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Basil Gill

Mar 10, 1877 - Apr 23, 1955 (78 years old) in Birkenhead, Cheshire, England, UK

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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.

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Rembrandt
Adrien van Rijn
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St. Martin's Lane
Magistrate
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The Citadel
Doctor Page
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High Treason
President of the Federated States of Europe
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The Epic That Never Was
Xenophon, Claudius' doctor (archive footage; uncredited)
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The Crimson Circle
James Beardmore
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The School for Scandal
Sir Peter Teazle
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The Wandering Jew
Pontius Pilate (Phase I)

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