Roy Baird

Nascimento : 1933-09-03, Elstree, England, UK

Morte : 2010-04-26

Filmes

The Making of 'Casino Royale'
Self - 1st Asst. Director
Interviews and overview of the making of the original 1967 James Bond film.
Hell on Earth: The Desecration & Resurrection of The Devils
Self
Hell on Earth is an hour-long documentary presented by Mark Kermode. It's about Ken Russell's 1971 film, The Devils which is one of the most controversial films ever made. Kermode chats to Russell as well as two of the films stars Georgina Hale and Murray Melvin. Also included are scenes that were cut from the released film for being too controversial.
Quadrophenia
Producer
Na Londres de 1964 Jimmy Cooper é um membro de uma gangue Mod - jovens bem vestidos que dirigem vespas Lambretta. Os mods estão sempre brigando com os Rockers, que vestem jaquetas de couro e dirigem motocicletas. Desiludido com seus pais e seu emprego, Jimmy só encontra uma válvula de escape para sua angústia adolescente quando está com seus amigos mods Dave, Chalky e Spider. Um feriado de três dias é a desculpa para a rivalidade entre as duas gangues chegar às vias de fato, enquanto ambas descem para a cidade litorânea de Brighton para o confronto definitivo.Quadrophenia é uma reflexão sobre a Grã-Bretanha pré-Tatcher, documentando o narcisismo movido a anfetaminas da cultura jovem dos anos 60. Em 2004 a revista Total Film elegeu Quadrophenia o 35º melhor filme britânico de todos os tempos.
Lisztomania
Producer
Roger Daltrey of The Who stars as 19th century genius pianist Franz Liszt in this brash, loud and free-wheeling rock 'n' roll fantasia centered around an imagined rivalry between Liszt and composer Richard Wagner-- painted here as a vampiric harbinger of doom and destruction.
Stardust
Executive Producer
Jim MacLaine is now enjoying the nomadic 'gigs and groupies' life on tour with his band. When he achieves all his wildest dreams of international stardom, the sweet taste of success begins to turn sour.
Mahler, Uma Paixão Violenta
Producer
Famed composer Gustav Mahler reflects on the tragedies of his life and failing marriage while traveling by train.
The Final Programme
Executive Producer
After the death of his Nobel Prize-winning father, billionaire physicist Jerry Cornelius becomes embroiled in the search for the mysterious "Final Programme", developed by his father. The programme, a design for a perfect, self-replicating human being, is contained on microfilm. A group of scientists, led by the formidable Miss Brunner (who consumes her lovers), has sought Cornelius's help in obtaining it. After a chase across a war-torn Europe on the verge of anarchy, Brunner and Cornelius obtain the microfilm from Jerry's loathsome brother Frank. They proceed to an abandoned underground Nazi fortress in the Arctic to run the programme, with Jerry and Miss Brunner as the subjects.
That'll Be The Day
Executive Producer
Britain, 1958. Restless at school and bored with his life, Jim leaves home to take a series of low-level jobs at a seaside amusement park, where he discovers a world of cheap sex and petty crime. But when that world comes to a shockingly brutal end, Jim returns home. As the local music scene explodes, Jim must decide between a life of adult responsibility or a new phenomenon called rock & roll.
Henry VIII and His Six Wives
Producer
1547, King Henry VIII's life has taken a turn for the worse and he is forced to look back over his life and the many loves which had brought him his three children, only one of which was the desired male heir to secure the Tudor dynasty.
Os Demônios
Associate Producer
Ambientado durante o violento regime católico que tomava conta da França nos idos de 1631, parte da suposta possessão de uma madre-superiora cujas fantasias sexuais com o mais proeminente padre do vilarejo de Loudon resulta num dos mais sangrentos episódios daquela era.
The Music Lovers
Executive Producer
Composer, conductor and teacher Peter Ilych Tchaikovsky struggles against his homosexual tendencies by marrying, but unfortunately he chooses a wonky, nymphomaniac girl whom he cannot satisfy.
Spring and Port Wine
Executive Producer
A stern father and lenient mother try to deal with the ups and downs of their four children's lives in working class Bolton.
Mulheres Apaixonadas
Associate Producer
Growing up in the sheltered confines of a 1920's English coal-mining community, free-spirited sisters Gudrun and Ursula explore erotic love with a wealthy playboy and a philosophical educator, with cataclysmic results for all four.
Se…
Executive Producer
Em uma escola pública inglesa estuda o jovem Mick Travis (Malcolm McDowell). Ele lidera um grupo de alunos rebeldes, os Crusaders. Insatisfeitos com o opressor sistema educacional, eles planejam uma grande vingança.
A Casa de Nossa Mãe
Associate Producer
Sete crianças ficam órfãs após a morte da mãe e tentam convencer o pai, Dirk Bogarde, a ficar. Após longo período fora de casa, ele volta para visitar a família. Mas como Bogarde não sabe da morte da mulher, as crianças tramam a incineração do corpo para despistar o pai.
Cassino Royale
Assistant Director
Sir James Bond aposenta-se no auge da fama. A CIA, a KGB e a Scotland Yard imploram que ele volte à ativa para uma última missão. Em meio a uma multidão de imitadores e aproveitadores, Sir James provará que ainda é o único, e verdadeiro, Bond. Sátira ao agente criado por Ian Fleming. Este filme não é considerado um legítimo representante da antologia "James Bond" no cinema. Ele também é notável pelos inúmeros problemas e brigas que ocorreram durante as filmagens (incluindo discussões entre Orson Welles e Peter Sellers, que chegou a abandonar a produção, deixando as suas cenas inacabadas), chegando ao ponto do filme ter tido vários roteiristas e cinco diretores!
Morgan: A Suitable Case for Treatment
Production Manager
Morgan, an aggressive and self-admitted dreamer, a fantasist who uses his flights of fancy as refuge from external reality, where his unconventional behavior lands him in a divorce from his wife, Leonie, trouble with the police and, ultimately, incarceration in a lunatic asylum.
Four in the Morning
Production Manager
The parallel stories of two couples in crises and their connections to a drowned woman found in a river.
Just for You
Assistant Director
Sam Costa is a man about town, dispensing wisdom and witty quips from the bed of his Space Age bachelor bad whilst watching a stream of musical performances on his picture wall
The Leather Boys
Assistant Director
An immature teenager marries a young biker but becomes disenchanted with the realities of working class marriage and her husband's relationship with his best friend.
The Break
Assistant Director
A group of inmates escape from Dartmoor prison. They hide out in the English country side but are doggedly chased by police.
Girl on Approval
Assistant Director
Sheila's fourteen. Her father abandoned her as a baby, her mum's in jail and she's stuck in a children's home. Every family that's tried to look after her has found her too difficult. Now Anne and John Howland want to foster Sheila. But if they can't make a home for her, her future looks bleak.