Basil Gill
Acting
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
Movies (21)
The Epic That Never Was1969Xenophon, Claudius' doctor (archive footage) (uncredited)
The Citadel1938Doctor Page
St. Martin's Lane1938Magistrate- Dangerous Medicine1938Sir Francis
Knight Without Armour1937Axelstein
His Lordship1936Abdullah
Rembrandt1936Adrien van Rijn- Gaol Break1936Dr. Walter Merkin
The Crimson Circle1936James Beardmore- The Divine Spark1935Romanie
- The Immortal Gentleman1935William Shakespeare / Malvolio
- Mrs. Dane's Defence1933Sir Daniel Carteret
The Wandering Jew1933Pontius Pilate (Phase I)- Glamour1931Lord Westborough
Should a Doctor Tell?1930Dr. Bruce Smith
The School for Scandal1930Sir Peter Teazle
High Treason1929President of the Federated States of Europe
God's Good Man1919- The Rocks of Valpre1919Trevor Mordaunt
- The Admirable Crichton1918Crichton
- On the Banks of Allan Water1916Richard Warden