Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. 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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Val Guest licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
Complete Filmography

The Making of Casino Royale, 1967
2008
as Self - Segment Director
Interviews and overview of the making of the original 1967 James Bond film.

A Century of Science Fiction
1996
as Self
American Documentary, narrated by Christopher Lee

Flesh and Blood: The Hammer Heritage of Horror
1994
Thanks
Explore the most legendary horror studio of all time with this fascinating, frightening journey hosted by terror titans Christopher Lee and Peter Cush...

In Possession
1984
Director
A terrified couple becomes trapped in what seems to be a replay of a sinister event that happened in their apartment in the past.

Child's Play
1984
Director
A family awakens to find themselves trapped in their own home, all windows and doors sealed by impenetrable walls. They desperately try to escape but ...

Mark of the Devil
1984
Director
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 Boys in Blue
1982
Director, Screenplay
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...
Birds of Paradise
1981
Screenplay
An attractive young widow thinks that she is investing in a respectable riding school, only to find out she has bought a brothel.

Dangerous Davies: The Last Detective
1981
Director, Screenplay
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...
The Shillingbury Blowers
1980
Director
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...

The Switch
1976
Director
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...

Killer Force
1976
Director, Screenplay
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...

Sporting Chance
1975
Director
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...

Confessions of a Window Cleaner
1974
Director, Screenplay
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...

Mission: Monte Carlo
1974
Writer
Two episodes of the TV series "The Persuaders" joined into a movie. Two playboys investigate crimes along the French Riviera.

The Persuaders!
1973
Director
Two episodes of the TV series "The Persuaders" joined into a movie. Two playboys, Brett Sinclair (Roger Moore) and Danny Wilde (Tony Curtis), investig...

Au Pair Girls
1972
Director, Screenplay
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...

When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth
1970
Director, Writer
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...

Toomorrow
1970
Writer, Director
A group of students pay their way through school by forming a pop band called Toomorrow. Sonic vibrations from a special instrument called a ‘tonalise...

Assignment K
1968
Screenplay, Director
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...

Casino Royale
1967
Additional Dialogue, Director
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...

Where the Spies Are
1966
Screenplay, Director, Producer
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 Beauty Jungle
1964
Director, Screenplay, Producer
A Bristol typist joins the world of beauty contests.

80,000 Suspects
1963
Director, Screenplay, Producer
A doctor's already-shaky marriage is tested to an even greater extent when he has to contend with a smallpox epidemic.

Jigsaw
1962
Director, Screenplay, Producer
A woman is found murdered in a seaside house along the coast from Brighton in the county of East Sussex, England. Local D.I. Fred Fellows and D.S. Jim...

The Day the Earth Caught Fire
1961
Director, Writer, Producer
British reporters suspect an international cover-up of a global disaster in progress... and they're right. Hysterical panic has engulfed the world aft...

The Full Treatment
1960
Screenplay, Producer, Director
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 ...

Dentist in the Chair
1960
Screenplay
The misfortunes that befall three dental students when they become unwitting accessories to a burglary.

Hell Is a City
1960
Director, Screenplay
Set in Manchester, heartland of England's industrial north, Don Starling escapes from jail becoming England's most wanted man. Ruthless villain Starli...

Life Is a Circus
1960
Director, Writer
Encompassing three hugely popular double acts, The Crazy Gang were one of Britain's best-loved, most enduring variety troupes – their antics delighti...

Expresso Bongo
1959
Director, Producer
A seedy London promoter turns a naive, working-class teenager into a pop singing sensation.

Yesterday's Enemy
1959
Director
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...

Further Up the Creek
1958
Director, Writer
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
1958
Writer, Director
Bumbling navy officer Lieutenant Humphrey Fairweather (David Tomlinson) is transferred to HMS Berkeley, an old World War II destroyer, to keep him out...

The Camp on Blood Island
1958
Director, Screenplay
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 ...

The Abominable Snowman
1957
Director
A kindly English botanist and a gruff American promoter lead an expedition to the Himalayas in search of the legendary Yeti.

Quatermass 2
1957
Director, Screenplay
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...

Carry On Admiral
1957
Director, Screenplay
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...

The Weapon
1956
Director
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 ...

It's a Wonderful World
1956
Director, Writer
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...

Women Without Men
1956
Writer
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...

Blonde Bait
1956
Original Story
Seeking the whereabouts of international gangster Nick Randall, the US State Department contacts Scotland Yard, as his girlfriend, Angela Booth, is cu...

They Can't Hang Me
1955
Screenplay, Director
A murderer hopes to escape his death sentence by identifying the leaders of a spy ring.

The Quatermass Xperiment
1955
Director, Screenplay
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 Lyons in Paris
1955
Director, Writer
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...

Break in the Circle
1955
Director, Writer
An adventurer is hired by a German millionaire to help a Polish scientist escape to the West.

The Men of Sherwood Forest
1954
Director
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...

Dance Little Lady
1954
Director, Writer
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 with the Lyons
1954
Director
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 Runaway Bus
1953
Writer, Director, Producer
When heavy fog prevents any flights from leaving London Airport, a group of passengers are put on a bus driven by Percy Lamb to drive to another airpo...

Penny Princess
1952
Writer, Director
A tiny European country which for years has survived financially only through evading its bills and smuggling is finally facing bankruptcy, when a ric...

Another Man's Poison
1951
Writer
Mystery novelist Janet Frobisher, lives in an isolated house, having been separated for years from her criminal husband. She has fallen in love with h...

Mr. Drake's Duck
1951
Director, Writer
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...

Happy Go Lovely
1951
Screenplay
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...
The Body Said No!
1950
Director
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...

Miss Pilgrim's Progress
1949
Director, Writer
An exchange factory worker from New Jersey joins a plot to save a village from the Town and Country Planning Act.

Murder at the Windmill
1949
Writer, Director
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 ...

Paper Orchid
1949
Screenplay
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...

Once Upon a Dream
1949
Story
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 ...

William Comes to Town
1948
Writer, Director
William Brown attempts to secure more pay and shorter hours for schoolboys.

Just William's Luck
1947
Director, Screenplay
Comic adventures of an 11-year-old boy and his neighborhood pals.

Walking on Air
1946
Writer
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...

I'll Be Your Sweetheart
1945
Director, Screenplay
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.

Give Us the Moon
1944
Writer, Director
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 ...

Bees in Paradise
1944
Director, Writer
Four pilots become stranded on a tropical island inhabited by beautiful women.

Miss London Ltd.
1943
Director, Writer
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...

King Arthur Was a Gentleman
1942
Writer
Arthur King joins the army, and soon starts fantasizing about King Arthur and his knights.

Back-Room Boy
1942
Screenplay, Original Story
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 ...
The Nose Has It!
1942
Director, Writer
Made for Gaumont British Films in London. Featuring comedian Arthur Askey, a humorous film warning against sneezing in public during W.W.II. With com...

I Thank You
1941
Screenplay
Classic comedy starring Arthur Askey. The perils, humiliations and humour of trying to run a second-rate theatrical company are further compounded whe...

Inspector Hornleigh Goes to It
1941
Writer
Third and final film in the 'Inspector Hornleigh’ series of comedy-thrillers. Inspector Hornleigh (Gordon Harker), disappointed at not being handed an...

The Ghost Train
1941
Writer
Mismatched travellers are stranded overnight at a lonely rural railway station. They soon learn of local superstition about a phantom train which is s...

Gasbags
1941
Writer
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...

Where's That Fire
1939
Writer
Capt Viking and his incompetent fire crew accidentally foil a plot to steal the crown jewels.

Ask a Policeman
1939
Screenplay
The mirthful adventures of Police-Sergeant Samuel Dudfoot and his two constables, Albert Brown and Jeremias Harbottle, who stage a fabricated crime-wa...

Convict 99
1938
Writer
A disgraced school master, Benjamin Twist, is mistaken for a tough prison governor and assigned the charge of a prison for particularly hardened crimi...

Oh, Mr. Porter!
1937
Screenplay
Comedy in which a bungling railway worker is given the job of stationmaster at a rundown station in rural Ireland, where his sidekicks are a toothless...

Good Morning, Boys!
1937
Writer
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 cast ...
All In!
1936
Dialogue, Screenplay
Archie Slott inherits a successful racing stable from his dissolute uncle, but his sanctimonious aunt tries to convince him to sell it off. In an att...

Public Nuisance No. 1
1936
Writer
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...
Old Spanish Customers
1932
as Newspaper reporter
A henpecked husband is mistaken for a famous toreador while holidaying in Spain!

The Innocents of Chicago
1932
as Gangster
A British comedy film directed by Lupino Lane

The Maid of the Mountains
1932
as Party Guest
A British musical film directed by Lupino Lane

Just William at the circus (Comes to town)
N/A
Director
William Brown attempts to secure more pay and shorter hours for schoolboys.