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