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Decades after Baker's death, commentator David Ehrenstein incorrectly speculated in LA Weekly that Baker had suffered from AIDS, then known as "gay-related immune deficiency" (GRID), for approximately two years before his death.
Apr 13, 1982 · Lenny Baker, who won a Tony award in 1977 for his performance in the Broadway musical ''I Love My Wife'' and who starred in the movie ''Next Stop, Greenwich Village,'' died of cancer yesterday...
Baker’s cancer had come to be known as “gay cancer,” then briefly GRID (Gay-Related Immunodeficiency) and then finally AIDS. We didn’t have any name for it then.
To mark World AIDS Day and the 6th Annual International Day Without Art on Dec. 1, Entertainment Weekly again publishes “The Faces of AIDS,” a tribute to those in the entertainment industry ...
The son of Bertha and William Baker, Lenny graduated from Brookline High School in Brookline, Massachusetts in 1962 and attended Boston University, where he received his Bachelor's Degree. Baker began his acting...
Baker died at age 37 from AIDS-related cancer on April 12, 1982 in a hospital in Hallandale Beach, Florida. He was survived at the time of his death by both his parents and his brothers Alan and Malcolm.
Jul 16, 2016 · Lenny Baker died of AIDS on April 12 1982, aged 37. He appeared in The Hospital and The Paper Chase, and is also remembered for his Tony Award-winning performance on Broadway in I Love My Wife in 1977.
