He is one of the two members of parliament appointed by the president under Article 331 (Anglo-Indian) of the Indian Constitution.

[2] He went on to act in numerous Bengali movies, Jatra, television films, serials mostly playing parts of British Expatriates.

Over the years he has acted in films of five languages – Assamese, Bengali, English, Hindi & Santhali.

More recently he played the role of Sir William Eckhardt in Parineeta and Mr. Ramsey in Bhooter Bhabishyat.d On 27 February 2014, the Bharatiya Janata Party announced Baker as their candidate for the 2014 Indian general election from the Howrah (Lok Sabha constituency).

[4] On 24 June 2017, he was attacked by a mob, allegedly composed of Trinamool Congress members, and then hospitalised.