Roy Ward Baker
Director, Actor
Filmography (All Films)
- Morning Departure (Operation Disaster) (1950)
- Dir. Roy Ward Baker
Feat. John Mills, Nigel Patrick, Richard Attenborough
- A British submarine patrolling in the period just after WWII, hits a leftover mine and plunges seriously damaged to the sea–bed. The captain…
- Don't Bother to Knock (1952)
- Dir. Roy Ward Baker
Feat. Marilyn Monroe, Richard Widmark
- Marilyn Monroe in her first leading role plays a psychotic babysitter who lures an unwitting Richard Widmark into her world of delusion.
- Passage Home (1955)
- Dir. Roy Ward Baker
Feat. Peter Finch, Anthony Steel, Diane Cilento…
- Torrid melodrama with the presence of a young woman on board a cargo ship causing tensions amongst the male crew.
- One That Got Away, The (Einer Kam Durch) (1957)
- Dir. Roy Ward Baker
Feat. Hardy Kruger, Colin Gordon, Terence Alexander…
- Sturdy war thriller centred on the true story of German airman Franz von Werra – the only German POW to successfully escape from allied custody…
- Night to Remember, A (1958)
- Dir. Roy Ward Baker
Feat. Kenneth More, Ronald Allen, Robert Ayres…
- Vivid re–enactment of events that led to the sinking of the Titanic, with careful attention payed to the human drama. Kenneth More leads a…
- October Man, The (1960)
- Dir. Roy Ward Baker
Feat. John Mills, Joan Greenwood, Edward Chapman…
- Atmospheric pot–boiler in which John Mills plays an amnesiac accused of murder who fights to prove his innocence, apprehend the murderer and…
- Singer Not the Song, The (1961)
- Dir. Roy Ward Baker
Feat. John Mills, Dirk Bogarde, Mylene Demongeot…
- Philosophical western is an oddity amongst the Rank canon with Bogarde as a campy Mexican bandit terrorising a catholic priest Mills. Homoerotic…
- Baron, The (TV Series) (1966-1967)
- Dir. Roy Ward Baker, Robert Asher
Feat. Steve Forrest, Sue Lloyd, Colin Gordon
- The escapades of John Mannering, aka "The Baron", a Texan–born ranch owner based in London, once a thief, but now reformed as an operative for…
- Quatermass and the Pit (1967)
- Dir. Roy Ward Baker
Feat. James Donald, Andrew Keir, Barbara Shelley
- Excellent update for the big–screen of the 50's cult TV serial harnesses a rich sense of intrigue through its perceptive script about an alien…
- Saint, The - Fiction Makers (1967)
- Dir. Roy Ward Baker
Feat. Roger Moore, Sylvia Syms
- Roger Moore's successful TV portrayal provides the basis of this feature–length version of 'The Saint'. A gang of jewel–thieves plans a…
- Moon Zero Two (1969)
- Dir. Roy Ward Baker
Feat. James Olson, Catherina Von Schell, Warren Mitchell…
- Low–budget science fiction foray from Hammer Films, billed as the first moon "western" and released very soon after the first moon landing in…
- Vampire Lovers (1970)
- Dir. Roy Ward Baker
Feat. Ingrid Pitt, Peter Cushing
- Hammer's famous lesbian–vampire pick made a cult star of the Polish–born volupte, Ingrid Pitt, as Carmilla. Esteemed…
- Scars of Dracula (1970)
- Dir. Roy Ward Baker
Feat. Christopher Lee, Dennis Waterman, Patrick Troughton
- In search of his missing brother a man discovers the deadly lair of Count Dracula.
- Jason King (TV Series) (1971-1972)
- Dir. Roy Ward Baker
Feat. Peter Wyngarde
- Spinoff series from DEPARTMENT S, following the flamboyant titular writer (Wyngarde) on further secret agent–international playboy adventures.…
- Dr. Jekyll and Sister Hyde (1972)
- Dir. Roy Ward Baker
Feat. Ralph Bates, Martine Beswick
- Delightfully camp turn on Stevenson's legendary fable of good and evil inhabiting the same body. Archetypal fun from Hammer studios.
- Asylum (House of Crazies) (1972)
- Dir. Roy Ward Baker
Feat. Peter Cushing, Britt Ekland, Herbert Lom…
- A compendium of four tales by Robert Bloch (writer of PSYCHO) set around the quest by a young psychiatrist to interview inmates of a madhouse and…
- ...And Now the Screaming Starts! (Fengriffen) (1973)
- Dir. Roy Ward Baker
Feat. Peter Cushing, Herbert Lom, Patrick Magee…
- Non–omnibus horror from inventively cheap horror specialists 'Amicus' concerns a young bride's horrifying discovery that her husband's family…
- Legend of the Seven Golden Vampires (1974)
- Dir. Roy Ward Baker
Feat. Peter Cushing
- Fusion of Hammer horror and martial arts spectacle follows Peter Cushing's Van Helsen to China where he discovers ol' fangface lurking behind an…
- Flame Trees of Thika, The (TV Mini Series) (1981)
- Dir. Roy Ward Baker
Feat. Hayley Mills, Ben Cross
- A nostalgic and wonderfully–photographed adaptation of Elspeth Huxley's memoir of growing up in Kenya in the 1910s, where her well–off…