John Guillermin (born 11 November 1925) 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 (1958), Tarzan's Greatest Adventure (1959), Tarzan Goes to India (1962), Waltz of the Toreadors (1962), The Blue Max (1966), The Bridge at Remagen (1969), The Towering Inferno (1974), King Kong (1976), Death on the Nile (1978), Sheena (1984) and King Kong Lives (1986). 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.
[1990 comment on King Kong (1976)] The film simply isn't allowed to speak for itself. I was not displeased with the overall picture. It was totally different from the original, which is now considered a classic. That was an enormous thing to overcome in itself.
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[on Steve McQueen] Steve had a terrific instinct for something he could play well. In the films where he played characters that he really understood, he did it extremely well on screen. It wasn't an accident that he was a major, major star. He also had tremendous power and charisma. He could capture the truth of a scene.
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You know, there's really nothing like an exciting film on a big screen. Hopefully, I've made a few in my career.
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