Val Guest

Val Guest

1911-12-11 London, England, UK 84 Credits

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.

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The Making of Casino Royale, 1967

The Making of Casino Royale, 1967

2008

as Self - Segment Director

5.3
Acting

Interviews and overview of the making of the original 1967 James Bond film.

A Century of Science Fiction

A Century of Science Fiction

1996

as Self

6.9
Acting

American Documentary, narrated by Christopher Lee

Flesh and Blood: The Hammer Heritage of Horror

Flesh and Blood: The Hammer Heritage of Horror

1994

Thanks

7.2

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

In Possession

1984

Director

8.0
Directing

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

Child's Play

1984

Director

7.0
Directing

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

Mark of the Devil

1984

Director

5.0
Directing

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

The Boys in Blue

1982

Director, Screenplay

5.2
Directing Writing

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

Writing

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

Dangerous Davies: The Last Detective

1981

Director, Screenplay

5.9
Directing Writing

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

7.0
Directing

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

The Switch

1976

Director

Directing

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

Killer Force

1976

Director, Screenplay

5.2
Directing Writing

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

Sporting Chance

1975

Director

6.0
Directing

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

Confessions of a Window Cleaner

1974

Director, Screenplay

4.9
Directing Writing

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

Mission: Monte Carlo

1974

Writer

6.7
Writing

Two episodes of the TV series "The Persuaders" joined into a movie. Two playboys investigate crimes along the French Riviera.

The Persuaders!

The Persuaders!

1973

Director

8.2
Directing

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

Au Pair Girls

1972

Director, Screenplay

4.6
Directing Writing

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

When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth

1970

Director, Writer

6.2
Directing Writing

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

Toomorrow

1970

Writer, Director

4.3
Writing Directing

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

Assignment K

1968

Screenplay, Director

6.0
Writing Directing

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

Casino Royale

1967

Additional Dialogue, Director

5.2
Directing

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

Where the Spies Are

1966

Screenplay, Director, Producer

5.2
Writing Directing Producing

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

The Beauty Jungle

1964

Director, Screenplay, Producer

5.2
Directing Writing Producing

A Bristol typist joins the world of beauty contests.

80,000 Suspects

80,000 Suspects

1963

Director, Screenplay, Producer

6.9
Directing Writing Producing

A doctor's already-shaky marriage is tested to an even greater extent when he has to contend with a smallpox epidemic.

Jigsaw

Jigsaw

1962

Director, Screenplay, Producer

7.3
Directing Writing Producing

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

The Day the Earth Caught Fire

1961

Director, Writer, Producer

6.8
Directing Writing Producing

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

The Full Treatment

1960

Screenplay, Producer, Director

6.1
Writing Producing Directing

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

Dentist in the Chair

1960

Screenplay

5.9
Writing

The misfortunes that befall three dental students when they become unwitting accessories to a burglary.

Hell Is a City

Hell Is a City

1960

Director, Screenplay

6.6
Directing Writing

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

Life Is a Circus

1960

Director, Writer

6.0
Directing Writing

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

Expresso Bongo

1959

Director, Producer

5.4
Directing Producing

A seedy London promoter turns a naive, working-class teenager into a pop singing sensation.

Yesterday's Enemy

Yesterday's Enemy

1959

Director

7.2
Directing

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

Further Up the Creek

1958

Director, Writer

6.0
Directing Writing

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

Up the Creek

1958

Writer, Director

6.2
Writing Directing

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

The Camp on Blood Island

1958

Director, Screenplay

6.6
Directing Writing

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

The Abominable Snowman

1957

Director

6.2
Directing

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

Quatermass 2

Quatermass 2

1957

Director, Screenplay

6.4
Directing Writing

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

Carry On Admiral

1957

Director, Screenplay

6.0
Directing Writing

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

The Weapon

1956

Director

5.9
Directing

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

It's a Wonderful World

1956

Director, Writer

5.3
Directing Writing

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

Women Without Men

1956

Writer

6.0
Writing

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

Blonde Bait

1956

Original Story

4.8
Writing

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

They Can't Hang Me

1955

Screenplay, Director

6.0
Writing Directing

A murderer hopes to escape his death sentence by identifying the leaders of a spy ring.

The Quatermass Xperiment

The Quatermass Xperiment

1955

Director, Screenplay

6.5
Directing Writing

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

The Lyons in Paris

1955

Director, Writer

3.5
Directing Writing

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

Break in the Circle

1955

Director, Writer

5.0
Directing Writing

An adventurer is hired by a German millionaire to help a Polish scientist escape to the West.

The Men of Sherwood Forest

The Men of Sherwood Forest

1954

Director

6.7
Directing

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

Dance Little Lady

1954

Director, Writer

7.0
Directing Writing

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

Life with the Lyons

1954

Director

6.0
Directing

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

The Runaway Bus

1953

Writer, Director, Producer

6.0
Writing Directing Producing

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

Penny Princess

1952

Writer, Director

6.4
Writing Directing

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

Another Man's Poison

1951

Writer

6.7
Writing

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

Mr. Drake's Duck

1951

Director, Writer

5.0
Directing Writing

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

Happy Go Lovely

1951

Screenplay

5.9
Writing

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

Directing

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

Miss Pilgrim's Progress

1949

Director, Writer

6.0
Directing Writing

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

Murder at the Windmill

1949

Writer, Director

6.0
Writing Directing

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

Paper Orchid

1949

Screenplay

5.0
Writing

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

Once Upon a Dream

1949

Story

6.0
Writing

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

William Comes to Town

1948

Writer, Director

Writing Directing

William Brown attempts to secure more pay and shorter hours for schoolboys.

Just William's Luck

Just William's Luck

1947

Director, Screenplay

7.0
Directing Writing

Comic adventures of an 11-year-old boy and his neighborhood pals.

Walking on Air

Walking on Air

1946

Writer

Writing

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

I'll Be Your Sweetheart

1945

Director, Screenplay

5.0
Directing Writing

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

Give Us the Moon

1944

Writer, Director

6.2
Writing Directing

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

Bees in Paradise

1944

Director, Writer

5.3
Directing Writing

Four pilots become stranded on a tropical island inhabited by beautiful women.

Miss London Ltd.

Miss London Ltd.

1943

Director, Writer

5.2
Directing Writing

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

King Arthur Was a Gentleman

1942

Writer

5.2
Writing

Arthur King joins the army, and soon starts fantasizing about King Arthur and his knights.

Back-Room Boy

Back-Room Boy

1942

Screenplay, Original Story

6.4
Writing

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

Directing Writing

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

I Thank You

1941

Screenplay

7.4
Writing

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

Inspector Hornleigh Goes to It

1941

Writer

6.9
Writing

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

The Ghost Train

1941

Writer

5.9
Writing

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

Gasbags

1941

Writer

5.5
Writing

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

Where's That Fire

1939

Writer

7.0
Writing

Capt Viking and his incompetent fire crew accidentally foil a plot to steal the crown jewels.

Ask a Policeman

Ask a Policeman

1939

Screenplay

7.4
Writing

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

Convict 99

1938

Writer

6.8
Writing

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!

Oh, Mr. Porter!

1937

Screenplay

7.0
Writing

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!

Good Morning, Boys!

1937

Writer

7.1
Writing

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

Writing

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

Public Nuisance No. 1

1936

Writer

7.3
Writing

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

Acting

A henpecked husband is mistaken for a famous toreador while holidaying in Spain!

The Innocents of Chicago

The Innocents of Chicago

1932

as Gangster

Acting

A British comedy film directed by Lupino Lane

The Maid of the Mountains

The Maid of the Mountains

1932

as Party Guest

Acting

A British musical film directed by Lupino Lane

Just William at the circus (Comes to town)

Just William at the circus (Comes to town)

N/A

Director

4.0
Directing

William Brown attempts to secure more pay and shorter hours for schoolboys.