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	Val Guest - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Val Guest (December 11, 1911 – May 10, 2006) was a British film director, best known for his science-fiction films for the Hammer company 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.
		Guest's initial career was as an actor, appearing in various productions in London theatres.
		Guest's last feature film work was writing and directing The Boys in Blue in 1982, a vehicle for the then popular British comedy double act Cannon and Ball.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Val_Guest (477 words)

	Guardian Unlimited Film \| \| Val Guest
		Guest Sr was to be disappointed; his son went on to get into the papers as the writer of more than 70 films, and the director of more than 50 - including Expresso Bongo and The Day the Earth Caught Fire.
		Guest was born in Maida Vale, London, spent some of his infancy in India, and was brought back to England shortly before the first world war.
		Guest's was a continually overlapping world: a meeting with the future movie star and director Ida Lupino led to a meeting with her uncle, Lupino Lane.
	film.guardian.co.uk /obituaries/0,,1775700,00.html (1131 words)

	Scotsman.com News - Obituaries - Val Guest
		VAL Guest enjoyed an enviable reputation in movies and was responsible for many classic comedies in the immediate post-war years that set out to entertain a public who attended the "picture houses" every week.
		Guest was a subtle and excellent all-round director but he had the knack of spotting future stars and he introduced a host of new faces to the public.
		Guest was then booked to direct two films based on the BBC Radio programme A Life With the Lyons and two films based on the TV sci-fi Quatermass.
	news.scotsman.com /obituaries.cfm?id=767082006 (943 words)

	The Thunder Child: Val Guest: Guest Appearances
		Val Guest may not be the first name that trips over the tongue of those who consider themselves science fiction fans, but Guest, who passed away May 10, 2006 at the age of 94, made some significant contributions to the science fiction genre.
		Guest’s early years were spent as a writer, contributing to 18 comedy films directed by Marcel Varnel (co-director with William Cameron Menzies of Bela Lugosi‘s 1932 serial Chandu the Magician).
		Guest overcame various obstacles — American character actor Brian Donlevy is a rather loud and brash Quatermass and the film was low budget — to produce an intelligent and, at times, exciting science fiction thriller.
	thethunderchild.com /Movies/Obits/ValGuest.html (1668 words)

	Val Guest Biography
		Born in Maida Vale, London, Valmont Maurice Guest began his eclectic career as a film journalist and columnist for the London edition of the Hollywood Reporter, and for a brief spell as bit-part actor.
		Guest co-directed the James Bond parody Casino Royale (1967), with five other directors; as a result the film suffered from an incoherent script and muddled vision.
		Guest enjoyed a brief return to form with The Shillingbury Blowers (1980), a quaint film starring Trevor Howard about a small town band.
	www.britmovie.co.uk /directors/v_guest/biog.html (413 words)

	MI6 News :: `Casino Royale` (1967 spoof) director Val Guest dies aged 94
		Val knew everyone, and certainly his name was a household word in England.
		Bartok recalls of Guest, “Early in his career, Val was infamous for smoking big, Hollywood-style cigars from sunup to sundown, and in later years was unmistakable in his ever-present hat and ascot tie from Wimbledon.
		Val was a newspaperman early in his career, and he brings an astonishing level of veracity and honesty to this story of journalists trying to keep faith with the public and themselves as everything around goes to hell.
	www.mi6.co.uk /news/index.php?itemid=3679 (940 words)

	Director/screenwriter Val Guest dead at 94
		Guest started his career 50 years ago writing British comedies and moved into film directing in the 1940s.
		Guest was among the five credited directors on the 1967 James Bond spoof Casino Royale.
		Guest wrote his autobiography, So You Want to Be in Pictures, in 2001.
	story.losangelesherald.com /p.x/ct/9/id/f333b2db928be8e2/cid/... (255 words)

	USATODAY.com - Director Val Guest dies at age 94 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Guest died of prostate cancer on May 10 in a Palm Desert hospice, said his wife, actress Yolande Donlan.
		After becoming a director in the 1940s, Guest made comedies, thrillers and musicals, but he was best known for his science-fiction works.
		Guest also was one of the five credited directors on the 1967 James Bond spoof Casino Royale.
	www.usatoday.com /life/people/2006-05-22-guest_x.htm?POE=LIFISVA (324 words)

	HammerWeb Tribute: Val Guest
		Val Guest and his wife, actress Yolande Donlan, pictured in 1954.
		Val Guest, who died on 10 May 2006 aged 94, was a director, producer and writer whose work for Hammer Film Productions was of unparalleled importance to the company’s commercial and critical credibility.
		Val needed relatively little prompting from me: his memories of this historic film were detailed, insightful, and often tinged with his mischievous wit.
	www.hammerfilms.com /features/tributes/val_guest.html (635 words)

	Val Guest
		Guest was an accomplished trend-follower, directing girl-filled musicals, science fictioners, spy melodramas and even such sexploitationers as The Au Pair Girls (1972) Confessions of a Window Cleaner (1973).
		One historian has commented that Guest the director was far more talented than Guest the screenwriter, an assertion borne out by the fact that his best films--especially The Creeping Unknown (1955), Enemy From Space (1957) and The Day the Earth Caught Fire (1961)--were penned by others.
		Val Guest is married to actress Yolande Donlan, who starred in several of her husband's films (Mr.
	www.djangomusic.com /actor_bio.asp?pid=P+92831 (208 words)

	In Remembrance- Val Guest (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Val Guest, the British screenwriter turned director of such films as the cult classics The Quatermass Xperiment (1955) and The Day The Earth Caught Fire (1961) has passed away on May 10, 2006 in Palm Springs, CA.
		Guest is also one of the five directors created on the James Bond spoof Casino Royale (1967).
		Guest’s last film was the 1982 comedy The Boys In Blue, a remake of Guest’s early script Ask A Policeman.
	www.filmbuffonline.com /InRemembrance/ValGuest.htm (458 words)

	Val Guest
		Guest engineers this so very brilliantly that his Véry flares went off all through the Harry Palmer series and into The Parallax View, with a significant afterimage in Ordeal by Innocence.
		Guest brings all this to a point in a punchline anticipating The Pumpkin Eater.
		The work has been routed by some critics from the domain of art, which is zealously guarded by some critics.
	cmulrooney.tripod.com /guestval.html (166 words)

	Amazon.com: The Day the Earth Caught Fire: DVD: Val Guest,Janet Munro,Leo McKern,Edward Judd,Michael Goodliffe,Bernard ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		With an effects arsenal that consists largely of a spray bottle to apply beads of "sweat," Guest and his small but crack cast are surprisingly effective, and the cold war plot hook still works, thanks to its uncomfortable proximity to more contemporary environmental terrors.
		Special features include a commentary by director Val Guest and journalist Ted Newsom, TV spots, a theatrical trailer, radio spots, a still gallery (with a couple of pretty racy photos of Janet Munro), and a biography of director Val Guest.
		Guest worked as a newspaper man during his early year and he gets the details of the journalism business just right and that helps ground the film in a sober and scary kind of work-a-day realism; his science is a bit wonky but who cares?
	www.amazon.com /Day-Earth-Caught-Fire/dp/B000059PPL (2291 words)

	Val Guest - Where The Spies Are \| Movie (1966)
		Val Guest - Where The Spies Are
		Niven, who once figured in some fancy undercover work for British Intelligence, is sent to Lebanon to try to learn what urgent information the agent there had uncovered before he was bumped off by the Russians.
		Teaming with Niven as a French mam'selle playing both sides as a secret agent and supposedly his contact is Francoise Dorleac, lushly effective.
	www.leninimports.com /where_the_spies_are.html (169 words)

	Val Guest's The Day the Earth Caught Fire
		Guest and Mankowitz resolve the challenge by making their central character Peter Stenning (Edward Judd) a Daily Express reporter and sending him on a quest for data, aided by the paper's science correspondent Bill Maguire (Leo McKern) as a theorist and data interpreter.
		Guest's documentary approach in these sequences anticipates Peter Watkins' cinema verite direction of The War Game (1964) or the plain style of Barry Hines' TV drama Threads (1984).
		Guest and Mankowitz lock on to one of the tribal musics of that scene, "trad" or British revivalist jazz which - quaint as it might now seem - developed a wider youth cult following, even reaching the pop charts in the early sixties.
	www.culturecourt.com /Br.Paul/film/DayTheEarthCaughtFire.htm (3775 words)

	Blue Glow: RIP Val Guest
		Val Guest, director of The Quatermass Experiment and The Day the Earth Caught Fire, is dead at 94.
		Guest later said President Kennedy asked for his own copy and screened it for 200 foreign correspondents in Washington.
		Read the full LA Times article on Val Guest.
	www.stomptokyo.com /chris/blog/2006/05/rip-val-guest.html (111 words)

	cbs2.com - Director Val Guest Dies At 94
		Guest's wife, actress Yolande Donlan, says he died of prostate cancer on May 10th in a hospice.
		Guest's fans praised him for creating uncommonly intelligent sci-fi films like "The Quatermass Xperiment" and "The Day the Earth Caught Fire."
		In 1961's "The Day the Earth Caught Fire," simultaneous nuclear explosions by the United States and the Soviet Union knock Earth off its axis and send it hurtling toward the sun.
	cbs2.com /topstories/local_story_142070455.html (176 words)

	Val Guest - Moviefone
		When his acting career fell into decline, Londoner Val Guest worked as a journalist in England, then moved to Hollywood, where he wrote his own...
		From All Movie Guide: When his acting career fell into decline, Londoner Val Guest worked as a journalist in England, then moved to Hollywood,...
		Val Guest - Filmography, Biography, News, Photos, Birth date, Relationships, Val Guest Film Clips, and Fun Facts on Moviefone.
	movies.aol.com /celebrity/val-guest/92831/main (119 words)

	Val Guest (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Val Guest (1911-2006) had one of the most varied careers in film history...
		Discuss this person with other users on IMDb message board for Val Guest
		Find where Val Guest is credited alongside another name
	www.imdb.com /name/nm0346436 (300 words)

	Val Guest: A History of Horror
		Val Guest is the director of the classic The Quartermass Experiment (1954, also known as The Creeping Unknown).
		Guest also produced and directed the successful science fiction film The Day the Earth Caught Fire in 1961, the sex-comedy Confessions of a Window Cleaner (1974), the action-thriller Killer Force (1976), and his last film, the comedy The Boys in Blue (1982).
		He was a competent, unspectacular commercial director with a natural inclination towards comedy; but capable of producing a workmanlike picture in any genre.
	eric.b.olsen.tripod.com /guest.html (285 words)

	Slice of Scifi - Science Fiction TV & Movie News, Interviews & more » Val Guest Remembered (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Val Guest, one of the famed director/writers of the original James Bond “Casino Royale”; starring David Niven directed many comedies and musicals, but is best known for his dramatic cop and spy thrillers and especially for his contribution to the sci-fi genre.
		Guest also wrote and directed a couple of episodes for TV’s scifi drama “Space 1999.”
		Having his beginnings in the very early days of filmmaking, Guest was talented and a craftsman in just about every segment of the movie business.
	www.sliceofscifi.com /2006/05/22/val-guest-remembered (304 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Born in London, Val Guest began his career as a film journalist and columnist, and for a brief spell actor.
		In the audience, seasoned film director-writer Val Guest, who's about as British as British gets, had brought two clippings to show his friends.
		Available as a superb DVD from Anchor Bay (with a beautiful widescreen transfer and Guest commentary), the movie is an unusually literate and thematically nuanced genre film.
	lycoszone.lycos.com /info/val-guest.html (368 words)

	Variety.com - Val Guest
		Cult film writer, director and producer Val Guest, known for his eclectic career emphasizing British sci fi pics, died Wednesday, May 10 in Palm Springs, Calif. He was 94.
		Guest was one of the directors and writers of the kooky James Bond collaborative spoof "Casino Royale," and also worked in musicals, comedies, thrillers and sci-fi.
		He is said to have made some of Britian's best films as well as some of its worst.
	www.variety.com /article/VR1117943080?categoryid=25&cs=1&nid=2562 (296 words)

	BFI \| Features \| NFT Interviews \| Val Guest
		JR: In your autobiography, Val, which you wrote not long ago, and which I'll point out, since Val's publishers are mine as well - I'm honour-bound to do so - that Val will be signing copies after this show, down in the foyer, near the box office.
		I went to the stage door, Michael Balfour was there, he took me down, tapped on her door and her voice said 'yes'.
		He said 'it's Michael, I've brought Val.' She said 'come in.' He opened the door and I nearly ran for my life.
	www.bfi.org.uk /features/interviews/guest.html (5812 words)

	Val Guest [1911 - ] @ EOFFTV
		In a long and varied career, Val Guest touched on just about every genre that the British cinbema held dear - comedy, horror, police thrillers, James Bond...
		Guest entered the industry in the early thirties, has had one of the most varied careers in film, initially as an actor [he had already worked on the London stage] before turning his hand to scriptwriting.
		Guest would continue to direct until the late 1980s and his career was erratic to say the least.
	www.eofftv.com /names/g/gue/guest_val_main.htm (1089 words)

	Independent Online Edition > Obituaries (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Valmont Maurice Guest, film director, actor and writer: born London 11 December 1911; married 1955 Yolande Donlan (one son); died Palm Springs, California 10 May 2006.
		Discipline was the key to Val Guest's film work.
		He liked to create the original idea for a film or adapt a novel he had enjoyed.
	news.independent.co.uk /people/obituaries/article484125.ece (198 words)

	VAL GUEST 1911-2006 - Horror Movie News - HorrorExpress.com
		Nevertheless, they did gain at least some of the respect they so richly deserved.
		Sad news as one of Hammer's greatest directors, Val Guest, has passed away.
		Fango has learned that writer, director, actor and producer Val Guest died Wednesday, May 10 at age 94 in Palm Springs, California, following a long bout with cancer.
	www.horrorexpress.com /news.php?newsid=737 (879 words)

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