George Baker (Bengali actor)

George Baker
Born (1945-10-28) 28 October 1945
Tezpur, Assam, India
Residence Kolkata, West Bengal, India
Education Assam Engineering College
Occupation Actor, Politician
Employer Northeast Frontier Railway zone
Known for Cinema of West Bengal, Cinema of Assam, Bharatiya Janata Party
Political party Bharatiya Janata Party
Spouse(s) Arpita Baker

George Baker (28 October 1946), is an Indian actor and politician. He has been a prolific actor in Assamese & Bengali movies since the late 1970s. He is one of the two Members of Parliament appointed by the president under Article 331 (Anglo-Indian) of the Indian Constitution. He joined the Bharatiya Janata Party[1] in 2014 and contested and lost the Lok Sabha elections from the Howrah constituency during the Indian general election, 2014.

Biography

Early life and education

Baker was born in Tezpur, Assam, on 28 October 1946. His initial education was in Lucknow at La Martiniere College. He was a National level junior in Boxing and Swimming during this period. He later joined the Assam Engineering College but had to leave midway since his father died. He completed a two-year course in Permanent Way Engineering and joined the Northeast Frontier Railway zone in the Engineering Department. He served here for two years and then quit to start his own business

Acting career (Early 1970s - Present)

Baker made his first foray into Assamese cinema in 1974. He played the protagonist in the Assamese film Chameli Memsaab . This film went on to win the National Film Award for Best Feature Film in Assamese at the 23rd National Film Awards. He played the role of Berkeley, a British planter who falls for a native girl, Chameli, (played by Binita Borgohain) and is later accused for her murder. Baker later played the same role in the Bengali version of the same movie .

He went on to act in numerous Bengali movies, Jatra (theatre), television films, serials mostly playing parts of British Expatriates. He has also been part of roving theater groups.

Over the years he has acted in films of five languages - Bengali, Assamese, English, Hindi & Santhali.

More recently he played the role of Sir William Eckhardt in Parineeta (2005 film) and Mr. Ramsey in Bhooter Bhabishyat .

Political career (2014)

On 27 February 2014, the Bharatiya Janata Party announced Baker as their candidate for the Indian general election, 2014 from the Howrah (Lok Sabha constituency) .

On 23 July 2015, he was appointed to the 16th Lok Sabha as one of the two appointed members representing the Anglo-Indian community along with Richard Hay.[2]

Filmography

Year Film Role Director Co-Actor
2012 Bhooter Bhabishyat Mr. Ramsey Anik Dutta Swastika Mukherjee
Parambrata Chatterjee
Sabyasachi Chakraborty
2008 Love Riingo Banerjee Koyel Mallick
Jisshu Sengupta
2007 Minister Fatakeshto Swapan Saha Mithun Chakraborty
Debashree Roy
Koel Mallick
Soumitra Chatterjee
2005 Parineeta Sir William Eckhardt Pradeep Sarkar Saif Ali Khan
Vidya Balan
Sanjay Dutt
Dia Mirza
2004 Bow Barracks Forever Anjan Dutt Victor Banerjee
Roopali Ganguly
Sohini Pal
Moon Moon Sen
Sabyasachi Chakraborty
Arindam Sil
2002 Desh Raja Sen Jaya Bhaduri
Sabyasachi Chakraborty
Subhendu Chatterjee
Abhishek Bachchan
Nayana Das
1988 Anjali Anjan Choudhury Ranjit Mallick
Moon Moon Sen
Kali Bannerjee
Madhabi Mukherjee
1988 Boba Sanai Ajit Ganguly Rameshwari
Chiranjit
1988 Pratipaksha Rathish Dey Sarker Prasenjit Chatterjee
Rameshwari
Utpal Dutt
1983 Amar Geeti Tarun Majumdar Satya Bannerjee
Biswajeet
Soumitra Chatterjee
Rabi Ghosh
Anup Kumar
Chinmoy Roy
1982 Amrita Kumbher Sandhaney Dilip Roy Aparna Sen
Bhanu Bannerjee
Anup Kumar
1975 Chameli Memsaab Berkeley Abdul Majid Anil Chatterjee
Rakhee Gulzar

See also

References

  1. "BJP taps magic and acting". The Telegraph. 27 February 2014. Retrieved 18 March 2014.
  2. "Actor George Baker, Professor Richard Hay Nominated to Lok Sabha". NDTV.com. Retrieved 2016-10-14.

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