
Basil Gill
Acting
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Acting Credits
Biography
From Wikipedia Basil Gill (March 10, 1877 β 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, t...
Known For

The Citadel
Doctor Page

St. Martin's Lane
Magistrate

Rembrandt
Adrien van Rijn

The Epic That Never Was
Xenophon, Claudius' doctor (archive footage) (uncredited)

Knight Without Armour
Axelstein

The School for Scandal
Sir Peter Teazle

High Treason
President of the Federated States of Europe

The Crimson Circle
James Beardmore
Filmography

The Epic That Never Was
1969
as Xenophon, Claudius' doctor (archive footage) (uncredited)

The Citadel
1938
as Doctor Page
Dangerous Medicine
1938
as Sir Francis

St. Martin's Lane
1938
as Magistrate

Knight Without Armour
1937
as Axelstein

His Lordship
1936
as Abdullah

The Crimson Circle
1936
as James Beardmore
Gaol Break
1936
as Dr. Walter Merkin

Rembrandt
1936
as Adrien van Rijn
The Immortal Gentleman
1935
as William Shakespeare / Malvolio
The Divine Spark
1935
as Romanie
Mrs. Dane's Defence
1933
as Sir Daniel Carteret

The Wandering Jew
1933
as Pontius Pilate (Phase I)
Glamour
1931
as Lord Westborough

The School for Scandal
1930
as Sir Peter Teazle

Should a Doctor Tell?
1930
as Dr. Bruce Smith

High Treason
1929
as President of the Federated States of Europe
The Rocks of Valpre
1919
as Trevor Mordaunt

God's Good Man
1919
The Admirable Crichton
1918
as Crichton
On the Banks of Allan Water
1916
as Richard Warden