Remembering
Today.. the birthday of director Roy Ward Baker, whose work with Peter
Cushing includes 'Asylum', 'And Now, The Screaming Starts!'. 'The
Vampire Lovers' with Amicus films. 'The Legend of the Seven Golden
Vampires for Hammer films and 'The Masks of Death' with Peter Cushing
for Tyburn films. Starting as a tea boy at the Gainsborough Studios in
London in 1934, raising to the role of assistant
director with Alfred Hitchcock on 'The Lady Vanishes' by 1939, then
onto a career as director in Hollywood, working with Marilyn
Munroe...Ward Baker had a very full career that covered just about every
genre! Today we remember his birthday and the contribution to not only
Peter Cushing's career, but the the world of cinema... Part Two of our
Roy Ward Baker and Peter Cushing series will appear on the website THIS
weekend.
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