Basil Gill
| 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 (March 10, 1877 – April 23, 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]
Partial filmography
- Henry VIII (1911)
- Missing the Tide (1918)
- The Admirable Crichton (1918)
- The Soul of Guilda Lois (1919)
- Julius Caesar (1926) short film of excerpt of Shakespeare's play, filmed in Phonofilm process
- Santa Claus (1926) with Gill as title character
- The 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) - Sir Francis
- The Citadel (1938)
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