Basil Gill
ActingBorn: 1877-03-10Place of Birth: Birkenhead, Cheshire, England, UK
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
The Citadel
Doctor Page
Rembrandt
Adrien van Rijn
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The Immortal Gentleman
William Shakespeare / Malvolio
The Crimson Circle
James Beardmore
St. Martin's Lane
Magistrate
Knight Without Armour
Axelstein
The Epic That Never Was
Xenophon, Claudius' doctor (archive footage) (uncredited)
The Wandering Jew
Pontius Pilate (Phase I)
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The Divine Spark
Romanie
The School for Scandal
Sir Peter Teazle