The director who made the Titanic film A Night to Remember has died, his son confirmed yesterday.

Roy Ward-Baker died peacefully in his sleep at a London hospital on Tuesday. He was 93.

His son Nicholas said that preparations were being made for a funeral in London, adding that his father’s work “speaks for itself”.

Best known as the director of the 1958 film A Night to Remember, which recounted the final night aboard the Titanic, Mr Ward-Baker was born in London in 1916.

He started out as an assistant director on Alfred Hitchcock’s The Lady Vanishes in London in 1938 and after serving in the army during World War II, he went to Hollywood where he directed Marilyn Monroe in the 1962 movie Don’t Bother to Knock.

He later returned to England where he directed a number of television dramas, including the The Avengers.

During the latter half of his career, Mr Ward-Baker directed a number of British horror films, including the 1970 flick The Vampire Lovers and Scars of Dracula, which was followed by The Vault of Horror in 1973.

He returned to television during the late 1970s and 1980s before retiring in 1992.