Basil Gill
Birthday: 1877-03-10 | Place of Birth: Birkenhead, Cheshire, England, UKFrom 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.
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Known For
Acting
Year
Title
Role
1969
The Epic That Never Was
as Xenophon, Claudius' doctor (archive footage; uncredited)
1940
St. Martin's Lane
as Magistrate
1938
Dangerous Medicine
as Sir Francis
1937
Knight Without Armour
as Axelstein
1935
The Divine Spark
as Romanie
1933
Mrs. Dane's Defence
as Sir Daniel Carteret
1930
The School for Scandal
as Sir Peter Teazle
1919
The Rocks of Valpre
as Trevor Mordaunt
1918
The Admirable Crichton
as Crichton
