Basil Gill
- Acting
- March 10, 1877 · Birkenhead, Cheshire, England, UK
- April 23, 1955
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
Filmography
- The Epic That Never Was · Xenophon, Claudius' doctor (archive footage) (uncredited)
- The Citadel · Doctor Page
- St. Martin's Lane · Magistrate
- Dangerous Medicine · Sir Francis
- Knight Without Armour · Axelstein
- His Lordship · Abdullah
- Rembrandt · Adrien van Rijn
- Gaol Break · Dr. Walter Merkin
- The Crimson Circle · James Beardmore
- The Divine Spark · Romanie
- The Immortal Gentleman · William Shakespeare / Malvolio
- Mrs. Dane's Defence · Sir Daniel Carteret
- The Wandering Jew · Pontius Pilate (Phase I)
- Glamour · Lord Westborough
- Should a Doctor Tell? · Dr. Bruce Smith
- The School for Scandal · Sir Peter Teazle
- High Treason · President of Europe
- God's Good Man
- The Rocks of Valpre · Trevor Mordaunt
- The Admirable Crichton · Crichton
- On the Banks of Allan Water · Richard Warden