Sir Stanley Baker (28 February 1928 – 28 June 1976) was a Welsh actor and film producer.
He was born William Stanley Baker in Ferndale, Rhondda Valley, Wales. He was an actor and film producer who came to prominence in the 1950s; although he made his film debut in 1941 as a teenager in the Ealing Studios 1943 film Undercover (film) on the Yugoslav guerrillas in Serbia, his first role as an adult was in All Over the Moon (1949).
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Sir Stanley Baker (28 February 1928 – 28 June 1976) was a Welsh actor and film producer.
He was born William Stanley Baker in Ferndale, Rhondda Valley, Wales. He was an actor and film producer who came to prominence in the 1950s; although he made his film debut in 1941 as a teenager in the Ealing Studios 1943 film Undercover (film) on the Yugoslav guerrillas in Serbia, his first role as an adult was in All Over the Moon (1949).
At first Baker was usually cast as a villain - tough, gritty and fiery. In private life, he was a close friend and drinking companion of another Welsh actor, Richard Burton. Both men had been taught by the same teacher at school who had encouraged their theatrical abilities. Notable among his early roles was as the unpleasant and somewhat cowardly Bennett in The Cruel Sea (1953).
However, he was not always a villain and he did have a few more endearing roles, especially after Laurence Olivier selected him to play Henry Tudor in his 1955 movie Richard III. He...
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