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Bob Baker (9 February 192428 November 2014; age 90) was a puppeteer and marionette maker who supplied the movement for the animated plant, Beauregard in the TOS Season 1 episode "Charlie X". He filmed his scene on Monday 27 June 1966 at Desilu Stage 9.

Baker was the owner of Bob Baker Marionettes, a marionette theater company. Although this was where his primary work was focused, he had done puppeteer work for other Hollywood projects, including a 1959 episode of Hawaiian Eye and the 1961 film Susan Slade (with John A. Alonzo). He was responsible for the monster model used inMonster from the Ocean Floor (1954), produced by Roger Corman, and also performed marionettes for Elvis Presley's G.I. Blues (1960, with Bill Couch, Sr., Chuck Couch, Lars Hensen, Joseph Paz, Paul Power, and Arthur Tovey).

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