Stanley Baxter

Stanley Baxter

Stanley Baxter (born 24 May 1926) was a popular Scottish actor, comedian, impressionist and author. Baxter began his career as a child actor on BBC Scotland and then starring along Leslie Phillips and James Robertson Justice. Very Important Person (1961) Crooks Anonymous (1962) The Fast Lady (1962) and finally Father Came Too! (1963) Baxter later became known for his British television comedy shows The Stanley Baxter Show, The Stanley Baxter Picture Show, The Stanley Baxter Series and Mr Majeika.

  • Title: Stanley Baxter
  • Popularity: 0.7921
  • Known For: Acting
  • Birthday: 1926-05-24
  • Place of Birth: Glasgow, Scotland, UK
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Stanley Baxter Movies

  • 1962
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    The Fast Lady

    The Fast Lady

    5.7 1962 HD

    A Scottish civil servant must learn how to drive a Bentley to impress his girlfriend's tycoon father.

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  • 1961
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    Very Important Person

    Very Important Person

    5.2 1961 HD

    Comedy set in World War Two, starring James Robertson-Justice and Leslie Phillips. Sir Ernest Pease (Robertson-Justice) is a self-important scientist...

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  • 1962
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    Crooks Anonymous

    Crooks Anonymous

    5.9 1962 HD

    A former burglar trying to go straight joins a rehabilitation scheme using much the same methods as AA. Through the process, he takes work as a...

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  • 1964
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    Father Came Too!

    Father Came Too!

    5.5 1964 HD

    When Dexter Munro and his new wife Juliet get married, they decide to escape Juliet's meddling father by buying a rundown cottage and doing it up...

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  • 1965
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    Joey Boy

    Joey Boy

    5.8 1965 HD

    While posters urge austerity and vigilance in wartime Britain, 'Joey Boy' Thompson has never had it better. In a cellar beneath his East London fish...

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  • 1980
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    An Audience with Dame Edna Everage

    An Audience with Dame Edna Everage

    2.7 1980 HD

    Dame Edna Everage takes questions from a celebrity audience about her life and career.

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  • 1986
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    Stanley Baxter's Picture Annual

    Stanley Baxter's Picture Annual

    6 1986 HD

    Stanley Baxter's Picture Annual

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  • 1985
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    Stanley Baxter's Christmas Hamper

    Stanley Baxter's Christmas Hamper

    1 1985 HD

    Stanley Baxter's Christmas Hamper

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  • 1998
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    Stanley Baxter in Person

    Stanley Baxter in Person

    1 1998 HD

    Documentary profile of Stanley Baxter featuring his first in-depth interview for forty years and extracts from his comedy series and specials. With...

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  • 2022
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    Ooh the Banter!

    Ooh the Banter!

    1 2022 HD

    Jack Docherty brings together a jam-packed cast of comedians, actors and famous faces for a riotous celebration of Scotland's most valuable export...

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  • 1993
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    The Thief and the Cobbler

    The Thief and the Cobbler

    7.063 1993 HD

    Princess Yum Yum falls in love with Tack and saves him from being executed. Later, when the protective orbs of the palace get stolen, Tacka and Yum...

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  • 1955
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    Geordie

    Geordie

    6.8 1955 HD

    Concerned about his small stature, a young Scottish boy applies for a mail-order body building course, successfully gaining both height and strength....

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  • 1977
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    Bing Crosby's Merrie Olde Christmas

    Bing Crosby's Merrie Olde Christmas

    5.3 1977 HD

    Bing Crosby and his family spend Christmas at the estate of a distant relative in England.

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  • 2008
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    Stanley Baxter: Now and Then

    Stanley Baxter: Now and Then

    1 2008 HD

    Comedy legend Stanley Baxter returns from retirement and returns to the Christmas schedules with a trawl through the very best of his classic...

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  • 1976
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    Stanley Baxter's Christmas Box

    Stanley Baxter's Christmas Box

    1 1976 HD

    Sketches include the film noir 'Farewell my Cinders', the BBC Jewish news, The Bruce Fosdyke Show, A Christmas Appeal by Faith Douche, the meaning of...

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  • 1979
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    Stanley Baxter on Television

    Stanley Baxter on Television

    1 1979 HD

    We hear from the Minister of White Papers about how Stanley Baxter is to return, then we hear how Miss Porker wants her own show, we learn about sex...

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  • 2025
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    Being Stanley Baxter

    Being Stanley Baxter

    1 2025 HD

    A portrait of Stanley Baxter, Scotland’s most dazzling TV star of the 1970s and ’80s, whose groundbreaking sketches and lavish specials...

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  • 2001
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    This is Stanley Baxter

    This is Stanley Baxter

    1 2001 HD

    BBC Scotland documentary catching up with and celebrating the life of legendary Scottish comedian Stanley Baxter as he returns to Glasgow for his...

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  • 2013
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    The Many Faces of Stanley Baxter

    The Many Faces of Stanley Baxter

    1 2013 HD

    Celebrating the extraordinary career of entertainer Stanley Baxter, whose shows captivated huge audiences for twenty years before the cost of his...

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  • 1982
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    The Stanley Baxter Hour

    The Stanley Baxter Hour

    6 1982 HD

    The sketches include too many feet, Whicker's World looks at marriage, somewhere in Hell...1982, at look at the use of language in Arra Gemme,...

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  • 1986
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    Stanley Baxter's Picture Annual

    Stanley Baxter's Picture Annual

    6 1986 HD

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  • 1981
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    The Stanley Baxter Series

    The Stanley Baxter Series

    1 1981 HD

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  • 1959
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    On The Bright Side

    On The Bright Side

    1 1959 HD

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  • 1970
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    Mr. Majeika

    Mr. Majeika

    6 1970 HD

    Mr Majeika is a wizard, sent to "Britland" from the planet Walpurgis because he failed his O-level sorcery exam for the seventeenth time. He drops...

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  • 1963
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    The Stanley Baxter Show

    The Stanley Baxter Show

    1 1963 HD

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  • 1978
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    An Audience with...

    An Audience with...

    5.3 1978 HD

    An Audience with... is a British entertainment television show produced by London Weekend Television, in which a host, usually a singer or comedian,...

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  • 1970
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    The Goodies

    The Goodies

    7.5 1970 HD

    A British television comedy series of the 1970s and early 1980s, combining surreal sketches and situation comedy.

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  • 2019
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    Comedy National Treasures: Stanley Baxter

    Comedy National Treasures: Stanley Baxter

    1 2019 HD

    A nostaligic look at one of history's great comedians

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  • 1972
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    The Stanley Baxter Picture Show

    The Stanley Baxter Picture Show

    5 1972 HD

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  • 1964
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    The Wednesday Play

    The Wednesday Play

    4.5 1964 HD

    An anthology series of television plays which aired on BBC1 from October 1964 to May 1970. The plays were usually written for television, although...

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