George Michael Gill (10 December 1923 – 20 October 2005) was an English television producer and director responsible for creating documentaries for the BBC.
[1] He contracted tuberculosis as a child which disrupted his education severely; he spent four years in a spinal chair.
One of his most memorable debriefings was interrogating a German who had survived a 20,000 feet (6,100 m) fall over the Netherlands without his parachute having opened.
In total Gill made more than 150 films for television and cinema, and won more than 40 major international awards.
In 1951 he married the actress Yvonne Gilan (1931–2018), best remembered for her portrayal of Mrs Peignoir in Fawlty Towers.