Bob Baker obit

Bob Baker Has Died

 

He was not on the list.

Bob Baker (9 February 1924–28 November 2014; age 90) was a puppeteer and marionette maker who supplied the movement for the animated plant, Beauregard in the TOS Season 1 episode "Charlie X". He filmed his scene on Monday 27 June 1966 at Desilu Stage 9.

Baker was the owner of Bob Baker Marionettes, a marionette theater company. Although this was where his primary work was focused, he had done puppeteer work for other Hollywood projects, including a 1959 episode of Hawaiian Eye and the 1961 film Susan Slade (with John A. Alonzo). He was responsible for the monster model used in Monster from the Ocean Floor (1954), produced by Roger Corman, and also performed marionettes for Elvis Presley's G.I. Blues (1960, with Bill Couch, Sr., Chuck Couch, Lars Hensen, Joseph Paz, Paul Power, and Arthur Tovey).

 

Actor

Bob Baker, Gary Coleman, and Rocky Schenck in Raging Slab & Gary Coleman: Anywhere But Here (1993)

Raging Slab & Gary Coleman: Anywhere But Here

Music Video

Puppet Master

1993

 

Walt Disney in The Magical World of Disney (1954)

The Magical World of Disney

8.3

TV Series

Marionette

1979

1 episode

 

Major Effects

6.9

TV Movie

Marionette (voice)

1979

 

Elizabeth Montgomery, Agnes Moorehead, and Dick York in Bewitched (1964)

Bewitched

7.6

TV Series

1st Puppeteer

1971

1 episode

 

Stefan Arngrim, Gary Conway, Kurt Kasznar, Deanna Lund, Don Marshall, Don Matheson, and Heather Young in Land of the Giants (1968)

Land of the Giants

7.1

TV Series

Puppet Man (uncredited)

1970

1 episode

 

Star Trek (1966)

Star Trek

8.4

TV Series

Beauregard (uncredited)

1966

1 episode

 

Susan Slade (1961)

Susan Slade

6.3

Marionette Operator (uncredited)

1961

 

Robert Conrad, Anthony Eisley, Poncie Ponce, and Connie Stevens in Hawaiian Eye (1959)

Hawaiian Eye

7.6

TV Series

(as Bob Baker Marionettes)

1960

1 episode

 

Paris in the Spring

Short

Marionette Director (as Bob Baker's Marionettes)

1947

 

Special Effects

Levi's: Trademark

TV Special

puppet constructor

1977

 

Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)

Close Encounters of the Third Kind

7.6

alien marionette (uncredited)

1977

 

Shanks (1974)

Shanks

5.5

puppet designer

1974

 

The Angry Red Planet (1959)

The Angry Red Planet

5.3

special effects (uncredited)

1959

 

Anne Kimbell and Stuart Wade in Monster from the Ocean Floor (1954)

Monster from the Ocean Floor

3.8

model of monster

1954

 

Animation Department

Bea Benaderet and Lottie Salisbury in Sky Princess (1942)

Sky Princess

7.7

Short

animator

1942

 

Additional Crew

Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Drew Carey, and Seth Adkins in Geppetto (2000)

Geppetto

5.3

TV Movie

puppet master

2000

 

Dick Beals, Art Clokey, Dal McKennon, and Paul Frees in The Puppetoon Movie (1987)

The Puppetoon Movie

7.1

Puppetoon creative artist: United States

1987

 

The Vandalism Film (Only You Can Stop It)

Short

puppeteer

1976

 

Eddie Albert, Ray Milland, Kim Richards, and Ike Eisenmann in Escape to Witch Mountain (1975)

Escape to Witch Mountain

6.3

puppeteer (uncredited)

1975

 

Red Skelton in The Red Skelton Hour (1951)

The Red Skelton Hour

8.1

TV Series

puppeteer

1969

1 episode

 

James Caan, Katharine Ross, Marjorie Bennett, Simone Signoret, and Don Stroud in Games (1967)

Games

6.4

masks (uncredited)

1967

 

Robert Conrad and Ross Martin in The Wild Wild West (1965)

The Wild Wild West

8.1

TV Series

chief puppeteer (uncredited)

1966

1 episode

 

Elvis Presley in G.I. Blues (1960)

G.I. Blues

6.2

puppeteer (uncredited)

1960

 

Thanks

Ibba Armancas in Pandemic Playhouse (2021)

Pandemic Playhouse

TV Series

special thanks

2021

2 episodes

 

The Fantasy Film Worlds of George Pal (1986)

The Fantasy Film Worlds of George Pal

7.4

special thanks

1986

 

Self

Broadway Treasures (2019)

Broadway Treasures

Self

2019

 

Florence Henderson in The Florence Henderson Show (2007)

The Florence Henderson Show

6.7

TV Series

Self

2009

1 episode

 

That Regis Philbin Show (1964)

That Regis Philbin Show

7.9

TV Series

Self

1964

2 episodes