work was as the director of several episodes of the Hammer House of Mystery and Suspense series in 1984 and 1985. Private life and honours Originally married to Pat Watson, the couple divorced after Guest fell in love with American actress Yolande Donlan who eventually became his wife in 1954; Donlan appeared in eight of his films during the 1950s. After Guest retired in 1985, the couple lived together in retirement in California. In 2004, a Golden Palm Star on the Palm Springs, California, Walk of Stars was dedicated to Guest and Donlan. Guest died in a hospice in Palm Desert, California from prostate cancer at the age of 94. Filmography Director Miss London Ltd. (1943) Bees in Paradise (1944) Give us the Moon (1944) I'll Be Your Sweetheart (1945) Just William's Luck (1947) William Comes to Town (1948) Murder at the Windmill (1949) The Body said No! (1950) Miss Pilgrim's Progress (1950) Mister Drake's Duck (1951) Penny Princess (1952) The Men of Sherwood Forest (1954) The Runaway Bus (1954) Life With the Lyons (1954) The Lyons in Paris (1955) Break in the Circle (1955) Dance, Little Lady (1955) The Quatermass Xperiment (1955) They Can't Hang Me (1955) It's a Wonderful World (1956) The Weapon (1956) Carry On Admiral (1957) Quatermass 2 (1957) (US title: Enemy From Space) The Abominable Snowman (1957) The Camp on Blood Island (1958) Up the Creek (1958) Further Up the Creek (1959) Yesterday's Enemy (1959) Expresso Bongo (1959) Life is a Circus (1960) Hell Is a City (1960) The Full Treatment (1960) The Day the Earth Caught Fire (1961) Jigsaw (1962) 80,000 Suspects (1963) The Beauty Jungle (1964) Where the Spies Are (1965) Casino Royale (1967) Assignment K (1968) Toomorrow (1970) When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth (1970) Au Pair Girls (1972) Confessions of a Window Cleaner (1974) Killer Force (1976) The Shillingbury Blowers (1980) The Boys in Blue (1982) Hammer House of Mystery and Suspense (1984) Screenwriter No Monkey Business (1935) All In (1936) Public Nuisance No. 1 (1936) A Star Fell from Heaven (1936) O-Kay for Sound (1937) Alf's Button Afloat (1938) Hi Gang! (1941) References External links Val Guest at BFI Screenonline Val Guest at the Encyclopedia of Fantastic Film and television Tribute to Val Guest at The Thunder Child Science Fiction Webzine 1911 births 2006 deaths English male film actors English film directors Science fiction film directors Horror film directors English male