John Guillermin

The Profile

John Guillermin (11 December 1925 – 27 September 2015) was a British film director known for large-scale studio films including King Kong (1976), The Towering Inferno (1974) and Death on the Nile (1978).

Guillermin directed feature films across multiple genres and worked with major stars. Publicly verifiable highlights of his career include King Kong (1976), The Towering Inferno (1974) and the Agatha Christie adaptation Death on the Nile (1978).

The available review (by desade) treats Guillermin's Death on the Nile (1978) as a solid, entertaining Agatha Christie adaptation. The film is praised for its cast and production values while judged not an outright masterpiece. The review situates the film after Guillermin's King Kong (1976).