Val Guest

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Val Guest (born December 11, 1911 in London as Valmond Maurice Grossmann , † May 10, 2006 in Palm Springs ) was a British director , screenwriter and film producer . Guest was considered to be particularly versatile.

Life

Guest began his acting career on British theater stages and in mini-roles in early British talkies. He also ran the Hollywood Reporter's London office on his own . An encounter with Marcel Varnel led him to write screenplays for Gainsborough Studios . These films were usually directed by Varnel, and star comedian Will Hay was often the leading actor. He wrote most of the scripts with Marriott Edgar and JOC Orton . In the early 1940s he began making the first short films for the Ministry of Information . For the first time direct a major motion picture in 1943 he led the musical Miss London Ltd. . Between 1954 and 1960 he worked for the Hammer Company almost a dozen times . He has directed some of the supposedly best and worst British films. Especially from the mass tower above the two science fiction films shock ( The Quatermass Xperiment , 1955) and The Day the Earth Caught Fire ( The Day the Earth Caught Fire , 1961).

In 1954 he married the actress Yolande Donlan , with whom he was together until his death. Between 1951 and 1963 both worked together on eight films. Other well-known films guests were for example Casino Royale , Carry On Admiral (who inspired Gerald Thomas to his successful film series Carry-on… ), as well as Daggers in the Kasbah ( Where the Spies Are ). He directed several episodes of the television series Die 2 and Mondbasis Alpha 1 .

In 1960 he was for the film enemies of yesterday ( Yesterday's Enemy , 1959) in two categories for the British Film Academy Award nominated in 1961 for hounding ( Hell Is a City , 1960). In 1962, he won the Best British Screenplay Award for The Day the Earth Catched Fire . Guest has scripted nearly 80 films and series, and has directed over 50 productions. He produced some of the films himself. He even wrote songs for several of his films.

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SURNAME Guest, Val
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Grossmann, Valmond Maurice (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British director and screenwriter
DATE OF BIRTH December 11, 1911
PLACE OF BIRTH London
DATE OF DEATH May 10, 2006
Place of death Palm Springs