Reg Hill

Reg Hill
Hill on the set of Four Feather Falls in 1960
Born	(1914-05-16)16 May 1914
Died	1999 Surrey, U.K.
Residence	Weybridge, Surrey
Occupation	Television producer, film and television production designer
Years active	1950s–1988
Employer	Lew Grade
Organization	AP Films
Spouse(s)	Lily (known to be married to Reg Hill during 1977)

Reginald Eric "Reg" Hill (16 May 1914 – 1999) was an English model-maker, art director, producer, and freelance storyboard artist. He is most prominently associated with the work of Gerry Anderson.

Born on 16 May 1914, Hill started his working life during the 1930s in the display department of a London wholesale grocer before progressing to a role of advertising designer. He obtained a private pilot's licence in June 1939. Hill served in the Royal Air Force during the Second World War, spending time at Benson in Oxfordshire as an airframe fitter instructor. After the war ended, he was posted to Germany and, on his return, flew a Avro Lancaster from Germany to England.

After returning to England, Hill joined National Interest Picture Productions as a designer for British Army, RAF and other government-made films, working as a model maker and animator. He also used his artistic and design skills as a commercial artist creating paper cut-out model books (three-dimensional flight aircraft and other working models), jigsaw puzzles, greeting cards, the gunfire featured in the film The Dam Busters (1955), and more.

In 1954, while working as an artist at Pentagon Films, Hill met the animator Gerry Anderson, who had just formed, in partnership with Arthur Provis, the production company Anderson-Provis (AP) Films. Hill became the company's production designer. Initially based in Taplow, the new company produced a range of adverts for TV, including the "Blue Cars" advert starring Nicholas Parsons. During quiet periods, Reg worked on a number of other projects, including the TV series The Adventures of Robin Hood (1957), made at Walton Studios.