Stanley Baker
Acting
Biography
Stanley Baker was a Welsh actor and film producer perhaps best known for the 1964 film Zulu.
Born: February 29, 1928
Place of Birth: Ferndale, Rhondda, Wales, UK
Known For
Zulu
In 1879, during the Anglo-Zulu War, man-of-the-people Lt. Chard and snooty Lt. Bromhead are in charge of defending the isolated and vastly outnumbered Natal outpost of Rorke's Drift from tribal hordes.
The Guns of Navarone
A team of allied saboteurs are assigned an impossible mission: infiltrate an impregnable Nazi-held island and destroy the two enormous long-range field guns that prevent the rescue of 2,000 trapped British soldiers.
Yesterday's Enemy
Set during the Burma Campaign of World War 2, this is the story of courage and endurance of the soldiers struggling at close quarters against the enemy. The film examines the moral dilemmas ordinary men face during war, when the definitions of acceptable military action and insupportable brutality become blurred and distorted.
Innocent Bystanders
Washed-up agent John Craig is given the task of proving his worth by tracking down a Russian scientist on the run. Cross and double-cross is the name of the game.
Richard III
Having helped his brother King Edward IV take the throne of England, the jealous hunchback Richard, Duke of Gloucester, plots to seize power for himself. Masterfully deceiving and plotting against nearly everyone in the royal court, including his eventual wife, Lady Anne, and his brother George, Duke of Clarence, Richard orchestrates a bloody rise to power before finding all his gains jeopardized by those he betrayed.
Where's Jack?
Based on the adventures of Jack Sheppard, the thief and jail-breaker who became a folk hero in 1720s London.
The Games
From Great Britain, the United States, France, Italy, Australia and behind the Iron Curtain. They are the most superbly conditioned animals in the world. They are also the pawns of powerful nations, the victims of dangerous drugs and the object of many men's ambitions. Once every four years they come together... for the Olympic Games.
Violent Playground
A Liverpool juvenile liaison officer struggles with a young and dangerous pyromaniac.
The Changeling
Sexual passion breeds violence in the Thomas Middleton and William Rowley written tale of a beautiful woman who falls in love with a sea-captain. Filmed with lush production values and at a leisurely, very British pace, Helen Mirren is riveting as Beatrice-Joanna, a young lass already torn by love and commitment.Beatrice-Joanna (Helen Mirren) is betrothed to Lord Alonzo de Piraquo (Malcolm Reynolds) but is in love with Alsemero (Brian Cox). She hires her father's manservant, De Flores (Stanley Baker), to kill Alonzo but after he has done so, she realises De Flores wants her as a reward.The Changeling was an instalment of the BBC's Play of the Month series and is a production for television of a 1622 Jacobean tragedy of the same name, written by Thomas Middleton and William Rowley.
One of Them Is Named Brett
A look into the life of Brett, a boy born without arms due to thalidomide exposure.
Filmography
as Self (archive footage)
as Gwilym Morgan
as Col. Huerta
as Pedro de Vargas
as Detective Inspector Jamieson
as De Flores
as John Craig
as Narrator
as Inspektor Silva
as Inspector Corvin
as Mr. Graham
as Bill Oliver
as Major Harry Grigsby
as Jonathan Wild
as Dr. Tom Osborne
as Paul Clifton
as Charley
as Frank G. Wheatley
as Mike Bain
as Robinson Crusoe
as De Flores
as Narrator
as Tom Davis
as Chief Inspector Dyke
as Lt. John Chard R.E.
as Joe Newman
as Walter Beddoes
as Turpin
as Astaroth
as Tyvian Jones
as Pvt. 'Butcher' Brown
as Johnny Bannion
as Insp. Harry Martineau
as Capt. Bardow
as Captain Langford
as Insp. Morgan
as Conrad Heisler
as Luce Dorell
as Abel
as Detective Sergeant Jack Truman
as Owen Morgan
as Tom Yately
as O'Donovan
as Cpl. Ryker
as Stephen Lorimer
as Attalus
as Rochester
as Achilles
as Henry, Earl of Richmond
as Louis Galt
as Mike Morgan
as Erik Bland
as Modred
as Edgar Allan Poe
as Breton
as Bennett
as 1st Reporter
as Willie Dougan
as Milkman
as Mr. Harrison (Bosun)
as Joe
as Evans
as Policeman
as Police Sgt. Bannoch
as Policeman at Garage
as Barnes
as Petar