You mustn't let that worry you. In 1970, with The Stanley Baxter Show a huge BBC hit, he moved out of their house and took the apartment in Highgate Village that would be his refuge for the rest of his life. Her husband's career blossomed, with a series of cinema roles that led to star billing in films such as The Fast Lady. They all wanted him: Aspel, Parkinson. Fine, I said. Pull out the pin, and its every man for himself. Well, it was worth a go. The more I got to know of her I realised she was a lovely person, a woman of enormous heart.. Wearing a calf-length tweed coat with a smart scarf folded across the throat. The lavish, multi-layered dresses worn by classic pantomime dames are built on a bodysuit of gripping Lycra whose fierce constriction can leave the body raw and bruised by the end of each performance. I had felt the relationship simply had to stop, so I broke it off. She once flew to Belfast to be "reunited with the spirit of [theatre director] Tyronne Guthrie." See the complete profile on LinkedIn and discover Moira's connections and jobs at similar companies. Baxter had married Moira Robertson, an actress at the Citizens Theatre, in the early Fifties. Well, you, really. When his friend Kenneth Williams's diaries were published posthumously in the early Nineties, he fought a legal battle to ensure nothing about his sex life was printed. IN MARCH 1952, 26-year-old Stanley Baxter, recognised as the brightest young star in the Citizens' Theatre Company, made a decision that was to shock his parents, stun his close friend Kenneth. By then, he had fallen in love for the first time. . Express. Dunoon, Scotland, United Kingdom. Ive often wondered how her life would have turned out had she married a devoted heterosexual husband., He adds, his voice breaking: I will never know why she loved me so much. ', Stanley was terrified. She was far more bohemian than me.' She may have worshipped Stanley but she never got herself worked up if her husbands white shirts were dry in the morning or not. He had to get on with it, focus on finishing the last 10 days of the panto season and his last 10 days at the Citz. Waiting around outside the entrance to the flats where he lived was making me feel like a burglar casing the joint. I called his office, who promised to ring back with a comment, but didnt. But of course I should have been stronger. The Real Stanley Baxter by Brian Beacom is published by Luath Press Ltd, 20. And we never really discovered who he was, other than a brilliant character actor and impersonator; as the rules of celebrity changed, he simply refused to play by them. How? The pulleys were always full of stuff., Moira was more Dora from David Copperfield than Glaswegian domestic goddess. Television doesnt work like that: budgets and budgets. We became close, without it ever being more than friendship.'. My mother didnt think any woman was good enough for me [Bessie Baxters principal purpose in life was to grow a showbiz star] but there was more to her criticism of Moira. In this remarkable new authorised biography, which Stanley originally refused to have published before his death for fear of being judged journalist Brian Beacom reveals the secrecy and sadness that have haunted the entertainer all his life. And since that time he hasnt been able to surrender the thought had he not married the fragile, vulnerable woman she may have lived more of a happy life. Im not. But it was a whole new experience. Moura Robertson. Can I call you tomorrow, then, to see if youve changed your mind? He has now returned with his new biography, The Real Stanley Baxter, in which he speaks candidly about his life. Technology means that readers can shape a discussion. When he stopped doing TV spectaculars, we were told that everybody had an eye on the clock because the clock meant money. In 1944, his call-up papers arrived. His family remained in Glasgow during the Blitz at first, a teenage Stanley and his mother sheltering under a dining table during the bombing. Newsquest Media Group Ltd, Loudwater Mill, Station Road, High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire. contact the editor here. 'I'm not. He stood facing the audience for a moment and then said, in a vampish voice: I call this my hand grenade dress. Mary Brennan sees nothing surprising about Baxter being so jealous of his privacy. Baxter is appearing on a charges of soliciting and public indecency. Jul 1988 - Present34 years 4 months. And if I don't have a career, what do I have?' The pair developed a closeness that meant when they weren't working they enjoyed a movie or dinner together. Baxter was a great talker among his close-knit circle of friends, said Mr Young, but was also wary of outsiders. Certainly not Kenneth Williams: 'I remember sitting with him in an Italian restaurant, and telling him that I was very low. 64, I said. Chic, with hooded eyes, Moira could have been Bette Davis's younger sister. But he did not understand what he was feeling till he met Bill Henry, a schoolmate with blond hair and a taste for intellectual books. Afterwards, I gasped, 'Have you done this before?' No, for the reason I just gave. Look, do you mind? Stanley maintains incredible control, but he can also come on like the wee woman on the stairhead talking about the price of mince, said Mary Brennan, who reviews around 20 panto performances a year. She is the. She then went to their new Glasgow flat to cook spaghetti for his supper.". When he sat down on a streetcar bench between a priest and a woman with a hat box on her lap, he suddenly saw another female rider in front of him lose her clothes (through a double-exposure dissolve), and then his seat-mates on his right and left turned female without clothes. That counts for a lot in this part of north London, where there are more antique shops than newsagents. Stanley Baxter, Actor: Crooks Anonymous. almost as often as a chambermaid turns down bed sheets.'. In 1949, it was illegal to be gay and entrapment of homosexual men by covert police officers was common. Sometimes that provides the extra spurt of energy or imagination needed to unearth a story. However he changed his mind when she became very, very upset and appeared to be heartbroken. No. In January, 1962, he was focused hard on his career. That was that. Just to be with. 'I couldn't put up with very long periods of not being with men,' he says frankly. . There was, it seemed, no prospect of an interview. I never wanted to be gay. I think it was probably fashionable at the time to get married even if there were undercurrents of other things that people didnt realise about, said Mr Young. Overwhelmed by the knowledge that he was making a mistake that would ruin both their lives, Baxter sat on the wedding bed and sobbed. Moira wrote him a very sane and balanced letter. But she ignored the signs. . She wanted to come, too. The Real Stanley Baxter, by Brian Beacom. Do not sell or share my personal information. She would turn up at the stage door in Glasgow, unannounced. As a last shot I rang David White, who said I had been very naughty. The critics loved it. And that was that. But over the years, Moiras mental health issues worsened. He's willing to let the world decide for itself. Yes. Many weeks later, I was browsing for biographical material on someone else when I came across an old copy of Whos Who In Television, with an entry on Baxter. There was to be no further co-operation. Dressed in a sailor suit, his hair tonged in waves, he did impersonations of Laurel and Hardy, and Mae West. A life without stress you cannae whack it! And he said dismissively, 'Oh yes, I've had all my friends'.'. Actor Stanley Baxter, 94, has bravely come out as gay and opened up about how his sexuality impacted his relationship with his wife Moira Robertson, who died in 1997. Well see what happens. Baxter reveals he spent his entire career hiding his sexuality and discussed the impact it had on his relationship with his wife Moira Robertson, who died in 1997, In the book, he says he. Jacobs convinced the court that Baxter could not have been 'soliciting' when he was arrested because, apart from two policemen, there was no one else in the lavatories. Im not being naughty, but no. He had also appeared alongside Baxter in many Scottish pantomimes, including the comedians last, and was prepared to talk, up to a point. Identifying clients needs and developing solutions for both existing and new to Bank clients. His sketch shows were months in the making and the talk of the nation spectacular, controversial, unlike anything ever seen. Meanwhile, Moira had landed part-time work with a milliner but it didnt seem to hold her interest. Wherever he is, I wish him well. LWTs press officer had never even heard of him, but promised to investigate. There was also a tiny quote from Baxter in the Times of November 1992, about how the role of Principal Boy should only be played by a woman: All those frills. Helen Wright and Moira Robertson were in a police raid (Image: Spindrift) Two Glasgow pensioners caught with more than 24,000 of cocaine are behind bars. . What Williams didnt know, however, was the pressure Stanley had been under. He is now out of the public eye, but appeared in ITV special Stanley Baxter: Now and Then in 2008 and Channel 5 documentary Comedy National Treasures: Stanley Baxter in 2019. He revealed he was worried his career would be over because of the incident before his lawyer got the charge dropped. One last piece for the Independent on Sunday, The Invisible Man: Searching for the Reclusive Stanley Baxter. After all, she was with the man she adored. She wandered, like Ophelia through Hamlet, but she would have moved to the ends of the earth for me.. ' Friends suddenly shunned him, fearful of guilt by association. Stanley Baxter has come out as gay at the age of 94. Oh yes? Still smiling. Tayside & Stirling. At one point during my researches I was intrigued to meet a person in north London who had lived near the Baxters for a while in recent years, and who believed that they now lived apart, but that Stanley visited his wifes new home for lunch most days. Stanley Baxter as the Pantomime Dame in "Jack and the Beanstalk" at the King's Theatre, Glasgow. Anyone who can dress up as Judy Garland with a nose like his and get away with it, has to be a genius. British actress Moira Robertson and her husband, British comedian and actor Stanley Baxter, at Clerkenwell Magistrates Court in London, England, 5th March 1962. 'I didn't want to bring any child into the world who suffered what I suffered. Instead, he was arrested. Stanley knew he was gay. He had indeed dreamed of being a professional actor since appearing on stage as a seven-year-old at local talent contests. We use your sign-up to provide content in ways you've consented to and to improve our understanding of you. I explained a great part of the problem was Moira. I wondered if I could have a word? His wife Moira, from whom he was separated, was tormented by mental illness and had attempted suicide by cutting her wrists in the bath. But Stanley, and Moiras family, coaxed her to take medication. (Later in my quest, I rang the clubs charming PR woman. And after nearly a year of thinking about this man, after all the work I had done to find him, I had absolutely no idea what to say. As one critic wrote: The joke is not that Stanley Baxter is dressed up as a woman. It was more than weakness. And he met Moira Robertson, a 22-year-old who had worked her way up from the wardrobe department to the stage. In London, Stanley found immediate success with TV satire On The Bright Side. However the charges were dropped when the police officers who arrested him admitting he was on his own at the time. This would be no life for you, married to someone who is essentially and primarily a homosexual.'. inaccuracy or intrusion, then please But in joining the Citz and aiming for the stars (however small his initial parts were as an Assistant Stage Manager) the young actor realised his sexuality could prove to be his downfall. Feeling she was too ill to travel, Baxter told her she must stay in London. Ah-ha. Pinnwnde sind ideal zum Speichern von Bildern und Videoclips. And she never knew of the window ledge incident. Stanley walked through the doors of the Gorbals theatre and into theatre heaven, loving this avant-garde world populated by the likes of Sybil Thorndyke and Duncan Macrae. I guess I had come to really like Moira. Even though Moira was dead from an overdose by this time, he was sickened at the thought that his sexuality might become common knowledge. 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Add a New Bio Also known as Moira Spouses Stanley Baxter (1951 - 1997) Died 1997 Edit Submitted on July 23, 2013 Citation Use the citation below to add to a bibliography: Style: MLA Chicago APA "Moira Robertson." Stanley Livingstone Baxter (born 24 May 1926) is a Scottish actor, comedian, impressionist and author. And it worked. Possibly even liberation is distasteful, because it encourages people to come out and make features of themselves, whereas your social and sexual life should be, as Noel Coward had it, behind closed doors. 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Stanley's wife of over 45 years Moira Robertson died in 1997 (Picture: REX) At a time when being gay was illegal in Britain, the actor would bring men home with his wife's knowledge. I know it all sounds terribly old-fashioned but men had those expectations in those days., Now, Stanley admits another reason why he felt Moira should remain at home. I don't want to be involved in this kind of world'. If she did, she never let on. By the age of 14 when he became radio star he knew where his destiny lay. So he decided that rather than cut his cloth down because hes not a stand-up Channel 4 comedian, is he? But Baxter's anxieties were channelled into his work, and his perfectionist instincts became overwhelming. And wasnt marriage about compromise? If you are dissatisfied with the response provided you can Stanley Baxter is arguably the funniest man and one of the most fetching women in Britain. She would go off to our bedroom and let me take the one opposite.'. And Stanley noticed her little eccentricities, her remoteness, her rejection of life's boring rituals of cleaning, cooking, washing laundry, had become more pronounced. After the war in Europe was over, in June 1945, a 19-year-old Baxter was told to report to the Seaforth Highlanders regiment. He says: Did she carry some hope that I would get off the plane, rush round and save her again? . His performance of Eager Young Husband was the worst he would give in his life. She would go off to our bedroom and let me take the one opposite.". In an extract publicised by The Scotsman, Stanley said he tried to split from Moira, who died in 1997, when she wanted to get married. Marcus was a constant support. But what the Daily Express didnt know was that when Stanley arrived home, with the sound of Saturday evening theatre applause still ringing in his ears, he broke down in tears. No mention of his wife, Moira, though. She called him her Sonny Boy and, as his precocious talent emerged, had him perform at every family gathering. He died aged just 26 and Stanley was heartbroken. I don't think you know what you're talking about and I don't think you realise that the future will be bleak for you and difficult for me., Stanley was adamant. A year later, on March 5, 1952, the train sped west to Moiras parents home in Dumbarton for the ceremony. He adds that he only agreed not to break things off when she threatened to jump out the window of their flat. There are 30+ professionals named "Moira Robertson", who use LinkedIn to exchange information, ideas, and opportunities. Baxter would go. Williams believed Stanley to be taking advantage of Moira and a traitor to the cause. Baxter resolved to repress his sexuality when he returned to Glasgow two years later to live, as he put it, 'as a straight actor'. Fred Baxter, knowing his son was unconvincing in the role of Happy Groom, attempted a last-minute derailment. London. The most outrageously funny man on British television 50 years ago was Stanley Baxter. Gay men up and down the UK lived in constant fear of having their careers and lives wrecked. The honeymoon night predictably was a disaster. He took his time. However, Moira was very, very upset. Although we'd spend lots of time in each other's beds, nothing happened. Bei kommerzieller Verwendung sowie fr verkaufsfrdernde Zwecke kontaktieren Sie bitte Ihr. He loved the applause 'a hundred people shouting 'Bravo' and I'm beating the adults to the prizes'. Yes I did, and I spoke to you through my agent. In that moment, I thought the world had changed. Very boring!' I never wanted to be gay. One of them might be him, I thought. The decriminalisation of gay sex between consenting adults was still five years away. He never appeared as himself. HP10 9TY. She was in love with him and Baxter believed he was falling in love with her. Therapy proved useless: his psychiatrist, learning that he was married, advised him simply to return to his wife. 'I'm too afraid of what people will think of me,' he said. I thought, I really hate this. Part of the Daily Mail, The Mail on Sunday & Metro Media Group, Harry suggests he and Meghan will NEVER give up their royal titles after Anderson Cooper asked why they don't renounce them and live privately during explosive 60 Minutes interview: Prince blasts 'what difference would that make? Im a character actor. Baxter began to turn work down not playing Captain Hook in a production of Peter Pan opposite Lulu, not appearing with Cannon and Ball at the Palladium. But a fellow member of the club in Pall Mall, which costs up to 500 a year, confirmed that Baxter was frequently there. It was in CSE that Baxter met openly gay men for the first time. Moira has 3 jobs listed on their profile. OK. Goodbye. But Stanley couldnt contain his sexual frustrations. It was a dark day. How would I know what he looked like? Bringing businesses together in the emerging, disruptive technology space across; FinTech, Quantum Technologies and Quantitative Trading Technologies through face to face and virtual meetings and events. Which is not good, when youre in your sixties, is it? The book was 10 years old, but it was worth a try. So I asked if he was aware that there had been a piece in the Sun over the summer, calling for Baxter to come back to television. So he just thought: No, its all too much for me. Club gossip suggested that he preferred the bigger and busier squash changing- rooms to those by the poolside, and was a bit of a loner.) Tragically, however, in 1997, the year Princess Diana died, Moira took her own life. He has a talismanic quality that makes people feel hes very much in touch with their lives, and then suddenly, out he zooshes looking really rather sexy. Moira was dead on her bed from an overdose. He had his chance to make a clean break, to move on alone. But just weeks later he realised he had boarded a runaway train. He returned to the BBC but, after a one-off in 1986 in which he played 37 roles (including Mae West, whom he first impersonated aged six), that contract also ended. FOR MANY of the details I subsequently learnt about Stanley Baxters life, I was grateful to Andy Young, a Scottish freelance writer who gained the comedians confidence about 100 years ago and is one of the few people to have interviewed him at any length. His father was a branch manager of Commercial Union while his mother would have liked to have been an actress, When the family agreed that acting was respectable his mother took him round halls where he gave renderings of Harry Lauder and Mae West, Schooling eventually came to a stop which disappointed his father who'd wanted him to be a doctor. It should have been a safe space for informed debate, somewhere for readers to discuss issues around the biggest stories of the day, but all too often the below the line comments on most websites have become bogged down by off-topic discussions and abuse. He was the lead in one play before going off to serve with the Royal Army Service Corps in the Far East, where he was recruited for the Combined Services Entertainment unit, a drag- and-greasepaint outfit straight out of It Aint Half Hot Mum. . . I was utterly overwhelmed. The dark, often highly dramatic script of their life together began when he joined the Citz in 1948, shortly after being demobbed. She danced too in the gardens in Highgate Village, naked. Das Getty Images Design ist eine eingetragene Marke von Getty Images. 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As I approached the flats, a figure bundled up in odd layers of clothing and a heavy overcoat came towards me, and turned towards the gate. 'I liked her,' Baxter says. Baxter staged full-scale MGM musicals and played every role. But Andy Young, who considers himself a close friend of the couple, insisted that they still lived together. A Gannett Company. Scots who never visit a theatre for the rest of the year still find their way to the panto, where the scenarios and jokes have the familiarity of ritual. And, yes, the address I had was the correct one. There was no reply from the intercom buzzer. Their relationship was fraught with difficulty Williams called it a very shaky ship but it was underpinned by deep affection. Absolutely not? Perhaps uniquely, Stanley Baxter has succeeded in making himself invisible. He had to get on with his life. I wrote to Stanley Baxter at his home, requesting an interview. Look, his shows cost a fortune partly because it takes them so long to change and do make-up and so on. Face full of character. If youve got a celebrity story, video or pictures get in touch with theMetro.co.ukentertainment team by emailing uscelebtips@metro.co.uk, calling 020 3615 2145 or by visiting our Submit Stuff page wed love to hear from you. Bill had girlfriends, but he spent almost all his spare time at the Baxter house, sitting in Stanley's bedroom and talking till the small hours about art and philosophy, 'until we fell asleep, exhausted'. That would seem to indicate that there might be a return at some point, even just a one-off? Thats a difficult question. Award-winning interviewer, writer and broadcaster. 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