--- name: "Stanley Baker" canonical: "https://film.one/person/stanley-baker" roles: ["Actor"] born: "29 February 1928" died: "28 June 1976" reviewed_on_fi1m: 1 average_as: "actor" average_over: 1 updated: "2026-09-20T04:01:37.076757+00:00" licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL." --- # Stanley Baker Actor. Born 29 February 1928 in Ferndale, Rhondda, Wales, UK. Died 28 June 1976. ## Details - **Work:** Actor - **Born:** 29 February 1928, Ferndale, Rhondda, Wales, UK - **Died:** 28 June 1976 - **Also known as:** William Stanley Baker - **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanley_Baker, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1306352, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0048939/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/67449 ## Streaming the US now - **Netflix:** [*The Guns of Navarone*](https://film.one/film/the-guns-of-navarone.md) (74) For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country. ## Biography Stanley Baker was a Welsh actor and film producer. Born William Stanley Baker on 28 February 1928 in Ferndale, Rhondda, Wales, he died on 28 June 1976 in Málaga, Spain. He began his career with stage work and small film roles in the 1940s, later appearing in supporting parts in films such as *Captain Horatio Hornblower R.N.* (1951) and *The Cruel Sea* (1953). Baker gained prominence in the 1950s and 1960s for roles including Henry, Earl of Richmond in *Richard III* (1955), Modred in *Knights of the Round Table* (1953), and Attalus in *Alexander the Great* (1956). He played Pvt. 'Butcher' Brown in *The Guns of Navarone* (1961) and Lt. John Chard in *Zulu* (1964), which he also produced. Other credits include *Accident* (1967), *The Girl with a Pistol* (1968), *A Lizard in a Woman's Skin* (1971) and *Zorro* (1975). Baker formed production companies and worked as a producer on several of his films. He received a knighthood in 1976. *Sources: en.wikipedia.org, bbc.co.uk, imdb.com.* ## On Fi1m (1) - *The Guns of Navarone* (1961), Fi1m 74, as Pvt. 'Butcher' Brown — [page](https://film.one/film/the-guns-of-navarone.md) ## Complete filmography (74) Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page. - *How Green Was My Valley* (1975), series, as Gwilym Morgan - *Zorro* (1975), as Col. Huerta - *Bride to Be* (1975), as Pedro de Vargas - *Robinson Crusoe* (1974), as Robinson Crusoe - *Graceless Go I* (1974), as Roger - *Who Killed Lamb?* (1974), as Detective Inspector Jamieson - *The Changeling* (1974), as De Flores - *Innocent Bystanders* (1972), as John Craig - *A Breed of Men* (1971), as Narrator - *Popsy Pop* (1971), as Inspektor Silva - *A Lizard in a Woman's Skin* (1971), as Inspector Corvin - *Perfect Friday* (1970), as Mr. Graham - *The Games* (1970), as Bill Oliver - *Colosseum and Juicy Lucy* (1970), Producer - *The Last Grenade* (1970), as Major Harry Grigsby - *The Italian Job* (1969), Producer - *Where's Jack?* (1969), as Jonathan Wild - *The Girl with a Pistol* (1968), as Dr. Tom Osborne - *ITV Playhouse* (1967), series, as Roger - *Robbery* (1967), as Paul Clifton · Producer - *Accident* (1967), as Charley - *Code Name: Heraclitus* (1967), as Frank G. Wheatley - *Sands of the Kalahari* (1965), as Mike Bain · Producer - *BBC Play of the Month* (1965), series, as Robinson Crusoe, De Flores - *One of Them Is Named Brett* (1965), as Narrator - *Dingaka* (1964), as Tom Davis - *A Fear of Strangers* (1964), as Chief Inspector Dyke - *Zulu* (1964), as Lt. John Chard R.E. · Producer - *The Man Who Finally Died* (1963), as Joe Newman - *In the French Style* (1963), as Walter Beddoes - *A Prize of Arms* (1962), as Turpin - *Sodom and Gomorrah* (1962), as Astaroth - *Eva* (1962), as Tyvian Jones - *The Guns of Navarone* (1961), as Pvt. 'Butcher' Brown — Fi1m 74, [page](https://film.one/film/the-guns-of-navarone.md) - *Drama 61-67* (1961), series, as Chief Insp. Tom Dyke - *The Criminal* (1960), as Johnny Bannion - *Hell Is a City* (1960), as Insp. Harry Martineau - *Jet Storm* (1959), as Capt. Bardow - *Yesterday's Enemy* (1959), as Captain Langford - *Blind Date* (1959), as Insp. Morgan - *The Angry Hills* (1959), as Conrad Heisler - *The Criminals* (1958), as Luce Dorell - *Sea Fury* (1958), as Abel - *Violent Playground* (1958), as Detective Sergeant Jack Truman - *Campbell's Kingdom* (1957), as Owen Morgan - *Hell Drivers* (1957), as Tom Yately - *Checkpoint* (1956), as O'Donovan - *A Hill in Korea* (1956), as Cpl. Ryker - *Child in the House* (1956), as Stephen Lorimer - *Armchair Theatre* (1956), series, as Luce Dorell - *Alexander the Great* (1956), as Attalus - *Jane Eyre* (1956), series, as Mr Edward Rochester - *Helen of Troy* (1956), as Achilles - *Richard III* (1955), as Henry, Earl of Richmond - *The Creature* (1955), as Tom Friend - *Beautiful Stranger* (1954), as Louis Galt - *The Good Die Young* (1954), as Mike Morgan - *Hell Below Zero* (1954), as Erik Bland - *Knights of the Round Table* (1953), as Modred - *The Tell-Tale Heart* (1953), as Edgar Allan Poe - *The Red Beret* (1953), as Breton - *The Cruel Sea* (1953), as Bennett - *Whispering Smith vs. Scotland Yard* (1952), as 1st Reporter - *Home to Danger* (1951), as Willie Dougan - *Cloudburst* (1951), as Milkman - *Captain Horatio Hornblower R.N.* (1951), as Mr. Harrison (Bosun) - *The Rossiter Case* (1951), as Joe - *Lilli Marlene* (1950), as Evans - *Something in the City* (1950), as Policeman - *Your Witness* (1950), as Police Sgt. Bannoch - *Obsession* (1949), as Policeman at Garage - *All Over the Town* (1949), as Barnes - *Undercover* (1943), as Petar - *The Bride To Be*, Actor ## Gallery - ![Stanley Baker](https://film.one/media/person/1240659/gallery-2341e4abc165.jpg) Stanley Baker — Eli Chen, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/cb/Stanley_Baker_visit_Israel_1967.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled) - ![Stanley Baker](https://film.one/media/person/1240659/gallery-e90398f47709.jpg) Stanley Baker — Image via TMDB - ![Stanley Baker](https://film.one/media/person/1240659/gallery-5f1ab4e50055.jpg) Stanley Baker — Image via TMDB - ![Stanley Baker](https://film.one/media/person/1240659/gallery-b5e39dcfcbd5.jpg) Stanley Baker — Image via TMDB --- © Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL. 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