Obit: On June 22, ten days after his Good Morning World co-star Ronnie Schell passed away, Joby Baker, 92, had died. He had been long married to Andre Previn's ex-wife, Dory, until she died in 2012.
Baker was also featured in Elvis Presley travelogues, er, movies and in the Gidget films.
His death was announced Saturday.
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Joseph Baker was born in Montreal on March 26, 1934. After his mother died when he was a toddler, his father — who had affectionally nicknamed him “Jobela” — took him to live in Oahu, Hawaii.
When Pearl Harbor was bombed on Dec. 7, 1941, Baker escaped injury in the immediate aftermath when the house he was living in was hit by friendly fire. He and his stepmother quickly left the islands, taking the RMS Aquitania with thousands of other evacuees to San Francisco, he recalled in 2022.
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He later left acting to sculpt and paint full time. This is a site featuring a few of his works.
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