Stanley Baker

Actor

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Also Known As

Sir Stanley Baker

Birth Place

Ferndale, Rhondda Valley, Wales

Born

February 28, 1928

Died

June 28, 1976

Cause of Death

Pneumonia Following Operation For Lung Cancer

Biography

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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. "The Cruel Sea" (1953) established Baker as a screen presence and won him a long-term Rank contract. In the late 1950s and early 60s he broke out of his typecasting in several excep...

Filmography

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Petita Jimenez (1976)

Pepita Jimenez (1975)

Pedro De Vargas

Robinson Crusoe (1974)

Robinson Crusoe

Innocent Bystanders (1972)

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Knights Of The Round Table (1954) -- (Movie Clip) We Are One People

Guns of Navarone, The (1961) -- (Movie Clip) I Am No Spy!

Biography

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. "The Cruel Sea" (1953) established Baker as a screen presence and won him a long-term Rank contract. In the late 1950s and early 60s he broke out of his typecasting in several exceptional films by both Cy Endfield and Joseph Losey ("Blind Date" 1959, "Accident" 1967) and co-produced several of his own films. He was knighted in 1976, just before his death.

Filmography

Cast (Feature Film)

Petita Jimenez (1976)

Pepita Jimenez (1975)

Pedro De Vargas

Robinson Crusoe (1974)

Robinson Crusoe

Innocent Bystanders (1972)

Una Lucertola con la Pelle di Donna (1971)

Inspector Corvin

The Games (1970)

Perfect Friday (1970)

The Last Grenade (1970)

Maj. Harry Grigsby

Where's Jack? (1969)

The Man Who Finally Died (1967)

Accident (1967)

Sands of the Kalahari (1965)

Who Has Seen the Wind? (1965)

Lieut. John Chard

In the French Style (1963)

Sodom and Gomorrah (1963)

The Concrete Jungle (1962)

A Prize of Arms (1962)

Jet Storm (1961)

The Guns of Navarone (1961)

Hell Is a City (1960)

Inspector Martineau

Yesterday's Enemy (1959)

Capt. Alan Langford

The Angry Hills (1959)

Chance Meeting (1959)

Inspector Morgan

Sea Fury (1958)

Campbell's Kingdom (1957)

HELL DRIVERS (1957)

Alexander the Great (1956)

Helen of Troy (1956)

Child in the House (1956)

Hell in Korea (1956)

Richard III (1955)

Henry Tudor--Earl Of Richmond

Knights of the Round Table (1954)

Hell Below Zero (1954)

Paratrooper (1954)

Twist of Fate (1954)

The Good Die Young (1954)

The Cruel Sea (1953)

Cloudburst (1952)

Whispering Smith vs. Scotland Yard (1952)

Captain Horatio Hornblower (1951)

Bosun's mate Harrison

All Over The Town (1949)

Producer (Feature Film)

Where's Jack? (1969)

Sands of the Kalahari (1965)

Production Companies (Feature Film)

Sands of the Kalahari (1965)

Life Events

1943

Film acting debut in "Undercover"; then repertory work in Birmingham and London

Videos

Knights Of The Round Table (1954) -- (Movie Clip) We Are One People Politics very olde English style, as Arthur (Mel Ferrer) orates and Merlin (Felix Aylmer) explains about Stonehenge (with an altogether unfounded theory!), and Lancelot (Robert Taylor) sounds the alarm, in MGM's Knights Of The Round Table, 1953.

Guns of Navarone, The (1961) -- (Movie Clip) I Am No Spy! The big scene for native Greek Stavros (Anthony Quinn), scheming to help partner Mallory (Gregory Peck) and the rest of the undercover Allied commando team escape from Nazi occupiers (Walter Gotell, George Mikell) in The Guns of Navarone, 1961.

Guns of Navarone, The (1961) -- (Movie Clip) Lower Your Sails On their way through the Aegean on their undercover commando mission, posing as local fishermen, Mallory (Gregory Peck) and crew (Anthony Quinn, David Niven, Anthony Quayle, Stanley Baker, James Darren) are waylaid by a Nazi gunboat in The Guns of Navarone, 1961.

Good Die Young, The (1954) -- (Movie Clip) We Were All Good Boys Much grit as boxer Mike (Stanley Baker) is introduced, cynical manager Stookey (Leslie Dwyer) and trainer Bunny (George Rose) commenting, as director Lewis Gilbert fills in the background on the second in his band of desperadoes, in The Good Die Young, 1954.

Criminal, The (1962) -- (Movie Clip) Kelly's Back First scene after credits, introducing mates in the old Victorian jail including star Stanley Baker ("Johnny Bannion"), plus a song from Gregoire Aslan (as "Saffron") from director Joseph Losey's The Criminal, 1962, a.k.a. The Concrete Jungle.

Criminal, The (1962) -- (Movie Clip) That Thieving Boy Neat opening from ex-pat American director Jospeh Losey, Murray Melvin and Rupert Davies featured, then a tune sung by Cleo Laine, the British crime yarn The Criminal, 1962, a.k.a. The Concrete Jungle.

Yesterday's Enemy -- (Movie Clip) Your Address In Rangoon Captain Langford (Stanley Baker) with some of the more minor war-crimes he'll commit, interrogating a Burmese prisoner (Wolf Morris), in the acclaimed British WWII drama Yesterday's Enemy, 1959.

Yesterday's Enemy -- (Movie Clip) Sitting Target Before the credits, introduction of Capt. Langford (Stanley Baker), Sgt. McKenzie (Gordon Jackson), et al, in a Burmese swamp, in the Columbia/Hammer Films co-production Yesterday's Enemy, 1959.

Zulu -- (Movie Clip) Cooperate Lieutenants Bromhead (Michael Caine) and Chard (Stanley Baker) discuss their command structure as conflict looms in Zulu, 1964.

Zulu -- (Movie Clip) Bromhead Lieutenant Bromhead (Michael Caine) arrives at the tiny British garrison in Natal Province, finding Lieutenant Chard (Stanley Baker) already engaged in mundane business in Zulu, 1964.

Zulu -- (Movie Clip) Battle Plan Boer scout Adendorf (Gert van den Bergh), joins lieutenants Chard (Stanley Baker) and Bromhead (Michael Caine) in plans to fight the Zulus in Zulu, 1964.

Guns of Navarone, The - (Original Trailer) A team of Allied saboteurs fight their way behind enemy lines to destroy The Guns of Navarone (1961) starring Gregory Peck and David Niven.

Zulu - (Original Trailer) Zulu (1964), the story of how 139 British soldiers fought 4,000 Zulu warriors in 1879. Starring Stanley Baker and Michael Caine.

Angry Hills, The - (Original Trailer) A World War II correspondent fights to get strategic information out of occupied Greece. Starring Robert Mitchum.

Yesterday's Enemy - (Original Trailer) A British captain will stop at nothing to capture a Burmese village from the Japanese in Yesterday's Enemy (1959).

Helen of Troy - (Original Trailer) A shipwrecked Trojan's love for a married Greek queen sparks the Trojan War in Helen of Troy (1956).

Knights of the Round Table - (Original Trailer) Technical language and fanfare in the trailer for MGM's first Cinemascope feature, as Queen Guinevere is torn between love for her husband and Sir Lancelot in Knights of the Round Table, 1953, starring Ava Gardner & Robert Taylor.

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