Known For
Acting
Birthday
March 10, 1877
Place of Birth
Birkenhead, Cheshire, England, UK
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.
Known For - Movies
The Citadel
as Doctor Page
Knight Without Armour
as Axelstein
The Wandering Jew
as Pontius Pilate (Phase I)
St. Martin's Lane
as Magistrate
The Epic That Never Was
as Xenophon, Claudius' doctor (archive footage; uncredited)
Rembrandt
as Adrien van Rijn
His Lordship
as Abdullah
The Divine Spark
as Romanie
The Crimson Circle
as James Beardmore
Dangerous Medicine
as Sir Francis