Actor

Basil Gill

Birthday: March 10, 1877

Born 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.

Movie Credits

The Epic That Never Was (1969) as Xenophon, Claudius' doctor (archive footage; uncredited)
Age: 92
The Citadel (1938) as Doctor Page
Age: 61
St. Martin's Lane (1938) as Magistrate
Age: 61
Dangerous Medicine (1938) as Sir Francis
Age: 61
Knight Without Armour (1937) as Axelstein
Age: 60
His Lordship (1936) as Abdullah
Age: 59
Rembrandt (1936) as Adrien van Rijn
Age: 59
Gaol Break (1936) as Dr. Walter Merkin
Age: 59
The Crimson Circle (1936) as James Beardmore
Age: 59
The Divine Spark (1935) as Romanie
Age: 58
The Immortal Gentleman (1935) as William Shakespeare / Malvolio
Age: 58
Mrs. Dane's Defence (1933) as Sir Daniel Carteret
Age: 56
The Wandering Jew (1933) as Pontius Pilate (Phase I)
Age: 56
Glamour (1931) as Lord Westborough
Age: 54
Should a Doctor Tell? (1930) as Dr. Bruce Smith
Age: 53
The School for Scandal (1930) as Sir Peter Teazle
Age: 53
High Treason (1929) as President of the Federated States of Europe
Age: 52
God's Good Man (1919)
Age: 42
The Rocks of Valpre (1919) as Trevor Mordaunt
Age: 42
The Admirable Crichton (1918) as Crichton
Age: 40
On the Banks of Allan Water (1916) as Richard Warden
Age: 39