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Val Guest

British film director (1911–2006)

Val Guest was an English film director and screenwriter whose career ran from the early 1930s to the early 1980s. Beginning as a writer and then director of comedies, he became best known for his science fiction films and his work for Hammer, for whom he directed 14 films, including The Quatermass Xperiment, Quatermass 2 and The Abominable Snowman.

Val Guest appears in 4 films in The Rerun, from 1955 to 1967. That includes 4 titles as director. Most of that work is in horror, sci-fi and comedy. Frequent collaborators in The Rerun: John Huston (2), Marianne Stone (2), Brian Donlevy (2), Jack Warner (2).

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What movies and TV shows has Val Guest been in?
Val Guest appears in Casino Royale (1967), Quatermass 2 (1957), The Abominable Snowman (1957) and The Quatermass Xperiment (1955) on The Remote.
When was Val Guest born?
Val Guest was born on 11 December 1911.

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