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Val Guest (born Valmond Maurice Grossman; 11 December 1911 – 10 May 2006) was an English film director and screenwriter. Beginning as a writer (and later director) of comedy films, he is best known for his work for Hammer , for whom he directed 14 films, and for his science fiction films .
Val Guest (1911-2006) was a prolific and versatile filmmaker who wrote and directed various genres, including science-fiction, comedy, and spy thrillers. He worked on classics such as The Quatermass Xperiment, Casino Royale, and The Day the Earth Caught Fire.
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- Maida Vale, London, England, UK
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- Palm Springs, California, USA
Val Guest was a versatile British filmmaker who wrote, directed, produced and acted in various genres. He is best known for his science fiction classics, such as The Quatermass Xperiment and The Day the Earth Caught Fire.
- December 11, 1911
- May 10, 2006
May 27, 2006 · Val Guest, a prolific British filmmaker known for writing and directing a spate of genre films, some of them remarkably good and some of them remarkably bad, died on May 10 in Palm Desert, Calif.
Val Guest (born Valmond Maurice Grossman, 11 December 1911 – 10 May 2006) was an English film director and screenwriter who co-directed the 1967 non-Eon James Bond spoof Casino Royale. Beginning as a writer (and later director) of comedy films, he is best known for his work for Hammer, for whom he directed 14 films, and science fiction films. He enjoyed a long career in the film industry from the early 1930s until the early 1980s. Val Guest was given the responsibility of splicing the ...
Val Guest. Director/Writer. 11 December 1911 to 9 May 2006. London born writer-director Guest tackled an astonishing range of films, from Will Hay comedies and B-movie thrillers, to family films and Hammer classics. The latter included The Quatermass Xperiment (1955), with subsequent films including Expresso Bongo (1959), Hell Is A City (1960 ...
Jun 29, 2021 · Quatermass 2. Professor Quatermass, trying to gather support for his project to colonize the Moon, is intrigued by the mysterious traces that have been showing up on his radar. Following them he finds a destroyed village and a mysterious factory.
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