UK - Scottish comedian Stanley Baxter dies aged 99 - 11 December 2025

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Dead at 99, Stanley Baxter - the most admired, brilliant (and tortured) comedian on TV who spent his last 25 years as a virtual recluse​

Stanley Baxter, who has died aged 99, was once the most admired comedian on television. His annual variety shows, in which he played dozens of characters, were the small screen’s most expensive extravaganzas.

But he spent the past 25 years as a virtual recluse in his first floor apartment in a Highgate Village art deco mansion. He dreaded going out – believing himself to be decrepit, he feared being recognised and, worse, pitied.

Dead at 99, Stanley Baxter - the most admired comedian on TV

An hour with Stanley Baxter was like a night at a party with a crowd of the most celebrated actors and aristocrats of the telly age.

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Rip Stanley,

BBC News - Tributes to comedian Stanley Baxter after death aged 99

Tributes to comedian Stanley Baxter after death aged 99

Baxter, who was born in Glasgow, was one of the biggest stars on British television for several decades.

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His friend and biographer Brian Beacom said Baxter died on Thursday in Denville Hall, a north London care home for entertainment figures where he had lived since late 2023.