The Day the Earth Caught Fire
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Val Guest (born Valmond Maurice Grossman; 11 December 1911 – 10 May 2006) was an English film director [2] 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. 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.
December 11, 1911 · Maida Vale, London, England, UK. Died. May 10, 2006 · Palm Springs, California, USA (prostate cancer) Birth name. Valmond Maurice Grossmann. Mini Bio. Val Guest began his career as an actor on the British stage and in early sound films.
May 22, 2006 · By Dennis McLellan. May 22, 2006 12 AM PT. Times Staff Writer. Val Guest, the versatile British director and screenwriter who directed the science-fiction classics “The Quatermass Xperiment”...
Val (short for Valmont, I thought for many years that Val Guest was a woman) Guest had a long and somewhat uneven career in film and TV; born in 1911 in London, he worked for a time as a film journalist for the Hollywood Reporter, doing some acting here and there, but really got started in the film business in the 1930s, where he was a scriptwriter at Gainsborough Studios, getting a writing ...
May 27, 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...
May 15, 2006 · Mon 15 May 2006 19.01 EDT. 'It is the duty of all respectable people to keep their names out of the paper." So the film producer, director and scriptwriter Val Guest, who has died aged 94, was...
