Val Guest was an English movie director, film writer, and manufacturer, born on December 11, 1911, in London, England. He started his job in the film market in the 1930s as a screenwriter and made his directorial debut in 1946 with the movie "Fatality in High Heels".
Guest took place to guide over 60 films in an occupation that extended over five years. His films covered a vast array of styles, consisting of funny, drama, sci-fi, and horror. A few of his most remarkable works include "The Quatermass Xperiment" (1955), "The Day the Earth Caught Fire" (1961), as well as "Casino Royale" (1967).
Guest was understood for his technological expertise and his ability to function within tight budgets and also timetables. He was also a pioneer in making use of unique effects and also was among the first British filmmakers to make use of rear projection as well as various other methods to create reasonable and also immersive aesthetic effects.
Along with his operate in movie, Guest was additionally a respected tv director, working with a number of preferred programs in the 1960s and also 1970s. He was additionally an established author and wrote several publications on the art of filmmaking.
Guest was married 3 times as well as had 5 children. He passed away on May 10, 2006, in Palm Springs, California, at the age of 94. His heritage as one of the most skilled and cutting-edge filmmakers of his generation continues to be celebrated today, as well as his influence on the British movie sector can still be seen in the work of contemporary supervisors.
Our collection contains 14 quotes who is written / told by Val.
"We worked solidly for a long time together. George Marriott Edgar and myself"
"Oh, yes, we were on location with Another Man's Poison, which I wrote for Bette Davis"
"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"
"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"
"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"
"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 had a terrible job letting me do anything that wasn't comedy"
"I don't know how we had about eighteen international stars in it, all playing James Bond"
"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"
"And then she finally said yes. And we have been married, I want you to know, for 51 years"
"And he said that he wrote the Bond character based on the character of David Niven. That's how he saw Bond"
"Yes, The Persuaders, that was great fun because one of my favourite actors is Roger Moore"
"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"
"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"
