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  • Zulu
  • Zulu review by from Plymouth, England
    Rated - 5 stars They don't make 'em like this anymore! 21 May 2004
    ...s. Signs of future greatness from Michael Caine and sterling performances from Stanley Baker and Jack Hawkins mean that this is not going to be bettered for some time. A m...  
  • Hell Drivers
  • Hell Drivers review by from KEYWORTH
    Rated - 5 stars 5 March 2004
    ...st a film for lorry 'anoraks'! The plot could have been written for a western. Stanley Baker plays 'Ted', an ex-con who's looking for work which he finds at 'Haulets' haula...  
  • Helen Of Troy
  • Helen Of Troy review by from STOURBRIDGE
    Rated - 3 stars 11 October 2004
    ...dubbing I can remember (Paris and Helen speak with cultured English accents). Stanley Baker makes an excellent, arrogant Achilles. Be patient during the somewhat wordy pr...  

Stanley Baker - filmography


  • Robbery on DVD (1967)
    Starring: Stanley Baker,  Joanna Pettet,  James Booth
    Director: Peter Yates
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Inspired by true events (the great train robbery of 1963) Robbery is an uncompromising portrayal of swinging London's criminal underworld. Paul Clifton has assembled a team of highly skilled thieves and plans a daring heist with intricate precision. Although a preliminary robbery to raise funds ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 67% from 255 members
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  • Zulu on DVD (1964)
    Starring: Stanley Baker,  Jack Hawkins,  Ulla Jacobsson
    Director: Cyril Endfield
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Narrated by Richard Burton and starring an outstanding Michael Caine in his first starring role, ZULU is a tense and dramatic war film about the Battle of Rorke's Drift in 1879--which was part of the Anglo-Zulu War in South Africa--where approximately 150 British soldiers held off 4,000 Zulu ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 73% from 11,254 members
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  • Prize Of Arms on DVD (1962)
    Starring: Stanley Baker,  Tom Bell,  Patrick Magee
    Director: Cliff Owen
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Never in the history of crime was so much taken from so many by so few. A gang of criminals acquire an old army truck and try to pass themselves off as military policemen. Their plan is to steal a £250,000 payroll intended for soldiers in the Middle East. Turpin recruits Fenner and Swavek to make ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 70% from 140 members
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  • The Guns Of Navarone on DVD (1961)
    Starring: Gregory Peck,  David Niven,  Anthony Quinn
    Director: J. Lee Thompson
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    One of the great war movies of all time, with an all start cast, and a gripping plot--based on the Alistair MacLean novel. A commando team is sent to a Greek Island to destroy the giant guns of World War II Germany which are controlling a strategic channel in the Aegean Sea. This was a ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 70% from 4,761 members
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  • The Criminal (1960)
    Starring: Stanley Baker,  Sam Wanamaker,  Grégoire Aslan
    Director: Joseph Losey
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    An ex-con who's taken part in the robbery of a racetrack is caught and sent back to prison, but he won't tell his fellow gang members where he's stashed the loot.
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 65% from 27 members
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  • Yesterday's Enemy (1959)
    Starring: Gordon Jackson,  Leo McKern,  Stanley Baker
    Director: Val Guest
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    BAFTA-nominated Hammer film, in which, cut off by the Japanese advance into Burma, Captain Langford (Stanley Baker) and his exhausted British troops take over an enemy-held jungle village. Despite protestations from a padre and a war correspondent (Leo McKern), Langford orders that two innocent ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 No ratings yet. Be the first.
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  • Alexander The Great on DVD (1955)
    Starring: Richard Burton,  Claire Bloom,  Barry Jones
    Director: Robert Rossen
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    Richard Burton stars in this epic portrayal of the legendary Greek military leader Alexander the Great. After his mother assassinates his tyrannical father, Alexander inherits the crown and begins his conquest of all the known world, which lead many to believe he was part god.
    Rate this: 2.5 stars out of 5 52% from 456 members
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  • The Blue Lamp on DVD (1950)
    Starring: Harold Pinter,  Jack Warner,  Sylvia Sims
    Director: Basil Dearden
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    An immensely popular British crime film, Basil Dearden's The Blue Lamp concentrates on interrelated episodes in the lives of several London policemen. Jack Warner heads the cast as George Dixon, a veteran "bobby" who is murdered by small-time delinquents Dirk Bogarde and Patrick Doonan. Rookie cop ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 72% from 138 members
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  • Helen Mirren At The BBC (6 discs) on DVD
    Starring: Helen Mirren,  Stanley Baker,  Brian Cox
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Set Comprises: 1. The Changling (1974) 2. The Apple Cart (1975) 3. Caesar & Claretta (1975) 4. The Philanthropist (1975) 5. The Little Minister (1975) 6. The Country Wife (1977) 7. Blue Remembered Hill (1979) 8. Mrd Reinhardt (1981) 9. A Midsummer Nights Dream (1981) 10. Cymbeline (1983) ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 61% from 76 members
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Stanley Baker facts

5 most recent films

How Green Was My Valley - 3.0 stars
A Lizard In a Woman's Skin - 3.5 stars
The Last Grenade - 3 stars
Robbery - 3.5 stars
The Family Way - 3.5 stars

5 highest-rated films

Zulu - BLU-RAY Version - 4.0 stars
The Servant - 4.0 stars
Hunted - 3.5 stars
Zulu - 3.5 stars
The Cruel Sea - 3.5 stars

5 lowest-rated films

Yesterday's Enemy - 3 stars
The Last Grenade - 3 stars
A Hill in Korea - 2.5 stars
Lilli Marlene - 2.5 stars
How Green Was My Valley - 3.0 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Dirk Bogarde - 11 times - show films
Chris Sarandon - 9 times - show films
Michael York - 9 times - show films
Sarah Miles - 9 times - show films
Patrick Magee - 9 times - show films

Most frequent directors

Basil Dearden - 8 times - show films
Joseph Losey - 6 times - show films
Cy Endfield - 2 times - show films
Val Guest - 2 times - show films
Roy Boulting - 2 times - show films