Val Guest, 1911-2006.
By Alison Willmore on 05/22/2006
Writer/director Val Guest passed away on May 10 at age 94. Via the AP:
Guest died of prostate cancer on May 10 in a Palm Desert hospice, said his wife, actress Yolande Donlan.
He "brought a lot of intelligence to a genre that is often sorely in need of it," said director Joe Dante, a longtime fan of his films. "Every single one of his pictures is thoughtful and well-done."
The extremely prolific Guest directed dozens of films in his long career, but was probably best known for his Hammer films "The Quartermass Experiment" (which we recall weeping in fear over after catching it on TV at some tender age) and "Quartermass 2," as well as sci-fi disaster classic "The Day the Earth Caught Fire."
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