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.

Known For

Knight Without Armour

The Citadel

Rembrandt

St. Martin's Lane

High Treason

The Crimson Circle

The Epic That Never Was

The Wandering Jew

All Movies (21)

• The Epic That Never Was1969 · as Xenophon, Claudius' doctor (archive footage) (uncredited)
• The Citadel1938 · as Doctor Page
• St. Martin's Lane1938 · as Magistrate
• Dangerous Medicine1938 · as Sir Francis
• Knight Without Armour1937 · as Axelstein
• His Lordship1936 · as Abdullah
• Rembrandt1936 · as Adrien van Rijn
• Gaol Break1936 · as Dr. Walter Merkin
• The Crimson Circle1936 · as James Beardmore
• The Divine Spark1935 · as Romanie
• The Immortal Gentleman1935 · as William Shakespeare / Malvolio
• Mrs. Dane's Defence1933 · as Sir Daniel Carteret
• The Wandering Jew1933 · as Pontius Pilate (Phase I)
• Glamour1931 · as Lord Westborough
• Should a Doctor Tell?1930 · as Dr. Bruce Smith
• The School for Scandal1930 · as Sir Peter Teazle
• High Treason1929 · as President of the Federated States of Europe
• God's Good Man1919
• The Rocks of Valpre1919 · as Trevor Mordaunt
• The Admirable Crichton1918 · as Crichton
• On the Banks of Allan Water1916 · as Richard Warden