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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).
From the late 1950s until the mid 1960s, Stanley Baker was one of the biggest film stars in Britain. He represented a different kind of leading man, one that was more rugged and hard-edged. The actor worked alongside some of the most talented directors, Joseph Losey and Cy Endfield among them.
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...
Mar 1, 2016 · His rugged physique and hard grace meant he was most often cast as the tough guy in crime movies and spearheaded the evolution of the British film criminal from the gentlemen thief to more ruthless figures, often working-class, in films such Hell Drivers (1957), Joseph Losey’s The Criminal and Peter Yate’s 1967 heist film, Robbery.
Stanley Baker was a giant of Welsh cinema. He could play heroes and villains with ease. But he was a tender tough guy who remained close to his Welsh roots and eschewed the Hollywood road taken by his contemporaries.
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.
Stanley Baker was a Welsh actor and film producer perhaps best known for the 1964 film Zulu.
