Fred Baker

Fred Baker

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

Morte : 2011-06-05

História

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

Perfil

Fred Baker
Fred Baker
Fred Baker

Filmes

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.
As Profissionais do Sonho
Druggist
A lesbian college graduate, trying to bankroll her own photography business, works as a high-priced New York City escort.
Despertar dos Mortos
Police Commander
Os mortos estão retornando a vida e atacando os vivos. Quatro sobreviventes do ataque escondem-se em um shopping abandonado e planejam contra-atacar. No entanto, milhares de mortos-vivos descobrem o esconderijo e iniciam um novo massacre, contaminando alguns sobreviventes que retornam como zumbis e somam-se ao exército de abomináveis criaturas.
Eraserhead
Executive Producer
Ao chegar em casa Henry é avisado por sua vizinha de que foi chamado para um jantar na casa de sua ex namorada. Após uma refeição bizarra com uma família ainda mais estranha Henry é informado que sua ex engravidou dele e teve o filho com poucas semanas de gestação; ele é então obrigado a casar-se e levar a mulher e a criança para viverem em seu apartamento.
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
A Batalha de Argel
Executive Producer
Os eventos decisivos da guerra pela independência da Argélia, marco do processo de libertação das colônias européias na África. Entre 1954 e 1957 é mostrado o modo de agir dos dois lados do conflito, a Frente de Libertação Nacional e o exército francês. Enquanto que o exército usava técnicas de tortura e eliminava o maior número possível de rebeldes, a FLN desenvolvia técnicas não-convencionais de combate, baseadas na guerrilha e no terrorismo.
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.