Basil Gill
Known for
Acting
Life
1877 – 1955 (aged 78)
Born in
Birkenhead, Cheshire, England, UK
Credits
View on IMDb21 acting credits
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.
Known For
Rembrandt
06 Nov 1936
The Citadel
29 Oct 1938
St. Martin's Lane
18 Oct 1938
Knight Without Armour
23 Jul 1937
High Treason
25 Mar 1929
The Epic That Never Was
19 Sep 1969
The Wandering Jew
15 Nov 1933
The Crimson Circle
10 Aug 1936
Filmography
1969
- The Epic That Never Wasas Xenophon, Claudius' doctor (archive footage) (uncredited)
1938
- The Citadelas Doctor Page
- St. Martin's Laneas Magistrate
- Dangerous Medicineas Sir Francis
1937
- Knight Without Armouras Axelstein
1936
- His Lordshipas Abdullah
- Rembrandtas Adrien van Rijn
- Gaol Breakas Dr. Walter Merkin
- The Crimson Circleas James Beardmore
1935
- The Divine Sparkas Romanie
- The Immortal Gentlemanas William Shakespeare
1933
- Mrs. Dane's Defenceas Sir Daniel Carteret
- The Wandering Jewas Pontius Pilate (Phase I)
1931
- Glamouras Lord Westborough
1930
- Should a Doctor Tell?as Dr. Bruce Smith
- The School for Scandalas Sir Peter Teazle
1929
- High Treasonas President of the Federated States of Europe
1919
- God's Good Man
- The Rocks of Valpreas Trevor Mordaunt
1918
- The Admirable Crichtonas Crichton
1916
- On the Banks of Allan Wateras Richard Warden