Basil Gill
Birthday: 1877-03-10
Place of Birth: Birkenhead, Cheshire, England, UK
Biography: 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.
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Mrs. Dane's Defence
A widow wants to marry, but her father will only consent if he is satisfied that a scandalous story ...
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High Treason
The year is 1940 and tension is growing between the empires of United Europe and the Atlantic States...
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His Lordship
A complicated adventure involving twin brothers and the Foreign Office trying to thwart the ambition...
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Knight Without Armour
British agent working in Russia is forced to remain longer than planned once the revolution begins. ...
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The Citadel
Andrew Manson, a young, idealistic, newly qualified Scottish doctor arrives in Wales takes his first...
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The Rocks of Valpre
A romantic melodrama about a young woman, Christine, who falls in love with a glamorous French soldi...
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The Crimson Circle
Based on the novel by Edgar Wallace, detectives at Scotland Yard try and track down The Crimson Circ...
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The Immortal Gentleman
In the early seventeenth century William Shakespeare, Ben Jonson and Michael Drayton meet in a South...
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Dangerous Medicine
After a young girl is jailed for a murder she didn't commit, a doctor helps her escape to capture th...
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Gaol Break
“Jim Oakley hears in prison that his son is to be made a substitute by a gang for a rich American fa...
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The School for Scandal
Charles, Joseph and Sir Benjamin are in love with Maria and Lady Sneerwell is in love with Charles....
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Should a Doctor Tell?
A doctor agonises over whether to tell his son that the woman he is marrying is pregnant by another ...
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The Wandering Jew
Old Jerusalem: Matathias, spiteful over his lover's illness, spits on Jesus along the road to Calvar...
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St. Martin's Lane
On the sidewalks of the London theater district the buskers (street performers) earn enough coins fo...
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On the Banks of Allan Water
A bart's son weds a miller's daughter and their class disparity almost causes her suicide....
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Rembrandt
A character study depicting the life of Rembrandt Van Rijn at the height of his fame in the mid 1600...
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The Epic That Never Was
The story of the aborted 1937 filming of "I, Claudius", starring Charles Laughton, with all of its s...
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The Admirable Crichton
When a Lord and family are shipwrecked on an island their butler becomes a king....
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