Thomas Baptiste

Thomas Baptiste

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

사망 : 2018-12-06

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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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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.
지옥의 특전대
Col. Mboya
잔인하기 이를데 없는 독재자가 권력을 쥐고 있는 중앙 아프리카의 로드지아에 그에 반대세력의 지도자가 감옥에 갇혀있고, 그를 감옥에서 빼내달라는 영국인 사업가의 부탁을 받은 알렌 포그너 대령, 숀 핀 대위, 라퍼 얀더스는 그곳으로 떠난다. 영국인 사업가는 이 지도자를 감옥에서 빼내어 새로운 세력으로 부상하게 한 다음 나중에 광산채굴권을 따내려고 한다. 용병 삼인방은 무사히 지도자를 구해내지만 사업가로부터 배신당하고 독재자의 손아귀에 떨어지게 된다.
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.
사랑의 여로
Prof. Johns
도시의 바쁘고 틀에 박힌 생활 속에 서로 필요에 의해 사랑을 주고 받는 알렉스와 다니엘. 변화없는 생활중에 자신들도 모르게 양성연애자인 봅을 동시에 사랑하고 공유하게된 두사람. 완벽한 듯 보였던 그들의 사이는 이제 질투와 의심만이 짙어가고, 사랑과 미래에 대한 갈등으로 흔들리는 두 사람은...
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.
헬프!
우연히 암흑의 여왕에 바쳐지는 제물이 된 링고를 구하기 위해 비틀즈 멤버들이 고군분투한다.
국제 첩보국
Barney
전초기던 1960년대 중반의 런던에서, 영국, 미국, 소련의 첩보원들이 냉혹하고 치열하게 암투하고 격돌한다
닥터 테러스 하우스 오브 호러스
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.
사파이어
Man on the Street
연방국가에서 온 이주자들에게 인종적인 적대감을 공공연히 표출하던 1950년대 런던. 임신한 한 음대학생이 살해되는 일이 발생한다. 경시청의 형사 2명(니겔 패트릭, 마이클 크레이그 분)이 수사에 나서게 되면서, 피살자 주변에 있던 모든 사람들이 용의선상에 떠오른다. 실상 그녀는 백인으로 행세하던 흑인 여성이었고, 여자가 흑인임이 밝혀지면 자신의 인생마저 망가질 것을 두려워하는 백인 애인과 그녀의 부모, 그리고 그녀가 백인 사회에 받아들여졌을 때 버림받은 소년들까지 광범위한 수사가 진행되는 동안 형사들은 자신이 갖고 있던 사회적 편견들과 하나하나 만나게 되는데...
Web of Evidence
Haydock
A World War II evacuee (Van Johnson) returns years later to England and finds his father in prison framed for murder.