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Basil Gill

Basil Gill

Born: 1877-03-10 • 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.

Filmography
The Epic That Never Was poster
The Epic That Never Was
1969 • Xenophon, Claudius' doctor (archive footage; uncredited)
The Citadel poster
The Citadel
1938 • Doctor Page
St. Martin's Lane poster
St. Martin's Lane
1938 • Magistrate
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Dangerous Medicine
1938 • Sir Francis
Knight Without Armour poster
Knight Without Armour
1937 • Axelstein
His Lordship poster
His Lordship
1936 • Abdullah
Rembrandt poster
Rembrandt
1936 • Adrien van Rijn
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Gaol Break
1936 • Dr. Walter Merkin
The Crimson Circle poster
The Crimson Circle
1936 • James Beardmore
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The Divine Spark
1935 • Romanie
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The Immortal Gentleman
1935 • William Shakespeare / Malvolio
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Mrs. Dane's Defence
1933 • Sir Daniel Carteret
The Wandering Jew poster
The Wandering Jew
1933 • Pontius Pilate (Phase I)
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Glamour
1931 • Lord Westborough
Should a Doctor Tell? poster
Should a Doctor Tell?
1930 • Dr. Bruce Smith
The School for Scandal poster
The School for Scandal
1930 • Sir Peter Teazle
High Treason poster
High Treason
1929 • President of the Federated States of Europe
God's Good Man poster
God's Good Man
1919
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The Rocks of Valpre
1919 • Trevor Mordaunt
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The Admirable Crichton
1918 • Crichton
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On the Banks of Allan Water
1916 • Richard Warden