Joby Baker

Acting

Joby Baker

Born 1934-03-26 · Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Joby Baker is a Canadian actor and writer.

Acting credits

Blackbeard's Ghost poster
6.7

The eponymous wraith returns to Earth to aid his descendant, elderly Emily Stowecroft. The villains want to kick Emily and her friends out of their group home so that they can build a crooked casino. Good guy Steve Walker gets caught in the middle of the squabble after evoking Blackbeard's ghost.

Blackbeard's Ghost

1968

Girl Happy poster
6.5

Chicago mobster Big Frank hires rock & roll singer Rusty Wells and his band to keep an eye on his daughter during Spring Break in Fort Lauderdale.

Girl Happy

1965

Avalanche poster
3.6

After an avalanche of snow crashes into their ski resort, a holiday at a winter wonderland turns into a game of survival for a group of vacationers.

Avalanche

1978

The Adventures of Bullwhip Griffin poster
6.6

To restore his family's lost wealth, a young Boston lad stows away on a ship bound for the California Gold Rush. When their very proper butler gives chase, all roads lead to nonstop adventure, wild and woolly characters, and a lucky punch that leads to a bonanza of belly laughs!

The Adventures of Bullwhip Griffin

1967

Superdad poster
4.8

A dad tries to impress the daughter -- a soon-to-be college student he thinks is hanging around with a bad crowd.

Superdad

1973

Gidget poster
6.0

Due to an accident while swimming in the sea, Francis meets the surfer Moondoggie. She's fascinated with his sport and starts to hang out with his clique. Although they make fun of her at first, they teach her to surf and soon she's accepted and given the nickname "Gidget". But it's hard work to become more than a friend to Moondoggie.

Gidget

1959

The Wackiest Ship in the Army poster
6.2

Lieutenant Rip Crandall is hoodwinked into taking command of the "Wackiest Ship in the Navy" – a real garbage scow with a crew of misfits who don't know a jib from a jigger. What none of them knows, including Crandall, is that this ship has a very important top-secret mission to complete in waters patrolled by the Japanese fleet. Their mission will save hundreds of allied lives – if only they can get there in one piece.

The Wackiest Ship in the Army

1960

Key Witness poster
6.9

An average Los Angeles citizen witnesses a gang murder when he stops to use a telephone. When he presents himself to the LAPD as the only person willing to identify the culprits, he opens himself up to a campaign of intimidation from the gang involved.

Key Witness

1960

Gidget Goes Hawaiian poster
5.0

Francis is desperate: her parents want to force her to come with them on vacation to Hawaii - just during the two weeks when her beloved "Moondoggy" is home from College. When he suggests her to go for it, she's even more in panic - doesn't he care to be with her? So she sets out for Hawaii in the worst mood. On the plane she meets the sociable Abby, who gives her the advice to forget about Jeff - and regrets it shortly after, when Francis follows the advice and steals her boyfriend Eddie, a famous dancer. But then Jeff discovers he's missing Francis...

Gidget Goes Hawaiian

1961

The Defender (Studio One) poster
6.1

The pilot for the television series, "The Defenders." The story of Walter and Kenneth Pearson, a father-and-son legal team. Broadcast as two segments of "Studio One," the story relates how the Pearsons defend a young man accused of killing a woman during a robbery attempt.

The Defender (Studio One)

1957

Valley of Mystery poster
7.5

A Meridian Airlines flight from Miami to Caracas crashes in the Venezuelan jungle, stranding 130 passengers and crew in hostile surroundings.

Valley of Mystery

1967

Looking for Love poster
5.8

An aspiring young singer unexpectedly gets her big break by inventing a specialized clothes rack.

Looking for Love

1964

Gidget Goes to Rome poster
5.0

Francis, now 17, is still in love with Moondoggy. She can persuade her parents to allow them a journey to Rome, together with two of her and two of his friends. However they have to take an adult with them, so they choose Peter's eccentric aunt. In Rome they get the beautiful guide Daniela, who's fascinating the guys and making especially Gidget jealous. She starts looking elsewhere herself.

Gidget Goes to Rome

1963

Jimmy B. & Andre poster
7.5

Real-life story detailing the relationship between a popular Detroit restaurant owner and a young black youngster whom he tries to adopt.

Jimmy B. & Andre

1980

When the Boys Meet the Girls poster
4.8

A playboy helps a young woman turn her father's Nevada ranch into a haven for divorcees.

When the Boys Meet the Girls

1965

The Last Angry Man poster
6.9

Dr. Sam Abelman is a Jewish doctor contentedly spending his autumn years serving his own Brooklyn neighborhood. But when his nephew, would-be journalist Myron, writes an article about him, it draws the attention of a producer, Woodrow Thrasher, who believes Dr. Abelman a good candidate for a TV show. The doctor, however, is suspicious of the whole enterprise, thinking both Myron and Thrasher are simply out to make a fast buck.

The Last Angry Man

1959

Cry Rape poster
7.0

A man who is arrested for rape swears it wasn't him but somebody who looks just like him, but the victim insists it was him.

Cry Rape

1973

Hootenanny Hoot! poster
6.0

The marriage of television director Ted Glover and television producer A.G. Bannister has gone on the rocks because she has permitted her career to take precedence over romance.

Hootenanny Hoot!

1963

Sex and the Single Parent poster
10.0

Two attractive divorcees find that their newly realized independence continues to be guided by their respective parental obligations.

Sex and the Single Parent

1979

Target Zero poster
6.1

International soldiers fight to ignore their differences while holding a hill during the Korean War.

Target Zero

1955

Stone poster
9.0

Dennis Weaver is a Joseph Wambaugh-type novelist cop and Pat Hingle is his hard-nosed superior who wants him to stick to police work or get off the force in this pilot to the short-lived series.

Stone

1979