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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. ==Life== He was a son of the Rev. John Gill, of Cambridge.〔Obituary, ''The Glasgow Herald'', page 9, 25 April 1955.〕 His first stage appearance, in Bury, Lancashire in 1897, was in ''The Sign of the Cross'' (Wilson Barrett's most successful play); the following year he appeared in this play in London. He then toured Australia and the USA with ''The Sign of the Cross'' and ''Ben-Hur''.〔 In 1903 he joined Herbert Beerbohm Tree's company at His Majesty's Theatre, London, and appeared in plays of Shakespeare, playing several important roles. He left the company in 1907. He continued to perform, into the 1930s, in Shakespeare's plays during his career. As well as being a Shakespearean actor, he was regarded as a matinée idol and played romantic parts in modern plays.〔〔(Basil Gill ) Shakespeare and the Players, accessed 18 August 2015.〕 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.〔(Basil Gill ) BFI Database, accessed 18 August 2015.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Basil Gill」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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