Blanche BakerFilmography

Born:: December 20, 1956 in New York City, NY
Occupation:: Actor
Birth name:: Blanche Garfein
Biography:: The daughter of actress Carroll Baker and director Jack Garfein, supporting actress Blanche Baker has worked on stage, screen, and television. A graduate of Wellesley College, MA, she first became known for her Emmy-winning performance as Anna Weiss in the landmark television miniseries Holocaust...Read More

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Taking Chance

Actors: Kevin Bacon, Paige Turco, Sarah Thompson, Tom Wopat

Synopsis: Inspired by the true story of the United States Marine who volunteered to escort the remains of a nineteen year old soldier who was killed in Iraq to his small hometown in remote Wyoming, Taking Chance stars Kevin Bacon in the feature directorial debut of Oscar-nominated producer Ross Katz. Lance Read More

2008
The Girl Next Door

Actors: Blythe Auffarth, Daniel Manche, William Atherton, Blanche Baker, Grant Show

Synopsis: Based on the harrowing best-seller by author Jack Ketchum, director Gregory Wilson's The Girl Next Door presents a fictionalized account of the shocking ordeal endured by Sylvia Likens -- an innocent Indiana teen who was systematically tortured, raped, and murdered by a suburban divorcée and a Read More

10/3/07
Dead Funny

Actors: Elizabeth Peña, Andrew McCarthy, Paige Turco, Blanche Baker, Allison Janney

Synopsis: In this independent drama, Vivian Saunders (Elizabeth Pena) comes home one day to an unusual surprise: her boyfriend Reggie (Andrew McCarthy) is lying on the kitchen table with a large sword sticking out of his body. At first Vivian thinks this must be some sort of joke, but she discovers that Read More

1995
Law & Order: Star Struck

Synopsis: Lucy Neven (Blanche Baker), a popular TV soap-opera actress, is nearly beaten to death. The main suspect is Jesse Unger (Bradley White), Neven's obsessive "biggest fan." Unger's defense attorney tries to get his client off the hook with a plea of temporary insanity -- and, much to the dismay of Read More

1992
Livin' Large

Actors: Terrence "T.C." Carson, Lisa Arrindell, Blanche Baker, Nathaniel "Afrika" Hall, Julia Campbell

Synopsis: After getting his big break, an aspiring TV reporter (Terrence 'T.C.' Carson) finds that showbiz ain't all it's cracked up to be. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

9/20/91
The Handmaid's Tale

Actors: Natasha Richardson, Robert Duvall, Faye Dunaway, Aidan Quinn, Elizabeth McGovern

Synopsis: In this dystopian fable, a librarian wife and mother becomes the childbearing pawn of a Christian theocracy. In the near future, as war rages across the fictional North American Republic of Gilead and pollution has rendered 99 percent of the female population sterile, Kate (Natasha Richardson) Read More

3/7/90
Shakedown

Actors: Peter Weller, Sam Elliott, Patricia Charbonneau, Blanche Baker, Antonio Fargas

Synopsis: In this complicated crime drama, Roland Dalton (Peter Weller) is an attorney who must defend a drug dealer who claims he killed in self defense. His worthy opponent is his former flame Susan Cantrell (Patricia Charbonneau), now an effective career-minded prosecuting attorney. Richie Marks (Sam Elliott Read More

5/6/88
Bum Rap

Actors: Craig Wasson, Blanche Baker, Al Lewis, Anita Gillette, Frances Fisher

Synopsis:
First-timer Daniel Irom wrote and directed Bum Rap, which represents something of a variation on Fielder Cook's superior Seize the Day (1986). The picture concentrates on taxi driver and striving actor Paul Colson (Craig Wasson of Four Friends and Go Tell the Spartans), whose life goes Read More

1988
Raw Deal

Actors: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Kathryn Harrold, Sam Wanamaker, Paul Shenar, Robert Davi, Darren McGavin

Synopsis: A former FBI agent is recruited to root out the gangsters who killed a fellow agent's son in this Arnold Schwarzenegger action film. After being booted out of the bureau for excessive violence, Kaminski (Schwarzenegger) lives in small-town exile with his bitter wife, Amy (Blanche Baker). He gets Read More

6/6/86
Nobody's Child

Actors: Ray Baker, Marlo Thomas

Synopsis: Marlo Thomas fully justifies her star status in the made-for-television Nobody's Child. Ms. Thomas portrays the real-life Marie Balter, a Massachusetts woman consigned to a mental hospital after a suicide attempt at age 16. For the next 20 years, Marie is and out of the institution, mostly under Read More

1986
Embassy

Synopsis: Nick Mancuso stars in the made-for-TV Embassy. Cast as an American ambassador stationed in Rome, Mancuso's life is thrown into turmoil by a crucial computer chip. When not trying to keep U.S. defense secrets from falling into the wrong hands, he must juggle the affections of his Read More

1985
Sixteen Candles

Actors: Molly Ringwald, Anthony Michael Hall, Michael Schoeffling, Paul Dooley, Liane Alexandra Curtis, Justin Henry

Synopsis: On the eve of her sister's wedding, suburban teenager Samantha (Molly Ringwald) suffers silently as her family forgets her birthday. Even worse, some total dork (Anthony Michael Hall) keeps propositioning her with sophomoric innuendo when she really craves romantic attention from high-school hunk Read More

1984
Cold Feet

Actors: Griffin Dunne, Marissa Chibas, Blanche Baker, Mark Cronogue, Joseph Leon

Synopsis: Tom Christo (Griffin Dunne) is a New York TV writer-director in a dead-end marriage to Leslie (Blanche Baker). He meets the intriguing Marty Fenton (Marissa Chibas), a research scientist, when she attends a party Tom and his wife give at their home. Even though there is an initial attraction Read More

1983
Romeo and Juliet

Synopsis: Directed by William Woodman, this retelling of the classic Shakespearean tragedy not only features traditional period costumes and sets, but is known for giving the bard's words a style one can understand without being particularly experienced with Elizabethan texts. This popular adaptation Read More

1983
The Day the Bubble Burst

Synopsis: An all-star (or rather, "all-TV star") cast distinguishes this three-hour filmed re-creation of the great stock market crash on October 29, 1929. Though inspired by a fact-based book on "Black Tuesday," the film is chock full of fabricated soap-opera complications involving dozens of fictional Read More

1982
The Awakening of Candra

Actors: Blanche Baker, Cliff De Young, Richard Jaeckel, Jeffrey Tambor, Paul Regina

Synopsis: This TV film is spawned by a true story where a marauding fisherman accosts a pair of newlyweds in the Northwest wilderness. He kills the young groom, rapes the bride, and then forces her to live with him as he attempts to convince her that it was just an unfortunate accident. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

1981
The Seduction of Joe Tynan

Actors: Alan Alda, Barbara Harris, Meryl Streep, Rip Torn, Melvyn Douglas

Synopsis: Alan Alda wrote and starred in this tale about a big-time politician's struggles with his own morality and the corruption he finds surrounding him. He plays a U.S. Senator, Joe Tynan, who falls for a lovely lady attorney and has an affair that jeopardizes his marriage, and possibly, his career. Read More

1979
Mary and Joseph: A Story of Faith

Actors: Blanche Baker, Jeff East, Colleen Dewhurst, Stephen McHattie, Lloyd Bochner

Synopsis: This speculative made-for-TV drama examines the courtship and early marital life of Mary and Joseph before the birth of their remarkable son, Jesus. The film is also known as the Beginning Was Love. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1979
Mary and Joseph: In the Beginning There Was Love

Synopsis: The biblical story of Mary and Joseph's life before the birth of Christ is dramatized in this film. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

1979
French Postcards

Actors: Miles Chapin, Blanche Baker, David Marshall Grant, Valerie Quennessen, Debra Winger

Synopsis: A "critic's darling" of 1979, the modestly produced French Postcards has an appeal that goes beyond the wine and cheese crowd. Miles Chapin plays Joel, an American student in France on an exchange program. Joel's teacher, Mme. Tessier (Marie-France Pisier), is a "Miss Jean Brodie" type whose ideas Read More

1979
Holocaust

Actors: Fritz Weaver, Rosemary Harris, Joseph Bottoms, James Woods, Sam Wanamaker, Michael Moriarty, Tovah Feldshuh, Meryl Streep

Synopsis: The now-legendary miniseries Holocaust first aired as a presentation in NBC's Big Event series. Written by Gerald Green, the story begins in the Germany of 1935. We are introduced to the family of Jewish doctor Joseph Weiss (Fritz Weaver) his wife Berta (Rosemary Harris), his brother Moses (Sam Wanamaker Read More

1978