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Val Guest (11 December 1911 – 10 May 2006) was a British film director, best known for his science-fiction films for Hammer Film Productions in the 1950s, but who also enjoyed a long, varied and active career in the film industry from the early 1930s up until the early 1980s.
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Val Guest Biography / Wiki
| Name | Val Guest |
| Also Know | Valmond Guest |
| Gender | Male |
| Known For | Directing |
| Place of Birth | London, England, UK |
| Date of Birth | 1911-12-11 |
| Age(as in 2022) | 94 |
| Deathday | 2006-05-10 |
Val Guest Acting Movies
| Movie Name | Character | Release Date | Overview |
| The Making of ‘Casino Royale’ | Self – Segment Director | 2008-01-01 | Interviews and overview of the making of the original 1967 James Bond film…. |
| A Century of Science Fiction | 1996-01-01 | American Documentary, narrated by Christopher Lee… | |
| The Maid of the Mountains | Party Guest | 1932-03-06 | A British musical film directed by Lupino Lane… |
| The Innocents of Chicago | Gangster | 1932-03-30 | A British comedy film directed by Lupino Lane… |
| Old Spanish Customers | Newspaper reporter | 1932-01-01 | A henpecked husband is mistaken for a famous toreador while holidaying in Spain!… |
Val Guest Directing Movies
| Movie Name | Job | Release Date | Overview |
| Where the Spies Are | Director | 1966-01-26 | A local doctor is recruited as a cold war spy to fulfill a very important secret mission in the Middle East, only to experience that his mission is co… |
| The Quatermass Xperiment | Director | 1955-08-26 | The first manned spacecraft, fired from an English launchpad, is first lost from radar, then roars back to Earth and crashes in a farmer’s field, and … |
| Casino Royale | Director | 1967-04-13 | Sir James Bond is called back out of retirement to stop SMERSH. In order to trick SMERSH, James thinks up the ultimate plan – that every agent will be… |
| Quatermass 2 | Director | 1957-05-24 | In England, a group of space scientists led by Bernard Quatermass, who have developed plans for the first Moon colony, learn that a secret, ostensibly… |
| Confessions of a Window Cleaner | Director | 1974-01-01 | Young Timmy starts as a window cleaner in the little company of his brother. Soon he learns that some female customers expect additional service. Youn… |
| When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth | Director | 1970-10-25 | An ancient tribe attempts to sacrifice Sanna as an offering to the Sun god to save their tribe from dinosaurs. Tara, a young man from another tribe, s… |
| The Day the Earth Caught Fire | Director | 1961-11-01 | British reporters suspect an international cover-up of a global disaster in progress… and they’re right. Hysterical panic has engulfed the world aft… |
| Hell Is a City | Director | 1960-04-10 | Set in Manchester, heartland of England’s industrial north, Don Starling escapes from jail becoming England’s most wanted man. Ruthless villain Starli… |
| The Weapon | Director | 1956-09-01 | A boy accidentally shoots a friend with a gun he found in the rubble of a destroyed building. The gun turns out to be a clue in a ten-year-old murder … |
| The Abominable Snowman | Director | 1957-08-26 | A kindly English botanist and a gruff American promoter lead an expedition to the Himalayas in search of the legendary Yeti…. |
| Dangerous Davies: The Last Detective | Director | 1981-01-04 | When D. C. Dangerous Davies, not held in high regard by his superiors, is assigned to find a notorious criminal kingpin, he uncovers the details of 15… |
| Penny Princess | Director | 1952-03-24 | A tiny European country which for years has survived financially only through evading its bills and smuggling is finally facing bankruptcy, when a ric… |
| The Runaway Bus | Director | 1953-09-28 | When heavy fog prevents any flights from leaving London Airport, a group of passengers are put on a bus driven by Percy Lamb (Frankie Howerd in his fi… |
| Life with the Lyons | Director | 1954-05-25 | Based on their hit radio show, Bebe Daniels and Ben Lyon starred in this British “Ozzie and Harriet” type show about “Life with the Lyons” with their … |
| The Lyons in Paris | Director | 1955-02-11 | The second in the series of films about the Lyon family, based on the BBC radio series Life With the Lyons. Ben Lyon appears to have forgotten his wed… |
| Killer Force | Director | 1976-01-14 | Head of company security, Harry Webb, fears that a diamond theft is about to take place at their major mining complex deep in the desert. He quickly m… |
| Carry on Admiral | Director | 1957-05-14 | Two friends get drunk and decide to switch identities. One is a Parliamentary Secretary, and the other is the captain of a ship. The former’s lack of… |
| Jigsaw | Director | 1962-08-21 | A woman is found murdered in a house along the coast from Brighton. Local detectives Fellows and Wilks lead an investigation methodically following up… |
| Yesterday’s Enemy | Director | 1959-09-10 | Set during the Burma Campaign of World War 2, this is the story of courage and endurance of the soldiers struggling at close quarters against the enem… |
| Au Pair Girls | Director | 1972-07-01 | Four sexy young foreign girls come to England as au pairs and quickly become quite intimate with their employers, host families, and just about everyo… |
| The Full Treatment | Director | 1960-10-01 | Race car driver Alan Colby and his new wife Denise are involved in a car crash where he sustains a serious head injury, causing him to have murderous … |
| The Men of Sherwood Forest | Director | 1954-11-01 | Robin Hood is persuaded by two nobles whom he believes to be loyal to King Richard to recover secret plans attaining to the rescue of the king from ca… |
| The Camp on Blood Island | Director | 1958-04-15 | Set in a Japanese prisoner of war camp during World War II, the film focuses on the brutality and horror that the allied prisoners were exposed to as … |
| They Can’t Hang Me | Director | 1955-10-01 | A murderer hopes to escape his death sentence by identifying the leaders of a spy ring…. |
| Expresso Bongo | Director | 1959-12-01 | A seedy London promoter turns a naive, working-class teenager into a pop singing sensation. Director Val Guest’s 1959 British drama stars Laurence Har… |
| Mister Drake’s Duck | Director | 1951-09-21 | Mr. Drake and his wife live a nice, quiet life on their Sussex farm, until one of their ducks lays a radioactive egg made of uranium! When the governm… |
| Assignment K | Director | 1968-02-16 | Philip Scott, the boss of a toy company, is secretly also the chief of a British spy organization. Scott’s cover is destroyed when enemy agents kidnap… |
| Further Up the Creek | Director | 1958-10-28 | The sequel to ‘Up The Creek’ sees David Tomlinson return as bumbling navy boffin Lieutenant Humphrey Fairweather. This time he is skipper of the ship … |
| Up the Creek | Director | 1958-05-13 | Bumbling navy officer Lieutenant Humphrey Fairweather (David Tomlinson) is transferred to HMS Berkeley, an old World War II destroyer, to keep him out… |
| Miss London Ltd. | Director | 1943-06-14 | Askey stars as a man trying to save his flagging escort agency. A new partner suggests getting some new girls in, just in time for the soldiers’ leave… |
| Bees in Paradise | Director | 1944-03-20 | Classic comedy starring Arthur Askey. Askey plays a pilot who bales out over Paradise Island, not knowing that he is about to land in a bee-worshippin… |
| The Beauty Jungle | Director | 1964-08-25 | A Bristol typist joins the world of beauty contests…. |
| It’s a Wonderful World | Director | 1956-08-28 | Two aspiring songwriters finally manage to sell a tune by claiming that it was composed by a reclusive musical genius. When the tune hits the top of t… |
| Break in the Circle | Director | 1955-01-01 | An adventurer is hired by a German millionaire to help a Polish scientist escape to the West…. |
| Give Us the Moon | Director | 1944-07-31 | Set just after the end of WWII (but filmed in the middle of it) in a time of general euphoria at having won the war, with full employment and general … |
| 80,000 Suspects | Director | 1963-08-15 | A doctor’s already-shaky marriage is tested to an even greater extent when he has to contend with a smallpox epidemic…. |
| Toomorrow | Director | 1970-08-27 | A group of students pay their way through school by forming a pop band called Toomorrow. Sonic vibrations from a special instrument called a ‘tonali… |
| The Shillingbury Blowers | Director | 1980-01-06 | A small English village is in turmoil with the arrival of a pop star and his wife. He soon becomes the conductor of the local brass band after the pre… |
| Dance Little Lady | Director | 1954-07-13 | When a ballerina’s career is ended after she’s injured in a traffic accident, her husband decides to try and turn their young daughter into a ballet s… |
| Life Is a Circus | Director | 1960-02-16 | Encompassing three hugely popular double acts, The Crazy Gang were one of Britain’s best-loved, most enduring variety troupes – their antics deligh… |
| Just William’s Luck | Director | 1947-12-17 | Comic adventures of an 11-year-old boy and his neighborhood pals…. |
| The Boys in Blue | Director | 1982-09-20 | Sgt. Cannon (Tommy Cannon) and PC Ball (Bobby Ball) run the police station in the quiet town of Little Botham. When the station is threatened with clo… |
| I’ll Be Your Sweetheart | Director | 1945-07-30 | In turn-of-the-century London a young music publisher fights both competitors and piracy in a time where author’s royalties were still unprotected…. |
| William Comes to Town | Director | 1948-12-31 | William Brown attempts to secure more pay and shorter hours for schoolboys…. |
| Murder at the Windmill | Director | 1949-06-06 | A man watching a musical show at the Windmill theatre is shot apparently from the stage. The cast continues the performance so that the detective can … |
| Miss Pilgrim’s Progress | Director | 1949-11-29 | An exchange factory worker from New Jersey joins a plot to save a village from the Town and Country Planning Act…. |
| The Body Said No! | Director | 1950-03-31 | A cabaret artist sees on her television set after viewing hours, a plot being discussed to murder Michael Rennie. Although her friends are sceptical s… |
| Child’s Play | Director | 1984-10-08 | A family awakens to find themselves trapped in their own home, all windows and doors sealed by impenetrable walls…. |
| In Possession | Director | 1984-08-01 | A terrified couple becomes trapped in what seems to be a replay of a sinister event that happened in their apartment in the past. This 75-minute TV mo… |
| The Switch | Director | 1976-06-07 | Our heroes find themselves at the famed Cannes Film Festival to help foil a plot to murder a former American union boss cum government witness, Kyle S… |
| Sporting Chance | Director | 1975-01-01 | Life in the fast lane becomes deadly for Wilde and Sinclair when the mob tries to “fix” the sport of high-speed racing. Wilde then finds himself mixed… |
| Mark of the Devil | Director | 1984-09-05 | A desperate gambler in debt with a gangster robs a Chinese tattoo artist, getting stabbed and killing the man in the process. A black spot appears on … |
| The Persuaders! | Director | 1973-04-01 | Two episodes of the TV series “The Persuaders” joined into a movie. Two playboys, Brett Sinclair (Roger Moore) and Danny Wilde (Tony Curtis), investig… |
| Director | An English aristocrat and an American millionaire come together to tackle crime…. | ||
| Director | The Adventurer is an ITC Entertainment TV adventure series created by Dennis Spooner that ran for one season from 1972 to 1973. It premiered in the UK… | ||
| Director | Shillingbury Tales was a British television sitcom comedy-drama series made by ATV for ITV and broadcast 1980-81. Comprising a single feature length … | ||
| Director | Hammer House of Mystery and Suspense was a short-lived anthology television series from Hammer Studios. Though similar in format to the 1980 series Ha… | ||
| Director | The crew of Moonbase Alpha must struggle to survive when a massive explosion throws the Moon from orbit into deep space…. | ||
Val Guest Production Movies
| Movie Name | Job | Release Date | Overview |
| Where the Spies Are | Producer | 1966-01-26 | A local doctor is recruited as a cold war spy to fulfill a very important secret mission in the Middle East, only to experience that his mission is co… |
| The Runaway Bus | Producer | 1953-09-28 | When heavy fog prevents any flights from leaving London Airport, a group of passengers are put on a bus driven by Percy Lamb (Frankie Howerd in his fi… |
| The Full Treatment | Producer | 1960-10-01 | Race car driver Alan Colby and his new wife Denise are involved in a car crash where he sustains a serious head injury, causing him to have murderous … |
| The Beauty Jungle | Producer | 1964-08-25 | A Bristol typist joins the world of beauty contests…. |
| The Day the Earth Caught Fire | Producer | 1961-11-01 | British reporters suspect an international cover-up of a global disaster in progress… and they’re right. Hysterical panic has engulfed the world aft… |
| 80,000 Suspects | Producer | 1963-08-15 | A doctor’s already-shaky marriage is tested to an even greater extent when he has to contend with a smallpox epidemic…. |
| Jigsaw | Producer | 1962-08-21 | A woman is found murdered in a house along the coast from Brighton. Local detectives Fellows and Wilks lead an investigation methodically following up… |
| Expresso Bongo | Producer | 1959-12-01 | A seedy London promoter turns a naive, working-class teenager into a pop singing sensation. Director Val Guest’s 1959 British drama stars Laurence Har… |
Writing
| Movie Name | Job | Release Date | Overview |
| Where the Spies Are | Screenplay | 1966-01-26 | A local doctor is recruited as a cold war spy to fulfill a very important secret mission in the Middle East, only to experience that his mission is co… |
| The Quatermass Xperiment | Screenplay | 1955-08-26 | The first manned spacecraft, fired from an English launchpad, is first lost from radar, then roars back to Earth and crashes in a farmer’s field, and … |
| The Day the Earth Caught Fire | Writer | 1961-11-01 | British reporters suspect an international cover-up of a global disaster in progress… and they’re right. Hysterical panic has engulfed the world aft… |
| Ask a Policeman | Screenplay | 1939-04-29 | The mirthful adventures of Police-Sergeant Samuel Dudfoot and his two constables, Albert Brown and Jeremias Harbottle, who stage a fabricated crime-wa… |
| Mission: Monte Carlo | Writer | 1974-01-01 | Two episodes of the TV series “The Persuaders” joined into a movie. Two playboys investigate crimes along the French Riviera…. |
| Back-Room Boy | Original Story | 1942-04-15 | Jilted by his fiancee, Arthur Pilbeam gets a job as far away from women as possible. Alone in a lighthouse, he soon finds that 12 other people end up … |
| Back-Room Boy | Screenplay | 1942-04-15 | Jilted by his fiancee, Arthur Pilbeam gets a job as far away from women as possible. Alone in a lighthouse, he soon finds that 12 other people end up … |
| Dangerous Davies: The Last Detective | Screenplay | 1981-01-04 | When D. C. Dangerous Davies, not held in high regard by his superiors, is assigned to find a notorious criminal kingpin, he uncovers the details of 15… |
| Penny Princess | Writer | 1952-03-24 | A tiny European country which for years has survived financially only through evading its bills and smuggling is finally facing bankruptcy, when a ric… |
| The Runaway Bus | Writer | 1953-09-28 | When heavy fog prevents any flights from leaving London Airport, a group of passengers are put on a bus driven by Percy Lamb (Frankie Howerd in his fi… |
| Another Man’s Poison | Writer | 1951-11-20 | Novelist Janet Frobisher, lives in an isolated house, having been separated for years from her criminal husband. She has fallen in love with her secre… |
| Killer Force | Screenplay | 1976-01-14 | Head of company security, Harry Webb, fears that a diamond theft is about to take place at their major mining complex deep in the desert. He quickly m… |
| Jigsaw | Screenplay | 1962-08-21 | A woman is found murdered in a house along the coast from Brighton. Local detectives Fellows and Wilks lead an investigation methodically following up… |
| Au Pair Girls | Screenplay | 1972-07-01 | Four sexy young foreign girls come to England as au pairs and quickly become quite intimate with their employers, host families, and just about everyo… |
| The Full Treatment | Screenplay | 1960-10-01 | Race car driver Alan Colby and his new wife Denise are involved in a car crash where he sustains a serious head injury, causing him to have murderous … |
| Gasbags | Writer | 1941-02-01 | It’s war time London and the Crazy Gang (Flanagan & Allen, Nervo & Knox, Naughton & Gold) are doing their bit for the war effort by runnin… |
| The Camp on Blood Island | Screenplay | 1958-04-15 | Set in a Japanese prisoner of war camp during World War II, the film focuses on the brutality and horror that the allied prisoners were exposed to as … |
| They Can’t Hang Me | Screenplay | 1955-10-01 | A murderer hopes to escape his death sentence by identifying the leaders of a spy ring…. |
| Mister Drake’s Duck | Writer | 1951-09-21 | Mr. Drake and his wife live a nice, quiet life on their Sussex farm, until one of their ducks lays a radioactive egg made of uranium! When the governm… |
| Paper Orchid | Screenplay | 1949-04-01 | Paper Orchid is a 1949 British crime film directed by Roy Ward Baker, with a script written by Val Guest. It featured Hugh Williams, Hy Hazell and Gar… |
| Assignment K | Screenplay | 1968-02-16 | Philip Scott, the boss of a toy company, is secretly also the chief of a British spy organization. Scott’s cover is destroyed when enemy agents kidnap… |
| Up the Creek | Writer | 1958-05-13 | Bumbling navy officer Lieutenant Humphrey Fairweather (David Tomlinson) is transferred to HMS Berkeley, an old World War II destroyer, to keep him out… |
| King Arthur Was a Gentleman | Writer | 1942-12-28 | Arthur King joins the army, and soon starts fantasizing about King Arthur and his knights…. |
| Miss London Ltd. | Writer | 1943-06-14 | Askey stars as a man trying to save his flagging escort agency. A new partner suggests getting some new girls in, just in time for the soldiers’ leave… |
| Walking on Air | Writer | 1946-11-01 | Shaw is the south end of a horse for an ice show, but she longs to be a ballerina. It looks like she will achieve that goal, but will her oversized eg… |
| Break in the Circle | Writer | 1955-01-01 | An adventurer is hired by a German millionaire to help a Polish scientist escape to the West…. |
| Women Without Men | Writer | 1956-06-01 | In love with a man who wants to marry her after he returns from a trip to sea, chorus girl Angela Booth tries to quit her seamy job and become a model… |
| Give Us the Moon | Writer | 1944-07-31 | Set just after the end of WWII (but filmed in the middle of it) in a time of general euphoria at having won the war, with full employment and general … |
| The Beauty Jungle | Screenplay | 1964-08-25 | A Bristol typist joins the world of beauty contests…. |
| Dentist in the Chair | Screenplay | 1960-08-08 | The misfortunes that befall three dental students when they become unwitting accessories to a burglary…. |
| Toomorrow | Writer | 1970-08-27 | A group of students pay their way through school by forming a pop band called Toomorrow. Sonic vibrations from a special instrument called a ‘tonali… |
| Quatermass 2 | Screenplay | 1957-05-24 | In England, a group of space scientists led by Bernard Quatermass, who have developed plans for the first Moon colony, learn that a secret, ostensibly… |
| Further Up the Creek | Writer | 1958-10-28 | The sequel to ‘Up The Creek’ sees David Tomlinson return as bumbling navy boffin Lieutenant Humphrey Fairweather. This time he is skipper of the ship … |
| It’s a Wonderful World | Writer | 1956-08-28 | Two aspiring songwriters finally manage to sell a tune by claiming that it was composed by a reclusive musical genius. When the tune hits the top of t… |
| Once Upon a Dream | Story | 1949-02-01 | An officer’s wife has a romantic dream about her husband’s man (servant) and comes to believe it is true. Meanwhile the husband has asked his servant … |
| Happy Go Lovely | Screenplay | 1951-03-06 | B.G. Bruno, a rich bachelor, the head of a successful greeting-card company in Scotland, is essentially a kind man but respectable to the point of sto… |
| Birds of Paradise | Screenplay | 1981-12-04 | An attractive young widow thinks that she is investing in a respectable riding school, only to find out she has bought a brothel…. |
| 80,000 Suspects | Screenplay | 1963-08-15 | A doctor’s already-shaky marriage is tested to an even greater extent when he has to contend with a smallpox epidemic…. |
| Dance Little Lady | Writer | 1954-07-13 | When a ballerina’s career is ended after she’s injured in a traffic accident, her husband decides to try and turn their young daughter into a ballet s… |
| Bees in Paradise | Writer | 1944-03-20 | Classic comedy starring Arthur Askey. Askey plays a pilot who bales out over Paradise Island, not knowing that he is about to land in a bee-worshippin… |
| Blonde Bait | Original Story | 1956-04-01 | Seeking the whereabouts of international gangster Nick Randall, the US State Department contacts Scotland Yard, as his girlfriend, Angela Booth, is cu… |
| Hell Is a City | Screenplay | 1960-04-10 | Set in Manchester, heartland of England’s industrial north, Don Starling escapes from jail becoming England’s most wanted man. Ruthless villain Starli… |
| All In! | Writer | 1936-12-21 | The owner of a racing stables has high hopes of winning The Derby, but fate intervenes… |
| When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth | Writer | 1970-10-25 | An ancient tribe attempts to sacrifice Sanna as an offering to the Sun god to save their tribe from dinosaurs. Tara, a young man from another tribe, s… |
| Inspector Hornleigh Goes to It | Writer | 1941-05-17 | Third and final film in the series of ‘Inspector Hornleigh’ comedy-thrillers. Inspector Hornleigh (Gordon Harker), disappointed at not being hande… |
| Good Morning, Boys! | Writer | 1937-05-27 | Dr. Benjamin Twist (Hay) and his pupils become involved with art thieves on a trip to Paris. Hay’s seamy schoolmaster act is supported by a fine cas… |
| Public Nuisance No. 1 | Writer | 1936-02-15 | Irresponsible playboy Arthur Rawlings is sent by his uncle to work as a waiter at a hotel in the South of France. Arthur arranges for shop assistant F… |
| The Lyons in Paris | Writer | 1955-02-11 | The second in the series of films about the Lyon family, based on the BBC radio series Life With the Lyons. Ben Lyon appears to have forgotten his wed… |
| I Thank You | Screenplay | 1941-10-20 | Classic comedy starring Arthur Askey. The perils, humiliations and humour of trying to run a second-rate theatrical company are further compounded whe… |
| I’ll Be Your Sweetheart | Screenplay | 1945-07-30 | In turn-of-the-century London a young music publisher fights both competitors and piracy in a time where author’s royalties were still unprotected…. |
| Just William’s Luck | Screenplay | 1947-12-17 | Comic adventures of an 11-year-old boy and his neighborhood pals…. |
| Casino Royale | Screenplay | 1967-04-13 | Sir James Bond is called back out of retirement to stop SMERSH. In order to trick SMERSH, James thinks up the ultimate plan – that every agent will be… |
| The Boys in Blue | Screenplay | 1982-09-20 | Sgt. Cannon (Tommy Cannon) and PC Ball (Bobby Ball) run the police station in the quiet town of Little Botham. When the station is threatened with clo… |
| The Ghost Train | Writer | 1941-01-01 | Mismatched travellers are stranded overnight at a lonely rural railway station. They soon learn of local superstition about a phantom train which is s… |
| William Comes to Town | Writer | 1948-12-31 | William Brown attempts to secure more pay and shorter hours for schoolboys…. |
| Carry on Admiral | Screenplay | 1957-05-14 | Two friends get drunk and decide to switch identities. One is a Parliamentary Secretary, and the other is the captain of a ship. The former’s lack of… |
| Murder at the Windmill | Writer | 1949-06-06 | A man watching a musical show at the Windmill theatre is shot apparently from the stage. The cast continues the performance so that the detective can … |
| Convict 99 | Writer | 1938-09-26 | A disgraced school master, Benjamin Twist, is mistaken for a tough prison governor and assigned the charge of a prison for particularly hardened crimi… |
| Writer | An English aristocrat and an American millionaire come together to tackle crime…. | ||
Other Info
| Movie Name | Job | Release Date | Overview |
| Casino Royale | Additional Dialogue | 1967-04-13 | Sir James Bond is called back out of retirement to stop SMERSH. In order to trick SMERSH, James thinks up the ultimate plan – that every agent will be… |
| Flesh and Blood: The Hammer Heritage of Horror | Thanks | 1994-08-06 | Explore the most legendary horror studio of all time with this fascinating, frightening journey hosted by terror titans Christopher Lee and Peter Cush… |
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