About Gil Hill
Gilbert Roland Hill was an American politician, police officer, and actor, who was the President of the Detroit City Council. He gained recognition for his role as Inspector Todd in the Beverly Hills Cop film series. He was the runner-up in the 2001 Detroit mayoral election, losing to Kwame Kilpatrick. Kilpatrick won with 54% of the vote (98,124 votes) to Hill’s 46% (82,484 votes), with 88% of precincts reporting and 47% of absentee ballots outstanding. While Brest was scouting locations in Detroit for the first film in 1984, Hill was assigned to show him around the city due to his role as head of the Detroit Police Department's homicide division. In the fourth film Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F, Hill and actor Ronny Cox, the latter who portrayed as Chief Bogomil in first two movies, are shown in photographs. Hill joined the Wayne County Sheriff's Department in 1957, but quickly became disillusioned with the slow pace, so he joined the Detroit Police Department in 1959.
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