Billy Hill (gangster) - Biography - Churchills

Churchills

Billy Hill was also involved in property development. He bought for Gyp the biggest nightclub in Tangier, Churchills, which she ran from 1966 until the mid-1970s. Billy retired from crime in the 1970s and died peacefully on January 1, 1984.

In 1963 Mickey Spillane was playing Mike Hammer in The Girl Hunters in London where he met Hill and showed him around the set. When the prop department couldn't find Spillane a real M1911 pistol, Hill brought the producers several real pistols to use in the film.

Billy's only child Justin Hill republished Hill's memoirs in December 2008 with a modern introduction and previously unpublished photographs.

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