Thomas Baptiste

This article is about the actor. For the USAF general, see Thomas L. Baptiste.

Thomas Baptiste (17 March 1929 – 6 December 2018) was a Guyanese-born British actor and opera singer.[1]

Biography

Baptiste was born in British Guiana (now Guyana) as the son of a wealthy landowner.[2] He moved to Britain in the late 1940s. His one contact was the Labour MP Tom Driberg, who helped him gain factory employment, and Baptiste enrolled at Morley College in Lambeth to study music followed by scholarships to the National School of Opera and Royal Academy of Music.[3] Baptiste joined Joan Littlewood's Theatre Workshop early in its existence.[1]

Baptiste appeared in a production of Noël Coward's Nude with Violin for two years from 1956 with John Gielgud, Patience Collier and Kathleen Harrison, first in Dublin and then the West End.[2][3] In 1960, he played Riley in the first professional production of Harold Pinter's The Room[4] and in a production directed by Pinter himself who had wanted to cast Baptiste in the role.[5] It became an episode of ITV's Television Playhouse broadcast in October 1961. In 1963, Baptiste played the first Black character to appear in Coronation Street, a bus conductor who was falsely sacked as a result of a racist altercation with Len Fairclough.[2][6][7] Fable (1965) was an episode of The Wednesday Play written by John Hopkins which imagined Britain as a mirror apartheid society with Barbara Assoon playing his wife as she had done in Coronation Street.[8] Alun Owen's drama Pal (Play for Today, 1971), of which no recording survives, was the first British television play to feature a black gay character.[3] Meanwhile on stage during the 1960s, he played Doolittle in Pygmalion and George in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?. Later, he played Paul Robeson, who he admired greatly, in Are You Now or Have You Ever Been? at the Birmingham Rep in 1978, a production which transferred to Mayfair.[2]

In the 1960s, he co-founded an advisory committee of the British Actors' Equity Association, to represent black actors in Britain.[1] In an interview which appeared in 1992, Baptiste said that he thought black actors were having even more difficulty beginning their careers than he had done forty years earlier.[9]

Selected credits

Stage

Film

Television

References

  1. ^ a b c Whyte, Seb. "Baptiste, Thomas (1936-)". Screenonline. BFI. Retrieved 30 May 2014.
  2. ^ a b c d Coveney, Michael (12 December 2018). "Thomas Baptiste obituary". The Guardian. Retrieved 12 December 2018.
  3. ^ a b c "Thomas Baptiste obituary". The Times. 10 January 2019. Retrieved 10 January 2019. (subscription required)
  4. ^ Taylor-Batty, Mark (2014). The Theatre of Harold Pinter. London: Bloomsbury Methuen Drama. p. 274, n.1:5. ISBN 9781408175316.
  5. ^ Iqbal, Nosheen (8 January 2009). "Old times: actors remember Harold Pinter". The Guardian.
  6. ^ Malik, Sarita (2002). Representing Black Britain: Black and Asian Images on Television. London: Sage. p. 141. ISBN 9781412932844.
  7. ^ Bourne, Stephen (2001). Black in the British Frame: The Black Experience in British Film and Television. London & New York City: Continuum. p. 168. ISBN 9780826478986.
  8. ^ "Thomas Baptiste, actor and singer who played Coronation Street's first black character – obituary". The Daily Telegraph. 26 December 2018. Retrieved 24 August 2020.
  9. ^ Cochrane, Claire (2011). Twentieth-Century British Theatre: Industry, Art and Empire. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. p. 225. ISBN 9781139502139.

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