1938Nominee
Best Performance
The Citadel
Basil Gill
Actor
Birkenhead, Cheshire, England, UK
March 10, 1877
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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Critical Favorites
1936Nominee
Best Performance
Rembrandt
1937Nominee
Best Performance
Knight Without Armour
Career Highlights
1936Highlight
Best Performance
The Crimson Circle
1969Highlight
Best Performance
The Epic That Never Was
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Rembrandt
Knight Without Armour
The Epic That Never Was