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Jun 29, 2021 · 1967. Topics. Roy Ward Baker, horror, mystery, sci-fi, Hammer Films. Language. English. Item Size. 7716557629. A mysterious artifact is unearthed in London, and famous scientist Bernard Quatermass is called into to divine its origins and explain its strange effects on people. Addeddate.
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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.
Roy Ward Baker. Director: Asylum. 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 ...
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.
Billed as Roy Ward Baker, his return to cinema in 1967 with Quatermass and the Pit began an association with Hammer studios. From the '70s he worked largely in the horror genre, but he continued directing for television until the early '90s. Roy Baker was born in London on 19 December 1916 and educated in France and at the City of London School.
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.
The Vampire Lovers is a 1970 British Gothic horror film directed by Roy Ward Baker and starring Ingrid Pitt, Peter Cushing, George Cole, Kate O'Mara, Madeline Smith, Dawn Addams, Douglas Wilmer and Jon Finch. It was produced by Hammer Film Productions. It is based on the 1872 Sheridan Le Fanu novella Carmilla and is the first film in the ...
