John Guillermin

Who is John Guillermin?

John Guillermin is a British film director, writer, and producer who was most active in big budget, action adventure films throughout his lengthy career. He was born in London and attended the University of Cambridge.

His more famous films include I Was Monty's Double, Tarzan's Greatest Adventure, Tarzan Goes to India, Waltz of the Toreadors, The Blue Max, The Bridge at Remagen, The Towering Inferno, King Kong, Death on the Nile, Sheena and King Kong Lives. From the 1980s he worked on much less prestigious projects, and his final films consisted of lower budgeted theatrical releases and made-for-TV films.

Guillermin also directed fifteen episodes of the late-1950s sitcom The Adventures of Aggie.