Basil Gill
Acting • Born 1877-03-10 – Died 1955-04-23
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.
Filmography
21 credits
Mrs. Dane's Defence
Movie • 1933
Sir Daniel Carteret
High Treason
Movie • 1929
President of the Federated States of Europe
His Lordship
Movie • 1936
Abdullah
Knight Without Armour
Movie • 1937
Axelstein
The Citadel
Movie • 1938
Doctor Page
The Rocks of Valpre
Movie • 1919
Trevor Mordaunt
The Crimson Circle
Movie • 1936
James Beardmore
The Immortal Gentleman
Movie • 1935
William Shakespeare / Malvolio
The Divine Spark
Movie • 1935
Romanie
Dangerous Medicine
Movie • 1938
Sir Francis
Gaol Break
Movie • 1936
Dr. Walter Merkin
The School for Scandal
Movie • 1930
Sir Peter Teazle
Should a Doctor Tell?
Movie • 1930
Dr. Bruce Smith
Glamour
Movie • 1931
Lord Westborough
The Wandering Jew
Movie • 1933
Pontius Pilate (Phase I)
St. Martin's Lane
Movie • 1938
Magistrate
On the Banks of Allan Water
Movie • 1916
Richard Warden
God's Good Man
Movie • 1919
Rembrandt
Movie • 1936
Adrien van Rijn
The Epic That Never Was
Movie • 1969
Xenophon, Claudius' doctor (archive footage; uncredited)
The Admirable Crichton
Movie • 1918
Crichton