Acting
Lenny Baker
Born — Died
1945-01-17 — 1982-04-12
Place of birth
Brookline, Massachusetts, U.S.
Known for
Acting
Credits
11 titles
Leonard Joel "Lenny" Baker (January 17, 1945 – April 12, 1982) was an American actor. He won the 1977 Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a Musical for the musical I Love My Wife, and was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for his role in Next Stop, Greenwich Village (1976).
Known for
6.1The best in the performing arts from across America and around the world including a diverse programming portfolio of classical music, opera, popular song, musical theater, dance, drama, and performance documentaries.
Great Performances
1971
7.3Louie De Palma is a cantankerous, acerbic taxi dispatcher in New York City. He tries to maintain order over a collection of varied and strange characters who drive for him. As he bullies and insults them from the safety of his “cage,” they form a special bond among themselves, becoming friends and supporting each other through the inevitable trials and tribulations of life.
Taxi
1978
7.3A bald, lollipop sucking police detective with a fiery righteous attitude battles crime in New York City.
Kojak
1973
6.7Dr. Bock, the chief of medicine at a Manhattan hospital, is suicidal after the collapse of his personal life. When an intern is found dead in a hospital bed, it appears to Bock to be a case of unforgivable malpractice. Hours later, another doctor, who happens to be responsible for another case of malpractice, is found dead. Despondent, Bock finds himself drawn to Barbara, the daughter of a comatose missionary.
The Hospital
1971
6.8A first-year law student struggles with balancing his coursework and his relationship with the daughter of a stern professor.
The Paper Chase
1973
6.4An aspiring Jewish actor moves out of his parents' Brooklyn apartment to seek his fortune in the bohemian life of Greenwich Village in 1953.
Next Stop, Greenwich Village
1976
Film credits
1970s · 8 titles
6.7Dr. Bock, the chief of medicine at a Manhattan hospital, is suicidal after the collapse of his personal life. When an intern is found dead in a hospital bed, it appears to Bock to be a case of unforgivable malpractice. Hours later, another doctor, who happens to be responsible for another case of malpractice, is found dead. Despondent, Bock finds himself drawn to Barbara, the daughter of a comatose missionary.
The Hospital
1971
6.8A first-year law student struggles with balancing his coursework and his relationship with the daughter of a stern professor.
The Paper Chase
1973
6.4An aspiring Jewish actor moves out of his parents' Brooklyn apartment to seek his fortune in the bohemian life of Greenwich Village in 1953.
Next Stop, Greenwich Village
1976
5.5After a young man goes missing at a run-down local amusement park, his family take jobs there in an effort to uncover what happened to him and, in the process, meet a cadre of unsettling characters.
Malatesta’s Carnival of Blood
1973
6.5Dramatization showing the 1968 seizure of the spy ship, Pueblo, by the North Koreans and the treatment of the Pueblo's crew during their year of captivity through flashbacks during the 1969 investigation of the affair.
Pueblo
1973
A squad of police department misfits are assigned to patrol Central Park without real guns.
The Rubber Gun Squad
1977
8.0Set in Richmond, Virginia in October 1864, tells the story of a Union spy working to seize control of the telegraph office.
Secret Service
1977
7.0In Sweden, young US soldier, Willy, goes a.w.o.l and teams up with other deserters in Stockholm. There, he meets leftist radical beauty, Inga, who tries to seduce him into joining her extremist group's cause.
AWOL
1972
Series credits
6.1The best in the performing arts from across America and around the world including a diverse programming portfolio of classical music, opera, popular song, musical theater, dance, drama, and performance documentaries.
Great Performances
1971
7.3Louie De Palma is a cantankerous, acerbic taxi dispatcher in New York City. He tries to maintain order over a collection of varied and strange characters who drive for him. As he bullies and insults them from the safety of his “cage,” they form a special bond among themselves, becoming friends and supporting each other through the inevitable trials and tribulations of life.
Taxi
1978
7.3A bald, lollipop sucking police detective with a fiery righteous attitude battles crime in New York City.
Kojak
1973