Stanley Baker

Stanley Baker

Nascimento : 1928-02-29, Ferndale, Rhondda, Wales, UK

Morte : 1976-06-28

História

Stanley Baker was a Welsh actor and film producer perhaps best known for the 1964 film Zulu.

Perfil

Stanley Baker
Stanley Baker

Filmes

Zorro
Col. Huerta
O povo de Nuova Arangona está indefeso perante a tirania do Coronel Huerta, que comanda a região com mão de ferro. Sua única esperança é a chegada de um novo e justo governador, mas conspiradores ligados a Huerta conseguem matá-lo no caminho até o vilarejo. Contudo, o aventureiro Don Diego resolve assumir seu lugar fazendo-se passar pelo finado governador, ao mesmo tempo em que usa a máscara do vingador Zorro - uma lenda local - para poder combater e punir os desmandos do tirano.
Pepita Jiménez
Pedro de Vargas
Who Killed Lamb?
Detective Inspector Jamieson
A popular member of the Oxford community is killed and nobody figure out why. A police inspector is called in from Scotland Yard and discovers there may be more to the victim than anyone knows.
The Changeling
De Flores
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.
O Grande Seqüestro
John Craig
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.
A Breed of Men
Narrator
The story was inspired by the stay-down strikers in the 1930s who refused to leave the mines for three weeks. Ernie Bailey, one of the miners, relayed the story to director Karl Francis, but declined appearing in the film because HTV would not pay him on a scale comparable to Tom Jones. Mr. Bailey smoked to his dying day at the age of 99: always a staunch socialist.
Popsy Pop
Inspektor Silva
Claudia Cardinale is Popsy, who double-crosses her older partner Silva (Stanley Baker). Silva has arranged to divert diamonds from a large corporate-run diamond mine in the South American jungle, and Popsy does her “pop” wrong as they are both pursued by police.
Uma Lagartixa num Corpo de Mulher
Inspector Corvin
Carol Hammond, esposa de um advogado londrino, tem sonhos bizarros com a vizinha desinibida, Julia Durer, que dá festas barulhentas na casa ao lado. Uma noite, ela acorda e descobre que seus pesadelos se tornaram realidade: Julia foi assassinada e Carol é a principal suspeita.
Perfect Friday
Mr. Graham
The 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.
Os Jogos
Bill Oliver
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.
The Last Grenade
Maj. Harry Grigsby
British mercenaries (Stanley Baker, Alex Cord) finish their Congo feud in Hong Kong, with a woman (Honor Blackman) caught in the middle.
Um Golpe à Italiana
Producer
Charlie Croker assume um plano complicado para roubar barras de ouro da Itália, bem debaixo dos narizes da polícia e da máfia. Ele reúne um peculiar grupo com os mais infames "hackers", ladrões de banco, sequestradores e motoristas de fuga.
Where's Jack?
Jonathan Wild
Based on the adventures of Jack Sheppard, the thief and jail-breaker who became a folk hero in 1720s London.
A Moça Com a Pistola
Dr. Tom Osborne
A Sicilian woman is dishonored by her lover, then goes to London with a pistol intending to murder him.
Os 26 do Expresso Postal
Producer
Um grupo de criminosos britânicos planeja o roubo do trem Royal Mail na rota Glasgow-Londres. Uma dramatização do Grande Assalto ao Trem. Embora não seja um "como", é muito minucioso nos detalhes, mostrando o cuidado e planejamento que teve lugar para realizá-lo. (e 14 - Estimado 14 Anos)
Os 26 do Expresso Postal
Paul Clifton
Um grupo de criminosos britânicos planeja o roubo do trem Royal Mail na rota Glasgow-Londres. Uma dramatização do Grande Assalto ao Trem. Embora não seja um "como", é muito minucioso nos detalhes, mostrando o cuidado e planejamento que teve lugar para realizá-lo. (e 14 - Estimado 14 Anos)
Estranho Acidente
Charley
A vida vã e insegura do professor de Oxford Stephen vira de pernas para o ar quando se apaixona por uma de suas alunas, Anna. Ela também atraiu a atenção de um aluno rico chamado William e de Charley, um colega cujo sucesso profissional e autoconfiança despertam inveja em Stephen.
Code Name: Heraclitus
Frank G. Wheatley
A man who dies on an operating table is brought back to life, but he has total amnesia. A government agent decides that he would make a perfect undercover operative.
Perdidos no Kalahari
Producer
A diverse group of individuals struggle to survive in the Kalahari desert after their passenger plane crashes.
Perdidos no Kalahari
Mike Bain
A diverse group of individuals struggle to survive in the Kalahari desert after their passenger plane crashes.
One of Them Is Named Brett
Narrator
A look into the life of Brett, a boy born without arms due to thalidomide exposure.
Dingaka
Tom Davis
Nativo sul africano, vinga o assassinato de sua filha de acordo com as leis tribais tradicionais. Seu ato de vingança o leva a ser julgado sob as leis do governo, onde a justiça para o povo negro não existe.
A Fear of Strangers
Chief Inspector Dyke
A black saxophonist and small time crook is picked up by police on suspicion of murder. His problems multiply when the investigating officer lets his own issues influence the subsequent interrogation.
Zulu
Producer
Em Natal, África do Sul, em 1879, um pequeno regimento britânico de apenas 105 soldados se recusa a abandonar sua posição e resiste bravamente ao ataque de 4000 guerreiros zulus. Baseado em fatos verídicos.
Zulu
Lt. John Chard R.E.
Em Natal, África do Sul, em 1879, um pequeno regimento britânico de apenas 105 soldados se recusa a abandonar sua posição e resiste bravamente ao ataque de 4000 guerreiros zulus. Baseado em fatos verídicos.
The Man Who Finally Died
Joe Newman
Joe Newman, a naturalised Briton, is telephoned by his German father, whom he believed long dead, at the same time as a funeral is taking place in Bavaria - with his father's name on the coffin. His investigation in Bavaria reveals startling facts and the obstruction he meets makes him suspect foul play.
In the French Style
Walter Beddoes
A 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.
A Prize of Arms
Turpin
A criminal gang sets out to pull off the heist of a large army payroll.
Sodoma e Gomorra
Astaroth
Baseado na bíblica história de Sodoma e Gomorra, cidades dominadas pelas tentações e pelo pecado, o filme conta a saga de Lot (Stewart Granger). Lot, homem justo e sobrinho de Abraão, retira o povo hebreu do deserto e conduz a duas cidades, Sodoma e Gomorra. Lá o povo hebreu, com excessão de Lot, é, aos poucos, dominados pelos prazeres e pelo pecado, corrompendo a carne e o espírito. Tais corrupções despertarão a ira de Deus, e Lot, como líder do povo, irá tentar salvar seu povo do maior castigo divino sobre a terra.
Eva
Tyvian Jones
O escritor Tyvian Jones parece ter tudo (um best-seller internacional, um apartamento em Roma, uma bela noiva), mas é amargo mesmo assim. Ele encontra sua cara-metade na sedutora Eve. Uma tirana emocional, sua manipulação casual força Tyvian a confrontar seu passado e suas fraquezas.
Os Canhões de Navarone
Pvt. 'Butcher' Brown
Durante a Segunda Guerra Mundial, e após a perda de dois mil soldados britânicos no estreito grego de Kheros, os alemães resolvem reforçar defesas na região. Mas a retirada dos Aliados foi cortada por uma fortificação costeira alemã na ilha de Navarone, dotada de dois poderosíssimos canhões. Agora um pequeno grupo aliado, apoiado pela resistência grega, precisa de destruir as duas armas a fim de viabilizar a retirada britânica.
Armadilha a Sangue Frio
Johnny Bannion
When a robbery at a racetrack goes wrong ex-con Johnny Bannion is caught and sent back to prison. He won't tell the rest of the gang where he has stashed the loot leading to violent consequences.
Hell Is a City
Insp. Harry Martineau
Set in Manchester, heartland of England's industrial north, Don Starling escapes from jail becoming England's most wanted man. Ruthless villain Starling together with his cronies engineered a robbery that resulted in the violent death of a young girl. Detective Inspector Martineau has been assigned to hunt him down and bring him in. From seedy barrooms, through gambling dens the trail leads to an explosive climax high on the rooftops of the city.
Jet Storm
Capt. Bardow
Crisis in the air: A passenger aboard a commercial airplane flying from London to New York threatens to detonate a bomb over the Atlantic.
Yesterday's Enemy
Captain Langford
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
Entrevista com a Morte
Insp. Morgan
Em Londres da década de 1950, o pintor holandês Jan-Van Rooyer tem um caso com uma francesa rica que é assassinada, fazendo com que Van Rooyer se torne o principal suspeito do Scotland Yard.
Colinas da Ira
Conrad Heisler
Nazis chase a U.S. newsman (Robert Mitchum) paid to smuggle names of Greek resistance leaders to London.
The Criminals
Luce Dorell
A small construction company's new year's eve party is taken over by a crook who has intricate knowledge of the men's private lives, forcing them into an incredible bank robbery plot.
Porto de Fúrias
Abel
The captain of a tugboat harboured off a Spanish village is lured into a romantic involvement with a young girl at the behest of her father, in the hope of getting his hands on the vessel. Meanwhile, a handsome English sailor, signs on to the boat and before long he and the girl fall for one another. Meanwhile a sinking freighter carrying explosive cargo has to be salvaged....
Violent Playground
Detective Sergeant Jack Truman
A Liverpool juvenile liaison officer struggles with a young and dangerous pyromaniac.
Meu Reino, Minha Vida
Owen Morgan
Given only six months to live, Englishman Bruce Campbell goes to Canada to claim "Campbell's Kingdom", the land he inherited from his grandfather. In order to clear his grandfather's name and prove there is oil on the land, Campbell must face up to a ruthless contractor and work against the clock to find oil before "Campbell's Kingdom" is flooded by a new power dam.
Na Rota do Inferno
Tom Yately
An ex-con trying to go clean ends up working for a crooked trucking company swindling money.
Checkpoint
O'Donovan
Stanley Baker's O'Donovan is sent to steal the plans of a rival company's racing car designs, to ensure his employers win the competition. However, when opening a safe containing the plans, he triggers an alarm leading to a gun battle where he kills a number of people. James Robertson Justice, alarmed by the scandal surrounding the killings, orders his agent be killed surreptitiously to hide his involvement with the plot. The film uses original footage from the Mille Miglia , an Italian open-road endurance race, featuring classic period racing cars.
A Hill in Korea
Cpl. Ryker
Based on real events, A Hill in Korea charts the fortunes of a small group of British soldiers serving in the Korean War. Out on a routine patrol, the soldiers find that Chinese troop movements have cut them off from their own lines. They try to fight their way back to safety but with the enemy surrounding them on all sides, the prospects look bleak. Facing almost insurmountable odds, they decide to stand a fight.
Child in the House
Stephen Lorimer
A lonely child must stay with her uncaring aunt and uncle after her mother is hospitalized. Her estranged father is a fugitive. For love and companionship, the eleven-year old girl becomes friends with the housemaid. When at long last, she meets her dad, she must vow to never reveal his location to the police.
Alexandre, O Grande
Attalus
He was a fierce military commander who led huge armies into battle without a single defeat; a magnificent warrior who many believed was part god - this was Alexander the Great (Richard Burton), the legendary Greek hero hailed by his countrymen as "The King of Kings". Born in 356 B.C. into a turbulent world of political unrest, educated by Aristotle (Barry Jones) and chosen to lead his people in the grand tradition of his powerful father (Fredric March), this glamorous world conqueror rose above all conflict to unite the continents of Europe and Asia to become one of the most celebrated rulers of all time! Written, produced and directed by Oscar - winner Robert Rossen and featuring the extraordinary Claire Bloom and a remarkable cast of thousands, this stunning portrait of one of history's most fascinating figures is colossal entertainment and an amazing spectacle.
Helena de Tróia
Achilles
Há mais de 3 mil anos, Tróia era próspera, cuja localização a permitiu dominar o Helesponto (hoje conhecido como estreito de Dardanelos). Esta era a única rota marítima que ia e vinha do oriente, o que gerava muitas riquezas para Tróia, que se tornou um troféu de guerra tentador para as nações gregas. Os troianos se lembravam de quando os gregos, liderados por Esparta, saquearam e queimaram a cidade dos ancestrais. Em razão disto os troianos haviam preparado fortes defesas, para a possibilidade de futuros ataques. Guardada por grandes muralhas, a nova Tróia era um abrigo impenetrável para um povo feliz.
Ricardo III
Henry, Earl of Richmond
Having helped his brother King Edward IV take the throne of England, the jealous hunchback Richard, Duke of York, 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.
Beautiful Stranger
Louis Galt
An ex-chorus girl lives on the Riviera, supported by a married man she doesn't know is a crook.
Os Bons Morrem Cedo
Mike Morgan
An amoral, psychotic playboy incites three men who are down on their luck to commit a mail van robbery, which goes badly wrong.
Hell Below Zero
Erik Bland
Duncan Craig signs on a whaling ship, partly because his own business deal has fallen through, partly to help Judie Nordhall find her father. Rumor has it that her father may have been murdered by Erik Bland, son of her father's partner and her one-time lover. Duncan and Erik find themselves on rival whaleboats and, ultimately, on an ice floe.
Os Cavaleiros da Távola Redonda
Modred
O recém coroado rei da Inglaterra, Arthur Pendragon dedica seu reinado e a irmandade dos Cavaleiros da Távola Redonda aos ideais de paz e justiça. Apoiando o Rei Arthur em seus objetivos está a sua amada Rainha Guinevere, o nobre Sir Lancelot e o misterioso Merlin. Lancelot e Guinevere estão divididos entre a secreta paixão que os envolve e a lealdade e respeito que nutrem por Arthur. Mas essa traição não é nada se comparada ao ódio que a feiticeira Morgana, meia irmã de Arthur, e seu filho Mordred sentem pelo Rei de Camelot.
The Tell-Tale Heart
Edgar Allan Poe
Stanley Baker enacts the classic Edgar Allan Poe story in this chilling short film, only recently rediscovered after being lost for 50 years.
Sinal Vermelho
Breton
A aventura de um americano que se alistou no Regimento de Pára-quedas britânico em 1940, alegando ser canadense.
Mar Cruel
Bennett
The Cruel Sea é um filme britânico de 1953, do gênero drama de guerra, dirigido por Charles Frend e estrelado por Jack Hawkins e Donald Sinden. O filme, no estilo docudrama, é uma das produções mais subestimadas e comoventes entre aquelas ambientadas na Segunda Guerra Mundial.
Whispering Smith Vs. Scotland Yard
Reporter
Mystery directed by Francis Searle.
Home to Danger
Willie Dougan
A young woman becomes a murder target after inheriting her estranged father's estate.
Falcão dos Mares
Mr. Harrison (Bosun)
Em 1807 o imperturbável Capt. Hornblower da marinha britânica é enviado em uma missão secreta para desviar aliados espanhóis de Napoleão, patrocinando uma revolução centro-americana de um líder megalomaníaco. Depois de uma viagem difícil, complicações inesperadas forçam Hornblower a rever seus planos... e o transformam em anfitrião relutante para a bela irmã do Duque de Wellington. Batalhas navais, aventuras extraordinárias, e um romântico interlúdio de estrelas.
The Rossiter Case
Joe
A 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.
Castigo Implacável
Milkman
Canadian World War II veteran John Graham (Robert Preston) works in London as a code breaker. Tragedy strikes when his pregnant wife, Carol (Elizabeth Sellars), is accidentally run over by two crooks who are speeding away from the scene of a murder. Haunted, grieving, and thirsting for revenge, Graham sets out to find the two fugitive murderers.
Lilli Marlene
Evans
Lilli Marlene, a French girl working as a bar maid in her uncle's café in Benghazi, Libya, turns out to be the girl that the popular German wartime song Lili Marleen had been written for before the war, so both the British and the Germans try to use her for propaganda purposes - especially as it turns out that she can sing as well. When the Germans kidnap her in Cairo and she starts appearing in radio broadcasts from Berlin, her British soldier friends think that she's joined the enemy. They couldn't be more wrong, because after the war it turns out that her songs over the radio contained secret messages to London from British agents in Berlin.
Something in the City
Policeman
A man hides the fact that he lost his job from his wife by apparently going off to work each day as normal but runs into trouble when he is tailed by a reporter.
Your Witness
Police Sgt. Bannoch
Adam Hayward is a successful New York City defense lawyer. One day he receives a cable that the British war buddy who saved his life at Anzio Beach is now in trouble with the law in England. Taking the advice of his secretary to go to England rather than wire money, Adam arrives in his friend's village to find him about to stand trial for the murder of the hired stable-hand, Lawrence.
Mórbido Despeito
Policeman at Garage
A British psychiatrist devises a devilish revenge plot against his wife's lover.
All Over the Town
Barnes
Newspaper reporter Nat Hearn returns home after serving in the Royal Air Force during World War II. When one of the paper's owners dies, the man's partner and son offers Nat a position as editor in return for his financial backing. But Nat's reluctance to shy away from controversial issues raises more than a few eyebrows.
Undercover
Petar
Occupied Yugoslavia. With organised resistance shattered by the Nazi onslaught it is only the activity of small guerrilla bands that bring fresh hope to the people. But quislings and infiltrators are everywhere – and trusting the wrong person could easily get you killed...