Thomas Baptiste
Biography: 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.
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: March 17, 1929
Deathday: December 06, 2018
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Black Snake
1973-03-28
Black Snake
Overview: A man searches for his brother on an island where a vicious woman keeps slaves on a plantation.
Genres: Adventure Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-03-28
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The Music Machine
1979-05-01
The Music Machine
Overview: At a famous London disco venue, a competition is announced to select two dancers to star in a new film.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-05-01
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Dr. Terror's House of Horrors
1965-02-23
Dr. Terror's House of Horrors
Overview: 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.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-02-23
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The Comedians
1967-10-31
The Comedians
Overview: American and British tourists get caught up in political unrest in Haiti.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-10-31
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The Ipcress File
1965-03-18
The Ipcress File
Overview: 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.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-03-18
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Rise and Fall of Idi Amin
1981-07-16
Rise and Fall of Idi Amin
Overview: The chronicle of Ugandan dictator Idi Amin and his tyranic rule from 1971 to his overthrow in 1979.
Genres: Drama History Crime Thriller War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-07-16
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The Attendant
1993-09-10
The Attendant
Overview: 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.
Genres: Fantasy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-09-10
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Guns at Batasi
1964-10-30
Guns at Batasi
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-10-30
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Drums Along Balmoral Drive
1986-08-06
Drums Along Balmoral Drive
Overview: '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.'
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-08-06
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Jemima + Johnny
1966-09-26
Jemima + Johnny
Overview: A white boy and a black Jamaican girl have a day out in a city where racial hostility prevails.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-09-26
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Ghost in the Noonday Sun
1973-01-01
Ghost in the Noonday Sun
Overview: 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.
Genres: Adventure Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-01-01
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Fable
1965-01-27
Fable
Overview: In Great Britain a reversal of African apartheid comes into place, and the country is governed by black people with whites as the subservients.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-01-27
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The Secret Laughter of Women
1999-11-26
The Secret Laughter of Women
Overview: 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)
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-11-26
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Nairobi Affair
1984-01-01
Nairobi Affair
Overview: 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.
Genres: TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-01-01
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The Wild Geese
1978-06-28
The Wild Geese
Overview: 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 execution. Just when the team has performed a perfect rescue, the multinational does a deal with the vicious dictator leaving the mercenary band to escape under their own steam and exact revenge.
Genres: Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-06-28
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Sapphire
1959-11-02
Sapphire
Overview: 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 stubbornly entrenched sludge of racism and bigotry.
Genres: Mystery Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-11-02
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Pal
1971-12-02
Pal
Overview: Two sworn enemies, one black and the other white, are forced to confront their prejudices when they are forced together by circumstance.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-12-02
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In the Beautiful Caribbean
1972-02-03
In the Beautiful Caribbean
Overview: Play set in the Caribbean showing how life is hard and a struggle, with problems of unemployment and lack of money.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-02-03
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Sunday Bloody Sunday
1971-07-01
Sunday Bloody Sunday
Overview: 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 break with their repressive pasts, and though both know that Bob is seeing both of them, neither is willing to let go of the youth and vitality he brings to their otherwise stable lives.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-07-01
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King
1984-04-03
King
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-04-03
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Help!
1965-07-29
Help!
Overview: 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 assassin all have their own plans for the Fab Four.
Genres: Comedy Music Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-07-29
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Black and White in Colour
1992-06-27
Black and White in Colour
Overview: 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.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-06-27
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Shaft in Africa
1973-06-14
Shaft in Africa
Overview: Detective John Shaft travels incognito to Ethiopia, then France, to bust a human trafficking ring.
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-06-14
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Ama
1991-09-06
Ama
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-09-06
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Web of Evidence
1959-04-28
Web of Evidence
Overview: A World War II evacuee returns years later to England and finds his father in prison framed for murder.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-04-28
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In the Cool of the Day
1963-05-29
In the Cool of the Day
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-05-29
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The Small World of Sammy Lee
1963-04-20
The Small World of Sammy Lee
Overview: The compère of a seedy strip club struggles to keep one step ahead of the bookies to whom he owes money.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-04-20
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Countdown at Kusini
1976-04-16
Countdown at Kusini
Overview: An American musician working in Nigeria becomes involved with a patriot hunted by a mercenary in Africa.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-04-16
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Flame in the Streets
1961-06-19
Flame in the Streets
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-06-19
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Honeybaby, Honeybaby
1974-10-01
Honeybaby, Honeybaby
Overview: 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.
Genres: Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-10-01
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The Class Of Miss MacMichael
1979-01-27
The Class Of Miss MacMichael
Overview: A dedicated teacher tries to reach out to juvenile delinquent students at a London alternative school.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-01-27
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Escape From Kampala
1991-08-08
Escape From Kampala
Overview: 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 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".
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-08-08
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Two Gentlemen Sharing
1969-09-17
Two Gentlemen Sharing
Overview: An insecure Briton and a Briton of Jamaican descent share a London apartment together.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-09-17
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