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Fred Baker (filmmaker)
Frederick or Fred Baker may refer to: *Frederick Baker (1965–2020), Austrian-British filmmaker and film producer *Frederick Baker, convicted of, and executed for, the murder of Fanny Adams (died 1867) *Fred Baker (physician) (1854–1938), American physician, malacologist, founder of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography *Fred Baker (soldier) (1908–1958), New Zealand army officer *Fred Baker (engineer) (born 1952), American engineer *Frederick Baker (cricketer) (1851–1939), Australian cricketer *Frederick Francis Baker (1772–1830), fellow of the Royal Society *Frederick R. Baker, American farmer, soldier, and politician *Fred Thelonious Baker (born 1960), English musician *Fred L. Baker (1872–1927), industrialist, shipbuilder and member of the Los Angeles City Council *Frederick Baker (1850–1888), English opera singer whose stage name was Frederick Federici See also *H. F. Baker (1866–1956), British mathematician *Frederick Arnold-Baker, British lawyer {{hndis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frederick Baker
Frederick Douglas Stephan "Fred" Baker (26 January 1965 – 24 August 2020) was an Austrian- British filmmaker, media scholar, and archaeologist. He was born in Salzburg and was brought up in London. After graduating from Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School for Boys, he studied Anthropology and Archaeology at St John’s College, Cambridge, Tübingen and Sheffield Universities, finishing with a Ph.D. from Cambridge University. He was a Senior Research Associate at the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, Cambridge University, specialising in Digital Humanities, Heritage, and Prehistoric Rock Art. He was a co-founder of the EU-funded 3D Pitoti digital heritage project and co-director of the Cambridge University Prehistoric Picture Project. He divided his time between London, Berlin and Vienna, producing and directing films, as well as writing articles and books. In the book ''The Art of Projectionism'' (2007) he defined a projectionist school of filmmaki ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fanny Adams
Fanny Adams (30 April 1859 – 24 August 1867) was an eight-year-old English girl who was murdered by solicitor's clerk, Frederick Baker, in Alton, Hampshire, on 24 August 1867. The murder itself was extraordinarily brutal and caused a national outcry in the United Kingdom. Fanny was abducted by Baker and taken into a hop garden near her home, where she was brutally murdered and dismembered; some parts were never found. Further investigations suggested that two small knives were used for the murder, but it was later ruled they would have been insufficient to carry out the crime and that another weapon must have been used. Used to express total downtime or inaction, the military, manual-trade and locker room talk phrase "sweet Fanny Adams" has been in use since at least the mid-20th century, vying with a stronger expletive. Unusually, the phrase is not a bowdlerisation; "Fanny Adams" arrived in 1860s naval slang to describe the new tinned meat which was of dubious pr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
