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Val Guest

Profession : Director

Birth : December 11, 1911

Yes, The Persuaders, that was great fun because one of my favourite actors is Roger Moore.

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And he said that he wrote the Bond character based on the character of David Niven. That's how he saw Bond.

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At those times I got into... I suppose you call it a rut. I used to do comedy, comedy, comedy and I suddenly thought I ought to break away from this somehow.

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I don't know how we had about eighteen international stars in it, all playing James Bond.

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I had a terrible job letting me do anything that wasn't comedy.

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I used to write bits and pieces of comedy material for various comics that were at the Windmill... as well as my film job, I was under contract, I was allowed to do that and everything.

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I wrote Murder at the Windmill. And it was accepted and we made it and it was the first film I made with Danny Angel, well the only film I actually made... I made a lot of it at the Windmill itself.

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No, we didn't shoot... in the ones that I did there were hardly any sex... there were suggestions of sex scenes but we never actually shot a sex scene as such.

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Now, I'll tell you something that might interest you. Casino Royale was the first Bond book that Ian Fleming ever wrote. And he couldn't get anybody to touch it, to publish it - he couldn't do anything about it at all. Nobody wanted to know.

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Oh, yes, we were on location with Another Man's Poison, which I wrote for Bette Davis.

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We worked solidly for a long time together. George Marriott Edgar and myself.

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Well, The Day the Earth Caught Fire was a story... I don't if anybody knows what it is but it was about... in the early days of testing nuclear bombs, that Russia and America happened to test a nuclear bomb at the same moment at different ends of the earth.

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Well, yes, as I was a rather bad actor then and I wasn't making enough money, I thought, to make enough money to not make money as an actor, I'd better do some writing.

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