Basil Gill
actor
- Gender: Male
- Birthday: 1877-03-10
- Day of Death: 1955-04-23 ( 78 years old )
- Place of Birth: Birkenhead, Cheshire, England, UK
- Also Known As:
- IMDB:nm0318624
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.