Basil Gill
Personal Info
Know For
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
1877-03-10 (78 years old)
Deathday
1955-04-23
Place of Birth
Birkenhead, Cheshire, England, UK
Also known As
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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.
Acting
1933
as Sir Daniel Carteret
1929
as President of the Federated States of Europe
1936
as Abdullah
1937
as Axelstein
1938
as Doctor Page
1919
as Trevor Mordaunt
1936
as James Beardmore
1935
as William Shakespeare / Malvolio
1935
as Romanie
1938
as Sir Francis
1936
as Dr. Walter Merkin
1930
as Sir Peter Teazle
1930
as Dr. Bruce Smith
1931
as Lord Westborough
1933
as Pontius Pilate (Phase I)
1938
as Magistrate
1916
as Richard Warden
1919
1936
as Adrien van Rijn
1969
as Xenophon, Claudius' doctor (archive footage; uncredited)
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