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Ward Baker, who was born in London in 1916, started out as an assistant director on Alfred Hitchcock's The Lady Vanishes in London in 1938. After serving in the army during the second world war, he went to Hollywood, where he directed Marilyn Monroe in the 1962 movie Don't Bother to Knock.

During the latter half of his career, Ward Baker directed a number of British horror films including, among others, Quatermass and the Pit (1967), The Vampire Lovers (1970), Scars of Dracula (1970), Dr Jekyll and Sister Hyde (1971), and The Legend of the 7 Golden Vampires (1974) for Hammer, and Asylum (1972), And Now The Screaming Starts! (1973), The Vault of Horror (1973) and The Monster Club (1980) for Amicus. He also directed Bette Davis in the black comedy The Anniversary (1968).

Wow! A great loss indeed.