Originally from British Guiana, Baptiste moved to Britain in the late 1940s, studied music at Morley College and earned scholarships to the National School of Opera and the Royal Academy of Music, establishing a career that spanned acting and opera. He joined Joan Littlewood's Theatre Workshop, spent two years in Noël Coward's Nude with Violin with John Gielgud, and later appeared as Alfred Doolit…
