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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.
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. Baker was forged from a rougher mould. His was good-looking, but his features were angular, taut, austere and unwelcoming.
Aug 13, 2022 · Commanding and rugged, the Welsh actor could have saved 1980s British cinema from naffness. Instead, hard living took him at 48. Stanley Baker was one of British cinema’s outstanding figures in...
Feb 26, 2016 · Baker is a successful Welsh novelist living the fast life in Italy, whose burgeoning career and marriage unravels when he becomes infatuated with an emotionally cold, high-class call girl (Jeanne Moreau).
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 14, 2014 · Stanley Baker was an exception to this British tradition, his performances had some of the vigour of Kirk Douglas and Burt Lancaster – bringing his boxer’s physicality to his fight scenes, such as his spectacular scrap with Patrick McGoohan in Cy Enfield’s Hell Drivers (1957).
Dec 8, 2021 · Baker became one of Britain’s most important actors as he progressed from playing brutes and villains to rough-hewn heroes. TCM offers this salute with three of his early starring roles in British films of the late 1950s.
Commanding Welsh leading man who began his career as a teen in 1943 and bristled through a series of British actioners and crime thrillers of uneven merit as tough villains and criminals throughout the 1950s.
Stanley Baker was a Welsh actor and film producer perhaps best known for the 1964 film Zulu.
Stanley Baker was a Welsh actor known for his role in the film ‘The Cruel Sea’. Check out this biography to know about his birthday, childhood, family life, achievements and fun facts about him.
