Being Stanley Baxter (2025)

December. 31,2025

5.5

| Documentary

A portrait of Stanley Baxter, Scotland’s most dazzling TV star of the 1970s and ’80s, whose groundbreaking sketches and lavish specials made him a household name. Behind the fame, Baxter lived a hidden double life as a gay man in a hostile era, balancing public brilliance with private secrecy. Made shortly before his death, the film draws on personal archives and recordings to reveal the man behind the legend.

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Stanley Baxter as Self (archive)

[2025] Being Stanley Baxter [2022] Ooh the Banter! [2013] The Many Faces of Stanley Baxter [2001] This is Stanley Baxter [1998] Stanley Baxter in Person [1995] The Thief and the Cobbler

Elaine C. Smith as Self

[2025] Govan Fair Queen [2025] Being Stanley Baxter [2025] City Lights: Pure Dead Brilliant [2024] Damaged [2024] Broono [2022] Ooh the Banter!

Michael Grade as Self

[2025] Being Stanley Baxter [2022] Banned! The Mary Whitehouse Story [2021] Morecambe & Wise: The Lost Tapes [2018] Golazzo: The Football Italia Story [2018] Billy Connolly: Made in Scotland [2016] Burt Bacharach - A Life in Song

Reviews

Stoutor

2025/12/31

It's not great by any means, but it's a pretty good movie that didn't leave me filled with regret for investing time in it.

Hadrina

2026/01/01

The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful

Kien Navarro

2026/01/02

Exactly the movie you think it is, but not the movie you want it to be.

Marva-nova

2026/01/03

Amazing worth wacthing. So good. Biased but well made with many good points.