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Henry Tudor was a villain….

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Stanley Baker as a far too good-looking Henry Tudor

“….Two years later, after being cast by Laurence Olivier as Henry Tudor in Richard III, he played a villain again in Child in the House….”

Oh, the bliss of taking a sentence out of context. Yes, of COURSE Henry Tudor was a villain!

The quote is from this link about the great Welsh actor Stanley Baker, who was taken from us well before his time. I remember him well in Hell Drivers, and that Patrick McGoohan and a young Sean Connery were in it as well. But perhaps the part of Hell Drivers that I remember most is the crazy and very unlikely speed of those old British lorries. If they’d really gone that fast I fear they’d have disintegrated! 😯 To see the trailer and those lorries, go here. 

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  1. H.J. Hill Avatar
    H.J. Hill

    Stanley Baker has that Olivier look around the eyes. And as for Patrick MGoohan, one of my favorites from him was the Disney production of The Scarecrow of Romney Marsh which you can actually watch on YouTube.

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  2. amma19542019 Avatar
    amma19542019

    Never heard of this lovely man (I refuse to watch any version of Shakespeare’s mock-up, not even for Olivier), but truly this is utter miscasting if I ever saw it!
    I suppose Olivier knew what he was doing, opposite the hunchback demon summoned from the north Olivier chose a startling virile and comely counterpoint – (ok, now to find films Mr Baker was in – hopefully his work lasted longer than Henry’s teeth! Hah!)

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