Movie details

Being Stanley Baxter(2025)

Name: Being Stanley Baxter
Genre: Documentary
Released: 2025-12-31
Duration: 60 min
Cast: Stanley Baxter, Elaine C. Smith, Michael Grade, Rory Bremner, Mark Gatiss

Documentary

Status: Released
Release date: 2025-12-31
Runtime: 1h 0m
Rating: Not rated
Original language: en
Certification: -
Budget: -
Revenue: -
Popularity: 2
Adult content: No

Overview

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.