{"id":14649,"date":"2010-10-08T11:32:28","date_gmt":"2010-10-08T02:02:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/?p=14649"},"modified":"2010-10-08T11:32:28","modified_gmt":"2010-10-08T02:02:28","slug":"vale-roy-ward-baker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/2010\/10\/08\/vale-roy-ward-baker\/","title":{"rendered":"Vale &#8211; Roy Ward Baker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<figure id=\"attachment_14650\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-14650\" style=\"width: 240px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-14650\" title=\"baker_roy_ward\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/baker_roy_ward.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"285\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-14650\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Roy Ward Baker - 1916-2010<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Just wanted to tip the hat in respect to British film director Roy Ward Baker, best known for the films <em>A Night To Remember<\/em> and <em>Quartermass And The Pit<\/em>, who has passed away during the week. Ward worked in Hollywood for a number of years, on projects involving everyone from Marilyn Monroe (<em>Don&#8217;t Bother To Knock<\/em>) to Robert Ryan (<em>Inferno<\/em>), and in his later career a number of low-budget British horror films.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Some of the films Baker directed include <em>Paper Orchid<\/em>, <em>The Weaker Sex<\/em>, <em>The Vampire Lovers<\/em>, <em>Tiger In The Smoke<\/em> and <em>The Anniversary<\/em>, which starred Bette Davis.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Mr Baker died on October 5th, aged 93.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just wanted to tip the hat in respect to British film director Roy Ward Baker,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":48482,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[213],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-obituary"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":"","thumbnail":"","medium":"","medium_large":"","large":"","1536x1536":"","2048x2048":"","covernews-featured":"","covernews-medium":"","profile_24":"","profile_48":"","profile_96":"","profile_150":"","profile_300":"","sow-carousel-default":""},"author_info":{"display_name":"Rodney Twelftree","author_link":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/author\/rodney\/"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/category\/film-general\/obituary\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Obituary<\/a>","tag_info":"Obituary","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14649","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/48482"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14649"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14649\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}