# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/john-gilling
# Generated: 2026-08-13T01:15:27.746Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/john-gilling"
name: "John Gilling"
slug: "john-gilling"
description: "John Gilling was an English director, writer, and producer of film and television. He was known for his horror movies, especially those he made for Hammer Films, for whom he directed The Shadow of the Cat (1961), The Plague of the Zombies (1966), The Reptile (1966) and The Mummy's Shroud (1967)."
tagline: "British film director and screenwriter (1912-1984)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/b/be/Still_of_John_Gilling.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Directors"
  slug: "directors"
profileType:
  name: "Movie Director"
  slug: "director"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1912-05-29"
deathDate: "1984-11-22"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           46.02
  momentum:             1.266233766233766
  historical:           10.75831733333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0319241/"
    handle:    "nm0319241"
sources:
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%94%D0%B6%D0%BE%D0%BD_%D0%93%D1%96%D0%BB%D0%BB%D1%96%D0%BD%D0%B3"
    title: "Джон Гіллінг"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "جون جيلينج"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Gilling"
    title: "John Gilling"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Gilling"
    title: "John Gilling"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Gilling"
    title: "John Gilling"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Gilling"
    title: "John Gilling"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Gilling"
    title: "John Gilling"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://lb.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Gilling"
    title: "John Gilling"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://mg.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Gilling"
    title: "John Gilling"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Gilling"
    title: "John Gilling"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%94%D0%B6%D0%B8%D0%BB%D0%BB%D0%B8%D0%BD%D0%B3%2C_%D0%94%D0%B6%D0%BE%D0%BD"
    title: "Джиллинг, Джон"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Gilling"
    title: "John Gilling"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q202395"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/101520"
    title: "John Gilling"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump