Roy Ward Baker

Personal Info

Know For

Directing

Gender

Male

Birthday

1916-12-19 (94 years old)

Deathday

2010-10-05

Place of Birth

London, England

Roy Ward Baker

Biography

Roy Ward Baker was 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 Vani...

Production

1952

1958

1952

1970

1972

Asylum

as Director

1969

Moon Zero Two

as Director

1967

1970

Scars of Dracula

as Director

1984

1953

Inferno

as Director

1957

1974

1950

1947

The October Man

as Director

1981

The Monster Club

as Director

1979

Death Becomes Me

as Director

1956

1973

1968

The Anniversary

as Director

1950

Highly Dangerous

as Director

1968

1962

The Valiant

as Director

1949

Paper Orchid

as Director

1956

Jacqueline

as Director

1963

Two Left Feet

as Director

1970

Foreign Exchange

as Director

1969

The Spy Killer

as Director

1955

Passage Home

as Director

1961

1940

Night Train to Munich

as Second Unit Director

1948

The Weaker Sex

as Director

1938

The Lady Vanishes

as Assistant Director

1945

1936

First Offence

as Production Assistant

1936

Tudor Rose

as Production Assistant

1945

1976

The Switch

as Director

1961

1935

Heat Wave

as Production Assistant

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