George Baker

George Baker is an Indian actor and politician, born in Assam into a Greek family and educated at La Martiniere College, Lucknow. He worked briefly in the engineering department of the Northeast Frontier Railway before going into business.

He entered Assamese cinema in 1974 as the lead of Chameli Memsaab, playing Berkeley, a British planter who falls for a local girl. The film won the National Film Award for Best Feature Film in Assamese at the 23rd National Film Awards, and Baker played the same role in the Bengali version. In our database his Assamese credits are Adalat (1976) and Seema - The Untold Story (2019).

He has acted in films in five languages (Assamese, Bengali, English, Hindi and Santhali), often playing British characters, and has also worked in jatra, television and touring theatre. He later entered politics and was nominated to the 16th Lok Sabha as a representative of the Anglo-Indian community in 2015.