but she still loves Emmett. Then she finds out that Emmett has been taking up with a brassy "flapper" named Clarice.
White Flannels
Screenplay
A smothering mother, Mrs. Jacob Politz, stands in the way of the engagement of her college son Frank Politz to local girl Anne, because she, as the wife of Jacob Politz, an ill-educated coal miner, believes their son should obtain a college education.
Finger Prints
Scenario Writer
A gang of inept crooks and even more inept lawmen search for a cache of hidden money.
La ninfa del circo
Writer
Alicia, a circus artist, deserts her husband and child to elope with Underwood, her handsome lover. Fifteen years later, Annie Martin, Alicia's deserted daughter, is a trapeze performer in a sideshow at Coney Island, operated by Mr. and Mrs. Chubb, and has married Howard Jeffries in spite of opposition by his wealthy parents. Jeffries, Sr., hires a man (Underwood) to separate the young couple. Underwood convinces the newlyweds that each is being unfaithful to the other, and consequently, he is threatened by Howard. Driven to fury by Underwood's uncontrollable demands, Alicia shoots him in a quarrel and makes her escape just as Howard enters; despite his innocence, Howard confesses to the crime when subjected to the third degree. Annie, realizing her mother's guilt, claims to be guilty, but Alicia then confesses. Annie is saved from suicide by Howard, and they are united by love.
My Official Wife
Adaptation
A glittering drama of Imperial Russia in the days before the Revolution and the reckless life of the aristocracy in the days of the Czar, featuring gorgeous gowns, beautiful women and spectacular settings.
Millionaires
Adaptation
Meyer Rubens and his wife, Esther, own a pressing-shop in New York's Lower East Side. Esther wants to move on up to the Upper West Side. She has a rich sister, Reba, who persuades Meyer to invest in the worthless oil stock sold by her husband. The stock proves to be not worthless and Meyer and Esther become overnight millionaires. But Reba thinks Meyer, who has no taste for high society, is holding her sister back socially, so she devises some schemes that involve catching Meyer in a compromising situation with other women, so her sister can file for a divorce.
Broken Hearts of Hollywood
Writer
Virginia Perry, a former movie star, leaves her family and returns to Hollywood to make a comeback, but age has taken its toll and she is cast in small character roles. Meanwhile, her daughter, Betty Ann, has won a beauty contest, and heads for Hollywood. They end up in the same, film, with Mom playing her Mom. Marshall tries to take advantage of the naive Betty. Somebody gets shot. Somebody is put on trial.
Just Suppose
Writer
The Beautiful City
Screenplay
For their mother's sake, a man takes the blame for a robbery committed by his brother and his brother's gangster boss.
Borrowed Husbands
Writer
A jazz-mad Nancy Burrard is a young matron easing her boredom by flirting with married men.
The Man from Brodney's
Adaptation
A drama of the India Seas that has Hollingsworth Chance, a young American, tangled in court intrigue to, is put to the supreme test to save the girl he loves, Princess Geneva
The Man Next Door
Writer
The story to this comedy-drama is based on the book by Emerson Hough, who was experiencing a surge of popularity because his book The Covered Wagon had recently been made into a hit film. Ranchman Colonel Wright sends his daughter Bonnie to an Eastern college to receive an education. She decides to stay in the city and sends for her father, who arrives with his foreman Curly. Even though they live in the midst of society, they are snubbed by the Easterners as uncouth.
Pioneer Trails
Writer
Jack is orphaned as a young child when his wagon train is ambushed by Indians. Twenty years later, he rescues Rose from a runaway stagecoach. The two fall in love, much to the displeasure of Blaney. To put him out of the way, Blaney kills Jack's adoptive mother and frames Jack for the crime.
The Ninety and Nine
Writer
Melodramatic thriller, presented in 9.5mm format
You Never Know
Story
Eddie Manning, on a secret mission in Central America, is apparently penniless, and he becomes friends with a street urchin named Muggsy. When Muggsy is knocked down by a car, Manning meets its owner, Miriam Folansbee, and she offers him a job as a chauffeur. There is a plot to overthrow the country and Inez, a dancer at a cafe, tells Manning that Carlos Medina is the leader of the revolutionaries.
You Never Know
Screenplay
Eddie Manning, on a secret mission in Central America, is apparently penniless, and he becomes friends with a street urchin named Muggsy. When Muggsy is knocked down by a car, Manning meets its owner, Miriam Folansbee, and she offers him a job as a chauffeur. There is a plot to overthrow the country and Inez, a dancer at a cafe, tells Manning that Carlos Medina is the leader of the revolutionaries.
The Girl in His Room
Writer
Myra Pendleton was sent away to be raised after her mother died in childbirth. Now that she's a young woman, her father wants her to return, but instead of simply welcoming her back, he pretends to be the Pendleton Family attorney, who presents her with a lovely home. But the house actually belongs to Kirk Waring (Warner Baxter), who has been abroad. Waring returns to find that he's been swindled out of both house and fortune.
The Little Minister
Writer
A Lord's fiancée poses as a gypsy and falls in love with the new minister.
The Broadway Bubble
Writer
The story of a young society woman, who, aspiring for a musical comedy career against her husband's wishes, places her twin sister in her home to enact her part as a wife, while she played her role behind the footlights.
Hidden Dangers
Writer
Hidden Dangers is a 1920 serial film.
The Silent Avenger
Writer
The Silent Avenger is an American silent action film
Smashing Barriers
Writer
When sawmill owner Helen Cole is kidnapped by bandits, it falls on lumberjack Dan Stevens to rescue her, but "Wirenail" Hedges is not willing to give up without a fight. Originally a fifteen-episode serial, all that is known to survive of "Smashing Barriers" today is this single reel abridgment created for the home movie market in 1932.
Perils of Thunder Mountain
Writer
movie serial
Romans and Rascals
Writer
The Roman setting provides ample opportunity for a very high concentration of gag titles, many of which are quite witty and many of which are quaint for deriving their humor from the juxtaposition of having ancient Romans use a lot of hip 1918-era slang. The whole thing is an excuse for a good send-up of how the Roman Empire has been depicted in "serious" plays, movies, &c.
Romans and Rascals
Scenario Writer
The Roman setting provides ample opportunity for a very high concentration of gag titles, many of which are quite witty and many of which are quaint for deriving their humor from the juxtaposition of having ancient Romans use a lot of hip 1918-era slang. The whole thing is an excuse for a good send-up of how the Roman Empire has been depicted in "serious" plays, movies, &c.
Plagues And Puppy Love
Writer
Larry Semon produces his take on a typical Keystone farce, the flirting-in-the-park routine, where pretty Florence Curtis is pursued by four typical Keystone types: the wealthy geezer, the moustachioed Italian, the derby-wearing tough and, of course, the big-footed cop… and here comes Larry, if not to save the day, at least to make us laugh.
Bullies and Bullets
Writer
A slapstick comedy directed by Larry Semon and starring Hughie Mack & Patsy De Forest.
A Villainous Villain
Story
The master crook steals the sweetheart of Sherlock, a great detective. Sherlock undertakes to recover her.
The Man from Egypt
Scenario Writer
Beware the ire of the sacred God Ammett, or any other of those Egyptian Gods for that matter. As a bellhop in a hotel, Hughey managed to get possession of a wonderful ruby, the eye of Ammet, and with its aid obtained an introduction to a millionaire and his beautiful daughter. But Hughey failed to remember that for every ruby or other gem stolen from an Egyptian shrine, there is a bearded sheik who has taken a vow never to eat, drink or sleep until the talisman has been returned to the irate God from whom it was stolen, and vengeance has been wrought on the guilty one. Just when Hughey is enjoying himself immensely at a fine little dinner with the fair damsel, his nemesis, the sheik, discovers him and a lively chase takes place. The sheik gets the ruby in his possession but Hughey regains it in jig time and the prospects are that the poor sheik will have some wait before he can look a square meal in the face again.