Val Guest(1911-2006)
- Writer
- Director
- Producer
Val Guest began his career as an actor on the British stage and in
early sound films. He ran the one-man London office of "The Hollywood
Reporter" until an encounter with director Marcel Varnel led to a screen
writing job at Gainsborough Studios. Guest's directing career began in
the early 1940s with a Ministry of Information short about the perils
of sneezing (!), an inauspicious start to a lengthy roster of films
that includes the science-fiction classics The Quatermass Xperiment (1955), Enemy from Space (1957), The Abominable Snowman (1957)
and The Day the Earth Caught Fire (1961). He was married to the actress Yolande Donlan from 1954 until his
death in 2006, aged 94.
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