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__NOTOC__ Roy Ward Baker (19 December 1916 – 5 October 2010), born Roy Horace Baker, was an English film director, credited as Roy Baker for much of his career.〔Bruce Weber ("Roy Ward Baker, Prolific British Filmmaker, Dies at 93", ) ''New York Times'', 8 October 2010〕 His best known film is ''A Night to Remember'' (1958) which won a Golden Globe for Best English-Language Foreign Film in 1959. His later career included many horror films and television shows. ==Career== Born in London where his father was a Billingsgate fish merchant, Baker was educated at a Lycée in Rouen, France, and at the City of London School. From 1934 to 1939, he worked for Gainsborough Pictures, a British film production company based in the Islington district of London. His first jobs were menial, making tea for crew members, for example, but by 1938 he had risen to the level of assistant director on Alfred Hitchcock's ''The Lady Vanishes'' (1938). He served in the Army during the Second World War, transferring to the Army Kinematograph Unit in 1943 to make better use of his skills as a production manager and director on documentaries. One of his superiors at the time was novelist Eric Ambler, who insisted on Baker being given 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. His next two films, ''The Weaker Sex'' (1948) and ''Paper Orchid'' (1949) were popular but overshadowed by the success of ''Morning Departure'' (1950), also featuring John Mills.〔 ''Morning Departure'' drew international attention to Baker's talent and prompted Darryl Zanuck, production head of 20th Century Fox, to invite him to Hollywood, though his first film for the company - ''I'll Never Forget You'' - was made in the UK.〔Tom Vallance (Obituary: Roy Ward Baker, ) ''The Independent'', 14 October 2010〕 During the early 1950s, Baker worked for three years at Fox where he directed Marilyn Monroe in ''Don't Bother to Knock'' (1952) and Robert Ryan in the 3-D film noir ''Inferno'' (1953). He returned to the UK in 1953〔 and continued to work on films. He worked for television during the 1960s and early 1970s. He directed episodes of ''The Avengers'', ''The Saint'', ''The Persuaders!'', ''The Champions'', ''Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased)'' - all of them adventure series created with an eye on the American market. His experience of working with low budgets in television made him well suited to his next career move into cheaply produced but lavish-looking British horror films. He directed, among others, ''Quatermass and the Pit'' (1967) ''The Vampire Lovers'' (1970) and ''Scars of Dracula'' (1970) for Hammer, and ''Asylum'' (1972) and ''The Vault of Horror'' (1973) for Amicus. He also directed Bette Davis in the black comedy ''The Anniversary'' (1968). In the latter part of the 1970s he returned to television, and throughout the 1980s continued to work on shows such as ''Minder''. He retired in 1992. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Roy Ward Baker」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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