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Roy Ward Baker (born Roy Horace Baker; 19 December 1916 – 5 October 2010) was an English film director. [1] He was known professionally as Roy Baker until 1967, when he adopted Roy Ward Baker as his screen credit.
Roy Ward Baker's first job in films was as a teaboy at the Gainsborough Studios in London, England, but within three years he was working as an assistant director. During World War II, he worked in the Army Kinematograph Unit under Eric Ambler , a writer and film producer, who, after the war, gave Baker his first opportunity to direct a film, The October Man (1947) .
Oct 8, 2010 · Oct. 8, 2010. Roy Ward Baker, an undersung British filmmaker who directed “A Night to Remember,” a vivid black-and-white rendering of the sinking of the Titanic revered by history and movie ...
Dec 19, 2016 · Stream hand-picked cinema. A free trial, then £4.99/month or £49/year. A titan of British genre film and TV in the postwar era, Roy Ward Baker was a regular director for horror studios Hammer and Amicus and made arguably the definitive film version of the Titanic story. On the centenary of his birth, we pick six of his finest moments.
Oct 8, 2010 · British director Roy Ward Baker, whose 1958 film A Night to Remember memorably recreated the sinking of the Titanic, has died in London at the age of 93. Born in 1916, he began as a teaboy at ...
Oct 5, 2010 · 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 ...
Roy Ward Baker (1916 – 2010) had a sixty-year career but is perhaps less well known than should be the case. Working, initially as Roy Baker, he scouted locations and worked in production, learning his craft at Gainsborough Pictures including working as an assistant to Alfred Hitchcock and Carol Reed.
