Joby Baker Video | Celebrity Interview and Paparazzi

Joby Baker is a Canadian born actor and painter. Baker was born in Montreal, Quebec. In the early 1960s he made guest appearances on television series including Dr. Kildare and The Dick Van Dyke Show and appeared in the Elvis Presley movie Girl Happy. Joby also appeared in all three Gidget movies. He began a long association with Walt Disney Studios where he appeared in The Adventures of...  MORE

Joby Baker is a Canadian born actor and painter. Baker was born in Montreal, Quebec. In the early 1960s he made guest appearances on television series including Dr. Kildare and The Dick Van Dyke Show and appeared in the Elvis Presley movie Girl Happy. Joby also appeared in all three Gidget movies. He began a long association with Walt Disney Studios where he appeared in The Adventures of Bullwhip Griffin, Blackbeard's Ghost and Superdad. In 1968, he had a lead role in Good Morning, World, a short-lived sitcom about a pair of disc jockeys named Lewis and Clarke. This was followed by a succession of character roles, including a stint as Colonel Marvin on the 1980 sitcom Six O'Clock Follies. Baker had been married to Joan Blackman, whom he met while both of them were filming an Elvis Presley movie. In 1984 he married lyricist and songwriter Dory Previn. He illustrated The Dory Previn Songbook, published in 1995. He has also exhibited as an abstract painter in major Los Angeles art galleries. LESS