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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.
Foreign Exchange is a 1970 American action thriller drama spy television film originally aired on ABC and directed by Roy Ward Baker. [1] [2] Its teleplay, written by Jimmy Sangster, was based on his own 1968 novel of the same name. [3] The film starred Robert Horton, Jill St. John, and Sebastian Cabot. [4]
Roy Ward Baker said he was approached by John Pennington with the script by Willis Hall and Keith Waterhouse. "It was a good script," says Baker. "The two sailors were given some sour wartime humour." The producers wanted John Mills to play the captain and asked Baker, "to contact him because we'd made so many pictures together.
The One That Got Away is a 1957 British biographical war film starring Hardy Krüger and featuring Michael Goodliffe, Jack Gwillim and Alec McCowen.The film was directed by Roy Ward Baker with a screenplay written by Howard Clewes, based on the 1956 book of the same name by Kendal Burt and James Leasor.
Don't Bother to Knock is a 1952 American psychological thriller starring Richard Widmark and Marilyn Monroe and directed by Roy Ward Baker. The screenplay was written by Daniel Taradash, based on the 1951 novel Mischief by Charlotte Armstrong. Monroe is featured as a disturbed babysitter watching a child at the same New York hotel where a pilot ...
Baker said "the picture was partly made because of the introduction at that time of the blue backing process which made back projection very much easier than the old-fashioned process but it had its teething problems and difficulties. So, I boldly was the first one to use it and it worked extremely well. Again, we had an extremely good cast." [3]
Roy Ward Baker later "Dirk came to me and he said he thought he was going to be the villain he should be all in black, which is reasonable enough" and he had the trousers made in Rome. In Baker's previous film Hardy Kruger wore black leather trousers. "I didn’t know that black leather trousers were supposed to be kinky, or in some strange ...
A fictionalised version of author R. Chetwynd-Hayes is approached on a city street by a strange man who turns out to be a starving vampire named Erasmus. Erasmus bites the writer, and in gratitude for the small "donation", takes his (basically unharmed but bewildered) victim to the titular club, which is a covert gathering place for a multitude of supernatural creatures.