Roy Ward Baker

Roy Ward Baker

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.

  • titulus: Roy Ward Baker
  • popularis: 3.744
  • notum enim: Directing
  • dies natalis: 1916-12-19
  • Locus Natus: London, England
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Roy Ward Baker Domum Movies Venatus

  • 1994
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    Flesh and Blood: The Hammer Heritage of Horror

    Flesh and Blood: The Hammer Heritage of Horror

    7.4 1994 HD

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  • 2002
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    Von Werra

    Von Werra

    7.5 2002 HD

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  • 2003
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    Inside the Fear Factory

    Inside the Fear Factory

    1 2003 HD

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  • 2008
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    The Saint Steps In... To Television

    The Saint Steps In... To Television

    10 2008 HD

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  • 1975
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    Fists of Fire

    Fists of Fire

    1 1975 HD

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  • 1999
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    Hitchcock: The Early Years

    Hitchcock: The Early Years

    6.3 1999 HD

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  • 2010
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    Sodankylä ikuisesti: Elokuvan vuosisata

    Sodankylä ikuisesti: Elokuvan vuosisata

    1 2010 HD

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  • 1994
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    Hitchcock: Alfred the Great

    Hitchcock: Alfred the Great

    1 1994 HD

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  • 1952
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    Night Without Sleep

    Night Without Sleep

    5.8 1952 HD

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  • 1958
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    A Night to Remember

    A Night to Remember

    7.6 1958 HD

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  • 1971
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    Dr. Jekyll & Sister Hyde

    Dr. Jekyll & Sister Hyde

    6.1 1971 HD

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  • 1952
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    Don't Bother to Knock

    Don't Bother to Knock

    6.6 1952 HD

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  • 1970
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    The Vampire Lovers

    The Vampire Lovers

    6.4 1970 HD

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  • 1972
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    Asylum

    Asylum

    6 1972 HD

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  • 1969
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    Moon Zero Two

    Moon Zero Two

    5 1969 HD

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  • 1967
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    Quatermass and the Pit

    Quatermass and the Pit

    6.601 1967 HD

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  • 1974
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    The Legend of the 7 Golden Vampires

    The Legend of the 7 Golden Vampires

    5.889 1974 HD

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  • 1970
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    Scars of Dracula

    Scars of Dracula

    6.1 1970 HD

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  • 1984
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    The Masks of Death

    The Masks of Death

    5.6 1984 HD

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  • 1973
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    And Now the Screaming Starts!

    And Now the Screaming Starts!

    5.9 1973 HD

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  • 1953
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    Inferno

    Inferno

    6.2 1953 HD

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  • 1957
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    The One That Got Away

    The One That Got Away

    7 1957 HD

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  • 1974
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    Mission: Monte Carlo

    Mission: Monte Carlo

    6.7 1974 HD

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  • 1950
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    Morning Departure

    Morning Departure

    6.6 1950 HD

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  • 1947
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    The October Man

    The October Man

    6.2 1947 HD

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  • 1981
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    The Monster Club

    The Monster Club

    5.9 1981 HD

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  • 1979
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    Death Becomes Me

    Death Becomes Me

    1 1979 HD

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  • 1951
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    The House in the Square

    The House in the Square

    6.7 1951 HD

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  • 1956
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    Tiger in the Smoke

    Tiger in the Smoke

    7.1 1956 HD

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  • 1973
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    The Vault of Horror

    The Vault of Horror

    6.3 1973 HD

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  • 1968
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    The Anniversary

    The Anniversary

    6.5 1968 HD

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  • 1950
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    Highly Dangerous

    Highly Dangerous

    6 1950 HD

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  • 1961
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    The Singer Not the Song

    The Singer Not the Song

    6.8 1961 HD

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  • 1961
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    The Singer Not the Song

    The Singer Not the Song

    6.8 1961 HD

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  • 1968
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    The Fiction Makers

    The Fiction Makers

    7.2 1968 HD

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  • 1962
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    The Valiant

    The Valiant

    7.5 1962 HD

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  • 1949
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    Paper Orchid

    Paper Orchid

    5 1949 HD

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  • 1956
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    Jacqueline

    Jacqueline

    6 1956 HD

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  • 1963
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    Two Left Feet

    Two Left Feet

    5 1963 HD

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  • 1970
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    Foreign Exchange

    Foreign Exchange

    5 1970 HD

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  • 1969
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    The Spy Killer

    The Spy Killer

    5 1969 HD

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  • 1955
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    Passage Home

    Passage Home

    5.6 1955 HD

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  • 1961
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    Flame in the Streets

    Flame in the Streets

    5.8 1961 HD

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  • 1940
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    Night Train to Munich

    Night Train to Munich

    7.2 1940 HD

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  • 1952
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    The Snows of Kilimanjaro

    The Snows of Kilimanjaro

    5.9 1952 HD

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  • 1994
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    Flesh and Blood: The Hammer Heritage of Horror

    Flesh and Blood: The Hammer Heritage of Horror

    7.4 1994 HD

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  • 1948
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    The Weaker Sex

    The Weaker Sex

    6 1948 HD

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  • 1938
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    The Lady Vanishes

    The Lady Vanishes

    7.441 1938 HD

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  • 1945
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    Read All About It

    Read All About It

    4.6 1945 HD

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  • 1936
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    First Offence

    First Offence

    1 1936 HD

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  • 1936
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    Tudor Rose

    Tudor Rose

    8.1 1936 HD

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  • 1945
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    What's the Next Job?

    What's the Next Job?

    1 1945 HD

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  • 1976
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    The Switch

    The Switch

    1 1976 HD

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  • 1961
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    Flame in the Streets

    Flame in the Streets

    5.8 1961 HD

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  • 1935
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    Heat Wave

    Heat Wave

    1 1935 HD

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  • 2010
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    A History of Horror

    A History of Horror

    7.529 2010 HD

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  • 1955
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    Alfred Hitchcock Presents

    Alfred Hitchcock Presents

    7.735 1955 HD

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  • 1955
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    Alfred Hitchcock Presents

    Alfred Hitchcock Presents

    7.735 1955 HD

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  • 1970
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    Alfred Hitchcock Presents

    Alfred Hitchcock Presents

    6.8 1970 HD

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  • 1970
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    Alfred Hitchcock Presents

    Alfred Hitchcock Presents

    5.4 1970 HD

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  • 1970
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    Alfred Hitchcock Presents

    Alfred Hitchcock Presents

    6.7 1970 HD

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  • 1970
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    Alfred Hitchcock Presents

    Alfred Hitchcock Presents

    4.9 1970 HD

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  • 1970
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    Alfred Hitchcock Presents

    Alfred Hitchcock Presents

    6.8 1970 HD

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  • 1970
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    Alfred Hitchcock Presents

    Alfred Hitchcock Presents

    7.3 1970 HD

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  • 1970
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    Alfred Hitchcock Presents

    Alfred Hitchcock Presents

    5.6 1970 HD

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  • 1970
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    Alfred Hitchcock Presents

    Alfred Hitchcock Presents

    6.3 1970 HD

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  • 1970
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    Alfred Hitchcock Presents

    Alfred Hitchcock Presents

    5.2 1970 HD

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  • 1970
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    Alfred Hitchcock Presents

    Alfred Hitchcock Presents

    5 1970 HD

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  • 1970
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    Alfred Hitchcock Presents

    Alfred Hitchcock Presents

    8 1970 HD

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  • 1970
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    Alfred Hitchcock Presents

    Alfred Hitchcock Presents

    6 1970 HD

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  • 1970
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    Alfred Hitchcock Presents

    Alfred Hitchcock Presents

    7.959 1970 HD

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  • 1970
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    Alfred Hitchcock Presents

    Alfred Hitchcock Presents

    6 1970 HD

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  • 1970
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    Alfred Hitchcock Presents

    Alfred Hitchcock Presents

    7.7 1970 HD

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  • 1970
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    Alfred Hitchcock Presents

    Alfred Hitchcock Presents

    7.633 1970 HD

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  • 1970
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    Alfred Hitchcock Presents

    Alfred Hitchcock Presents

    7 1970 HD

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  • 1970
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    Alfred Hitchcock Presents

    Alfred Hitchcock Presents

    7.3 1970 HD

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  • 1970
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    Alfred Hitchcock Presents

    Alfred Hitchcock Presents

    8.2 1970 HD

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  • 1970
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    Alfred Hitchcock Presents

    Alfred Hitchcock Presents

    6.8 1970 HD

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