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Director, Producer, Screenwriter Born: December 11, 1911 in London, England, UK Death: May 10, 2006 in Palm Springs, CA Biography:When his acting career fell into decline, Londoner "Val Guest" worked as a journalist in England, then moved to Hollywood, where he wrote his own columns and hacked away as a tipster for Walter Winchell. Returning to London, he churned out scripts for such comic talents as Will Hay, the Crazy Gang and Arthur Askey, developing a talent for combining laughs with thrills. He made his directorial bow in 1942, subsequently producing and writing many of his own efforts. Guest was an accomplished trend-follower, directing girl-filled musicals, science fictioners, spy melodramas and even such sexploitationers as "The Au Pair Girls" (1972) "Confessions of a Window Cleaner" (1973). One historian has commented that Guest the director was far more talented than Guest the screenwriter, an assertion borne out by the fact that his best films--especially "The Creeping Unknown" (1955), "Enemy From Space" (1957) and... Full Biography
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