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