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C. Graham Baker

American screenwriter and producer (1883–1950)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 30, 2026
Entity authorityQ2959251 ↗
Source-derived summary

Charles Graham Baker (July 16, 1883 – May 15, 1950) was an American screenwriter and director. He wrote for more than 170 films between 1915 and 1948.

Biography

He was born in Evansville, Indiana on July 16, 1883, to Elwood T. Baker and Leslie S. Barrows. He and his father invented the game of Gin rummy in 1909. By 1918 he was working as a "playwright" for Vitagraph Studios in Brooklyn, New York City.

Baker died in Reseda, Los Angeles, California on May 15, 1950 (aged 66).

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Begin with the source’s own compact description: “C. Graham Baker” is american screenwriter and producer (1883–1950). The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Graham, Baker and American, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1883, 1950, 1915, 1948—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1883-07-16. For this dossier, Graham, Baker and American is the immediate research focus.
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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated May 30, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q2959251. VIAF identifies the subject as 102340683. The Library of Congress control number is n91010095. 3 of 3 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1883, 1950, 1915 and 1948.

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This entry incorporates text from “C. Graham Baker” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.