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Sir William Stanley Baker (28 February 1928 – 28 June 1976) was a Welsh actor and film producer. Known for his rugged appearance and intense, grounded screen persona, he was one of the top British male film stars of the late 1950s, and later a producer. [1] Born into a coal mining family in Glamorgan, Baker began his acting career in the West ...
A Prize of Arms is a 1962 British crime film directed by Cliff Owen and starring Stanley Baker, Helmut Schmid, Patrick Magee and Tom Bell. [3] Set in 1956, the film follows a criminal gang as it tries to rob an army pay convoy during the Suez Crisis .
Robbery is a 1967 British crime film directed by Peter Yates and starring Stanley Baker, Joanna Pettet and James Booth. [2] The story is a heavily fictionalised version of the 1963 Great Train Robbery. The film was produced by Stanley Baker and Michael Deeley, for Baker's company Oakhurst Productions.
Number 79 in the list of BFI Top 100 British films: Fathom: Leslie H. Martinson: Raquel Welch, Anthony Franciosa: Comedy Thriller: The Fearless Vampire Killers: Roman Polanski: Jack MacGowran, Sharon Tate: Comedy horror: British-American co-production Five Golden Dragons: Jeremy Summers: Bob Cummings, Margaret Lee: Mystery: British-German co ...
Ernest Archer was nominated for a BAFTA Award for Best Colour Art Direction on the film. [5] The magazine Total Film (2004) ranked Zulu the 37th greatest British movie of all time, and it was ranked eighth in the British television programme The 100 Greatest War Films. [50] Empire magazine ranked Zulu 351st on their list of the 500 greatest films.
The Criminal (released in the United States as The Concrete Jungle) is a 1960 British neo-noir crime film directed by Joseph Losey and starring Stanley Baker, Sam Wanamaker, Grégoire Aslan, Jill Bennett, and Margit Saad.
Hell Below Zero is a 1954 British-American adventure film directed by Mark Robson and starring Alan Ladd, Joan Tetzel, Basil Sydney and Stanley Baker.It was written by Alec Coppel and Max Trell based on the 1949 novel The White South by Hammond Innes, and presents interesting footage of whaling fleets in action. [3]
Yesterday's Enemy is a 1959 Hammer Films British war film in MegaScope directed by Val Guest and starring Stanley Baker, Guy Rolfe, Leo McKern and Gordon Jackson set in the Burma Campaign during World War II. [1] It is based on a 1958 BBC teleplay by Peter R. Newman, who turned it into a three-act play in 1960.