Basil Gill

Basil Gill

Born: March 10, 1877
Died: April 23, 1955
in Birkenhead, Cheshire, England, UK
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.

Movies for Basil Gill...

The Citadel
Title: The Citadel
Character: Doctor Page
Released: October 29, 1938
Type: Movie
Andrew Manson, a young, idealistic, newly qualified Scottish doctor arrives in Wales takes his first job in a mining town, and begins to wonder at the persistent cough many of the miners have. When his attempts to prove its cause are thwarted, he moves to London. His new practice does badly. But when a friend shows him how to make a lucrative practice from rich hypochondriacs, it will take a great shock to show him what the truth of being a doctor really is.
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St. Martin's Lane
Title: St. Martin's Lane
Character: Magistrate
Released: October 18, 1938
Type: Movie
On the sidewalks of the London theater district the buskers (street performers) earn enough coins for a cheap room. Charles, who recites dramatic monologues, sees that a young pickpocket, Libby, also has a talent for dancing and adds her to his act. Harley, the theater patron who never knew Libby took his gold cigarette case, is impressed by Libby's dancing and invites her to bring Charles and the other buskers in his group to an after-the-play party. Libby comes alone. A theatrical career is launched.
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Knight Without Armour
Title: Knight Without Armour
Character: Axelstein
Released: July 23, 1937
Type: Movie
British agent working in Russia is forced to remain longer than planned once the revolution begins. After being released from prison in Siberia he poses as a Russian Commissar. Because of his position among the revolutionaries, he is able to rescue a Russian countess from the Bolsheviks.
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His Lordship
Title: His Lordship
Character: Abdullah
Released: November 12, 1936
Type: Movie
A complicated adventure involving twin brothers and the Foreign Office trying to thwart the ambitions of a hostile sheikh.
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Rembrandt
Title: Rembrandt
Character: Adrien van Rijn
Released: November 6, 1936
Type: Movie
A character study depicting the life of Rembrandt Van Rijn at the height of his fame in the mid 1600s. Beginning with the death of his wife, Rembrandt's work takes a dark turn, which offends many of his patrons.
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The Crimson Circle
Title: The Crimson Circle
Character: James Beardmore
Released: August 10, 1936
Type: Movie
Based on the novel by Edgar Wallace, detectives at Scotland Yard try and track down The Crimson Circle, a secret society of blackmailers
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The Divine Spark
Title: The Divine Spark
Character: Romanie
Released: June 1, 1935
Type: Movie
British musical film directed by Carmine Gallone.
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The Immortal Gentleman
Title: The Immortal Gentleman
Character: William Shakespeare / Malvolio
Released: March 26, 1935
Type: Movie
In the early seventeenth century William Shakespeare, Ben Jonson and Michael Drayton meet in a Southwark tavern and begin discussing the other customers who remind them of characters from Shakespeare's plays.
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Mrs. Dane's Defence
Title: Mrs. Dane's Defence
Character: Sir Daniel Carteret
Released: November 30, 1933
Type: Movie
A widow wants to marry, but her father will only consent if he is satisfied that a scandalous story about her is untrue.
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The Wandering Jew
Title: The Wandering Jew
Character: Pontius Pilate (Phase I)
Released: November 15, 1933
Type: Movie
Old Jerusalem: Matathias, spiteful over his lover's illness, spits on Jesus along the road to Calvary, and is cursed to live endlessly until His return. The Crusades, 1150: Matathias, now an anonymous knight, competes for glory in combat and for the wife of a soldier. Palermo, 1290: Matteos Battadios witnesses the death of his young son, leading to conflict with his wife over whether to take comfort in Christianity. Seville, 1560: Dr Matteos Battadios dedicates himself to the treatment and comfort of the poor, but his life and work are endangered by the arrival of the Spanish Inquisition.
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Glamour
Title: Glamour
Character: Lord Westborough
Released: June 5, 1931
Type: Movie
A young, ruthless woman falls in love with a rising actor.
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Should a Doctor Tell?
Title: Should a Doctor Tell?
Character: Dr. Bruce Smith
Released: September 26, 1930
Type: Movie
A doctor agonises over whether to tell his son that the woman he is marrying is pregnant by another man, although this would mean breaking the hypocratic oath.
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The School for Scandal
Title: The School for Scandal
Character: Sir Peter Teazle
Released: September 5, 1930
Type: Movie
Charles (Henry Hewitt), Joseph (Ian Fleming), and Sir Benjamin (John Charlton) are in love with Maria (Dodo Watts), and Lady Sneerwell (Anne Grey) is in love with Charles.
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High Treason
Title: High Treason
Character: President of the Federated States of Europe
Released: March 25, 1929
Type: Movie
The year is 1940 and tension is growing between the empires of United Europe and the Atlantic States. A bloody border incident puts both sides on high alert.
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God's Good Man
Title: God's Good Man
Released: August 1, 1919
Type: Movie
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The Rocks of Valpre
Title: The Rocks of Valpre
Character: Trevor Mordaunt
Released: June 1, 1919
Type: Movie
A romantic melodrama about a young woman, Christine, who falls in love with a glamorous French soldier. Bertrand is involved in secret work with the French army but when he gets falsely accused of stealing army plans, she marries the sensible, rich and older Trevor Mordaunt.
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On the Banks of Allan Water
Title: On the Banks of Allan Water
Character: Richard Warden
Released: December 21, 1916
Type: Movie
A bart's son weds a miller's daughter and their class disparity almost causes her suicide.