Stanley Baker

Stanley Baker
Born: Feb 8, 1927
Ferndale, Rhondda Valley, Wales
Career: 1943-1975
Countries: UK
USA
Genre/Type: Action
Adventure
Drama
Mystery
Crime
Biography by Hal Erickson
Born in a Welsh industrial village, Stanley Baker moved to London with his parents in the mid-1930s. As a juvenile player, Baker made his film debut in 1943's Undercover; one year later, he made his London stage bow in Druid's Rest. Following military service, Baker began his adult film career with All Over the Moon (1949). Thereafter he played secondary roles until attaining stardom as an over-the-hill boxer duped into a life of crime in The Good Die Young (1954). Projecting a "dangerous" image, Baker proved equally convincing as a rough-hewn hero or sadistic heavy. Finding his contract with the Rank Organisation confining, he became a free-lancer in 1959, spending the rest of his career making his own opportunities rather than depending on the generosity of others. Many of his starring films dealt with African themes, notably Zulu (1964), Dingaka (1965) and Sands of the Kalihari (1965). Forming Oakhurst Productions, Baker was his own producer for such vehicles as Robbery (1968) and The Italian Job (1969). Stanley Baker was knighted not long before his death from lung cancer in 1976.

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Filmography

Movie/Film Released Rating Role Buy
Pepita Jimenez 1975 Actor [Starring]
Bride to Be 1974 Actor [Starring]
The Changeling 1974 Actor [Starring]
Zorro 1974 Actor [Starring]
Innocent Bystanders 1973 Actor [Starring]
Robinson Crusoe 1972 Actor [Starring]
A Lizard in a Woman's Skin 1971 Actor [Starring]
Queen of Diamonds 1971 Actor [Starring]
The Butterfly Affair 1971 Actor [Starring]
Perfect Friday 1970 Actor [Starring]
The Games 1970 Actor [Starring]
The Last Grenade 1970 Actor [Starring]
Where's Jack? 1969 Actor [Starring] / Producer
La Ragazza con la Pistola 1968 Actor [Starring]
Accident 1967 Actor [Starring]
Code Name: Heraclitus 1967 Actor [Starring]
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"Hell Drivers" At Film Forum New York August 21 (From CinemaRetro. 17 August 2009, 2:59 PM, PDT) Film Forum In New York City Launches Major "Brit Noir" Festival August 7-september 3 (From CinemaRetro. 27 July 2009, 3:3...
FILM legend Sir Stanley Baker used his love of Wales to turn the epic battle movie Zulu into what he called a “Welsh western” by altering the facts of the conflict, says a new book on the star. And on the set of the 1964 movie starring Mich...
Could Welsh star Stanley Baker’s ancestors be Bronze Age copper miners from Spain? Apr 21 2009 by Darren Devine, Western Mail EVER wondered where the Welsh get their dark, swarthy looks from? The brooding looks of Welsh characters like Si...

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