Basil Gill
Date of birth: 1877-03-10
Place of birth: Birkenhead, Cheshire, England, UK
Known for: Acting
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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.
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Mrs. Dane's Defence
1933-11-30
A widow wants to marry, but her father will only consent if he is satisfied that a scandalous story
High Treason
1929-03-25
The year is 1940 and tension is growing between the empires of United Europe and the Atlantic States
His Lordship
1936-11-12
A complicated adventure involving twin brothers and the Foreign Office trying to thwart the ambition
Knight Without Armour
1937-07-23
British agent working in Russia is forced to remain longer than planned once the revolution begins.
The Citadel
1938-10-29
Andrew Manson, a young, idealistic, newly qualified Scottish doctor arrives in Wales takes his first
The Rocks of Valpre
1919-06-01
A romantic melodrama about a young woman, Christine, who falls in love with a glamorous French soldi
The Crimson Circle
1936-08-10
Based on the novel by Edgar Wallace, detectives at Scotland Yard try and track down The Crimson Circ
The Immortal Gentleman
1935-03-26
In the early seventeenth century William Shakespeare, Ben Jonson and Michael Drayton meet in a South
The Divine Spark
1935-06-01
Recounting the life and romantic struggles of the celebrated Italian opera composer Vincenzo Bellini
Dangerous Medicine
1938-07-23
After a young girl is jailed for a murder she didn't commit, a doctor helps her escape to capture th
Gaol Break
1936-08-31
“Jim Oakley hears in prison that his son is to be made a substitute by a gang for a rich American fa
The School for Scandal
1930-09-05
Charles, Joseph and Sir Benjamin are in love with Maria and Lady Sneerwell is in love with Charles.
Should a Doctor Tell?
1930-09-26
A doctor agonises over whether to tell his son that the woman he is marrying is pregnant by another
Glamour
1931-06-05
A young, ruthless woman falls in love with a rising actor.
The Wandering Jew
1933-11-15
Old Jerusalem: Matathias, spiteful over his lover's illness, spits on Jesus along the road to Calvar
St. Martin's Lane
1938-10-18
On the sidewalks of the London theater district the buskers (street performers) earn enough coins fo
On the Banks of Allan Water
1916-12-21
A bart's son weds a miller's daughter and their class disparity almost causes her suicide.
God's Good Man
1919-08-01
Rembrandt
1936-11-06
A character study depicting the life of Rembrandt Van Rijn at the height of his fame in the mid 1600
The Epic That Never Was
1969-09-19
The story of the aborted 1937 filming of "I, Claudius", starring Charles Laughton, with all of its s
The Admirable Crichton
1918-02-01
When a Lord and family are shipwrecked on an island their butler becomes a king.