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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.
Aug 13, 2022 · The early death of Zulu star Stanley Baker is one of cinema's great ‘what ifs’. Commanding and rugged, the Welsh actor could have saved 1980s British cinema from naffness. Instead, hard living...
Stanley Baker. Actor: Zulu. Stanley Baker was unusual star material to emerge during the Fifties - when impossibly handsome and engagingly romantic leading men were almost de rigueur.
Feb 26, 2016 · Stanley Baker. Born in Wales on 28 February 1928, Stanley Baker escaped life as a coalminer for acting after a chance sighting in a school play by the casting director of Ealing Studios led to Baker’s first role in the 1943 war drama, Undercover.
Michael Stanley-Baker is an historian of Chinese Medicine and Religion, with a focus first in the early Imperial period, and in the Sinophone diaspora today. His research concerns the divers intersections of different forms of cultural knowledge with Chinese medicine, whether with religion, botany, trade or modern biology and policy.
Assistant Professor. History. School of Humanities. I am an historian of Chinese Medicine and Religion, with a focus first in the early Imperial period, and secondly in contemporary Taiwan, China and Han diasporic communities.
Aug 17, 2009 · Rugged Welsh actor Stanley Baker became famous for gritty unconventional film roles in the 1950s and 1960s, often playing unsympathetic characters and starring in classic war films such as The...
Birthday: Feb 8, 1927. Birthplace: Ferndale, Rhondda Valley, Wales, UK. Commanding Welsh leading man who began his career as a teen in 1943 and bristled through a series of British...
Mar 8, 2010 · Stanley Baker (1928-76) Stanley Baker, born at Ferndale in the Rhondda, always suggested - in his thriller genre roles in particular - a latent ferocity, a brooding discontent, which ensured...
As an actor, Stanley Baker was known for his tough, rugged, masculine performances whether as a villain or as the anti-hero capable of eliciting the sympathies of the audience.
