Death is an incident producing clay. Use it, mold it, learn from it.

Gilling retired to Spain where he whiled away the time painting. Gilling continued through the 1950s making several entertaining 'quota quickies' such as The Voice of Merrill for Monty Berman's Tempean Films and entered television directing in several British made series that received international distribution such as Douglas Fairbanks Jr Presents and Gideon's Way as well as Monty Berman's The Saint The Champions and Department S. Broccoli and Irving Allen's Warwick Films beginning with Odongo.

John Gilling (29 May 1912 – 22 November 1984) was an English film director and screenwriter born in London. He was chiefly known for his horror films especially for Hammer Films for whom he directed Shadow of the Cat (1961) The Plague of the Zombies (1966) The Reptile (1966) (the latter two filmed back to back in Cornwall) and The Mummy's Shroud among others.