THOMAS BAPTISTE - Barney in The Ipcress File signed by 2 a schoolteacher in the early-1970s

a schoolteacher in the early-1970s sitcom Please Sir

having appeared in 1976 opposite Ian McKellen and Judi Dench as Banquo in the acclaimed Trevor Nunn production of Macbeth

Tom Jones (1963)

Baptiste played the first Black character to appear in Coronation Street

THOMAS BAPTISTE - Barney in The Ipcress File signed by 2 a schoolteacher in the early-1970sThis is a 10 x 8 photo which has been hand signed by the late Thomas Baptiste at Autographica in silver sharpie. Thomas Baptiste (17 March 1929 6 December 2018) was a Guyanese born British actor and opera singer. Baptiste was born in British Guiana (now Guyana) as the son of a wealthy landowner. He moved to Britain in the late 1940s. His one contact was the Labour MP Tom Driberg, who helped him gain factory employment, and Baptiste enrolled at Morley