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Sir William Stanley Baker (28 February 1928 – 28 June 1976) was a Welsh actor and film producer. Known for his rugged appearance and intense, grounded screen persona, he was one of the top British male film stars of the late 1950s, and later a producer.
Stanley Baker. Actor: Zulu. Stanley Baker was unusual star material to emerge during the Fifties - when impossibly handsome and engagingly romantic leading men were almost de rigueur.
Aug 13, 2022 · The early death of Zulu star Stanley Baker is one of cinema's great ‘what ifs’. Commanding and rugged, the Welsh actor could have saved 1980s British cinema from naffness. Instead, hard living...
Feb 26, 2016 · Appearing in classics such as The Guns of Navarone and Zulu, Welshman Stanley Baker was one of the great British screen actors of the 20th century.
Aug 17, 2009 · Rugged Welsh actor Stanley Baker became famous for gritty unconventional film roles in the 1950s and 1960s, often playing unsympathetic characters and starring in classic war films such as The...
Jan 19, 2014 · Endfield’s production partner and the film’s main star was Stanley Baker, a life-long supporter of the Labour Party. All three were committed to progressive causes, but their motives in making...
Birthday: Feb 8, 1927. Birthplace: Ferndale, Rhondda Valley, Wales, UK. Commanding Welsh leading man who began his career as a teen in 1943 and bristled through a series of British...
Aug 17, 2009 · Rugged Welsh actor Stanley Baker became famous for gritty unconventional film roles in the 1950s and 1960s, often playing unsympathetic characters and starring in classic war films such as The...
Born in the mining community of Ferndale, Stanley Baker, alongside lifelong friend Richard Burton, went on to Hollywood stardom as a character actor rather than romantic lead. Proving an enduring and powerful presence as an actor and later as a producer, he made some of the great films of the era.
Oct 5, 2016 · Hell Drivers: remembering Stanley Baker and Patrick McGoohan in a British action classic. By Josephine Botting, Kieron Webb. Features. A brilliant cast of British actors, including a young Sean Connery, star in the newly restored Hell Drivers, a tough and thrilling trucking movie shot on the B roads of Buckinghamshire. 5 October 2016.
