Val Guest
1911-2006|
Biography
Born in London, England 
Val Guest Quotes
“Yes, The Persuaders, that was great fun because one of my favourite actors is Roger Moore.”“Well, The Day the Earth Caught Fire was a story... I don’t if anybody knows what it is but it was about... in the early days of testing nuclear bombs, that Russia and America happened to test a nuclear bomb at the same moment at different ends of the earth.” “I used to write bits and pieces of comedy material for various comics that were at the Windmill... as well as my film job, I was under contract, I was allowed to do that and everything.” “I wrote Murder at the Windmill. And it was accepted and we made it and it was the first film I made with Danny Angel, well the only film I actually made... I made a lot of it at the Windmill itself.” “Well, yes, as I was a rather bad actor then and I wasn’t making enough money, I thought, to make enough money to not make money as an actor, I’d better do some writing.” “We worked solidly for a long time together. George Marriott Edgar and myself.” “And he said that he wrote the Bond character based on the character of David Niven. That’s how he saw Bond.” “And then she finally said yes. And we have been married, I want you to know, for 51 years.” “At those times I got into... I suppose you call it a rut. I used to do comedy, comedy, comedy and I suddenly thought I ought to break away from this somehow.” “I don’t know how we had about eighteen international stars in it, all playing James Bond.” “I had a terrible job letting me do anything that wasn’t comedy.” “No, we didn’t shoot... in the ones that I did there were hardly any sex... there were suggestions of sex scenes but we never actually shot a sex scene as such.” “Now, I’ll tell you something that might interest you. Casino Royale was the first Bond book that Ian Fleming ever wrote. And he couldn’t get anybody to touch it, to publish it - he couldn’t do anything about it at all. Nobody wanted to know.” “Oh, yes, we were on location with Another Man’s Poison, which I wrote for Bette Davis.” |
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The Film Director
Val Guest directed the following films:Miss London Ltd. (1943) Bees in Paradise (1944) Give Us the Moon (1944) I’ll Be Your Sweetheart (1945) Just William’s Luck (1947) William Comes to Town (1948) Murder at the Windmill (1949) Miss Pilgrim’s Progress (1950) The Body Said No! (1950) Mister Drake’s Duck (1951) Penny Princess (1952) The Runaway Bus (1954) Life with the Lyons (1954) Dance Little Lady (1954) The Men of Sherwood Forest (1954) The Lyons in Paris (1955) Break in the Circle (1955) The Quatermass Xperiment (1955) They Can’t Hang Me (1955) It’s a Wonderful World (1956) Carry on Admiral (1957) The Weapon (1957) Quatermass 2 (1957) The Abominable Snowman (1957) The Camp on Blood Island (1958) Up the Creek (1958) Further Up the Creek (1958) Yesterday’s Enemy (1959) Expresso Bongo (1959) Life Is a Circus (1960) Hell Is a City (1960) The Full Treatment (1960) The Day the Earth Caught Fire (1961) Jigsaw (1962) 80,000 Suspects (1963) The Beauty Jungle (1964) Where the Spies Are (1965) Casino Royale (1967) Assignment K (1968) Toomorrow (1970) When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth (1970) Au Pair Girls (1972) Confessions of a Window Cleaner (1974) Killer Force (1976) The Shillingbury Blowers (1980) The Boys in Blue (1982) The Writer
Val Guest contributed to the screenplay for the following films:The Ghost Train (1941) |
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