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,
Jim Ackland unter Mordverdacht (1947). He then
went to Hollywood in 1952 and stayed for seven years, returning to
Britain in 1958, when he directed one of his best films,
Die letzte Nacht der Titanic (1958).
During the 1960s and 1970s, Baker directed a number of horror films for
Hammer and Amicus. He also directed in British television, especially
during the latter part of his career.
