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Actor, Stanley Baker, was born William Stanley Baker on Feb 28, 1928 in Ferndale, Wales. Baker died at the age of 48 on Jun 28, 1976 in M?laga, Spain .

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Takes Command in Yesterday's Enemy

By Rick29 on Jun 1, 2026 From Classic Film & TV Cafe

as Captain Langford.Set during the Burma Campaign of World War II, Yesterday’s Enemy (1959) follows a small, exhausted remnant of a British Army brigade struggling to escape through the jungle after being cut off by advancing Japanese forces. Led by the hard-edged Captain Alan La... Read full article


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Stanley Baker Quotes:

Bennett: Snorkers! Good-oh!


Lieutenant John Chard: Well, you've fought your first action.
Lieutenant Gonville Bromhead: Does everyone feel like this afterwards?
Lieutenant John Chard: How do you feel?
Lieutenant Gonville Bromhead: Sick.
Lieutenant John Chard: Well, you have to feel alive to feel sick.
Lieutenant Gonville Bromhead: You asked me, I told you.
[pause]
Lieutenant Gonville Bromhead: There's something else. I feel ashamed. Was that how it was for you? The first time?
Lieutenant John Chard: The first time? You think I could stand this butcher's yard more than once?
Lieutenant Gonville Bromhead: I didn't know.
Lieutenant John Chard: I came up here to build a bridge.


Lieutenant John Chard: Good. I can find work for baritones as well as tenors.


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Stanley Baker Facts
At the time of his death he had been planning to play a rapist in a film, with his Zulu (1964) co-star Michael Caine playing a detective.

At the beginning of his career he was typecast as villains until Laurence Olivier invited him to play Henry Tudor in Richard III (1955).

In May 1972 he was one of the co-organisers of the Great Western Bardney Pop Festival in Lincoln.

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