Thomas Baptiste
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.
Known For | Acting |
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Most Rating | 1.73 |
Birthday | 1929-03-17 |
Place of Birth | Georgetown, British Guiana |
Also Known As |
1973
Blacksnake!
5.5/28
A man searches for his brother on an island where a vicious woman keeps slaves on a plantation.
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Blacksnake!
1979
The Music Machine
0/0
At a famous London disco venue, a competition is announced to select two dancers to star in a new film.
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The Music Machine
1965
Dr. Terror's House of Horrors
6.374/171
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 arch...
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Dr. Terror's House of Horrors
1967
The Comedians
6.1/35
American and British tourists get caught up in political unrest in Haiti.
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The Comedians
1965
The Ipcress File
6.8/287
Sly and dry intelligence agent Harry Palmer is tasked with investigating British Intelligence security, and is soon enmeshed in a world of double-deal...
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The Ipcress File
1981
Rise and Fall of Idi Amin
7.2/3
The chronicle of Ugandan dictator Idi Amin and his tyranic rule from 1971 to his overthrow in 1979.
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Rise and Fall of Idi Amin
1993
The Attendant
4.4/5
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 call...
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The Attendant
1964
Guns at Batasi
6.9/24
An anachronistic martinet RSM on a remote Colonial African army caught in a local coup d'etat must use his experience to defend those in his care.
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Guns at Batasi
1986
Drums Along Balmoral Drive
0/0
'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 we...
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Drums Along Balmoral Drive
1966
Jemima + Johnny
0/0
A white boy and a black Jamaican girl have a day out in a city where racial hostility prevails.
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Jemima + Johnny
1973
Ghost in the Noonday Sun
4.2/6
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 an...
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Ghost in the Noonday Sun
1965
Fable
0/0
In Great Britain a reversal of African apartheid comes into place, and the country is governed by black people with whites as the subservients.
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Fable
1999
The Secret Laughter of Women
4.7/6
Oscar-winner Colin Firth stars in this heart-warming cross-cultural romantic comedy set in the idyllic South of France. Nimi, a beautiful Nigerian si...
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The Secret Laughter of Women
1984
Nairobi Affair
4.8/4
A former green beret is hired by the Kenyan government to stop increasingly bold and violent poachers. As if that wasn't hard enough, he has to deal w...
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Nairobi Affair
1978
The Wild Geese
6.8/248
A British multinational company seeks to overthrow a vicious dictator in central Africa. It hires a band of (largely aged) mercenaries in London and s...
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The Wild Geese
1959
Sapphire
7/43
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 suspec...
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Sapphire
1971
Pal
0/0
Two sworn enemies, one black and the other white, are forced to confront their prejudices when they are forced together by circumstance.
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Pal
1972
In the Beautiful Caribbean
0/0
Play set in the Caribbean showing how life is hard and a struggle, with problems of unemployment and lack of money.
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In the Beautiful Caribbean
1971
Sunday Bloody Sunday
6.6/117
Recently divorced career woman Alex Greville begins a romantic relationship with glamorous mod artist Bob Elkin, fully aware that he's also intimately...
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Sunday Bloody Sunday
1984
King
0/0
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.
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King
1965
Help!
6.9/310
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)....
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Help!
1992
Black and White in Colour
0/0
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. Int...
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Black and White in Colour
1973
Shaft in Africa
6/62
Detective John Shaft travels incognito to Ethiopia, then France, to bust a human trafficking ring.
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Shaft in Africa
1991
Ama
0/0
A golden floppy disk becomes a prophetic device through which a young Ghanaian girl living in England, Ama, rediscovers her African identity. She lear...
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Ama
1959
Web of Evidence
4.8/4
A World War II evacuee returns years later to England and finds his father in prison framed for murder.
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Web of Evidence
1963
In the Cool of the Day
5.4/10
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...
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In the Cool of the Day
1963
The Small World of Sammy Lee
6.1/17
The compère of a seedy strip club struggles to keep one step ahead of the bookies to whom he owes money.
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The Small World of Sammy Lee
1976
Countdown at Kusini
0/0
An American musician working in Nigeria becomes involved with a patriot hunted by a mercenary in Africa.
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Countdown at Kusini
1961
Flame in the Streets
5.8/5
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 dur...
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Flame in the Streets
1974
Honeybaby, Honeybaby
4/2
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,...
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Honeybaby, Honeybaby
1979
The Class Of Miss MacMichael
5.8/4
A dedicated teacher tries to reach out to juvenile delinquent students at a London alternative school.
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The Class Of Miss MacMichael
1991
Escape From Kampala
0/0
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...
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