Dylan Baker

Dylan Baker is an American actor best known for playing supporting roles in both major studio movies and independent films. Image File history File links Dylanbaker. ... Image File history File links Dylanbaker. ... An independent film (or indie film) is a film initially produced without financing or distribution from a major movie studio. ...

Born on October 7, 1959 in Syracuse, New York, Baker was raised in Lynchburg, Virginia, where he began his acting career as a teenager in regional theater productions. He attended Holy Cross High school and graduated from the Georgetown Preparatory School in 1976. He atttended the College of William and Mary in Virginia and later graduated from Southern Methodist in 1980. He then received a Masters in Fine Arts from the Yale School of Drama. In 1986, he performed in an off-Broadway production of Not About Heroes, co-starring Edward Herrmann and directed by Diane Wiest, winning an Obie Award for his performance. After graduation, he scored on Broadway in such diverse roles as a yuppie (opposite fellow "Murder One" cast mate Patricia Clarkson) in Richard Greenberg's Eastern Standard (1989) — for which he won a Theater World Award — and as the Prince in the modern verse play "La Bete" (1991). October 7 is the 280th day of the year (281st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1959 (MCMLIX) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Nickname: The Salt City Location of Syracuse within the state of New York Coordinates: City Mayor Matthew Driscoll Area    - City 66. ... The Allied Arts Building in downtown Lynchburg, completed in 1931. ... For other usages see Theatre (disambiguation) Theater (American English) or Theatre (British English and widespread usage among theatre professionals in the US) is that branch of the performing arts concerned with acting out stories in front of an audience using combinations of speech, gesture, music, dance, sound and spectacle &#8212... Georgetown Preparatory School, situated approximately 5 miles from the Washington DC border on 90 acres at 10900 Rockville Pike in North Bethesda, Maryland, is an independent, Jesuit college-preparatory school for young men in grades nine through 12. ... Yale School of Drama traces its roots to the Yale Dramatic Association, the second oldest college theatre association in the country, founded in 1900. ... Off-Broadway plays or musicals are performed in New York City in smaller theatres than Broadway, but larger than Off-Off-Broadway, productions. ... Edward Herrmann (born July 21, 1943) is an American television and film actor. ... Dianne Wiest (born March 28, 1948 in Kansas City, Missouri) is an American actress in stage, television, and film, and has received several awards in her career, including two Oscars. ... The Obie Awards, short for Off-Broadway Theater Awards, are annual awards bestowed by the newspaper The Village Voice on theater artists performing in New York City. ... Broadway theatre[1] is often considered the highest professional form of theatre in the United States. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... Murder One may refer to: A television series in the United States; see Murder One (television) A rap music performer; see: Murder One (rapper) A book store in Londons Charing Cross Road which has a large collection of crime books and a romance department (Heartlines) on the ground floor... Patricia Clarkson as Sarah OConnor on Six Feet Under Patricia Davies Clarkson (born December 29, 1959) is an American Academy Award-nominated actress. ... Richard Greenberg (1958-) is a Tony Award winning american playwright. ...

He made his film debut in the 1987 John Candy-Steve Martin comedy, Planes, Trains, and Automobiles and appeared in the television miniseries The Murder of Mary Phagan with Jack Lemmon and Kevin Spacey the following year. By 1995, he was a regular on the television dramas Feds and Murder One. John Franklin Candy (October 31, 1950 – March 4, 1994) was a Canadian comedian and actor. ... Stephen Glenn Martin (born August 14, 1945) is an American comedian, writer, producer, actor, musician and composer. ... Planes, Trains & Automobiles is an American comedy movie produced in 1987. ... The Murder of Mary Phagan, a 1988 two-part TV-movie presenting the true story of Leo Frank, a factory manager falsely accused of murdering a little girl in Georgia in 1913, featured Jack Lemmon, Kevin Spacey, Rebecca Miller, Charles Dutton, Peter Gallagher, Cynthia Nixon, Dylan Baker, and William H... Jack Lemmon at Expo 1967. ... Kevin Spacey (born Kevin Spacey Fowler[1] on July 26, 1959) is a two-time Academy Award winning actor and director. ... Feds is a 1988 comedy film written and directed by Daniel Goldberg, and starring Rebecca De Mornay and Mary Gross. ... Murder One may refer to: A television series in the United States; see Murder One (television) A rap music performer; see: Murder One (rapper) A book store in Londons Charing Cross Road which has a large collection of crime books and a romance department (Heartlines) on the ground floor...

Baker first became well-known beyond New York City in 1998 when he appeared in Todd Solondz's ensemble black comedy Happiness, taking on the extremely controversial role of a closeted pedophile who rapes two of his young son's friends. Baker was critically lauded for playing such an unsympathetic role as a three-dimensional human being rather than as a one-sided monster. Todd Solondz (born October 15, 1959) is an American writer/director known for his controversial films. ... Black comedy, also known as black humor or dark comedy, is a sub-genre of comedy and satire where topics and events that are usually treated seriously – death, mass murder, sickness, madness, terror, drug abuse, rape, war etc. ... Happiness is a 1998 motion picture, written and directed by Todd Solondz, that show the lives of three sisters and their families. ... Wall closet in a residential house in the U.S. It is common for a mirror to be placed on the inside of a closet door. ... Pedophilia, paedophilia, or pædophilia (see spelling differences), is the paraphilia of being sexually attracted primarily or exclusively to pre-pubescent children. ...

In addition to roles in films such as Thirteen Days, Radioland Murders, The Cell, and Kinsey, Baker has also appeared extensively on the Broadway stage and on television, in shows such as Law & Order and the short-lived sitcom The Pitts. He has also appeared in major studio movies such as Spider-Man 2, in which he played Dr. Curt Conners (also known as The Lizard.) Thirteen Days (2000) is a Hollywood film about the Cuban Missile Crisis, directed by Roger Donaldson and starring Kevin Costner, Bruce Greenwood, and Steven Culp. ... Radioland Murders was a 1994 film directed by Mel Smith, with a screenplay by George Lucas. ... The Cell is a 2000 movie written by Mark Protosevich and directed by Tarsem Singh. ... Categories: Movie stubs | 2004 films | Drama films ... This article is about the original TV series. ... A sitcom or situation comedy is a genre of comedy performance originally devised for radio but today typically found on television. ... The Pitts was a short-lived American sitcom on FOX starring Lizzy Caplan. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards and be more accessible to a general audience, this article or section may require cleanup. ... The Lizard is a comic book supervillain in the Marvel Comics universe, and an enemy of Spider-Man. ...

Baker played the role of Satan in Seeing Ear Theatre's production of The History of the Devil. Baker is not only an accomplished actor, but also stage director as well. In the summer of 2006 he directed the Chautauqua Theater Company's production of The Art of Coarse Acting. He also played a priest in "Alter Boys", an episode of CSI. In the short-lived NBC series "The Book of Daniel," Baker played the role of senior warden Roger Paxton. Gustave Dorés depiction of Satan from John Miltons Paradise Lost Satan, from the Hebrew word for accuser (Standard Hebrew: , Satan Tiberian Hebrew ; Koine Greek: , Satanás; Aramaic: , ; Arabic: , , Geez: Sāyṭān, Slavic Сатана), is a term with its origins in the Abrahamic faiths which is traditionally applied... Alter Boys is the sixth episode in the second series of CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, an American crime drama set in Las Vegas, Nevada. ... CSI may stand for: Crime Scene Investigation, a term for forensics CSI: Crime Scene Investigation , a popular television show about forensic scientists CSI: Miami, a spin-off show of the above CSI: NY, another spin-off of the above CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (computer game), a spin-off game CSI... The Book of Daniel was a television series broadcast on NBC. The network promoted it as a serious drama about Christians and the Christian faith but many Christians believed it contained an insulting portrayal of Jesus, had a pro-homosexuality tone and represented an atypical and dysfunctional church. ...

As a voice actor, Dylan Baker narrated the audiobook for Tom Wolfe's I Am Charlotte Simmons, among many others. A voice actor (also a voice artist) is a person who provides voices for animated characters (including those in feature films, television series, animated shorts), voice-overs in radio and television commercials, audio dramas, dubbed foreign language films, video games, puppet shows, and amusement rides. ... An audio book is a recording of the contents of a book read aloud. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... I Am Charlotte Simmons I Am Charlotte Simmons is a 2004 novel by Tom Wolfe, concerning sexual and status relationships at the fictional Dupont University, closely modeled after Duke University and Stanford University. ...

In 1990, he married actress Becky Gelke, now known professionally as Becky Ann Baker. They have one child (born 1993) and reside in New York City. Becky Ann Baker (born February 17, 1953) is an American television, film, and theater actress. ... Nickname: Big Apple; City that never Sleeps; Gotham Location in the state of New York Coordinates: Country United States State New York Boroughs Bronx (The Bronx) New York (Manhattan) Queens (Queens) Kings (Brooklyn) Richmond (Staten Island) Mayor Michael Bloomberg (R) Area    - City 1,214. ...

External link

• Dylan Baker at the Internet Movie Database
• Dylan Baker Biography and Filmography