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Val Guest (December 11 1911 – May 10, 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.
Early Life and Career He was born Valmond Maurice Grossmann in London,
England. Guest's initial career was as an actor, appearing in various
productions in London theatres. He also appeared in a few early sound film
roles, before he gave up an acting career and moved into writing. For a
time in the early 1930s he was the London correspondent for the Hollywood
Reporter trade paper, before he began working on film screenplays for
Gainsborough Pictures, his first being No Monkey Business in 1935.
Directing career He wrote screenplays for the rest of the decade, as well
as some film scores, before in th
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