Basil Gill
Actor
- Born
- March 10, 1877 · Birkenhead, Cheshire, England, UK
- Died
- April 23, 1955 (age 78)
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.
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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
Rembrandt
November 6, 1936
The Citadel
October 29, 1938
St. Martin's Lane
October 18, 1938
Knight Without Armour
July 23, 1937
High Treason
August 9, 1929
The Epic That Never Was
September 19, 1969
The Wandering Jew
November 15, 1933
The Crimson Circle
August 10, 1936
His Lordship
November 12, 1936
The School for Scandal
September 5, 1930
Should a Doctor Tell?
September 26, 1930
God's Good Man
August 1, 1919
Acting21
- 1969The Epic That Never Was as Xenophon, Claudius' doctor (archive footage) (uncredited)
- 1938The Citadel as Doctor Page
- 1938St. Martin's Lane as Magistrate
- 1938Dangerous Medicine as Sir Francis
- 1937Knight Without Armour as Axelstein
- 1936His Lordship as Abdullah
- 1936Rembrandt as Adrien van Rijn
- 1936Gaol Break as Dr. Walter Merkin
- 1936The Crimson Circle as James Beardmore
- 1935The Divine Spark