Basil Gill
Personal Info
Known for
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
1877-03-10
Day of Death
1955-04-23 (78 years old)
Place of Birth
Birkenhead, Cheshire, England, UK
Basil Gill
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.
Acting
(1969)
The Epic That Never Was
as Xenophon, Claudius' doctor (archive footage; uncredited)
(1938)
St. Martin's Lane
as Magistrate
(1938)
The Citadel
as Doctor Page
(1938)
Dangerous Medicine
as Sir Francis
(1937)
Knight Without Armour
as Axelstein
(1936)
Rembrandt
as Adrien van Rijn
(1936)
His Lordship
as Abdullah
(1936)
The Crimson Circle
as James Beardmore
(1936)
Gaol Break
as Dr. Walter Merkin
(1935)
The Immortal Gentleman
as William Shakespeare / Malvolio
(1935)
The Divine Spark
as Romanie
(1933)
The Wandering Jew
as Pontius Pilate (Phase I)
(1933)
Mrs. Dane's Defence
as Sir Daniel Carteret
(1931)
Glamour
as Lord Westborough
(1930)
The School for Scandal
as Sir Peter Teazle
(1930)
Should a Doctor Tell?
as Dr. Bruce Smith
(1929)
High Treason
as President of the Federated States of Europe
(1919)
(1919)
The Rocks of Valpre
as Trevor Mordaunt
(1916)
On the Banks of Allan Water
as Richard Warden