Posted by Tom Stockman in General News, Movies, Obits | 17 comments
Hammer Horror director Roy Ward Baker dead at 93
I remember seeing his TALES FROM THE CRYPT at the theater in 1971 and being so terrified I had to sleep in my parent’s bed. His VAMPIRE LOVERS was the very definition of ‘Hammer Glamour’ and DR. JEKYLL AND SISTER HYDE holds up as a moody masterpiece. From The Los Angeles Times:
Roy Ward Baker, the London-born director best known for his 1958 documentary-style feature film, “A Night to Remember,” about the sinking of the Titanic, has died. He was 93.
Baker died Tuesday at a London hospital, his son, Nicholas, told the Associated Press.
” ‘A Night to Remember’ was considered the definitive film on the Titanic before Mr. Cameron got his hands on the subject,” said film critic Leonard Maltin, referring to “Titanic,” the 1997 romantic epic by James Cameron.
“Even the Hollywood movie has not negated the value of the earlier film,” Maltin told The Times on Thursday. Baker “was interested in making the characters and events seem credible. It’s quite good, dramatically very effective and moving.”
In its review of “A Night to Remember,” Newsweek said that the film, “using no star names familiar to Americans, simply sets forth the facts of the case, letting its own special drama speak for itself.”
For special effects, Baker had a 250-foot section of the ship built at a 10-degree angle for large crowd scenes. A smaller, 48-foot model was used for long shots. Sometimes he made the Titanic seem to tip with images as simple as a buffet cart rolling across an empty room, the St. Petersburg Times reported in 1998.
Born Roy Baker in 1916, he was a schoolboy in the era of talkies and grew up wanting to work in film. He adopted Ward as a middle name after he became a filmmaker.
He started his career a Gainsborough Studios, where he worked his way up from tea boy to Alfred Hitchcock’s assistant director on “The Lady Vanishes” (1938)…..
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I am a big Hammer fan (thanks to my dad). It’s always a shame when someone passes on, but even more so when you really appreciated their work as an artist.
Thanks for your appreciation of Roy Ward Baker. However, “Tales From the Crypt” was directed by Freddie Francis, another late, great English director. Perhaps you are thinking of “The Vault of Horror” — also quite scary.
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Tales from the crypt was such a classic film, a shame and so much respect and admiration for him. 93 Is very good innings so to speak, hopefully Roy Ward Baker will be remembered for a long time to come.
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