George Baker made his West End début in a Haymarket revival of Frederick Lonsdale’s Aren’t We All? in 1953. Family commitments led him to turn down an offer to join the Royal Shakespeare Company and in 1954 he became contracted to the Associated British Pictures Corporation.

George later returned to the theatre, had three seasons at the Old Vic and his work with the RSC includes the acclaimed Days in the Trees (1966) with Peggy Ashcroft at the Aldwych Theatre. He played Broadway in Noel Coward’s Look After Lulu and for five years ran his own theatre company. 

In June 2007, George was awarded an MBE for setting up a youth club in his home village of West Lavington.

• Film

  • The Spy Who Loved Me (1977)
  • On Her Majesty’s Secret Service (1969)
  • The Moonraker (1958)
  • Tread Softly Stranger (1958)
  • The Ship That Died of Shame (1955)
  • The Dam Busters (1955)

• Television

  • Cash in the Celebrity Attic (BBC 2009)
  • New Tricks (BBC 2007)
  • Spooks (BBC 2005)
  • Midsomer Murders (ITV 2005)
  • Coronation Street (ITV 2003)
  • Little Lord Fauntleroy (BBC 1995)
  • Journey’s End (BBC 1988)
  • At Bertram’s Hotel (BBC 1987)

• Theatre

  • The Rivals (2005)

• Radio

  • Mrs McGinty’s Dead (BBC 2005)
  • Evil Under the Sun (BBC 1998)

• Books

  • A Cook for All Seasons
  • The Way to Wexford

• Screenplays

  • A Clergyman’s Daughter
  • The Last Silence
  • Sister Dear Sister
  • The Marches of Wales
  • Road Rage
  • The Strawberry Tree
  • The Fatal Spring

• Also

  • Audiobooks of the Wexford novels read by George Baker