
Acting
Community Rating
6.0
TMDB estimate
Born
March 10, 1877
Died
April 23, 1955 (age 78)
Born in
Birkenhead, Cheshire, England, UK
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.

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

The Citadel
as Doctor Page
1938

St. Martin's Lane
as Magistrate
1938
Dangerous Medicine
as Sir Francis
1938

Knight Without Armour
as Axelstein
1937

His Lordship
as Abdullah
1936

Rembrandt
as Adrien van Rijn
1936
Gaol Break
as Dr. Walter Merkin
1936

The Crimson Circle
as James Beardmore
1936
The Divine Spark
as Romanie
1935
The Immortal Gentleman
as William Shakespeare / Malvolio
1935
Mrs. Dane's Defence
as Sir Daniel Carteret
1933

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

Should a Doctor Tell?
as Dr. Bruce Smith
1930

The School for Scandal
as Sir Peter Teazle
1930

High Treason
as President of the Federated States of Europe
1929

God's Good Man
1919
The Rocks of Valpre
as Trevor Mordaunt
1919
The Admirable Crichton
as Crichton
1918