ACTOR

Stanley Baker

1928 - 1976

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Sir William Stanley Baker (28 February 1928 – 28 June 1976) was a Welsh actor and film producer. Known for his rugged appearance and intense, grounded screen persona, he was one of the top British male film stars of the late 1950s, and later a producer. Born into a coal mining family in Glamorgan, Baker began his acting career in the West End. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Stanley Baker has received more than 1,699,352 page views. Her biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia. Stanley Baker is the 4,346th most popular actor (down from 3,305th in 2019), the 3,383rd most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 2,810th in 2019) and the 512th most popular British Actor.

Memorability Metrics

  • 1.7M

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  • 48.44

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 19

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.36

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.44

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ACTORS

Among actors, Stanley Baker ranks 4,346 out of 13,578. Before her are Jan Nowicki, Priscilla Lane, Susan George, Murat Yıldırım, Jane Greer, and Barbara La Marr. After her are Hunter Tylo, Lexington Steele, Ian Abercrombie, Melinda Dillon, Carole André, and Louis Calhern.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1928, Stanley Baker ranks 387. Before her are Horst Stein, Rance Howard, Garry Winogrand, Lucho Gatica, Klaus von Dohnanyi, and Jan Pieter Schotte. After her are Vladimir Toporov, Takako Doi, Washington Ortuño, Koko Taylor, Johnny Griffin, and Eduardo Guerrero. Among people deceased in 1976, Stanley Baker ranks 180. Before her are Jens Bjørneboe, Armas Taipale, Jimmy Reed, Alfred Landé, Taos Amrouche, and Nikoloz Muskhelishvili. After her are James Wong Howe, Henri Bosco, Mukesh, Hermann Jónasson, Carl Benjamin Boyer, and Milena Rudnytska.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Stanley Baker ranks 3,383 out of 8,785. Before her are Freddie Bartholomew (1924), Patrick Malahide (1945), David Cox (1924), John Shakespeare (1530), Susan George (1950), and Edward Thomas (1878). After her are Michael Mann (1942), Algernon Sidney (1623), William Hopkins (1793), Ian Abercrombie (1934), Alison Moyet (1961), and George Abecassis (1913).

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Among ACTORS In United Kingdom

Among actors born in United Kingdom, Stanley Baker ranks 512. Before her are Gary Lewis (1957), Alan Cumming (1965), Eva Le Gallienne (1899), Freddie Bartholomew (1924), Patrick Malahide (1945), and Susan George (1950). After her are Ian Abercrombie (1934), Stephen Moyer (1969), Peter Davison (1951), Samantha Bond (1961), Jill Esmond (1908), and Jane Lapotaire (1944).

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Television and Movie Roles

Zulu
Lt. John Chard R.E.
In 1879, during the Anglo-Zulu War, man-of-the-people Lt. Chard and snooty Lt. Bromhead are in charge of defending the isolated and vastly outnumbered Natal outpost of Rorke's Drift from tribal hordes.
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The Guns of Navarone
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Apr 27th 19617.3 / 10
A Lizard in a Woman's Skin
Inspector Corvin
Carol Hammond, daughter of a politician, has vivid nightmares involving sex orgies and LSD. In a dream, she murders a neighbor she envies and wakes up to a real investigation into her neighbor's murder.
Feb 18th 19716.5 / 10