Basil Gill
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.
Known For
Rembrandt
Adrien van Rijn
The Citadel
Doctor Page
St. Martin's Lane
Magistrate
Knight Without Armour
Axelstein
High Treason
President of the Federated States of Europe
The Epic That Never Was
Xenophon, Claudius' doctor (archive footage; uncredited)
The Wandering Jew
Pontius Pilate (Phase I)
The Crimson Circle
James Beardmore