Silver Tip Baker(1886-1943)
- Actor
Floyd 'Silver Tip' Baker born Floyd Michael Baker in Texas in 1886.
Well-known trick rider in rodeos and wild west shows from the late
1900's. He was among the talented few that could handle a team of
horses and stagecoach at full speed, became a white-haired old codger
character in many westerns, first playing the role, General Grenville
M. Dodge in 'In the Days of Buffalo Bill' directed by Edward Laemmle
and starring Art Acord as Art Taylor and Duke R. Lee as Buffalo Bill at
the Universal, seen in over 100 minor roles in talkies many of them
B-Westerns. married to wild show trick rider Mabel Baker.
