Charles Graham Baker (July 16, 1883 – May 15, 1950) was an American screenwriter and director. He wrote for more than 170 films between 1915 and 1948. He and his father invented the game of
Gin rummy in 1909.
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Biography
He was born in Evansville, Indiana
Evansville is a city in, and the county seat of, Vanderburgh County, Indiana, United States. The population was 118,414 at the 2020 census, making it the state's third-most populous city after Indianapolis and Fort Wayne, the largest city in ...
on July 16, 1883 to Elwood T. Baker Elwood Thomas Baker (1854 – November 22, 1938) and his son, Charles Graham Baker, invented Gin rummy in 1909.
Elwood was a whist teacher in Brooklyn, New York
Brooklyn () is a borough of New York City, coextensive with Kings County, in the ...
and Leslie S. Barrows. He and his father invented the game of Gin rummy in 1909. By 1918 he was working as a "playwright" for the Vitagraph
Vitagraph Studios, also known as the Vitagraph Company of America, was a United States motion picture studio. It was founded by J. Stuart Blackton and Albert E. Smith in 1897 in Brooklyn, New York, as the American Vitagraph Company. By 1907, ...
company in Brooklyn, New York City.[World War I draft registration]
Baker died in Reseda, Los Angeles, California on May 15, 1950.
Partial filmography
* ''The Flaming Omen
''The Flaming Omen'' is a 1917 American silent drama film directed by William Wolbert and starring Gayne Whitman, Mary Anderson and Otto Lederer.Weaver p.206
Cast
* Gayne Whitman as Dorian
* Mary Anderson as Blanca
* Luella Smith as Violet
* ...
'' (1917)
*''The Grell Mystery
''The Grell Mystery'' is a 1917 American silent mystery film directed by Paul Scardon and written by Graham Baker. The film stars Earle Williams
Earle Williams (born Earle Raphael Williams; February 28, 1880 – April 25, 1927) was an Amer ...
'' (1917)
*'' Love Watches'' (1918)
*''Frauds and Frenzies
''Frauds and Frenzies'' is a 1918 American silent comedy film featuring Stan Laurel.
Cast
* Larry Semon as Larry, First Prisoner
* Stan Laurel as Simp, Second Prisoner
* Madge Kirby as Dolly Dare
* William McCall as Warden (as Billy McCall)
* ...
'' (1918)
*''The Fortune Hunter
''The Fortune Hunter'' is a drama in three acts by W. S. Gilbert. The piece concerns an heiress who loses her fortune. Her shallow husband sues to annul the marriage, leaving her pregnant and taking up with a wealthy former lover. The piece wa ...
'' (1920)
* '' The Vice of Fools'' (1920)
* ''The Whisper Market
''The Whisper Market'' is a 1920 American silent drama film directed by George L. Sargent and starring Corinne Griffith, George MacQuarrie and Eulalie Jensen.Connelly p.432
Cast
* Corinne Griffith as Erminie North
* George Howard as Basil Nor ...
'' (1920)
*''The Inner Chamber
''The Inner Chamber'' is a 1921 American silent romantic drama film produced and distributed by the Vitagraph Company of America. It was based on the novel ''The Blood Red Dawn'' by Charles Caldwell Dobie. The film was directed by Edward José ...
'' (1921)
*'' The Single Track'' (1921)
* ''No Defense No Defense may refer to:
* No Defense (1929 film)
''No Defense'' is a 1929 American romantic drama film directed by Lloyd Bacon and starring Monte Blue. It was a silent film with part talking and sound-effects using the Vitaphone system. It was d ...
'' (1921)
*''What's Your Reputation Worth?
''What's Your Reputation Worth?'' is a lost 1921 American silent drama film directed by Webster Campbell and starring Corinne Griffith, Percy Marmont, and Leslie Roycroft.
Cast
* Corinne Griffith as Cara Deene
* Percy Marmont as Anthony Blake ...
'' (1921)
* ''The Scarab Ring
''The Scarab Ring'' is a 1921 American silent mystery film directed by Edward José and starring Alice Joyce, Maude Malcolm and Joe King.Wlaschin p.196
Cast
* Alice Joyce as Constance Randall
* Maude Malcolm as Muriel Randall
* Joe King as W ...
'' (1921)
* '' Peggy Puts It Over'' (1921)
* ''It Isn't Being Done This Season
''It Isn't Being Done This Season is a 1921 American silent drama film directed by George L. Sargent and starring Corinne Griffith, Sally Crute and Webster Campbell.Connelly p.367
Synopsis
Following her mother's advice to marry for money, Marcia ...
'' (1921)
* '' The Matrimonial Web'' (1921)
*''Fortune's Mask
''Fortune's Mask'' is a 1922 American drama film starring Earle Williams and featuring Oliver Hardy. It is unknown whether any print of the film survives; it may be a lost film.
Plot
Cast
* Earle Williams as Ramón Olivarra (aka Dicky Maloney ...
'' (1922)
* ''The Angel of Crooked Street
''The Angel of Crooked Street'' is a 1922 American silent crime drama film directed by David Smith and starring Alice Calhoun, Ralph McCullough and William McCall.Connelly p.13
Synopsis
Jennie Marsh, a young woman working as a maid is unjustl ...
'' (1922)
* ''The Girl in His Room
''The Girl in His Room'' is a 1922 American silent drama film directed by Edward José and starring Alice Calhoun, Warner Baxter and Eve Southern.Munden p.292
Cast
* Alice Calhoun as Myra Pendleton
* Warner Baxter as Kirk Waring
* Robert Ander ...
'' (1922)
*''The Man from Brodney's
''The Man from Brodney's'' is a 1923 American silent drama film directed by David Smith and starring J. Warren Kerrigan, Alice Calhoun, and Wanda Hawley. It was produced and released by the Vitagraph Company of America.
Plot
As described in a ...
'' (1923)
*'' The Midnight Alarm'' (1923)
* '' Pioneer Trails'' (1923)
* '' Masters of Men'' (1923)
*''Playing It Wild
''Playing It Wild'' is a 1923 American silent Western film directed by William Duncan and starring Duncan, Edith Johnson and Francis Powers.Rainey p.48
Cast
* William Duncan as Jerry Hoskins
* Edith Johnson as Beth Webb
* Francis Powe ...
'' (1923)
*'' The Man Next Door'' (1923)
*''The Girl in the Limousine
''The Girl in the Limousine'' is a 1924 American comedy film starring Larry Semon and featuring Oliver Hardy. The film is based on the 1919 play of the same name by Wilson Collison and Avery Hopwood.
Plot
Cast
Preservation
With no prints of ...
'' (1924)
*''The Beautiful City
''The Beautiful City'' ( fa, شهر زیبا /Shahr-e Ziba/) is a 2004 Iranian drama film directed by Asghar Farhadi.
Plot
Akbar celebrates his 18th birthday in the detention centre. He has been held in a rehabilitation centre for committing mur ...
'' (1925)
*''Just Suppose
''Just Suppose'' is a 1926 American silent drama film produced by and starring Richard Barthelmess with distribution through First National Pictures. Kenneth Webb directed Barthelmess and young Lois Moran star. The film is based on the 1920 Bro ...
'' (1926)
*'' The Third Degree'' (1926)
*''The Girl from Chicago
''The Girl from Chicago'' is a 1932 American Pre-Code drama film produced and directed by Oscar Micheaux, with an all-African-American cast including lead actors Grace Smith and Carl Mahon. The story concerns a federal agent who falls in love ...
'' (1927)
*'' The Singing Fool'' (1928)
*''Fancy Baggage
''Fancy Baggage'' is a 1929 American drama film
In film and television, drama is a category or genre of narrative fiction (or semi-fiction) intended to be more serious than humorous in tone. Drama of this kind is usually qualified with ...
'' (1929)
*'' Sonny Boy'' (1930)
*''Broadway Through a Keyhole
''Broadway Through a Keyhole'', also billed as ''Broadway Thru a Keyhole'', is a 1933 American pre-Code musical film produced by Twentieth Century Pictures and released by United Artists.
New York City speakeasy proprietress Texas Guinan appear ...
'' (1933)
*''She Couldn't Take It
''She Couldn't Take It'' is a 1935 screwball comedy film made at Columbia Pictures, directed by Tay Garnett, written by C. Graham Baker, Gene Towne and Oliver H.P. Garrett, and starring George Raft and Joan Bennett. It was one of the few comedi ...
'' (1935)
*''Shanghai
Shanghai (; , , Standard Mandarin pronunciation: ) is one of the four direct-administered municipalities of the People's Republic of China (PRC). The city is located on the southern estuary of the Yangtze River, with the Huangpu River flow ...
'' (1935)
*'' Mary Burns, Fugitive'' (1935)
* ''The Girl Friend
''The Girl Friend'' is a musical comedy with music by Richard Rodgers, lyrics by Lorenz Hart and book by Herbert Fields. This was the longest running show for the trio to that date.Secrest, Meryle. ''Somewhere for me:a biography of Richard Rodge ...
'' (1935)
*'' You Only Live Once'' (1937)
*''Ali Baba Goes to Town
''Ali Baba Goes to Town'' is a 1937 musical film directed by David Butler and starring Eddie Cantor, Tony Martin, and Roland Young. Cantor plays a hobo named Aloysius "Al" Babson, who walks into the camp of a movie company that is making th ...
'' (1937)
*'' Eternally Yours'' (1939)
*''Danger Signal
''Danger Signal'' is a 1945 film noir starring Faye Emerson and Zachary Scott. The screenplay was adapted from the 1939 novel of the same name by Phyllis Bottome.
Plot
A mysterious pulp writer—and psychopath—named Ronnie Mason, steals a de ...
'' (1945)
*''Ramrod
A ramrod (or scouring stick) is a metal or wooden device used with muzzleloading firearms to push the projectile up against the propellant (mainly blackpowder). The ramrod was used with weapons such as muskets and cannons and was usually held i ...
'' (1947)
References
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1883 births
1950 deaths
American male screenwriters
Writers from Evansville, Indiana
Burials at Hollywood Forever Cemetery
Film directors from Indiana
Screenwriters from Indiana
20th-century American male writers
20th-century American screenwriters