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9 unusual facts about Stanley Baker


After the Lion, Jackals

After the Lion, Jackals was an episode of Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre starring Stanley Baker.

Anthony Forwood

One year later he acted in the Oscar-nominated Knights of the Round Table, a film starring such high-profile actors as Robert Taylor, Ava Gardner and Stanley Baker, and in Terence Fisher’s Mantrap (1953).

Bardney

Funded by Lord Harlech and the actor Stanley Baker (amongst others) it attracted 30,000 people to the venue, held at the nearby Tupholme Abbey ruins.

Graceless Go I

Graceless Go I is a 1974 TV movie starring Stanley Baker.

Maurice Procter

When his novel Hell Is a City (which was published in the USA with the title Somewhere in This City) was filmed in 1960 with Stanley Baker as Martineau, it was shot on-location in Manchester.

Oakhurst Productions

Oakhurst Productions was a production company formed by actor Stanley Baker in the late 1960s which produced a number of films, notably The Italian Job (1969).

Victorian Military Society

The Marquis of Anglesey, the distinguished historian of the British Cavalry, became the Society’s president and the late Stanley Baker, the actor and producer of the film Zulu, became the Society’s first vice-president.

When the Lion Feeds

Stanley Baker bought the film rights and announced plans to make a movie version after Zulu (1963) but no film resulted.

Who Killed Lamb?

Who Killed Lamb? is a 1974 TV film starring Stanley Baker as a detective investigating a murder.


Mai Zetterling

After a brief return to Sweden in which she worked with Bergman again in his film Music in Darkness (1948), she returned to England and starred in a number of English films, playing against such leading men as Tyrone Power, Dirk Bogarde, Richard Widmark, Laurence Harvey, Peter Sellers, Herbert Lom, Richard Attenborough, Keenan Wynn, Stanley Baker, and Dennis Price.


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Laverstock and Ford

The glass was collected by Canon Stanley Baker from the street ditches in Salisbury where it had been thrown after its removal from the cathedral by James Wyatt in 1788.