Fred Baker

Fred Baker

Nacimiento : 1932-07-26, Los Angeles, California, USA

Muerte : 2011-06-05

Historia

Fred Baker was an American filmmaker , director , screenwriter , film producer, actor and jazz musician .

Perfil

Fred Baker
Fred Baker
Fred Baker

Películas

Assata aka Joanne Chesimard
Screenplay
Through dramatic re-creation, archival newsreel footage and revealing interviews, director Fred Baker's docudrama explores the controversial murder case centered on Black Panther activist and political exile Assata Shakur. In 1977, Shakur was dubiously convicted for the shooting death of a New Jersey state trooper and was sentenced to life in prison, only to escape two years later and seek refuge in Cuba.
Assata aka Joanne Chesimard
Director
Through dramatic re-creation, archival newsreel footage and revealing interviews, director Fred Baker's docudrama explores the controversial murder case centered on Black Panther activist and political exile Assata Shakur. In 1977, Shakur was dubiously convicted for the shooting death of a New Jersey state trooper and was sentenced to life in prison, only to escape two years later and seek refuge in Cuba.
Fred Baker - filmmaker
Writer
The house he lived In: A conversation with Fred Baker (1932-2011) filmmaker , director , screenwriter , film producer, actor and jazz musician. A shining example of America's bohemian underground that has been around since the days of Walt Whitman. A sensualist. His favorite topics are sex, art, food and politics. To the rhythm of New York and Lenny Bruce.
Fred Baker - filmmaker
Producer
The house he lived In: A conversation with Fred Baker (1932-2011) filmmaker , director , screenwriter , film producer, actor and jazz musician. A shining example of America's bohemian underground that has been around since the days of Walt Whitman. A sensualist. His favorite topics are sex, art, food and politics. To the rhythm of New York and Lenny Bruce.
Fred Baker - filmmaker
The house he lived In: A conversation with Fred Baker (1932-2011) filmmaker , director , screenwriter , film producer, actor and jazz musician. A shining example of America's bohemian underground that has been around since the days of Walt Whitman. A sensualist. His favorite topics are sex, art, food and politics. To the rhythm of New York and Lenny Bruce.
White Trash
Director of Photography
About the day after a young hustler named CC has died of AIDS. Like him, his pals Casino, Rio and girlfriend Rita, pregnant with his child, are all street prostitutes caught up in high-risk sex and drug-taking in West Hollywood.
White Trash
Director
About the day after a young hustler named CC has died of AIDS. Like him, his pals Casino, Rio and girlfriend Rita, pregnant with his child, are all street prostitutes caught up in high-risk sex and drug-taking in West Hollywood.
Chicas de Nueva York
Druggist
Un día en la vida de varias prostitutas en un burdel de lujo de Manhattan.
Zombi (El amanecer de los muertos vivientes)
Police Commander
La epidemia que hace resucitar a los muertos convertidos en seres ávidos de carne humana se ha extendido, llegando al punto en el que varias ciudades han quedado prácticamente desiertas. Los supervivientes deben refugiarse en zonas militares ya que los zombies no dudan en acabar con sus propios familiares... Continuación del clásico de horror de George A. Romero "La noche de los muertos vivientes" (Night of the Living Dead, 1968).
Cabeza borradora
Executive Producer
Henry Spencer y su novia tienen un bebé no humano, más bien un bebé reptil. Henrry pasa todo el día intentando que él bebe deje de hacer travesuras por el apartamento. Todo se tuerce aún más cuando la madre del pequeño abandona a padre e hijo por el aspecto del bebé. De todos modos, Henry es una hombre fuerte y una serie de acontecimientos inesperados harán que se esfuerce aún más, en su condición como padre soltero.
Different Strokes
Editor
The different folks in Different Strokes are a pair of couples who start their day the American way (and we don’t mean with Florida orange juice).
Different Strokes
Producer
The different folks in Different Strokes are a pair of couples who start their day the American way (and we don’t mean with Florida orange juice).
Different Strokes
Writer
The different folks in Different Strokes are a pair of couples who start their day the American way (and we don’t mean with Florida orange juice).
Different Strokes
Director
The different folks in Different Strokes are a pair of couples who start their day the American way (and we don’t mean with Florida orange juice).
Room Service 75
Director
Feature film.
Lenny Bruce: Without Tears
Narrator
The outrageous, groundbreaking comic Lenny Bruce, whose iconoclastic material in a conservative era got him into tragic trouble, is profiled by a close friend, Fred Baker, who prefers to remember the laughs Lenny Bruce's memory evokes instead of the tears. By presenting Bruce's landmark skits on the Steve Allen Show, his failed TV pilot episode and a candid interview with Nat Hentoff, Bruce's genius and anguish show through the dramatic and tragic trajectory of his career from aspiring artist to hunted "lawbreaker".
Lenny Bruce: Without Tears
Writer
The outrageous, groundbreaking comic Lenny Bruce, whose iconoclastic material in a conservative era got him into tragic trouble, is profiled by a close friend, Fred Baker, who prefers to remember the laughs Lenny Bruce's memory evokes instead of the tears. By presenting Bruce's landmark skits on the Steve Allen Show, his failed TV pilot episode and a candid interview with Nat Hentoff, Bruce's genius and anguish show through the dramatic and tragic trajectory of his career from aspiring artist to hunted "lawbreaker".
Lenny Bruce: Without Tears
Director
The outrageous, groundbreaking comic Lenny Bruce, whose iconoclastic material in a conservative era got him into tragic trouble, is profiled by a close friend, Fred Baker, who prefers to remember the laughs Lenny Bruce's memory evokes instead of the tears. By presenting Bruce's landmark skits on the Steve Allen Show, his failed TV pilot episode and a candid interview with Nat Hentoff, Bruce's genius and anguish show through the dramatic and tragic trajectory of his career from aspiring artist to hunted "lawbreaker".
The Murder of Fred Hampton
Executive Producer
Fred Hampton was the leader of the Illinois Chapter of the Black Panther Party. This film depicts his brutal murder by the Chicago police and its subsequent investigation, but also documents his activities in organizing the Chapter, his public speeches, and the programs he founded for children during the last eighteen months of his life.
Events
Writer
Sexuality without pretense gives the wallop to Events. A dramatic street story of young runaway flower-kids in the Greenwich Village of 1968, it raises ethical questions while the screen explodes with erotica."EVENTS is without question, the most far-out sexually experimental film made in the sixties or seventies."--Bruce Williamson, Playboy
Events
Director
Sexuality without pretense gives the wallop to Events. A dramatic street story of young runaway flower-kids in the Greenwich Village of 1968, it raises ethical questions while the screen explodes with erotica."EVENTS is without question, the most far-out sexually experimental film made in the sixties or seventies."--Bruce Williamson, Playboy
La batalla de Argel
Executive Producer
Relato sobre los orígenes, el desarrollo y el fin del enfrentamiento entre el Frente de Liberación Nacional (FLN) de Argelia y las autoridades coloniales francesas. El protagonista, Ali La Pointe, es uno de los más destacados activistas de la Casbah de Árgel.
On the Sound
Creator
A jazz/dance film featuring the Martha Graham Dancers.
On the Sound
Director
A jazz/dance film featuring the Martha Graham Dancers.
Doorway to Suspicion
Chippy
American band-leader in Germany marries girl working for "The Party". She is kidnapped into Eastern Zone, but in return the band-leader kidnaps the girlfriend of a Russian General.