Val Guest 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 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), Qua ...[Read Story]