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.
Filmography
The Epic That Never Was
1969
as Xenophon, Claudius' doctor (archive footage) (uncredited)
The Citadel
1938
as Doctor Page
St. Martin's Lane
1938
as Magistrate
- No poster
Dangerous Medicine
1938
as Sir Francis
Knight Without Armour
1937
as Axelstein
His Lordship
1936
as Abdullah
Rembrandt
1936
as Adrien van Rijn
- No poster
Gaol Break
1936
as Dr. Walter Merkin
The Crimson Circle
1936
as James Beardmore
- No poster
The Divine Spark
1935
as Romanie
- No poster
The Immortal Gentleman
1935
as William Shakespeare / Malvolio
- No poster
Mrs. Dane's Defence
1933
as Sir Daniel Carteret
The Wandering Jew
1933
as Pontius Pilate (Phase I)
- No poster
Glamour
1931
as Lord Westborough
Should a Doctor Tell?
1930
as Dr. Bruce Smith
The School for Scandal
1930
as Sir Peter Teazle
High Treason
1929
as President of the Federated States of Europe
God's Good Man
1919
- No poster
The Rocks of Valpre
1919
as Trevor Mordaunt
- No poster
The Admirable Crichton
1918
as Crichton
- No poster
On the Banks of Allan Water
1916
as Richard Warden