罗伊·沃德·贝克（Roy Ward Baker）是一位英国电影导演，1916年12月19日出生于伦敦。他最著名的电影是《难忘的夜晚》，该片在1959年获得了金球奖最佳外语片奖。他后来的职业生涯多种多样，包括许多恐怖电影和电视节目。

从1934年到1939年，贝克的早期职业生涯是在庚斯博罗影业工作，这是一家位于伦敦北部伊斯灵顿的英国电影制作公司，以其著名的作品而闻名。他的第一份工作是卑微的——例如为剧组成员泡茶——但到 1938 年，他已经晋升为阿尔弗雷德·希区柯克 （Alfred Hitchcock） 的《消失的女士》的助理导演。

他在第二次世界大战期间在军队服役，直到 1943 年调到陆军 Kinematograph 部门，以便更好地利用他在战前职业生涯中为部队制作纪录片和教材所培养的技能。他当时的上司之一是小说家埃里克·安布勒。1947 年，正是他让贝克第一次执导了安布勒剧本中的《十月人》。安布勒还改编了沃尔特·洛德（Walter Lord）的《难忘的夜晚》（A Night to Remember），以改编贝克1958年的银幕版本。

在 1950 年代初期，贝克在好莱坞工作了三年，在那里他执导了玛丽莲·梦露的《别打扰敲门》（1952 年）和罗伯特·瑞恩的 3D 黑色电影《地狱》（1953 年）。他在这十年的后半段回到了英国，但在 1960 年代初叛逃到电视界。

他执导了《复仇者联盟》、《圣徒》和《冠军》的剧集，这些冒险系列都是着眼于美国市场的。电视制作的低成本道德使他非常适合他的下一个职业，进入制作廉价但看起来很奢华的英国恐怖片。他执导了《Quatermass and the Pit》（1967年）、《吸血鬼恋人》（1970年）和《德古拉之痕》（1970年）以及《Amicus》的《疯人院》（1972年）。

在1970年代后期，他重返电视台，并在整个1980年代继续在电视台工作。他于1992年退休。

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 later career was varied, and included many horror films and television shows.

Baker's early career, from 1934 to 1939, was spent working for Gainsborough Pictures, a British film production company based in Islington, North London, famous for its prestige productions. His first jobs were menial - making tea for crew members, for example - but by 1938 he had risen through the ranks to work as assistant director on Alfred Hitchcock's The Lady Vanishes.

He served in the army during World War II, until transferring to the Army Kinematograph Unit in 1943 in order to make better use of skills developed in his pre-war career producing documentaries and teaching materials for troops. One of his superiors at the time was novelist Eric Ambler. It was he who gave Baker his first big break directing The October Man, from an Ambler screenplay, in 1947. Ambler also adapted Walter Lord's A Night to Remember for Baker's 1958 screen version.

During the early 1950s, Baker worked for three years in Hollywood where he directed Marilyn Monroe in Don't Bother to Knock (1952) and Robert Ryan in 3D film noir Inferno (1953). He returned to the UK for the latter part of the decade, but defected to television in the early 1960s.

He directed episodes of The Avengers, The Saint and The Champions - all adventure series created with an eye on the American market. The low-budget ethic of television production made him well-suited to his next career move into cheaply produced but lavish-looking British horror films. He directed, amongst others, Quatermass and the Pit (1967) The Vampire Lovers (1970) and Scars of Dracula (1970) for Hammer, and Asylum (1972) for Amicus.

In the latter part of the 1970s he returned to television, and throughout the 1980s continued to work in Television.  He retired in 1992.