Lieutenant Chard (Stanley Baker) directs the redneck deployment in Zulu.

Born in Wales, Stanley Baker usually played tough guys. He was too young to join up in World War Two but made his film debut at age 16 in Undercover (aka Underground Guerrillas), a 1943) propaganda film about Yugoslavian partisans. Next to The Guns of Navarone, his best-known war film is Zulu. Not only did he star in this film, he also produced, and was so determined to see the project through he sank most of his own money into the project.

Other Zulu trivia bits: Because the Zulus who were playing the extras in the Film had never seen a movie (this was 1964), Baker held an outdoor screening of a Gene Autry movie for them so they would have an idea of what movies were all about. Also, if you look carefully, in some scenes you can see the attacking Zulus wearing wristwatches!

His war/historical movies include: Undercover, Captain Horatio Hornblower, The Red Beret, The Cruel Sea, Hell Below Zero, A Hill in Korea, Alexander the Great, Guns of Navarrone and The Last Grennade.