Michael Gill

George Michael Gill (10 December 1923 – 20 October 2005) was an English television producer and director responsible for creating documentaries for the BBC.

Background Gill was born in Winchester, Hampshire but was brought up in Canterbury. He contracted tuberculosis as a child which disrupted his education severely; he spent 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 fall over the Netherlands without his parachute having opened. His memoir of the war years, Growing into War, was published in 2005.

Career After the war he studied philosophy and psychology at the University of Edinburgh. Nicholas Gill disappeared in 1998.

In 2000, Gill was diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease. He died from sepsis and bronchopneumonia at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital on 20 October 2005, aged 81.