Award-winning British director John Guillermin died on Sunday at his home in Los Angeles aged 89.
Guillermin is regarded by some as one of best directors of his generation, with such films as The Towering Inferno, King Kong (1976) and Death on the Nile part of his distinguished career.
The Towering Inferno is probably the film he will be remembered most for, with the Paul Newman-Steve McQueen-starrer winning three Oscars as well as grossing $116 million back in 1974, which accounts to over $514 million adjusted for inflation.
Other films in the director’s career included King Kong Lives, Shaft in Africa, Skyjacked, El Condor, Tarzan’s Greatest Adventure and The Bridge at Remagen.
Guillermin’s wife Mary said on Facebook that her husband was “sensitive and passionate, full of a fierce rapture himself.”
Born in London in 1925, the director attended Cambridge University and won the Evening Standard British Film Award for Death on the Nile in 1980.
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Originally published October 1, 2015. Updated April 14, 2018.
