Basil Rathbone
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Sir Basil Rathbone, KBE, MC, Kt (13 June 1892 – 21 July 1967), 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 Broadway and television work; he received a Tony Award in 1948 as Best Actor in a Play.
Known for
Credits
The Great Mouse Detective (1986)
as Sherlock Holmes (voice)
The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938)
as Sir Guy of Gisbourne
The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad (1949)
as Narrator (segment "The Wind in the Willows")
Bathing Beauty (1944)
as George Adams
We're No Angels (1955)
as Andre Trochard
Terror by Night (1946)
as Sherlock Holmes
Son of Frankenstein (1939)
as Baron Wolf von Frankenstein
The Court Jester (1955)
as Sir Ravenhurst
The Movie Orgy (1968)
as Self (archival footage)
Captain Blood (1935)
as Levasseur
Anna Karenina (1935)
as Alexei Alexandrovitch Karenin
International Lady (1941)
as Reggie Oliver
Voyage to the Prehistoric Planet (1965)
as Prof. Hartman, Lunar 7
Casanova's Big Night (1954)
as Lucio / Narrator
The Woman in Green (1945)
as Sherlock Holmes
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1939)
as Sherlock Holmes
The Mark of Zorro (1940)
as Captain Esteban Pasquale
Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon (1942)
as Sherlock Holmes
The Pearl of Death (1944)
as Sherlock Holmes
The Hound of the Baskervilles (1939)
as Sherlock Holmes
The Wind in the Willows (1949)
as Narrator (voice)
The Last Hurrah (1958)
as Norman Cass Sr.
Romeo and Juliet (1936)
as Tybalt
Tales of Terror (1962)
as Carmichael ("The Case of M. Valdemar")
The Adventures of Marco Polo (1938)
as Ahmed
Dressed to Kill (1946)
as Sherlock Holmes
The House of Fear (1945)
as Sherlock Holmes
Victoria Regina (1961)
as Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli (Lord Beaconsfield)
David Copperfield (1935)
as Mr. Edward Murdstone
Pursuit to Algiers (1945)
as Sherlock Holmes
The Ghost in the Invisible Bikini (1966)
as Reginald Ripper
Sherlock Holmes and the Voice of Terror (1942)
as Sherlock Holmes
The Adventures of Errol Flynn (2005)
as Self / Various Roles (archive sound) (archive footage)
Sherlock Holmes Faces Death (1943)
as Sherlock Holmes
Dracula in the Movies (1992)
as (archive footage)
Innocent (1921)
as Amadis de Jocelyn
Love from a Stranger (1937)
as Gerald Lovell
Sherlock Holmes in Washington (1943)
as Sherlock Holmes
Frenchman's Creek (1944)
as Lord Rockingham
Make a Wish (1937)
as Johnny Selden
Madhouse (1974)
as Basil (archive footage)
Fingers at the Window (1942)
as Cesar Ferrari / Dr. H. Santelle
The Magic Sword (1962)
as Lodac
Soldier in Love (1967)
as Duke of York
Queen of Blood (1966)
as Dr. Farraday
A Lady Surrenders (1930)
as Carl Vandry
A Tale of Two Cities (1935)
as Marquis St. Evremonde
Above Suspicion (1943)
as Sig von Aschenhausen
The Black Sleep (1956)
as Sir Joel Cadman
The Comedy of Terrors (1964)
as John F. Black
Paris Calling (1941)
as Andre Benoit
Heartbeat (1946)
as Professor Aristide
The Scarlet Claw (1944)
as Sherlock Holmes
Tower of London (1939)
as Richard - Duke of Gloucester
The Garden of Allah (1936)
as Count Ferdinand Anteoni
Rio (1939)
as Paul Reynard
Breakdowns of 1938 (1938)
as Basil (archive footage) (uncredited)
This Mad World (1930)
as Paul Parisot
The Dawn Patrol (1938)
as Maj. Brand
The Black Cat (1941)
as Montague Hartley
Frankenstein: A Cinematic Scrapbook (1991)
as Baron Wolf von Frankenstein (archive footage)
If I Were King (1938)
as Louis XI
The Last Days of Pompeii (1935)
as Pontius Pilate
Autopsy of a Ghost (1968)
as Canuto Pérez
Private Number (1936)
as Thomas Wroxton
Crazy House (1943)
as Sherlock Holmes
Rhythm on the River (1940)
as Oliver Courtney
The Stingiest Man in Town (1956)
as Ebenezer Scrooge
The Horror of It All (1983)
as Carmichael (archive footage)
Tovarich (1937)
as Commissar Dimitri Gorotchenko
The Bishop Murder Case (1929)
as Philo Vance
The Mad Doctor (1940)
as Dr. George Sebastian / Dr. Langamann
Pontius Pilate (1962)
as Caiaphas
The Spider Woman (1943)
as Sherlock Holmes
A Christmas Carol (1954)
as Marley's Ghost
A Feather in Her Hat (1935)
as Captain Randolph Courtney
Confession (1937)
as Michael Michailow
Hillbillys in a Haunted House (1967)
as Gregor
The General's Boots (1954)
as General Lee
The Horror Show (1979)
as (archive footage)
Affair in Sumatra (1956)
as Paul Charters
A Woman Commands (1932)
as Capt. Alex Pastitsch
Mystic Prophecies and Nostradamus (1961)
as Narrator
The School for Scandal (1923)
as Joseph Surface
Crossroads (1942)
as Henri Sarrou
Kind Lady (1935)
as Henry Abbott
The Sun Never Sets (1939)
as Clive Randolph
The Lark (1957)
as Chief Inquisitor
Sin Takes a Holiday (1930)
as Reginald 'Reggie' Durant
Hedda Hopper’s Hollywood No. 6 (1942)
as Himself
The Many Faces of Sherlock Holmes (1985)
as Sherlock Holmes (archive footage)
The Lady of Scandal (1930)
as Edward
The Loves of Mary, Queen of Scots (1924)
as Undetermined Subordinate Role
The Flirting Widow (1930)
as Col. Smith
Hans Brinker or the Silver Skates (1958)
as Dr. Boekman
Two Before Zero (1962)
Actor
The Masked Bride (1925)
as Antoine
Aladdin (1958)
as Emperor
A Notorious Affair (1930)
as Paul Gherardi
The Fruitful Vine (1921)
as Don Cesare Carelli
In the Footsteps of Sherlock Holmes (1996)
Actor
The Great Deception (1926)
as Rizzio
The Last of Mrs. Cheyney (1929)
as Lord Arthur Dilling
Loyalties (1933)
as Ferdinand de Levis
A Christmas Carol (1959)
as Scrooge
Trouping with Ellen (1924)
as Tony Winterslip
After the Ball (1932)
as Jack Harrowby
One Precious Year (1933)
as Derek Nagel
The Black Cat (1960)
Actor