On September 30, producer Robert S. Baker passed away at age 92. Baker had a long history of feature film production credits, mostly on B movies in his early years. However, he was a major force in British television in the 1960s. It was Baker who managed to bring both
The Saint and
The Persuaders to the air. He became Roger Moore's producing partner and the two made the 1969 adventure film
Crossplot together. He also served as executive producer on the short-lived, but excellent British series
The Baron. In an E mail to Cinema Retro, legendary Hammer horror writer and director Jimmy Sangster wrote:
"I first met Bob Baker when he and his partner , Monty Berman,asked me to write Blood of the Vampire. Later
I went on to write four or five other scripts for them. He was an
extremely good producer and director, and, from a writer's point of
view, extremely easy to work with. He was also a charming man. He and
Monty ran a very efficient company which only stopped making movies
when they set up Roger Moore's The Saint. He will be sadly missed."