Roy Ward Baker, a British film director who brought an understated precision to his craft and whose credits included the thriller "Don't Bother to Knock" starring Marilyn Monroe as a deranged ...

Roy Ward Baker was 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 ...

British director Roy Ward Baker, who helmed “A Night to Remember,” died Oct. 5 in London. He was 93. Lensed in black and white, the 1958 pic, based on Walter Lord’s book, told the Titanic’s sinking ...