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May 10, 2006 · Added: Jul 26, 2006. Find a Grave Memorial ID: 15047038. Source citation. Film Director, Screenwriter. He was born in London and began his career in British films of the 1930s. He is remembered for films such as The Quatermass Xperiment (1955), Quatermass 2 (1957), The Abominable Snowman (1957), The Day the Earth Caught Fire (1961), and When ...
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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.
Guest also directed the highly memorable Expresso Bongo (1960) in which Laurence Harvey gives what is probably the most animated performance of his career as a manic music promoter. Oddly, Guest's best films tended to be the ones written by other authors. And despite several top-flight films, his best work was in the science fiction genre.
Val Guest. Writer: The Day the Earth Caught Fire. 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.
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May 22, 2006 · Val Guest, one of the famed director/writers of the original James… One of the early pioneers of science fiction movie making has died at the ripe old-age of 94. Val Guest, one of the famed director/writers of the original James Bond "Casino Royale"
Nov 4, 2019 · Val Guest, the versatile British director and screenwriter best known for directing science-fiction classics "The Quatermass Xperiment" and "The Day the Earth Caught Fire," has died. He was 94.
