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Thomas Baptiste (17 March 1929 – 6 December 2018) was a Guyanese-born British actor and opera singer.
Thomas Baptiste was a British actor born in 1929 in British Guiana. He appeared in films such as The Wild Geese, Amin: The Rise and Fall, and The Ipcress File, and died in 2018 in England.
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- Georgetown, British Guiana
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- Brighton & Hove, East Sussex, England, UK
Thomas Baptiste was born on 17 March 1929 in Georgetown, British Guiana. He was an actor, known for The Wild Geese (1978), Amin: The Rise and Fall (1981) and The Ipcress File (1965). He died on 6 December 2018 in Brighton & Hove, East Sussex, England, UK.
Thomas Baptiste. Actor, Singer. 17 March 1929 to 6 December 2018. A Guyanese actor and singer who moved to Britain aged 21, Baptiste began his career in entertainment as a baritone singer before discovering the theatre.
Jan 10, 2019 · Thomas Baptiste, an early advocate of blind casting, was the first black actor to appear on Coronation Street. Baptiste, who'd wanted to be an opera singer, had a career spanning...
Thomas Baptiste was a leading figure in Britain's post-war cultural landscape, appearing in plays by Pinter, O'Neill and Walcott. He also co-founded Equity's Afro-Asian committee and challenged casting norms in Coronation Street and Empire Road.
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Dec 26, 2018 · Thomas Baptiste, the actor and singer, who has died aged 89, played the first black character to appear in Coronation Street – Johnny Alexander, a bus conductor who accused a racist Len ...
