Stanley Baker - A Worthy Talent.
An underrated Welsh actor who is every bit as talented as Richard Burton. From the late 50s until the mid 60s, Stanley Baker was one of the biggest film stars in Britain. He represented an unconventional kind of leading man and he made for interesting viewing. The actor worked alongside some of the most talented directors, Joseph Losey and Cy Endfield among them. He was almost forgotten until several years ago, thanks to DVD, blu ray and the internet. Today, Stanley Baker's work can continue to be enjoyed.
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- DirectorCy EndfieldStarsStanley BakerHerbert LomPeggy CumminsA rookie trucker tries to expose his boss' rackets.Baker's first film in the lead and what a classic!
- DirectorCy EndfieldStarsStanley BakerJack HawkinsUlla JacobssonOutnumbered British soldiers do battle with Zulu warriors at Rorke's Drift.Historically inaccurate but a masterpiece of filmmaking.
- DirectorVal GuestStarsStanley BakerJohn CrawfordDonald PleasenceIn Britain, a Manchester police inspector becomes obsessed with capturing a criminal who escapes from prison.Tough and gritty.
- DirectorJoseph LoseyStarsStanley BakerSam WanamakerGrégoire AslanIn the UK, after pulling a racetrack robbery, repeat offender Johnny Bannion hides the loot in a farmer's field but the police and the local mob come looking for Johnny and the money.Occasionally pretentious but still watchable. Excellent cast.
- DirectorCliff OwenStarsStanley BakerHelmut SchmidTom BellA criminal gang sets out to pull off the heist of a large army payroll.Seems improvised and shapeless but a good film.
- DirectorVal GuestStarsStanley BakerGuy RolfeLeo McKernIn World War II, during the Japanese invasion of Burma, the lost remnant of a British Army Brigade HQ, led by the ruthless Captain Alan Langford, escapes through the jungle toward the British lines.This film generates a bit of suspense, in spite of the restricted scale.
- DirectorQuentin LawrenceStarsStanley BakerPeter CushingGeorgina WardA mysterious call summons Joe Newman to Bavaria in search of the father he believed dead for 20 years.A waste of everyone's time.
- DirectorBasil DeardenStarsStanley BakerAnne HeywoodDavid McCallumThe struggle between a Liverpool Juvenile Liaison officer and a dangerous young pyromaniac.A great one, deserves to be better known.
- DirectorPeter CollinsonStarsStanley BakerGeraldine ChaplinDonald PleasenceExperienced British spy must retrieve a defecting Soviet scientist from Turkey. When a pretty female innocent bystander gets kidnapped by mistake by his enemies, he feels responsible and decides to help her as well.Tough and gritty, a world away from 007.
- DirectorPeter YatesStarsStanley BakerJoanna PettetJames BoothA group of British criminals plan the robbery of the Royal Mail train on the Glasgow-London route.
- DirectorCy EndfieldStarsStanley BakerVictor McLaglenLuciana PaluzziOff the Spanish coast, two tug-boat captains are caught in a violent feud over a woman but their rivalry is set aside when a sinking freighter carrying explosives must be salvaged and towed to port.
- DirectorGordon FlemyngStarsStanley BakerAlex CordHonor BlackmanTwo soldiers of fortune, Harry Grigsby and Kip Thompson, used to be the best of friends when they fought side by side in the Congo. But now Kip has changed sides and Grigsby does not forgive him for what he regards as a betrayal, all the more as Thompson now turns his guns against Grigsby's troops and, accordingly, against his former friend. While he is London recovering from tuberculosis, Grigsby is assigned a new mission that he gladly accepts: to eliminate Thompson, now in Hong Kong causing tensions with neighboring China by creating border incidents.
- DirectorCy EndfieldStarsStanley BakerStuart WhitmanSusannah YorkAfter a small aircraft crashes in the Kalahari Desert, one of the seven passengers decides that his survival chances would increase if he eliminates the other men in the group.A flop upon initial release, this film is worth seeing.
- DirectorCy EndfieldStarsRichard AttenboroughStanley BakerHermione BaddeleySir Richard Attenborough plays Ernest Tilley, a man who lost his daughter in a hit-and-run accident. He tracks down the man responsible for the accident and boards the same plane, threatening to blow up himself and everyone on board as an act of vengeance. What follows is an Airport-type movie with all the passengers having their own little subplots and fears.
- DirectorJoseph LoseyStarsHardy KrügerStanley BakerMicheline PresleIn 1950s London, Dutch painter Jan Van Rooyen has an affair with a rich married Frenchwoman who is supposedly murdered, resulting in Van Rooyen becoming Scotland Yard's prime suspect.
- DirectorRobert ParrishStarsJean SebergStanley BakerPhilippe ForquetA young American art student must decide whether to stay in Paris with her boyfriend or go back to the U.S. when her wealthy father arrives to bring her back.
- DirectorJoseph LoseyStarsDirk BogardeStanley BakerJacqueline SassardAt Oxford, Austrian student Anna von Graz (Jacqueline Sassard) is dating fellow student William (Michael York), whom she plans to marry, but she ends up involved with two unhappily married Oxford professors instead.
- DirectorRobert AldrichStarsRobert MitchumStanley BakerElisabeth MüllerIn 1941, the Greek resistance entrusts an American journalist with a secret Greek double-agent list that must reach London and not fall into German hands.
- DirectorJoseph LoseyStarsJeanne MoreauStanley BakerVirna LisiA raw Welsh novelist in Venice is humiliated by a money-loving Frenchwoman who erotically ensnares him.
- DirectorCy EndfieldStarsPhyllis CalvertEric PortmanStanley BakerYoung Elizabeth is left with her relatives, a married couple, while her mother is in the hospital. The friendly husband likes her, but the wife hates kids. One day her father, an often-absent crook on the lam, visits her in secret.
- DirectorRalph ThomasStarsAnthony SteelOdile VersoisStanley BakerAfter killing a few Italian cops during a burglary, a thief hired by a British car racing company must flee to Switzerland disguised as a race car driver during a rally.
- DirectorLewis GilbertStarsLaurence HarveyGloria GrahameRichard BasehartIn London, three otherwise law-abiding good men and their unscrupulous leader are about to commit a serious crime, but for different reasons.
- DirectorPeter HallStarsUrsula AndressStanley BakerDavid WarnerThe deputy manager of a London bank has worked out a way to rob the branch of £200,000. When he becomes involved with the attractive Lady Dorset he decides to go ahead with his plan. He needs her help and that of her philandering spendthrift husband. It all comes down to a matter of trust.
- DirectorLucio FulciStarsFlorinda BolkanStanley BakerJean SorelThe potentially unhinged daughter of a British politician is accused of killing her hedonistic neighbor after she witnesses the murder in a dream.
- DirectorJ. Lee ThompsonStarsDavid NivenGregory PeckAnthony QuinnA team of Allied saboteurs is assigned an impossible mission: infiltrate an impregnable Nazi-held Greek island and destroy the two enormous long-range field guns that prevent the rescue of 2,000 trapped British soldiers.
- DirectorDuccio TessariStarsAlain DelonStanley BakerOttavia PiccoloIn the New World, a new Spanish governor finds the province of Nueva Aragón under the iron fist of the corrupt Colonel Huerta and vows to bring justice under the guise of a masked avenger.
- DirectorMichael WinnerStarsMichael CrawfordStanley BakerRyan O'NealFour marathon runners (one from England, one from the U.S., a Czechoslovakian, and an Australian Aborigine) prepare to run in the Olympic games. The film follows each one and shows what their motivations are for running in the games.
- DirectorCharles FrendStarsJack HawkinsDonald SindenJohn StrattonThe World War II adventures of a British convoy escort ship and its officers.
- DirectorLaurence OlivierStarsLaurence OlivierCedric HardwickeNicholas HannenShakespeare's powerful tale of the wicked deformed King and his conquests, both on the battlefield and in the boudoir.
- DirectorMario MonicelliStarsMonica VittiStanley BakerCorin RedgraveA Sicilian woman "dishonored" by her lover goes to England with a pistol intending to murder him.
- DirectorRobert RossenStarsRichard BurtonFredric MarchClaire BloomThe life and military conquests of Alexander III of Macedon (July 20/21, 356 - June 10/11, 323 B.C.), commonly known as Alexander the Great.
- DirectorRobert WiseRaoul WalshStarsStanley BakerRossana PodestàBrigitte BardotThe Iliad's story of the Trojan war, told from the Trojan viewpoint.
- DirectorMark RobsonStarsAlan LaddJoan TetzelBasil SydneyThe captain of an Antarctic whaling ship falls overboard in mysterious circumstances and his daughter, aided by a sympathetic American, decides to investigate the accident.
- DirectorTerence YoungStarsAlan LaddLeo GennSusan StephenIn 1940, an American claiming to be Canadian volunteers for the British Army's paratroop school.
- DirectorArthur CrabtreeStarsLisa DanielyHugh McDermottRichard MurdochA French singer is captured by the Germans and made to broadcast for them.
- DirectorJames ClavellStarsTommy SteeleStanley BakerAlan BadelThe adventures and the exploits of notorious English thief and prison-breaker Jack Sheppard in 1720s London.
- DirectorJamie UysStarsStanley BakerJuliet ProwseKen GampuA film about an African tribesman seeking revenge against the people who murdered his daughter. His crusade leads him to commit murder himself, and to trial before a court.
- DirectorRaoul WalshStarsGregory PeckVirginia MayoRobert BeattyDuring the Napoleonic wars, a British Navy Captain has adventures in Central American waters.
- DirectorRobert AldrichSergio LeoneStarsStewart GrangerPier AngeliStanley BakerSex, torture, and betrayal in Biblical Sodom and Gomorrah. Lot, leader of the Hebrews, believes that his people can co-exist with the Sodomites--a disastrous decision.
- StarsHarry H. CorbettPaul Whitsun-JonesBillie WhitelawThis show was a British television drama anthology series of single plays that ran on the ITV network from 1956 to 1974. It was originally produced by Associated British Corporation, and from mid-1968 by Thames Television.
- StarsRichard CaldicotGeorge WoodbridgeRobert BrownSeries of television plays performed live.
- StarsStanley BakerSiân PhillipsNerys HughesThe mini-series is set in South Wales during the reign of Queen Victoria. It tells the story of the Morgans, a respectable mining family of the South Wales Valleys, through the eyes of one of the sons, Huw Morgan.
- StarsBrian RixJoby BlanshardCyril LuckhamBBC Sunday-Night Play is the anthology drama series which replaced Sunday Night Theatre in 1960.
- StarsMichael BalfourMadoline ThomasDiane CilentoAnthology series of dramatic works.
- StarsBob HopeJack WestonJack KellyLegendary entertainer Bob Hope hosted, and occasionally starred in, one of the last major anthology series on network television, featuring many of Hollywood's top names, including quite a few who didn't do much television otherwise
- StarsDerek FrancisAlfred BurkeArthur HewlettAn anthology series from the U.K., from 1955 to 1974, producing about five hundred ninety-minute episodes from Granada Television.
- DirectorDavid CunliffeStarsStanley BakerDenis LillDavid SwiftA popular member of the Oxford community is killed, and nobody can think why, so a police inspector is called in from Scotland Yard, and discovers they may be more to the victim than met anyone's eye.
- DirectorFrancis SearleStarsHelen ShinglerClement McCallinSheila BurrellA husband cheats on his disabled wife--who has been paralyzed in a car accident--with her sister. When the sister is murdered he is accused of the crime, but it turns out that he may not be the killer after all.
- DirectorMaclean RogersStarsRichard HearneGarry MarshEllen PollockMr Ningle has been living a lie for seven years. Every day, he journeys in and changes into the disguise of his alter ego: an artist who sells paintings on the sidewalk in Trafalgar Square.
- DirectorFrancis SearleStarsRichard CarlsonGreta GyntRona AndersonUS sleuth Whispering Smith arrives in London on vacation, but soon becomes embroiled in a murder case.
- DirectorFrancis SearleStarsRobert PrestonElizabeth SellarsColin TapleyA Canadian World War II veteran working for the British Foreign Office scours England for the killer who murdered his wife.
- StarsCharles GrayEric PorterJeremy BrettMonthly anthology series featuring televised versions of plays.
- DirectorMatthew FieldLancelot NarayanStarsLancelot NarayanStanley BakerJames BoothThe second part of the Making of Zulu
- DirectorMatthew FieldLancelot NarayanStarsStanley BakerJames BoothChief Mangosuthu ButheleziThe first part of 'The Making of Zulu'