Noel S. Baker

{{Short description|Canadian screenwriter}}

Noel S. Baker is a Canadian film and television screenwriter.Jim Moodie, "Canadian films and their writers overlooked". Sudbury Star, March 14, 2000. He is most noted for the 1996 film Hard Core Logo, for which he was a Genie Award nominee for Best Adapted Screenplay at the 17th Genie Awards in 1996,"Over-the-edge Canadian films poised for Genie nod". Canadian Press, November 24, 1996. and won the prize for Best Canadian Screenplay at the 1996 Vancouver International Film Festival."McDonald film wins 2 awards". The Globe and Mail, October 22, 1996.

The following year he published the book Hard Core Roadshow: A Screenwriter's Diary, his own diaries of his experiences working on the film.David Weaver, "Into the heart of filmmaking: Noel Baker's diary is a compendium of the screenwriter's countless tribulations, momentary exhilarations and general disorientation". The Globe and Mail, April 12, 1997.

His other credits have included the films Platinum, American Whiskey Bar and We Forgot to Break Up, and episodes of the television series Drop the Beat, Show Me Yours and At the Hotel.