Basil Rathbone
Born in Johannesburg, South African Republic — Jun 13 1892• Died Jul 21 1967
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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 an…
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Studio One
Hazelton Crome
Dr. Kildare
Frederick Foray
Burke's Law
Milo James
What's My Line?
Self
The Jack Benny Program
Basil Rathbone
Lights Out
Suspense
Dr. Jekyll / Mr. Hyde
Screen Director's Playhouse
Paul Charters
Lux Video Theatre
Frampton
Your Show of Shows
DuPont Show of the Month
Emperor
Hallmark Hall of Fame
Inquisitor
The Adventures of Robin Hood
Sir Guy of Gisbourne
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
Self - Host / General Lee
The Great Mouse Detective
Sherlock Holmes (voice)
Captain Blood
Levasseur
The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad
Narrator (segment "The Wind in the Willows")
Summer Fun
Tales of Terror
Carmichael ("The Case of M. Valdemar")
Paris Calling
Andre Benoit
Terror by Night
Sherlock Holmes
The Court Jester
Sir Ravenhurst
The Last Hurrah
Norman Cass Sr.
The Woman in Green
Sherlock Holmes
Kind Lady
Henry Abbott
The Hound of the Baskervilles
Sherlock Holmes
The Dawn Patrol
Maj. Brand
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
Sherlock Holmes
Madhouse
Basil (archive footage)
Dressed to Kill
Sherlock Holmes
Rio
Paul Reynard
Fingers at the Window
Cesar Ferrari / Dr. H. Santelle
Breakdowns of 1938
Basil (archive footage) (uncredited)
Son of Frankenstein
Baron Wolf von Frankenstein
Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon
Sherlock Holmes
The Spider Woman
Sherlock Holmes
The Adventures of Marco Polo
Ahmed
The Movie Orgy
Self (archival footage)
Crazy House
Sherlock Holmes
The Black Cat
Montague Hartley
The Ghost in the Invisible Bikini
Reginald Ripper
The Scarlet Claw
Sherlock Holmes
Sherlock Holmes and the Voice of Terror
Sherlock Holmes
Bathing Beauty
George Adams
International Lady
Reggie Oliver
Sherlock Holmes Faces Death
Sherlock Holmes
The Mad Doctor
Dr. George Sebastian / Dr. Langamann
Queen of Blood
Dr. Farraday
We're No Angels
Andre Trochard
Loyalties
Ferdinand de Levis
David Copperfield
Mr. Edward Murdstone
Casanova's Big Night
Lucio / Narrator
Pontius Pilate
Caiaphas
The Garden of Allah
Count Ferdinand Anteoni
Private Number
Thomas Wroxton
The Lark
Chief Inquisitor
Tovarich
Commissar Dimitri Gorotchenko
The Black Sleep
Sir Joel Cadman
Sherlock Holmes in Washington
Sherlock Holmes
Crossroads
Henri Sarrou
A Feather in Her Hat
Captain Randolph Courtney
The Pearl of Death
Sherlock Holmes
The Mark of Zorro
Captain Esteban Pasquale
Confession
Michael Michailow
A Tale of Two Cities
Marquis St. Evremonde
The Last Days of Pompeii
Pontius Pilate
If I Were King
Louis XI
Frenchman's Creek
Lord Rockingham
Heartbeat
Professor Aristide
Anna Karenina
Alexei Alexandrovitch Karenin
The Magic Sword
Lodac
Above Suspicion
Sig von Aschenhausen
The House of Fear
Sherlock Holmes
A Woman Commands
Capt. Alex Pastitsch
Victoria Regina
Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli (Lord Beaconsfield)
Romeo and Juliet
Tybalt
Make a Wish
Johnny Selden
The Adventures of Errol Flynn
Self / Various Roles (archive sound) (archive footage)
Pursuit to Algiers
Sherlock Holmes
The Comedy of Terrors
John F. Black
The Wind in the Willows
Narrator (voice)
Rhythm on the River
Oliver Courtney
Tower of London
Richard - Duke of Gloucester
Sin Takes a Holiday
Reginald 'Reggie' Durant
The Sun Never Sets
Clive Randolph
The Horror Show
(archive footage)
Aladdin
Emperor
The Horror of It All
Carmichael (archive footage)
This Mad World
Paul Parisot
The Many Faces of Sherlock Holmes
Sherlock Holmes (archive footage)
A Christmas Carol
Marley's Ghost
The Great Deception
Rizzio
Voyage to the Prehistoric Planet
Prof. Hartman, Lunar 7
Hedda Hopper’s Hollywood No. 6
Himself
Hillbillys in a Haunted House
Gregor
Innocent
Amadis de Jocelyn
Hans Brinker or the Silver Skates
Dr. Boekman
Soldier in Love
Duke of York
Frankenstein: A Cinematic Scrapbook
Baron Wolf von Frankenstein (archive footage)
In the Footsteps of Sherlock Holmes
The Stingiest Man in Town
Ebenezer Scrooge
Affair in Sumatra
Paul Charters
Love from a Stranger
Gerald Lovell
The Bishop Murder Case
Philo Vance
The Masked Bride
Antoine
A Lady Surrenders
Carl Vandry
A Notorious Affair
Paul Gherardi
The Last of Mrs. Cheyney
Lord Arthur Dilling
Autopsy of a Ghost
Canuto Pérez
Tales from Dickens
Scrooge
Trouping with Ellen
Tony Winterslip
The Flirting Widow
Col. Smith
After the Ball
Jack Harrowby
The Lady of Scandal
Edward
The General's Boots
General Lee
The School for Scandal
Joseph Surface
A Christmas Carol
Scrooge
The Loves of Mary, Queen of Scots
Undetermined Subordinate Role
The Fruitful Vine
Don Cesare Carelli
The Black Cat
One Precious Year
Derek Nagel
Two Before Zero
Mystic Prophecies and Nostradamus
Narrator