Name
Basil Gill
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1877-03-10
Deathday
1955-04-23 (78 years old)
Place of Birth
Birkenhead, Cheshire, England, UK
Biography
From Wikipedia
Basil Gill (March 10, 1877 – April 23, 1955) was a British stage actor and film actor. His stage career included many roles in plays of Shakespeare.
His career as a film actor started with Henry VIII (1911): he appeared with Beerbohm Tree, on whose version of the play the film was based. In 1926, Gill appeared in two short films made in the DeForest Phonofilm sound-on-film process, Santa Claus as the title character, and Julius Caesar as Brutus. He appeared in many more films, the last being The Citadel of 1938.
Known For
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- 1933 Mrs. Dane's Defence as Sir Daniel Carteret
- 1929 High Treason as President of the Federated States of Europe
- 1936 His Lordship as Abdullah
- 1937 Knight Without Armour as Axelstein
- 1938 The Citadel as Doctor Page
- 1919 The Rocks of Valpre as Trevor Mordaunt
- 1936 The Crimson Circle as James Beardmore
- 1935 The Immortal Gentleman as William Shakespeare / Malvolio
- 1935 The Divine Spark as Romanie
- 1938 Dangerous Medicine as Sir Francis
- 1936 Gaol Break as Dr. Walter Merkin
- 1930 The School for Scandal as Sir Peter Teazle
- 1930 Should a Doctor Tell? as Dr. Bruce Smith
- 1931 Glamour as Lord Westborough
- 1933 The Wandering Jew as Pontius Pilate (Phase I)
- 1938 St. Martin's Lane as Magistrate
- 1916 On the Banks of Allan Water as Richard Warden
- 1919 God's Good Man
- 1936 Rembrandt as Adrien van Rijn
- 1969 The Epic That Never Was as Xenophon, Claudius' doctor (archive footage) (uncredited)
- 1918 The Admirable Crichton as Crichton
