Richard Foster Baker was born on January 25, 1857 in Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, USA. He was a director and actor, known for The Fable of the Wandering Boy and the Wayward Parents (1917), The Fable of Handsome Jethro, Who Was Simply Cut Out to Be a Merchant (1915) and The Fable of Hazel's Two Husbands and What Became of Them (1915).