George Michael Gill Bio/Wiki, Net Worth, Married 2018
George Michael Gill (10 December 1923 – 20 October 2005) was an English television producer and television director responsible for creating 'ground-breaking' documentaries for the BBC.He was born in Winchester, Hampshire but was brought up in Canterbury. He contracted tuberculosis as a child which disrupted his education severely including four years in a spinal chair. He served in the RAF in Intelligence during the war. One of his most memorable debriefings was interrogating a German who had survived a 20,000 ft fall over the Netherlands without his parachute opening.After the war he studied Philosophy and Psychology at Edinburgh University. After a period as a sub-editor and arts reviewer on The Scotsman, he joined the BBC. He worked first on radio but soon moved to television.He is chiefly remembered for Civilisation: A Personal View by Kenneth Clark (1969) (director and co-producer) and Alistair Cooke's America (1973) (director and producer). Although the idea for Civilisation and its presenter, Kenneth Clark, were given to Gill, 'America' and its presenter were entirely Gill's idea. In total Gill made more than 150 films for television and the cinema and won more than 40 major international awards.In 1951 he married, the Actress Yvonne Gilan, best remembered for her portrayal of Mrs. Peignoir in Fawlty Towers. The couple went on to have two sons, Adrian and Nicholas. The marriage was dissolved and he re-married in 1978 to Georgina Denison, with whom he had a daughter, Chloe. He died in London from Alzheimer's Disease. ObituaryHe was the father of writer, journalist and newspaper columnist A.A. Gill.His younger son Nicholas (Nick), a talented chef, unaccountably disappeared in 1998.
In October 1998, Gill's younger son, Nicholas, a talented chef who at one time had a Michelin star at Hambledon Hall, disappeared and has never been seen again.
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He was in the process of writing his memoirs, but his memory was failing from his Alzheimer's. His wife Georgina completed the works "Growing Into War," published in late 2005.
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Was considered one of the great film-makers of the 20th Century, having made more than 150 films for television and the cinema. He won more than 40 major awards including four Emmy and three Peabody awards.
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He was educated at Wootton Court Preparatory School (1937), St Edmund's School, Canterbury (1938-1939) and read Philosophy and Pscyhology at Edinburgh University after the Second World War.
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