Baker’s personal life was, at times, as colourful as his career. When he found fame, he married costume designer Julia Squire.
But he was unfaithful to her with Brigitte Bardot, who he met at Pinewood studios in 1955 while he was making the film The Woman For Joe and she was in Doctor At Sea.
They enjoyed a passionate affair, with Baker later describing himself as ‘hooked, mesmerised’. Their liaison ended, however, when she returned to France six weeks later.
He later began an affair with the woman who would become his second wife, Sally Home, leading a double life with Sally in London and Julia and their four daughters in the country. Shortly after he set up home with Sally, Julia died from falling down stairs.