Basil Sydney
Personal Info
Know For
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
1894-04-23 (74 years old)
Deathday
1968-01-10
Place of Birth
Essex, England, UK
Also known As
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Basil Sydney
Biography
Basil Sydney (23 April 1894 – 10 January 1968) was an English stage and screen actor. Sydney made his name in 1915 in the London stage hit Romance by Edward Sheldon, with Broadway star Doris Keane, and he costarred with Keane in the 1920 silent film of the play. The couple married in 1918, and when Keane revived Romance in New York City in 1921, Sydney made his Broadway debut in the parts. He stayed in New York for over a decade playing classical roles such as Mercutio in Romeo and Juliet (1922), Richard Dudgeon in The Devil's Disciple (1923), the title role in Hamlet (1923), Prince Hal in Henry IV, Part I (1926), and Petruchio in Taming of ...
Acting
1942
as Major Hammond / Kommandant Orlter
1950
as Captain Smollett
1945
as Rufio
1952
as Waldemar Fitzurse
1953
as Pontius Pilate
1947
as Georges Vermorel
1922
as Rowland Stone
1960
as Maurice Seidelman
1955
as Mr Crawford
1940
as (uncredited)
1957
as Bulldog
1954
as Bland
1936
as Eugene Roget
1942
as Costello
1960
as King Saul
1957
as The Emperor Franz Joseph
1935
as Inspector Philip Winton
1947
as Nick Helmar
1950
as Francis Alt
1934
as Hugh Stafford
1955
as Air Chief Marshal Sir Arthur Harris G.C.B., O.B.E., A.F.C.
1960
as Emperor of Lilliput
1936
as Louis Chichester
1936
as Dr. Peter Fairfax
1932
as Cmdr. Fosberry
1939
as Frank Snell
1935
as Mostyn
1948
as Claudius - The King
1953
as Dr. Graham
1934
as Reinhardt Conway
1936
as Dr. Jim Jameson
1941
as James
1941
as Capt. Fairfax
1942
as Naval captain
1941
as Samuel Sweetland
1956
as Reform Club Member
1954
as King Louis XIV
1952
as William Fox-Talbot
1936
as 'Joker' Finnigan
1959
as Lawyer Hawkins
1959
as Sir William Young
1920
1957
as Julian Fleury
1947
as Sir Henry Merriman
1958
as Sir John Loring
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