Los Angeles: British filmmaker John Guillermin, known for directing the 1976 hit 'King Kong' and the disaster classic 'The Towering Inferno', has died. He was 89.

Guillermin, who also helmed the famed Agatha Christie whodunit 'Death on the Nile' (1978), died Sunday of a heart attack at his home in Topanga, California, reported Entertainment Weekly.