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Thomas Baptiste

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.

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The Secret Laughter of Women (1999)

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 ...

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The Attendant (1993)

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 Pu ...

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Black and White in Colour (1992)

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, ...

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Ama (1991)

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 ances ...

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Escape From Kampala (1991)

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 State Research Bu ...

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Drums Along Balmoral Drive (1986)

'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. ...

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King (1984)

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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Nairobi Affair (1984)

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 with his estranged father, now a safari guide, and with the woman they both love. ...

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Rise and Fall of Idi Amin (1981)

The chronicle of Ugandan dictator Idi Amin and his tyranic rule from 1971 to his overthrow in 1979. ...

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The Music Machine (1979)

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 Class Of Miss MacMichael (1979)

A dedicated teacher tries to reach out to juvenile delinquent students at a London alternative school. ...

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The Wild Geese (1978)

A British multinational company seeks to overthrow a vicious dictator in central Africa. It hires a band of (largely aged) mercenaries in London and sends them in to save the virtuous but imprisoned opposition leader who is also critically ill and due for ...

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Countdown at Kusini (1976)

An American musician working in Nigeria becomes involved with a patriot hunted by a mercenary in Africa. ...

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Honeybaby, Honeybaby (1974)

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. ...

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Shaft in Africa (1973)

Detective John Shaft travels incognito to Ethiopia, then France, to bust a human trafficking ring. ...

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Black Snake (1973)

On a 19th century Caribbean island, slaves revolt against their beautiful and sadistic mistress. ...

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Ghost in the Noonday Sun (1973)

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. ...

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In the Beautiful Caribbean (1972)

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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Pal (1971)

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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Sunday Bloody Sunday (1971)

Recently divorced career woman Alex Greville begins a romantic relationship with glamorous mod artist Bob Elkin, fully aware that he's also intimately involved with middle-aged doctor Daniel Hirsh. For both Alex and Daniel, the younger man represents a bre ...

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Two Gentlemen Sharing (1969)

An insecure Briton and a Briton of Jamaican descent share a London apartment together. ...

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The Comedians (1967)

American and British tourists get caught up in political unrest in Haiti. ...

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Jemima + Johnny (1966)

A white boy and a black Jamaican girl have a day out in a city where racial hostility prevails. ...

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Help! (1965)

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). On top of that, a pair of mad scientists, members of Scotland Yard, and a beautiful but dead-eyed assassi ...

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The Ipcress File (1965)

Sly and dry intelligence agent Harry Palmer is tasked with investigating British Intelligence security, and is soon enmeshed in a world of double-dealing, kidnap and murder when he finds a traitor operating at the heart of the secret service. ...

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Dr. Terror's House of Horrors (1965)

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 i ...

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Fable (1965)

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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Guns at Batasi (1964)

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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In the Cool of the Day (1963)

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 ...

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The Small World of Sammy Lee (1963)

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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Flame in the Streets (1961)

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 (Mil ...

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Sapphire (1959)

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 suspects -- including the girl's white boyfriend and his disapproving parents -- the detectives wade through a s ...

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Web of Evidence (1959)

A World War II evacuee returns years later to England and finds his father in prison framed for murder. ...

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