Roy Ward Baker
Audiences rate Roy Ward Baker’s films higher than 91% of the 3,467 people with 10 or more films on ThumbScore. See the full ranking
Free to watch now (26 Oct): A Night to Remember (Roku Channel, Pluto TV, Shout! TV, Plex, Tubi, Fawesome) · Asylum (YouTube, Philo, Roku Channel, Pluto TV, Shout! TV, Plex, Cineverse, Tubi, Hoopla, Fawesome) · Scars of Dracula (Plex, Prime Video (free), Tubi, Kanopy) · The Vampire Lovers (Plex, Xumo Play, Tubi, Fawesome) · Dr. Jekyll & Sister Hyde (Roku Channel, Prime Video (free), Tubi, Hoopla, Fawesome) · The Monster Club (Roku Channel, Shout! TV, Plex, Tubi, Fawesome).
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The ThumbScore for Roy Ward Baker (79.3%) is the average audience approval rating across 10 films. Each movie's ThumbScore represents the percentage of real audiences who rated it positively. A higher score means more of Roy's films are well-received by everyday viewers.
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 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.
Born 1916-12-19 in London, England. Died 2010-10-05.
On ThumbScore, Roy Ward Baker appears in 10 films with an average audience score of 79.3%, most frequently in the Horror genre.
Sources: TMDB
