Basil Gill
Actor · 1877 – 1955 · Birkenhead, Cheshire, England, UK
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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Movie6.4DramaRomanceYoung, idealistic, newly qualified Scottish doctor Andrew Manson arrives in Wales and takes his first job in a mining town, and begins to wonder at the persistent cough many of the miners have. When his attempts to prove its cause are thwarted, he moves to London. His new practice does poorly, but when a friend shows him how to make a lucrative practice from rich hypochondriacs, it will take a great shock to show him what the truth of being a doctor really is.
The Citadel
1938 · 35 votes
Movie6.8DramaHistoryA character study depicting the life of Rembrandt Van Rijn at the height of his fame in the mid 1600s. Beginning with the death of his wife, Rembrandt's work takes a dark turn, which offends many of his patrons.
Rembrandt
1936 · 38 votes
Movie7.4ComedyDramaPickpocket Libby is protected by aging street performer Charles, who takes her into his troupe. Libby's dancing leads her to meet songwriter Harley and launch a stage career, while Charles is seemingly spurned by the waif he has helped.
St. Martin's Lane
1938 · 28 votes
Movie6.9DocumentaryThe story of the aborted 1937 filming of "I, Claudius", starring Charles Laughton, with all of its surviving footage.
The Epic That Never Was
1969 · 8 votes
Movie5.9HistoryDramaIn the last days of Czarist Russia, Russian-speaking Briton A.J. Fothergill is enlisted by his government to go undercover as Bolshevik radical Peter Ouranoff in an attempt to gain access to the revolutionaries' inner circle. Tasked with accompanying lovely aristocrat Alexandra Vladinoff from Moscow to Petrograd to be tried for crimes against the proletariat, Peter attempts to spirit her out of the war-torn country.
Knight Without Armour
1937 · 19 votes
Movie5.6DramaBased on the novel by Edgar Wallace, detectives at Scotland Yard try and track down The Crimson Circle, a secret society of blackmailers
The Crimson Circle
1936 · 4 votes
Movie8.0ComedyCharles, Joseph and Sir Benjamin are in love with Maria and Lady Sneerwell is in love with Charles.
The School for Scandal
1930 · 1 votes
Movie6.0AdventureComedyA complicated adventure involving twin brothers and the Foreign Office trying to thwart the ambitions of a hostile sheikh.
His Lordship
1936 · 3 votes
- Movie8.0
When a Lord and family are shipwrecked on an island their butler becomes a king.
The Admirable Crichton
1918 · 1 votes
Movie8.0DramaA doctor agonises over whether to tell his son that the woman he is marrying is pregnant by another man, although this would mean breaking the hypocratic oath.
Should a Doctor Tell?
1930 · 1 votes
Movie7.4DramaFantasyOld Jerusalem: Matathias, spiteful over his lover's illness, spits on Jesus along the road to Calvary, and is cursed to live endlessly until His return. The Crusades, 1150: Matathias, now an anonymous knight, competes for glory in combat and for the wife of a soldier. Palermo, 1290: Matteos Battadios witnesses the death of his young son, leading to conflict with his wife over whether to take comfort in Christianity. Seville, 1560: Dr Matteos Battadios dedicates himself to the treatment and comfort of the poor, but his life and work are endangered by the arrival of the Spanish Inquisition.
The Wandering Jew
1933 · 7 votes
- Movie7.0Crime
“Jim Oakley hears in prison that his son is to be made a substitute by a gang for a rich American family's son who was kidnapped years back. He breaks jail to rescue his son but after seeing how happy his son will be with the family, he renounces his claim to boy and returns to finish his sentence in jail.” - BFI.
Gaol Break
1936 · 1 votes
Movie6.1WarDramaThe year is 1940 and tension is growing between the empires of United Europe and the Atlantic States. A bloody border incident puts both sides on high alert.
High Treason
1929 · 10 votes
- Movie8.0Drama
In the early seventeenth century William Shakespeare, Ben Jonson and Michael Drayton meet in a Southwark tavern and begin discussing the other customers who remind them of characters from Shakespeare's plays.
The Immortal Gentleman
1935 · 1 votes
Movie7.0DramaGod's Good Man
1919 · 1 votes
- Movie8.0DramaThriller
After a young girl is jailed for a murder she didn't commit, a doctor helps her escape to capture the real killer and clear her name.
Dangerous Medicine
1938 · 1 votes
- Movie8.0Music
Recounting the life and romantic struggles of the celebrated Italian opera composer Vincenzo Bellini. Set in 19th-century Naples, the story follows the young and ambitious Bellini as he struggles to establish himself in the world of classical music. Bellini falls deeply in love with Maddalena Fumaroli, the daughter of a high-ranking official. Her devotion and faith in his talent serve as the "divine spark" that drives him to compose his most famous works, including the opera Norma. Their romance faces stiff opposition from Maddalena’s father, who views a struggling musician as an unsuitable match for his daughter. To ensure Bellini’s success, Maddalena makes significant personal sacrifices, eventually leading to a poignant and tragic conclusion.
The Divine Spark
1935 · 1 votes
- Movie8.0
A widow wants to marry, but her father will only consent if he is satisfied that a scandalous story about her is untrue.
Mrs. Dane's Defence
1933 · 1 votes
- Movie9.0DramaCrime
A romantic melodrama about a young woman, Christine, who falls in love with a glamorous French soldier. Bertrand is involved in secret work with the French army but when he gets falsely accused of stealing army plans, she marries the sensible, rich and older Trevor Mordaunt.
The Rocks of Valpre
1919 · 1 votes
- Movie8.0Drama
A young, ruthless woman falls in love with a rising actor.
Glamour
1931 · 1 votes
- Movie6.0Drama
A bart's son weds a miller's daughter and their class disparity almost causes her suicide.
On the Banks of Allan Water
1916 · 3 votes