Reginald Baker
Australian athlete, sports promoter, and actor (1884-1953) · Australia · On the map · Athletes · Died at 69
Reginald Leslie "Snowy" Baker was an Australian athlete, sports promoter, and actor. Born in Surry Hills, an inner-city suburb of Sydney, New South Wales, Baker excelled at a number of sports, winning New South Wales swimming and boxing championships while still a teenager.
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Wilfred Lucas Directed The Jackeroo of Coolabong (1920)- Alan James Directed The White Panther (1924)
Agnes Vernon Reginald produced The Shadow of Lightning Ridge (1921)
Bess Meredyth Wrote The Shadow of Lightning Ridge (1921)
Bertram Bracken Directed Sleeping Acres (1921)
Duke Worne Directed The Sword of Valor (1924)
Margaret Landis Also in Fighter's Paradise (1924)
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Playing rugby union for Eastern Suburbs, he played several games for New South Wales against Queensland, and in 1904 represented Australia in two Test matches against Great Britain. At the 1908 London Olympics, Baker represented Australasia in swimming and diving, as well as taking part in the middleweight boxing event, in which he won a silver medal. He also excelled in horsemanship, water polo, running, rowing and cricket. However, "His stature as an athlete depends largely upon the enormous range rather than the outstanding excellence of his activities; it was as an entrepreneur-showman, publicist and businessman that he seems in retrospect to have been most important."
