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Writer, illustrator and film director. Baker first joined Vitagraph Studios and was the primary director for the comedies starring John Bunny and Flora Finch. He then joined Metro Studios and later worked as a freelance director throughout the 20s, before retiring in his late fifties
Total trailers found: 78
12 November 1917
Duplicity and double crosses run thick and fast when Ben Farraday forces Nan Kennedy to steal documents from Ben’s enemy John Lawson in exchange for his silence about her escapee brother’s whereabouts.
14 August 1915
Retired businessman F.G. Lawrence favors Philip Preston for a son-in-law; Mrs. Lawrence prefers Reggie, the Dainty Dude.
25 December 1914
A pet parrot dies and get mixed up with the neighbor's Chrismas turkey.
15 October 1917
The disgrace and suicide of her father drives Eleanore Marston from her comfortable existence into a life as a department store clerk in New York.
23 April 1914
John and Flora meet at a ball, but neither can do these modern dances, so they sit out… and run into each other later at a dance studio.
18 February 1911
A capable but homely new hire becomes ill and recommends her beautiful cousin during leave. The bosses and clerk get a surprise at the end.
14 August 1914
When his wife goes away on vacation, a husband decides to use that time to do a little "playing around" and winds up at a resort hotel with two young girls.
09 April 1921
Strung around the idea of reincarnation, this film goes back in time to the days of the Spanish galleons and pirates burying their treasure; treasure to be found centuries later.
31 January 1916
A grandmother has an adventure for the first time in her life when she decides to have a night out.
30 September 1918
The valet of Lord Harold Varden, on a secret mission to our Government, has been murdered. Dick Holloway, a reporter, detailed to the story, calls on Lord Varden just as the latter feels the effects of poison administered to him.
23 January 1915
When WWI breaks out previously best friends in their New York neighborhood, The Schultz and Du Bois families, take opposite sides in the conflict.
11 June 1913
Ira and his son-in-law Harry pretend to enlist in the 13th regiment where they have "drills" every Friday night.
25 September 1914
Tupper meets the wealthy Miss Whipple at a baseball game. When she declares that she just adores baseball players, Tupper starts up a team.
12 August 1918
Debutante Mary Manners has inherited the power of mind-reading from her gypsy ancestors.
29 May 1915
Initially, Hughie finds his new cook Jane unsatisfactory, until he tries several others.
10 July 1914
Annette and Bunny each purchase one of a pair of antique vases, then meet and argue over who should own the matching set.
21 July 1913
A John Bunny comedy short featuring his usual leading lady Flora Finch. Confusion over a stolen ticket puts Finch in jail.
14 July 1911
Mrs. Nag objects to her husband having a pretty female stenographer in his office, and orders him to employ one of his own sex.
01 May 1921
Carlotta Darley (Dean) is engaged to Homer Carleton (Crosby), but regrets that Homer is not as tall and handsome as the butler Peter (Kerry).
10 September 1917
Overcome with guilt after having an affair with her best friends husband, Clorinda hopes to escape her past by moving to Europe, where she meets Malcolm, a decent man who falls in love with her.
07 May 1914
LOST FILM. A comedy in which Johan has no desire to meet the unmarried Sarah, and so has his friend Freddy pretend that he is Johan.
10 February 1919
Although a female, gunfighter "Colonel Billy" is feared by the men of Rattlesnake Gulch, a mining camp in California.
01 January 1913
Comedy of a bachelor who succumbs to the charms of love and deserts 'the boys' who had given him up as a hopeless case.
23 June 1924
Paul Granville becomes a famous painter for his portraits of great women as modeled by the beautiful Joline Hofer.
21 January 1914
An old maid vies with a beautiful young student for the affections of an elderly professor.
04 October 1923
Poet Raphael de Valentin is down on his luck until a friend introduces him into society. He meets the Countess Fedora, and after she reads his poems, his work becomes an overnight sensation.
20 August 1912
An old doctor hires a young new doctor to join his practice, particularly to attract women for more business.
03 June 1918
Tomboy Nita, a vegetable seller in a small Californian town, believes herself to be the daughter of poor ranch workers, but she is actually the daughter of Clara Hawkins, a wealthy neighbour who was stolen at birth and presumed dead.
28 November 1920
A prison inmate obtains his release from prison in order to rescue his daughter from the clutches of her unscrupulous mother's plot to implicate the girl in a blackmail scheme.
19 March 1917
Thrown out of his dad's house without a penny to his name, playboy J. Dabney Barron is told not to return until he has proven that he can keep a job for an entire month.
14 January 1917
William Baldwin, ruined in business by his partner, John Blaisdell, implores Blaisdell's aid, and receives in answer a five-dollar bill across the face of which is written, "Spend this for a gun and use it on yourself.
03 July 1914
Two young people, Betty Browne and Billy, are set to inherit money if they marry, but each imagines the other as a rough cowboy and refuses; by chance, they end up on the same train with their chaperones (Miss Prim and Bunny), leading to mistaken identities, romantic confusion (as Bunny and Miss Prim fall for each other too!), and a hilarious mix-up before they finally discover each other's true identities at a station and fall in love for real.
12 May 1918
A gypsy girl whose mother committed suicide after being seduced and abandoned by a rich man finds herself twenty years later being wooed by the same man.
12 May 1912
Romantic comedy in which a woman who no longer wants to marry her fiance when it turns out he doesn't have an inheritance.
06 July 1912
A widower with four grown daughters remarries and brings his new wife home to meet them. The girls set out to make life as difficult as possible for their new mother.
29 January 1917
A lonely wife runs off with a traveling actor, taking her boy with her but leaving her daughter behind.
21 August 1916
Upon striking oil on his farm, Silas T. Pettingill (Charles Eldridge) moves to Park Avenue at the behest of his social-climbing wife Maria (Kate Blancke) and daughter Helen (Emmy Wehlen).
17 February 1918
Joline, a cabaret singer in Paris, models for her lover, painter Paul Granville. Paul becomes famous for his paintings of Joline in the guise of famous women like Cleopatra and Salome.
19 May 1919
A reverend attempts to raise the money necessary to open up a boys' club and clashes with a wealthy grocer in the process.
21 August 1914
No sooner have Jimmy and Mary, a newly-married couple, entered their new home when Jimmie receives a note from his wealthy uncle, announcing his intention of paying his nephew and heir a visit that evening.
02 January 1915
A rich Auntie sends an ugly portrait of herself to Mr. and Mrs. Honeypet. They hide it in the attic, thinking she won't visit for a long time, but soon Auntie arrives unannounced.
31 January 1916
Husbandless Jane has her eye set on Willie but he is too bashful to take the initiative. To make him jealous, she creates a scarecrowl who happens to resemble the notorious bank robber Banker Bill.
18 November 1914
Both deadly rivals for the hand of the Widow Hathaway, Kirkland and Livingston, gentleman farmers, are so bitter, they do all possible to break up the love match between Dick and Florence, their respective children, causing great unhappiness.
30 October 1914
While Flora Winslow, a widow is engaged to Bunny, she attends a lecture on eugenics and decides that her intended husband is too fat.
08 January 1915
Anti-smoking campaigner Bella Butts enlists the help of the mayor's wife to enact a ban on tobacco, much to the chagrin of the town's cigar-addicted menfolk.
22 March 1912
Mr. Bolten is hoping to woo the dancer Céleste and invites her for coffee. Her answer is that she will wait for him in hotel "Des imbeciles' in New York.
18 August 1913
Farce in which two neighbouring couples test each other's jealousy. The women decide to make the men jealous and vice versa.
30 May 1920
Young Victor Jones of America is discovered to be an exact lookalike for England's Earl of Rochester, a circumstance which results in Jones deciding to replace the Earl after an unfortunate accident.
28 May 1917
Clover Ames's life consists only of the drudge work that she performs at her Aunt Sarah's boardinghouse.
16 January 1912
Bunny and Marsh attend a show and both fall in love with a charming danseuse.
04 October 1915
Geoffrey's relationship with his fiancée is threatened by Ameuset, a princess of Egypt awakened after five thousand years.
04 March 1918
New York confidence man "Silk" Wilkins ingratiates himself with millionaire Lawrence Gray, knowing Gray’s wife and daughter Zelda were lost in a flood eighteen years earlier.
19 June 1916
Peter is smitten with Winifred, a model, whom he met on board the steamer returning from Europe, but is discouraged by his sister, Ena, who is more ambitious for him.
07 August 1914
Bunny receives a shock upon reading about the attempted assassination of the Mayor of New York. He laughs off his wife's suggestion of getting police protection for himself.
14 December 1919
Aspiring actress Elizabeth Dalston, after rehearsing a murder scene for a movie, is fired by her director at the request of the company's Wall Street backer, Sylvanus Power.
07 May 1917
Annie Leigh, a factory worker who marries Earle Courtney, the son of a millionaire. However, Earle's father, Major James Courtney, is determined to see his son marry a wealthy socialite, Ethel Ainsworth.
24 February 1919
The Honorable Hugh Wentworth, arriving from England with a valuable diamond to millionaire Edward Ensloe.
20 March 1921
Robert Frazer and Anna Q. Nilsson star in this drama, based on Temple Dusk by Calvin Johnson. David Marlowe (Frazer), the son of a clergyman (Frank Currier), is seduced by the earthly delights of drinking and gambling.
17 October 1912
On his trip to Europe, Bunny is very much disturbed because he fails to make his usual impression with the ladies.
18 September 1916
Broadway star Mona Mainard retires from the stage for marriage to rising attorney John Norton and watches his career climb.
