Val Guest: Full obit
Posted: Monday, May 22nd, 2006 10:37 am
PALM DESERT, Calif. (AP) — Val Guest, the versatile British director and screenwriter best known for directing science-fiction classics The Quatermass Xperiment and The Day the Earth Caught Fire, has died. He was 94.
Guest died of prostate cancer on May 10 in a Palm Desert hospice, said his wife, actress Yolande Donlan. …
After becoming a director in the 1940s, Guest made comedies, thrillers and musicals, but he was best known for his science-fiction works.
The Quatermass Xperiment was a 1955 science-fiction horror thriller with a semi-documentary feel about an experimental rocket ship that crashes in rural England with only one surviving crewmember. …
In the 1961 film The Day the Earth Caught Fire, simultaneous nuclear explosions by the United States and the Soviet Union knock Earth off its axis and send it hurtling toward the sun. … Read full obituary
