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Being Stanley Baxter

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Calorie Rating: 84
Released: 2025-12-31
Running Time: 60 Minutes
Studios: IWC Media, BBC Scotland,


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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Cast

Stanley Baxter
Character: Self (archive)
Elaine C. Smith
Character: Self
Michael Grade
Character: Self

Rory Bremner
Character: Self
Mark Gatiss
Character: Self
Alan Cumming
Character: Self

John Kaye Cooper
Character: Self
Alex Norton
Character: Self
Eddie Izzard
Character: Self

Bill Paterson
Character: Self
Alice Dale
Character: Self (Sister)
David Holt
Character: Self

Lillian Alexander
Character: Self
Amanda Barrie
Character: Self
John Reid
Character: Self


Production and Crew