Ezra R. Baker

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Ezra Reuben Baker (born March 23, 1913 in Essex Fells , New Jersey , † April 30, 1990 ) was an American film producer , film director and film actor who was nominated for two of the short films he produced for an Oscar , of which he was one could take home.

Life notes

Almost nothing is known about Baker, who first appeared publicly in 1960 with his short film Day of the Painter . For the short film Day of the Painter , created by him in collaboration with director Robert P. Davis , he was awarded an Oscar in 1961 in the category “Best Short Film” . In a high-spirited, very comical parody that has abstract-expressionist painting as its theme, a painter fills a canvas in a very unusual way and at the end cuts up the work he has created again to throw the individual parts into a river.

Baker also scored points with the short film Koncert , produced in 1963, and was again nominated for an Oscar in the “Best Short Film” category, which then went to the Belgian-French film duo Paul de Roubaix and Marcel Ichac and the literary adaptation La rivière du hibou , whose Action revolves around a man who is about to be hanged on a bridge during the Civil War . In the film Koncert , produced by Baker , some vacationers spontaneously hold a concert on a piano that is on the beach and has been abandoned by three young men.

In his 1967 short film Space , Baker directed, scripted and also acted as his own actor. The film shows an elderly man trying to park his Rolls-Royce in pain. Baker made his last appearance with this film.

Filmography (selection)

  • 1960: Day of the Painter (short film; producer)
  • 1962: Concert (short film; producer)
  • 1963: The Supermarket (short film, producer, director)
  • 1963: Your Band (short film, producer)
  • 1967: Space (short film, director, actor)

Awards

Academy Awards 1961

  • Award for Ezra R. Baker for Day of the Painter

Academy Awards 1964

  • Nomination for Ezra R. Baker for concert

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ezra R. Baker see page deathFigures.com (English).
  2. ↑ Ezra Baker see page ancestry.com (English).
personal data
SURNAME Baker, Ezra R.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Baker, Ezra Reuben
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American film producer, film director, and film actor
DATE OF BIRTH March 23, 1913
PLACE OF BIRTH Essex Fells in New Jersey, United States
DATE OF DEATH April 30, 1990
Place of death probably New York