Basil Gill

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Basil Gill
Born	10 March 1877 Birkenhead, Cheshire, England, UK
Died	23 April 1955 (aged 78) Hove, Sussex, England, UK
Occupation	Film actor
Years active	1911 - 1938

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)
The Crimson Circle (1936)
I, Claudius (1937)
St Martin's Lane (1938)
Dangerous Medicine (1938)
The Citadel (1938)

References

↑ BFI Database

External links

Basil Gill at the Internet Movie Database

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Persondata
Name	Gill, Basil
Alternative names
Short description	British actor
Date of birth	10 March 1877
Place of birth	Birkenhead, Cheshire, England United Kingdom
Date of death	23 April 1955
Place of death	Hove, Sussex, England, United Kingdom

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