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Baker was born and educated in Birmingham, Warwickshire, and at a boarding school in Kent. [1] He was the son of Ethel (1906–1990), a pianist and dress maker, and Harold Baker (1908–1949), an artist, musician and draughtsman. [2] [1] He went to live with his father, stepmother, and half-sister in Hastings, Sussex.
Baker first appeared on Jack Benny's weekly radio program on November 3, 1935, [3] having been hired to replace singer Frank Parker. [4] Parker had been very popular on the Benny program, and with his departure, it was widely believed that Benny would lose a large part of his audience; however, Kenny Baker is said to have won audiences over almost instantly, even surpassing Parker in ...
Kenny Baker MBE (1 March 1921 [1] – 7 December 1999) [2] was an English jazz trumpet, cornet and flugelhorn player, and a composer. [3] Biography.
Peter William Mayhew [2] (19 May 1944 – 30 April 2019) was a British actor. He was best known for portraying Chewbacca in the Star Wars film series.He played the character in all of his live-action appearances from the 1977 original to 2015's The Force Awakens before his retirement from the role.
Kenneth, Ken or Kenny Baker may refer to: Kenneth F. Baker (1908–1996), American professor of plant diseases; Kenny Baker (American performer) (1912–1985), American radio singer and actor; Kenny Baker (trumpeter) (1921–1999), British jazz trumpeter; Kenny Baker (fiddler) (1926–2011), American bluegrass fiddler with Bill Monroe
Kenneth Clayton Baker (June 26, 1926 – July 8, 2011) was an American fiddle player best known for his 25-year tenure with Bill Monroe and his group The Blue Grass Boys. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Biography
"Love Is Here to Stay" was first performed by Kenny Baker in The Goldwyn Follies but became popular when it was sung by Gene Kelly to Leslie Caron in the film An American in Paris (1951); however, it was not included in the 2015 Broadway musical An American in Paris. [1] [2] The song appeared in Forget Paris (1995) and Manhattan (1979).
The movie, which features Adolphe Menjou, Vera Zorina, Edgar Bergen (with Charlie McCarthy), Andrea Leeds, Kenny Baker, Ella Logan, Helen Jepson, Bobby Clark and the Ritz Brothers, depicts a movie producer who chooses a simple girl to be "Miss Humanity" and to critically evaluate his movies from the point of view of the ordinary person.