Basil Gill

Basil Gill (1877–1955) was a British film actor whose film career started with Henry VIII (1911), a short silent film. 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.^[1]

Selected filmography

• The Admirable Crichton (1918)
• Julius Caesar (1926) short film of excerpt of Shakespeare's play, filmed in Phonofilm process
• Santa Claus (1926) with Gill as title character
• School for Scandal (1930)
• The Divine Spark (1935)
• Royal Cavalcade (1935)
• Rembrandt (1936)
• His Lordship (1936)
• I, Claudius (1937)
• St Martin's Lane (1938)
• Dangerous Medicine (1938)
• The Citadel (1938)

References

External links

• Basil Gill at the Internet Movie Database