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Val Guest (11 December 1911 – 10 May 2006) was an English film director〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Val Guest )〕 and screenwriter. Beginning as a writer (and later director) of comedy films, he is best known for his work for Hammer, for whom he directed 14 films, and science fiction films. He enjoyed a long career in the film industry from the early 1930s until the early 1980s.〔 Reprinted from ''Reference Guide to British and Irish Film Directors''〕 ==Early life and career== He was born Valmond Maurice Grossmann to Jewish parents John Simon Grossmann and Julia Ann Gladys Emanuel in Maida Vale, London. His father was a jute seller, and the family spent some of Guest's childhood in India. His parents divorced when he was young, but this information was kept from him. Instead he was told that his mother had died.〔 He was educated at Seaford College in Sussex, but left in 1927 and worked for a time as a book keeper.〔 Guest formally changed his name in 1939.〔William D. Rubinstein (et al) (''The Palgrave Dictionary of Anglo-Jewish History'' ), Palgrave Macmillan, 2011, p.382〕 Guest's initial career was as an actor, appearing in various productions in London theatres. He also appeared in a few early sound film roles, before he quit acting and began a writing career. For a time, around 1934, he was the London correspondent for the ''Hollywood Reporter'' trade paper at the time when the publication began an edition for the UK.〔Wheeler Winston Dixon, Rutgers University Press, Jul 11, 2007, (Film Talk: Directors at Work ), Retrieved November 10, 2014 (see page 26 paragraph two), ISBN 978-0-8135-4077-1〕 before he began working on film screenplays for Gainsborough Pictures. This came about because the director Marcel Varnel had been incensed by comments Guest had made in his regular column, "Rambling Around", about the director's latest film. Challenged to write a screenplay by Varnel, Guest co-wrote his first script, which became ''No Monkey Business'' (1935) directed by Varnel.〔 This was to be the beginning of a long and fruitful partnership between the two men.〔 Guest was placed under contract as a staff writer at Gainsborough's Islington Studios in Poole Street.〔 Guest wrote screenplays for the rest of the decade, working with George Marriott Edgar on 8 films, including the scripts for Will Hay's comedies such as ''Oh, Mr Porter!'' (1937) and ''Ask a Policeman'' (1939), and The Crazy Gang.〔Christopher Hawtree, (Val Guest obituary ), ''The Guardian'', 16 May 2006.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Val Guest」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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