**Chet Baker** (1929-1988) is best known as a legendary jazz trumpeter and singer, an icon of cool jazz and a melancholic figure of great charm. His “film career” was actually marginal and he never worked as a professional actor.

His appearances on the big screen are almost exclusively limited to documentaries about his life and music, or small cameos in European films where he played himself or characters similar to his public persona. The most significant film in which he appears is Bruce Weber's **Let's Get Lost** (1988), an acclaimed documentary exploring his troubled life and musical impact, which has itself become a cult classic. He never developed a repertoire of roles or an acting style; his presence was dictated by his natural charisma and status as a musical icon.