Teddy Baird
{{Short description|British director and film producer (1901–1975)}}
Teddy Baird (1901–1975) was a British assistant director and film producer.
He is known for a long collaboration with Anthony Asquith.{{cite news|title=No rest for film producers|newspaper=Sunday Sun|date=24 August 1952|page=2}}{{cite book|page=15|title= Anthony Asquith|last=Ryall|first= Tom |year=2005 |location=Manchester|publisher= New York}} He gave early lead roles to Kay Kendall.{{cite book|page=67|title= The brief, madcap life of Kay Kendall|last=Golden|first= Eve |year=2002 |location=Lexington |publisher= University Press of Kentucky }}
From 1941 to 1946 Baird worked for the RAF Film Unit.{{Cite book |last=McFarlane |first=Brian |title=The Encyclopedia of British Film |publisher=Manchester University Press |year=2013 |isbn=9780719091391 |edition=4th |pages=42}}
Select credits
- Windjammer (1930) – assistant diector
- Tell England (1931) – assistant director
- Dance Pretty Lady (1931) – assistant director
- Soldiers of the King (1933) – assistant director
- Britannia of Billingsgate (1933) – assistant director
- Just Smith (1933) – assistant director aka Leave It To Smith
- A Cuckoo in the Nest (1933) – assistant director
- Moscow Nights (1935) – assistant director
- As You Like It (1936) – assistant director
- Public Nuisance No. 1 (1936) – production manager
- Elephant Boy (1937) – assistant director{{cite web|website=British Entertainment History Project|url=https://historyproject.org.uk/interview/adam-dawson|title=Interview with Adam Dawson|date=5 July 1990|first=Roy|last=Fowler}}
- Under the Red Robe (1937) – assistant director
- Vessel of Wrath (1938) – assistant director
- Pygmalion (1938) – assistant director
- Stolen Life (1939) – assistant director
- French Without Tears (1940) – assistant director
- School for Danger (1947) – writer, director
- While the Sun Shines (1947) – producer
- Bond Street (1948) – producer
- The Winslow Boy (1948) – producer
- The Last Days of Dolwyn (1949) – associate producer
- Now Barabbas (1949) – producer
- Golden Arrow (1949) – producer
- The Woman in Question (1950) – producer
- The Browning Version (1950) – producer
- The Importance of Being Earnest (1952) – producer{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article201358528 |title=£1000-a-Week Actor Really Lives His Parts |newspaper=Truth |issue=2758 |location=Queensland, Australia |date=1 February 1953 |accessdate=24 May 2025 |page=18 |via=National Library of Australia}}
- Fast and Loose (1954) – producer
- Carrington V.C. (1954) – producer
- Simon and Laura (1955) – producer
- Don't Panic Chaps (1959) – producer
- Two Living, One Dead (1961) – producer
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