- Father of A.A. Gill.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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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