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- Birth nameThomas Frederick Baker
- Tom Baker was born on August 23, 1940 in West Virginia, USA. He was an actor and director, known for Bongo Wolf's Revenge (1970), Two-Minute Warning (1976) and Angels Die Hard (1970). He died on September 2, 1982 in New York City, New York, USA.
- Square-Jawed, Tough Looking Actor/Real Life Sidekick of Jim Morrson (played by Michael Madsen in The Doors)
- Mentioned in Danny Sugerman and Jerry Hopkins' book "No One Here Gets Out Alive" - he was part of the Warhol factory hangers-on - he befriended Jim Morrison, who recognized Baker from an earlier film in which he did full frontal nudity
- Died in New York City, on the Lower East Side, in a "shooting gallery" for heroin addicts in 1982. He passed in the arms of friends in what was a seedy, burned out junk-house.
- Portrayed on stage by Clay Wilcox in the 1991 Los Angeles' production of Jay Jeffrey Jones' play The Lizard King. The play was partially informed by Jones' conversations with Baker (shortly before his death) concerning his relationships with Jim Morrison and Morrison's long term girlfriend Pamela Courson.
- Is portrayed by Michael Madsen in Oliver Stone's film "The Doors", chronicling Baker's friendship and party life with Jim Morrison.
- Began his career as a stage actor living and working in New York City and assisted Norman Mailer on the stage adaptation of Mailer's novel The Deer Park.
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