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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...
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.
Feb 26, 2016 · Stanley Baker: 10 essential films. 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.
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...
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).
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.
