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Roy Ward Baker is an English film director born in London on 19 December 1916. His best known film is A Night to Remember which won a Golden Globe for best foreign English language film in 1959. His later career was varied, and included many horror films and television shows. Baker's early career, from 1934 to 1939, was spent working for Gainsborough Pictures, a British film production company based in Islington, North London, famous for its prestige productions. His first jobs were menial - making tea for crew members, for example - but by 1938 he had risen through the ranks to work as assistant director on Alfred Hitchcock's The Lady Vanishes. He served in the army during World War II, until transferring to the Army Kinematograph Unit in 1943 in order to make better use of skills developed in his pre-war career producing documentaries and teaching materials for troops. One of his superiors at the time was novelist Eric Ambler. It was he who gave Baker his first big break directing The October Man, from an Ambler screenplay, in 1947. Ambler also adapted Walter Lord's A Night to Remember for Baker's 1958 screen version. During the early 1950s, Baker worked for three years in Hollywood where he directed Marilyn Monroe in Don't Bother to Knock (1952) and Robert Ryan in 3D film noir Inferno (1953). He returned to the UK for the latter part of the decade, but defected to television in the early 1960s. He directed episodes of The Avengers, The Saint and The Champions - all adventure series created with an eye on the American market. The low-budget ethic of television production made him well-suited to his next career move into cheaply produced but lavish-looking British horror films. He directed, amongst others, Quatermass and the Pit (1967) The Vampire Lovers (1970) and Scars of Dracula (1970) for Hammer, and Asylum (1972) for Amicus. In the latter part of the 1970s he returned to television, and throughout the 1980s continued to work in Television. He retired in 1992.
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- wc Gender: Male
- calendar_month Birth Date: 1916-12-19
- event Death Date 2010-10-05
- school Known for: Directing
- star Popularity: 1.4
- info Birth Place London, England
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smart_display Movies and TV shows by Roy Ward Baker
7.4
Flesh and Blood: The Hammer Heritage of Horror
1994-08-06
7.5
Von Werra
2002-01-16
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Inside the Fear Factory
2003-12-01
10
The Saint Steps In... To Television
2008-12-01
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Fists of Fire
1975-01-16
6.3
Hitchcock: The Early Years
1999-10-07
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Sodankylä Forever
2010-08-05
7.5
A History of Horror
2010-10-11
7.7
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
1955-10-02
7.7
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
1955-10-02
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Night Without Sleep
1952-09-26
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A Night to Remember
1958-07-03
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Dr Jekyll & Sister Hyde
1971-10-17
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Don't Bother to Knock
1952-07-18
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The Vampire Lovers
1970-10-04
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Asylum
1972-11-17
7.7
Moon Zero Two
1969-10-20
7.7
Quatermass and the Pit
1967-11-09
7.7
The Legend of the 7 Golden Vampires
1974-07-11
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Scars of Dracula
1970-11-08
7.7
The Masks of Death
1984-12-23
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And Now the Screaming Starts!
1973-04-27
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Inferno
1953-08-12
7.7
The One That Got Away
1957-11-22
7.7
Mission: Monte Carlo
1974-01-01
7.7
Morning Departure
1950-02-21
7.7
The October Man
1947-08-28
7.7
The Monster Club
1981-04-11
7.7
Death Becomes Me
1979-01-01
7.7
The House in the Square
1951-12-07
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Tiger in the Smoke
1956-11-27
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The Vault of Horror
1973-03-16
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The Anniversary
1968-02-07
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Highly Dangerous
1950-12-06
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The Singer Not the Song
1961-01-05
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The Singer Not the Song
1961-01-05
7.7
The Fiction Makers
1968-12-08
7.7
The Valiant
1962-06-13
7.7
Paper Orchid
1949-04-01
7.7
Jacqueline
1956-06-04
7.7
Two Left Feet
1963-03-16
7.7
Foreign Exchange
1970-01-13
7.7
The Spy Killer
1969-11-11
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Passage Home
1955-03-17
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Flame in the Streets
1961-06-19
7.7
Night Train to Munich
1940-08-31
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The Snows of Kilimanjaro
1952-10-08
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Flesh and Blood: The Hammer Heritage of Horror
1994-08-06
7.7
The Weaker Sex
1948-10-11
7.7
The Lady Vanishes
1938-10-07
7.7
Read All About It
1945-04-08
7.7
First Offence
1936-02-21
7.7
Tudor Rose
1936-09-01
7.7
What's the Next Job?
1945-06-30
7.7
The Switch
1976-06-07
7.7
Flame in the Streets
1961-06-19
7.7
Q.E.D.
1982-03-23
7.7
Minder
1979-10-29
7.7
The Baron
1966-09-28
7.7
Department S
1969-09-09
7.7
Gideon's Way
1965-03-18
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The Saint
1962-10-04
7.7
The Protectors
1972-09-29
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Journey to the Unknown
1968-09-26
7.7
The Irish R.M.
1983-01-06
7.7
Saracen
1989-09-02
7.7
Danger UXB
1979-01-08
7.7
The Flame Trees of Thika
1981-09-01
7.7
Tales from the Crypt
1989-06-10
7.7
The Champions
1968-09-25
7.7
The Avengers
1961-01-07
7.7
The Persuaders!
1971-09-17
7.7
Return of the Saint
1978-09-10
7.7
Jason King
1971-09-15
7.7
The Human Jungle
1963-03-30
7.7
Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased)
1969-09-21