Graham Baker (director)

{{Short description|English director}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}}

{{Infobox person

|name=Graham Baker

|birth_date= {{circa}} 1938

|birth_place=England

|notable_works=Alien Nation

|occupation=Film director

}}

Graham Baker (born {{circa}} 1938){{cite news |title=Getting their first chance to direct film drama |work=The Stage & Television Today |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0001180/19770901/107/0016|date=1 September 1977 |page=16|quote="Graham Baker is 39..."|via=British Newspaper Archive}} {{subscription required}} is an English film director.{{cite news |last1=Taylor |first1=Noel |title=Eventful - if nothing else: The Final Conflict |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/24258650/ |work=The Ottawa Citizen |date=24 March 1981 |pages=31}}{{cite web|title=Graham Baker - Creative Consultant|url=http://www.straightwire.co.uk/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=105&Itemid=213|website=Straightwire Films|accessdate=24 December 2014|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20141224104158/http://www.straightwire.co.uk/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=105&Itemid=213|archivedate=24 December 2014|url-status=dead}}{{cite web |title=Graham Baker - Director |url=http://www.unitedagents.co.uk/graham-baker |website=United Agents |accessdate=24 December 2014 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20141224104814/http://www.unitedagents.co.uk/graham-baker |archivedate=24 December 2014 |url-status=dead }}{{cite web|title=Graham Baker|url=https://movies.nytimes.com/person/530577/Graham-Baker|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131007230110/http://movies.nytimes.com/person/530577/Graham-Baker|url-status=dead|department=Movies & TV Dept.|work=The New York Times|date=2013|archive-date=2013-10-07}} He directed a number of Hollywood feature films from 1981 to 1999, including the 1988 science fiction film Alien Nation.{{cite web|work=Chicago Tribune|title=Alien Nation|date=October 7, 1988|first=Dave|last=Kehr|url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/1988/10/07/alien-nation-gimmick-works-surprisingly-well/}}[https://www.avclub.com/james-caan-on-the-godfather-john-wayne-and-all-the-ro-1798238997 AV Club Interview with James Caan]. Retrieved June 27, 2013.

Baker studied painting, graphic design, and architecture at Leicester College.{{cite news|last1=D'Angelo|first1=Carr|title=Pride & Prejudice (Director Graham Baker)|url=https://archive.org/details/starlog_magazine-137|accessdate=25 December 2014|work=Starlog|issue=137|date=December 1988|location=New York|pages=65–72}} His first film was the short film Leaving Lily (1975), which was nominated for a BAFTA Award.{{cite web|title=John Grierson Award (Short Film) in 1976|url=https://www.bafta.org/awards/search?search=leaving+lily|website=BAFTA|publisher=British Academy of Film & Television Arts|accessdate=2 January 2025}} He has also directed television commercials, such as Isuzu's series of "Joe Isuzu" advertisements in the 1980s.

In 2008 Baker wrote the musical play Ipso Facto or The Rake's Return, with songs by Neil Innes.{{cite web|title=Ipso Facto, or The Rake's Return|url=http://www.mtproductions.co.uk/mainhouse_home.shtml|website=Matthew Townshend Productions|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150107092204/http://mtproductions.co.uk/mainhouse_home.shtml|archivedate=7 January 2015|accessdate=24 December 2014}}{{cite news |last1=Clarke |first1=Andrew |title=Neil Innes offers audiences something completely different |url=http://www.eadt.co.uk/news/features/neil_innes_offers_audiences_something_completely_different_1_1137691 |accessdate=24 December 2014 |work=East Anglian Daily Times |date=25 November 2011 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20141225073938/http://www.eadt.co.uk/news/features/neil_innes_offers_audiences_something_completely_different_1_1137691 |archivedate=25 December 2014 |url-status=dead }}