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Nationality
  
British

Books
  
The Guild

Spouse
  
Jayne Atkinson (m. 1998)

Role
  
Actor

Name
  
Michael Gill


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Born
  
Michael Gill10 December 1923Kent, England (
1923-12-10
)

Died
  
20 October 2005(2005-10-20)Kensington, London, England (Alzheimer's disease)

Occupation
  
Writer, Director, Producer

Nominations
  
Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series

Movies and TV shows
  
House of Cards, Afflicted, Condemned, Law & Order: Criminal I, All My Children

Similar People
  
Jayne Atkinson, Kevin Spacey, Sakina Jaffrey, Robin Wright, Michael Kelly

Profiles

Tough Talk interview with Michael Gill 06 Jan 2016 -How was Nepal in B.S 2023?


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.

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Biography

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Gill 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.

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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.

Michael Gill Michael Gill Photos 39House of Cards39 Season 2 Premiere

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.

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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 remarried in 1978 to Georgina Denison, with whom he had a daughter, Chloe. He died in London from Alzheimer's disease.

He was the father of writer, journalist and newspaper columnist A.A. Gill.

Filmography

Producer
1998
The Face of Russia (TV Mini Series) (producer)
1996
The South Bank Show (TV Series documentary) (producer - 1 episode)
- Vermeer: Light, Love and Silence (1996) - (producer)
1995
Highlanders (TV Series documentary) (producer)
1994
The Buried Mirror (TV Mini Series) (producer - 5 episodes)
- Unfinished Business (1994) - (producer)
- The Price of Freedom (1994) - (producer)
- Conflict of the Gods (1994) - (producer)
- The Age of Gold (1994) - (producer)
- The Virgin and the Bull (1994) - (producer)
1989
Vintage: A History of Wine (TV Mini Series) (producer)
1987
Spacecraft (TV Mini Series documentary) (co-producer)
1984
How to Enjoy Wine (Documentary) (producer)
1984
Pride of Place (TV Series documentary) (executive producer)
1984
American Playhouse (TV Series) (executive producer - 1 episode)
- The Ghost Writer (1984) - (executive producer)
1982
Janet Baker: Full Circle (TV Movie documentary) (executive producer)
1980
The Commanding Sea (TV Series documentary) (producer)
1977
Royal Heritage (TV Series documentary) (producer)
1972
America (TV Series documentary) (producer - 13 episodes)
- The More Abundant Life (1973) - (producer)
- The Arsenal (1973) - (producer)
- The Promise Fulfilled and the Promise Broken (1973) - (producer)
- The Huddled Masses (1973) - (producer)
- Money on the Land (1973) - (producer)
- Domesticating a Wilderness (1972) - (producer)
- A Firebell in the Night (1972) - (producer)
- Gone West (1972) - (producer)
- Inventing a Nation (1972) - (producer)
- Making a Revolution (1972) - (producer)
- Home From Home (1972) - (producer)
- The New Found Land (1972) - (producer)
- The First Impact (1972) - (producer)
1969
Civilisation (TV Mini Series documentary) (producer - 14 episodes)
- The Frozen World (1970) - (producer)
- Heroic Materialism (1969) - (producer)
- The Fallacies of Hope (1969) - (producer)
- The Worship of Nature (1969) - (producer)
- The Smile of Reason (1969) - (producer)
- The Pursuit of Happiness (1969) - (producer)
- The Light of Experience (1969) - (producer)
- Grandeur and Obedience (1969) - (producer)
- Protest and Communication (1969) - (producer)
- The Hero as Artist (1969) - (producer)
- Man: The Measure of All Things (1969) - (producer)
- Romance and Reality (1969) - (producer)
- The Great Thaw (1969) - (producer)
- The Skin of Our Teeth (1969) - (producer)
1966
Giacometti (TV Short documentary) (producer)
1966
Francis Bacon Fragments of a Portrait (TV Movie documentary) (producer)
1965
Monitor (TV Series documentary) (producer - 1 episode)
- 10 Thousand Days, 93 Thousand Hours, 33 Years of Effort (1965) - (producer)
1963
Merry-Go-Round (TV Series documentary) (producer - 10 episodes)
- Discovering Castles: Part 1 (1965) - (producer)
- Hans in Luck/Wheelbarrow Farm (1963) - (producer)
- The Minotaur/Wheelbarrow Farm (1963) - (producer)
- Wheelbarrow Farm/The History of Flight: Part 3 (1963) - (producer)
- Wheelbarrow Farm/The History of Flight: Part 2 (1963) - (producer)
- Wheelbarrow Farm/The History of Flight: Part 1 (1963) - (producer)
- The Minnow Jar (1963) - (producer)
- Castle Adventure (1963) - (producer)
- The Turning Tide (1963) - (producer)
- The Giant Apple (1963) - (producer)
1964
Artists' Notebooks (TV Series) (producer - 3 episodes)
- Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890) (1964) - (producer)
- Eugène Delacroix (1798-1863) (1964) - (producer)
- Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) (1964) - (producer)
1964
Ten Modern Artists (TV Mini Series documentary) (producer - 10 episodes)
- Willem de Kooning (1964) - (producer)
- Jackson Pollock (1964) - (producer)
- Alberto Giacometti (1964) - (producer)
- Chaim Soutine (1964) - (producer)
- Pierre Bonnard (1964) - (producer)
- Paul Klee (1964) - (producer)
- Constantin Brâncusi (1964) - (producer)
- Piet Mondrian (1964) - (producer)
- Pablo Picasso (1964) - (producer)
- Henri Matisse (1964) - (producer)
1964
The Peaches (Short) (producer)
1960
Modern India (TV Mini Series) (producer)
1960
Looking at Animals (TV Mini Series) (producer - 5 episodes)
- Apes and Monkeys (1960) - (producer)
- Snakes and Lizards (1960) - (producer)
- The Horse (1960) - (producer)
- Birds (1960) - (producer)
- The Big Cats (1960) - (producer)
1959
Looking at Film (TV Mini Series) (producer)
Director
1997
Beyond Wall Street: The Art of Investing (TV Series documentary)
1996
The South Bank Show (TV Series documentary) (1 episode)
- Vermeer: Light, Love and Silence (1996)
1995
Highlanders (TV Series documentary)
1995
Nature Perfected: The Story of the Garden (TV Mini Series)
1989
Vintage: A History of Wine (TV Mini Series)
1988
Paul Gauguin: The Savage Dream (Documentary)
1981
The Commanding Sea (TV Series documentary) (6 episodes)
- The Last Resource (1981)
- Harvest (1981)
- Men of War (1981)
- Cargoes (1981)
- The World Encompassed (1981)
- The Edge of the Unknown (1981)
1977
Royal Heritage (TV Series documentary)
1976
Carved in Ivory (Short)
1975
In the Beginning (TV Movie)
1972
America (TV Series documentary) (4 episodes)
- The More Abundant Life (1973)
- Inventing a Nation (1972)
- Making a Revolution (1972)
- The New Found Land (1972)
1969
Civilisation (TV Mini Series documentary) (8 episodes)
- The Frozen World (1970)
- Heroic Materialism (1969)
- The Fallacies of Hope (1969)
- The Smile of Reason (1969)
- The Light of Experience (1969)
- The Hero as Artist (1969)
- Romance and Reality (1969)
- The Skin of Our Teeth (1969)
1967
Three Swings on a Pendulum (TV Special documentary)
1966
Giacometti (TV Short documentary)
1966
Francis Bacon Fragments of a Portrait (TV Movie documentary)
1965
Monitor (TV Series documentary) (2 episodes)
- Art and Delusion: Why So Thin/The Middle-Class Magician/Cheese, or What Really Did Happen in Andy Warhol's Studio (1965)
- 10 Thousand Days, 93 Thousand Hours, 33 Years of Effort (1965)
1964
Artists' Notebooks (TV Series) (3 episodes)
- Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890) (1964)
- Eugène Delacroix (1798-1863) (1964)
- Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) (1964)
1964
The Peaches (Short)
1960
Looking at Animals (TV Mini Series)
1959
Looking at Film (TV Mini Series)
Writer
1981
The Commanding Sea (TV Series documentary) (written by - 6 episodes)
- The Last Resource (1981) - (written by)
- Harvest (1981) - (written by)
- Men of War (1981) - (written by)
- Cargoes (1981) - (written by)
- The World Encompassed (1981) - (written by)
- The Edge of the Unknown (1981) - (written by)
1966
Francis Bacon Fragments of a Portrait (TV Movie documentary)
1964
Artists' Notebooks (TV Series) (writer - 3 episodes)
- Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890) (1964) - (writer)
- Eugène Delacroix (1798-1863) (1964) - (writer)
- Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) (1964) - (writer)
1963
Merry-Go-Round (TV Series documentary) (writer - 2 episodes)
- The Minnow Jar (1963) - (writer)
- Castle Adventure (1963) - (writer)
Self
1992
Alistair Cooke Salute (TV Special) as
Self
1971
Viewpoint (TV Series) as
Self - Presenter
- Two Faces: One Profile - Discussion (1971) - Self - Presenter
1970
Frost on Sunday (TV Series) as
Self - Civilization Special Award Winner
- Frost at the London Palladium for the British Film and Television Awards (1970) - Self - Civilization Special Award Winner

References

Michael Gill Wikipedia


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