Val Guest

'Val Guest' (qv) began his career as an actor on the British stage and in early sound films. He ran the one-man London office of "The Hollywood Reporter" until an encounter with director 'Marcel Varnel' (qv) led to a screen writing job at Gainsborough Studios. Guest's directing career began in the early 1940s with a Ministry of Information short about the perils of sneezing (!), an inauspicious start to a lengthy roster of films that includes the science-fiction classics _The Quatermass Xperiment (1955)_ (qv), _Quatermass 2 (1957)_ (qv), _The Abominable Snowman (1957)_ (qv) and _The Day the Earth Caught Fire (1961)_ (qv). He was married to the actress 'Yolande Donlan' (qv) from 1954 until his death in 2006, aged 94.::Tom Weaver <TomWeavr@aol.com>