- Quit The Prisoner (1967), after failing to understand Patrick McGoohan's concept.
- In contrast to today's single-camera techniques, Gilliat regularly worked with four cameras at once, and a film would be completed in 30 days.
- Started as a camera operator and assistant director at Gainsborough.
- Usually worked in tandem with his brother Sidney Gilliat.
- His father was a former editor of the London Evening Standard.
- During World War II, he served as army staff captain in the King's African Rifles in Kenya, where he learned fluent Swahili.
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