C. Graham Baker
Charles Graham Baker | |
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Born | Evansville, Indiana, U.S. | July 16, 1883
Died | May 15, 1950 Reseda, Los Angeles, California, U.S. | (aged 66)
Years active | 1915–1948 |
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.[1]
Biography[]
He was born in Evansville, Indiana on July 16, 1883 to Elwood T. Baker 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 company in Brooklyn, New York City.[2]
Baker died in Reseda, Los Angeles, California on May 15, 1950.[1]
Partial filmography[]
- The Flaming Omen (1917)
- The Grell Mystery (1917)
- Love Watches (1918)
- Frauds and Frenzies (1918)
- The Fortune Hunter (1920)
- The Vice of Fools (1920)
- The Inner Chamber (1921)
- The Single Track (1921)
- No Defense (1921)
- What's Your Reputation Worth? (1921)
- The Scarab Ring (1921)
- Fortune's Mask (1922)
- The Man from Brodney's (1923)
- The Midnight Alarm (1923)
- Playing It Wild (1923)
- The Man Next Door (1923)
- The Girl in the Limousine (1924)
- The Beautiful City (1925)
- Just Suppose (1926)
- The Third Degree (1926)
- The Girl from Chicago (1927)
- The Singing Fool (1928)
- Fancy Baggage (1929)
- Sonny Boy (1930)
- Broadway Through a Keyhole (1933)
- She Couldn't Take It (1935)
- Shanghai (1935)
- Mary Burns, Fugitive (1935)
- The Girl Friend (1935)
- You Only Live Once (1937)
- Ali Baba Goes to Town (1937)
- Eternally Yours (1939)
- Danger Signal (1945)
- Ramrod (1947)
References[]
- ^ Jump up to: a b "C.G. Baker, Helped Devise Gin Rummy". New York Times. May 17, 1950. Retrieved May 22, 2008.
C. Graham Baker, writer and producer of motion pictures and co-creator of the card game gin rummy, died today at his home in Reseda in the San Fernando Valley. ...
- ^ World War I draft registration
External links[]
Categories:
- 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