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.

  • Title: Thomas Baptiste
  • Popularity: 2.422
  • Known For: Acting
  • Birthday: 1929-03-17
  • Place of Birth: Georgetown, British Guiana
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Thomas Baptiste Movies

  • 1973
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    Blacksnake!

    Blacksnake!

    5.5 1973 HD

    A man searches for his brother on an island where a vicious woman keeps slaves on a plantation.

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  • 1979
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    The Music Machine

    The Music Machine

    1 1979 HD

    At a famous London disco venue, a competition is announced to select two dancers to star in a new film.

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  • 1965
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    Dr. Terror's House of Horrors

    Dr. Terror's House of Horrors

    6.4 1965 HD

    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...

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  • 1967
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    The Comedians

    The Comedians

    6.1 1967 HD

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

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  • 1965
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    The Ipcress File

    The Ipcress File

    6.8 1965 HD

    Sly and dry intelligence agent Harry Palmer is tasked with investigating British Intelligence security, and is soon enmeshed in a world of...

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  • 1981
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    Rise and Fall of Idi Amin

    Rise and Fall of Idi Amin

    7.2 1981 HD

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

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  • 1993
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    The Attendant

    The Attendant

    4.4 1993 HD

    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...

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  • 1964
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    Guns at Batasi

    Guns at Batasi

    6.9 1964 HD

    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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  • 1986
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    Drums Along Balmoral Drive

    Drums Along Balmoral Drive

    1 1986 HD

    '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...

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  • 1966
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    Jemima + Johnny

    Jemima + Johnny

    1 1966 HD

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

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  • 1973
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    Ghost in the Noonday Sun

    Ghost in the Noonday Sun

    4.2 1973 HD

    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...

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  • 1965
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    Fable

    Fable

    1 1965 HD

    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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  • 1999
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    The Secret Laughter of Women

    The Secret Laughter of Women

    4.7 1999 HD

    Oscar-winner Colin Firth stars in this heart-warming cross-cultural romantic comedy set in the idyllic South of France. Nimi, a beautiful Nigerian...

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  • 1984
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    Nairobi Affair

    Nairobi Affair

    4.8 1984 HD

    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...

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  • 1978
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    The Wild Geese

    The Wild Geese

    6.8 1978 HD

    A British multinational company seeks to overthrow a vicious dictator in central Africa. It hires a band of (largely aged) mercenaries in London and...

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  • 1959
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    Sapphire

    Sapphire

    7 1959 HD

    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...

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  • 1971
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    Pal

    Pal

    1 1971 HD

    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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  • 1972
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    In the Beautiful Caribbean

    In the Beautiful Caribbean

    1 1972 HD

    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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  • 1971
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    Sunday Bloody Sunday

    Sunday Bloody Sunday

    6.631 1971 HD

    Recently divorced career woman Alex Greville begins a romantic relationship with glamorous mod artist Bob Elkin, fully aware that he's also...

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  • 1984
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    King

    King

    1 1984 HD

    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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  • 1965
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    Help!

    Help!

    6.9 1965 HD

    An obscure Eastern cult that practices human sacrifice pursues Ringo after he unknowingly puts on a ceremonial ring (that, of course, won't come...

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  • 1992
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    Black and White in Colour

    Black and White in Colour

    1 1992 HD

    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....

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  • 1973
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    Shaft in Africa

    Shaft in Africa

    6 1973 HD

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

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  • 1991
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    Ama

    Ama

    1 1991 HD

    A golden floppy disk becomes a prophetic device through which a young Ghanaian girl living in England, Ama, rediscovers her African identity. She...

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  • 1959
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    Web of Evidence

    Web of Evidence

    4.8 1959 HD

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

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  • 1963
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    In the Cool of the Day

    In the Cool of the Day

    5.4 1963 HD

    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...

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  • 1963
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    The Small World of Sammy Lee

    The Small World of Sammy Lee

    6.1 1963 HD

    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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  • 1976
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    Countdown at Kusini

    Countdown at Kusini

    1 1976 HD

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

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  • 1961
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    Flame in the Streets

    Flame in the Streets

    5.8 1961 HD

    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...

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  • 1974
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    Honeybaby, Honeybaby

    Honeybaby, Honeybaby

    4 1974 HD

    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...

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  • 1979
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    The Class Of Miss MacMichael

    The Class Of Miss MacMichael

    5.8 1979 HD

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

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  • 1991
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    Escape From Kampala

    Escape From Kampala

    1 1991 HD

    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...

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  • 1969
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    Two Gentlemen Sharing

    Two Gentlemen Sharing

    4 1969 HD

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

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  • 1972
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    Crown Court

    Crown Court

    5 1972 HD

    Crown Court is an afternoon television courtroom drama produced by Granada Television for the ITV network that ran from 1972, when the Crown Court...

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  • 1962
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    The Saint

    The Saint

    7.29 1962 HD

    Simon Templar is The Saint, a handsome, sophisticated, debonair, modern-day Robin Hood who recovers ill-gotten wealth and redistributes it to those...

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  • 1985
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    EastEnders

    EastEnders

    4.1 1985 HD

    The everyday lives of working-class residents of Albert Square, a traditional Victorian square of terrace houses surrounding a park in the East End...

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  • 1960
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    Maigret

    Maigret

    6.9 1960 HD

    BBC series based on the novels by Georges Simenon which starred Rupert Davies as Inspector Maigret, a French police detective who preferred to watch...

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  • 1979
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    Minder

    Minder

    6.7 1979 HD

    This comedy drama series featured Terry McCann, a former boxer with a conviction for G.B.H., and Arthur Daley, a second-hand car dealer with an eye...

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  • 1972
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    Crown Court

    Crown Court

    5 1972 HD

    Crown Court is an afternoon television courtroom drama produced by Granada Television for the ITV network that ran from 1972, when the Crown Court...

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  • 1978
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    Return of the Saint

    Return of the Saint

    7 1978 HD

    Follow the swashbuckling exploits of Simon Templar, a modern-day Robin Hood of sorts.

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  • 1962
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    The Saint

    The Saint

    7.29 1962 HD

    Simon Templar is The Saint, a handsome, sophisticated, debonair, modern-day Robin Hood who recovers ill-gotten wealth and redistributes it to those...

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  • 1970
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    Play for Today

    Play for Today

    5.9 1970 HD

    Play for Today is a British television anthology drama series, produced by the BBC and transmitted on BBC1 from 1970 to 1984. During the run, more...

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  • 1973
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    Divorce His, Divorce Hers

    Divorce His, Divorce Hers

    5 1973 HD

    The dissolution of an 18-year marriage, seen first from his point-of-view and then from hers.

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  • 1977
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    The Professionals

    The Professionals

    7.4 1977 HD

    The lives of Bodie and Doyle, top agents for Britain's CI5 (Criminal Intelligence 5), and their controller, George Cowley. The mandate of CI5 was...

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