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Joseph Baker
actor
- Professions:
- actor
Biography
Silent-era lensman Joseph Baker slipped behind the camera just as movies were learning to talk—though he never let them utter a word. In 1913 he choreographed the con-artist caper Tricks of the Trade, followed a year later by the guilt-soaked melodrama Remorse, and in 1915 traced the dusty pilgrimage of The Unbroken Road. Three films, three quick strokes on the canvas of a medium still wet with invention, then Baker himself vanished like a fade-out, leaving only the flicker of those early reels to speak for him.
