Basil Gill

Born: 1877-03-10

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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Rembrandt

as Adrien van Rijn
Released: 1936-11-06

A character study depicting the life of Rembrandt Van Rijn at the height of his fame in the mid...

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St. Martin's Lane

as Magistrate
Released: 1938-10-18

On the sidewalks of the London theater district the buskers (street performers) earn enough...

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The Wandering Jew

as Pontius Pilate (Phase I)
Released: 1933-11-15

Old Jerusalem: Matathias, spiteful over his lover's illness, spits on Jesus along the road to...

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Knight Without Armour

as Axelstein
Released: 1937-07-23

British agent working in Russia is forced to remain longer than planned once the revolution...

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The Citadel

as Doctor Page
Released: 1938-10-29

Andrew Manson, a young, idealistic, newly qualified Scottish doctor arrives in Wales takes his...

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The Crimson Circle

as James Beardmore
Released: 1936-08-10

Based on the novel by Edgar Wallace, detectives at Scotland Yard try and track down The Crimson...

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High Treason

as President of the Federated States of Europe
Released: 1929-03-25

The year is 1940 and tension is growing between the empires of United Europe and the Atlantic...

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The School for Scandal

as Sir Peter Teazle
Released: 1930-09-05

Charles (Henry Hewitt), Joseph (Ian Fleming), and Sir Benjamin (John Charlton) are in love with...

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Should a Doctor Tell?

as Dr. Bruce Smith
Released: 1930-09-26

A doctor agonises over whether to tell his son that the woman he is marrying is pregnant by...

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His Lordship

as Abdullah
Released: 1936-11-12

A complicated adventure involving twin brothers and the Foreign Office trying to thwart the...

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On the Banks of Allan Water

as Richard Warden
Released: 1916-12-21

A bart's son weds a miller's daughter and their class disparity almost causes her suicide.

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God's Good Man

as uncredited
Released: 1919-08-01

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