Al Guest

Al Guest is a Canadian animation producer.

He was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, and started his career there when he dropped out of the University of Manitoba to pursue a career in films. A writer and fine artist, he has exhibited his paintings at many galleries in Winnipeg and Toronto, Ontario. He is most known for his film work - especially animation - which he has written, produced, and directed in 10 studios on three continents.

In Toronto he established both an animation studio and a live action production company and, in the early 1960s was called on by Sydney Banks, legendary Canadian broadcast and film pioneer, to help create the Director's Guild of Canada (DGC). Banks, the founding President, talked Guest into becoming its first secretary and contributing the distinctive "director's chair" logo still in use by the DGC.

Together with his partner, animator Jean Mathieson, Guest has produced more than 4,000 television commercials, theatrical shorts, television series and sponsored films, winning more than 100 awards.

Although known primarily for animation, they have also produced and directed live action commercials with their company in London, England as well as live action TV shows in the U.S. Among their live productions produced in Canada were 130 episodes of The Bonnie Prudden Show (U.S. syndication) and 195 episodes of The Ed Allen Show (U.S. syndication).

Among their animated productions produced in Canada were: 78 episodes of The Undersea Adventures of Captain Nemo, (CBS) 52 episodes of Rocket Robin Hood (CBC & international syndication), 20 episodes of The Toothbrush Family (CBS), 20 episodes of The Sunrunners (Ontario Education Channel)and 26 episodes of The Hilarious House of Frightenstein (U.S. syndication) and the Inuit special Ukaliq.

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