Basil Rathbone
Personal Info
Know For
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
1892-06-13 (75 years old)
Deathday
1967-07-21
Place of Birth
Johannesburg, South African Republic
Also known As
Sir Basil Rathbone
Philip St. John Basil Rathbone
Бэзил Рэтбоун
Basil Rathbone
Biography
Sir Basil Rathbone, KBE, MC, Kt (13 June 1892, Johannesburg – 21 July 1967, New York City) was an English actor. He rose to prominence in England as a Shakespearean stage actor and went on to appear in over 70 films, primarily costume dramas, swashbucklers, and, occasionally, horror films. He frequently portrayed suave villains or morally ambiguous characters, such as Murdstone in David Copperfield (1935) and Sir Guy of Gisbourne in The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938). His most famous role, however, was heroic—that of Sherlock Holmes in fourteen Hollywood films made between 1939 and 1946 and in a radio series. His later career included Broadw...
Acting
1939
as Baron Wolf von Frankenstein
1943
as Sherlock Holmes
1968
as Self (archival footage)
1938
as Sir Guy of Gisbourne
1946
as Sherlock Holmes
1946
as Sherlock Holmes
1955
as Andre Trochard
1955
as Sir Ravenhurst
1940
as Captain Esteban Pasquale
1943
as Sig von Aschenhausen
1942
as Sherlock Holmes
1939
as Sherlock Holmes
1968
as Canuto Pérez
1962
as Lodac
1945
as Sherlock Holmes
1944
as Sherlock Holmes
1944
as Sherlock Holmes
1986
as Sherlock Holmes (voice)
1939
as Paul Reynard
1966
as Dr. Farraday
1945
as Sherlock Holmes
1979
as (archive footage)
1949
as Narrator (segment "The Wind in the Willows")
1939
as Richard - Duke of Gloucester
1956
as Sir Joel Cadman
1941
as Montague Hartley
1937
as Gerald Lovell
1943
as Sherlock Holmes
1940
as Dr. George Sebastian / Dr. Langamann
1962
as Carmichael ("The Case of M. Valdemar")
1946
as Professor Aristide
1964
as John F. Black
1942
as Henri Sarrou
1937
as Commissar Dimitri Gorotchenko
1944
as George Adams
1943
as Sherlock Holmes
1929
as Philo Vance
1936
as Tybalt
1935
as Mr. Edward Murdstone
1935
as Levasseur
1939
as Sherlock Holmes
1942
as Cesar Ferrari / Dr. H. Santelle
1938
as Maj. Brand
1935
as Marquis St. Evremonde
1925
as Antoine
1942
as Sherlock Holmes
1924
as Undetermined Subordinate Role
1924
as Tony Winterslip
1933
as Derek Nagel
1958
as Dr. Boekman
1945
as Sherlock Holmes
1943
as Sherlock Holmes
1935
as Alexei Alexandrovitch Karenin
1965
as Prof. Hartman, Lunar 7
1958
as Norman Cass Sr.
1957
as Chief Inquisitor
1937
as Michael Michailow
1954
as Lucio / Narrator
1966
as Reginald Ripper
1941
as Andre Benoit
1967
as Gregor
1949
as Narrator (voice)
2005
as Self / Various Roles (archive sound) (archive footage)
1938
as Louis XI
1940
as Oliver Courtney
1936
as Count Ferdinand Anteoni
1944
as Lord Rockingham
1991
as Baron Wolf von Frankenstein (archive footage)
1938
as Ahmed
1930
as Reginald Durant
1930
as Paul Gherardi
1935
as Pontius Pilate
1962
as Caiaphas
1935
as Henry Abbott
1939
as Clive Randolph
1937
as Johnny Selden
1933
as Ferdinand de Levis
1930
as Edward
1930
as Col. Smith
1929
as Lord Arthur Dilling
1935
as Captain Randolph Courtney
1936
as Thomas Wroxton
1930
as Carl Vandry
1983
as Carmichael (archive footage)
1930
as Paul Parisot
1954
as General Lee
1954
as Marley's Ghost
1961
as Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli (Lord Beaconsfield)
1932
as Jack Harrowby
1967
as Duke of York
1926
as Rizzio
1932
as Capt. Alex Pastitsch
1941
as Reggie Oliver
1960
1921
as Don Cesare Carelli
1938
as Basil (archive footage) (uncredited)
1985
as Sherlock Holmes (archive footage)
1942
as Himself
1923
as Joseph Surface
1959
as Scrooge
1921
as Amadis de Jocelyn
1962
1958
as Emperor
1956
as Ebenezer Scrooge
1974
as Basil (archive footage)
1956
as Paul Charters
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