1. Reginald Eric Hill was an English model-maker, art director, producer, and freelance storyboard artist.
11 Facts About Reg Hill
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Reg Hill is most prominently associated with the work of Gerry Anderson.
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Reg Hill obtained a private pilot's licence in June 1939.
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Reg Hill served in the Royal Air Force during the Second World War, spending time at Benson in Oxfordshire as an airframe fitter instructor.
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Reg Hill used his artistic and design skills as a commercial artist creating paper cut-out model books, jigsaw puzzles, greeting cards, the gunfire featured in the film The Dam Busters, and more.
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In 1954, while working as an artist at Pentagon Films, Reg Hill met Gerry Anderson, who had just formed, in partnership with Arthur Provis, the production company Anderson-Provis Films.
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Reg Hill worked in all things artistic, from set and puppet design to special effects.
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Grade's purchase of AP Films was immediately followed by Supercar, for which Reg Hill designed the characters, vehicles, and sets, and wrote a number of episodes.
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Additionally, Reg Hill contributed to the Thunderbirds films Thunderbirds Are Go and Thunderbird 6.
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Reg Hill worked as a designer on Doppelganger, known by the title Journey to the Far Side of the Sun.
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Reg Hill later evolved into "Gerry Anderson Productions" in 1975 for the production of the second season of Space: 1999.