Basil Sydney
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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 the Shrew (1927).[citation needed] In 1937 he starred in the murder mystery Blondie White in the West End. He made over 50 screen appearances, most memorably as Claudius in Laurence Olivier's 1948 film of Hamlet. He also appeared in classic films like Treasure Island (1950), Ivanhoe (1952), and Around the World in Eighty Days (1956), but the focus of his career was the stage on both sides of the Atlantic.
Known for
Credits
Around the World in 80 Days (1956)
as Reform Club Member
Treasure Island (1950)
as Captain Smollett
Ivanhoe (1952)
as Waldemar Fitzurse
Hamlet (1948)
as Claudius - The King
The Magic Box (1952)
as William Fox-Talbot
The Dam Busters (1955)
as Air Chief Marshal Sir Arthur Harris G.C.B., O.B.E., A.F.C.
Mayerling (1957)
as The Emperor Franz Joseph
A Story of David (1960)
as King Saul
Caesar and Cleopatra (1945)
as Rufio
Salome (1953)
as Pontius Pilate
Went the Day Well? (1942)
as Major Hammond / Kommandant Orlter
The 3 Worlds of Gulliver (1960)
as Emperor of Lilliput
John Paul Jones (1959)
as Sir William Young
Island in the Sun (1957)
as Julian Fleury
The Hands of Orlac (1960)
as Maurice Seidelman
The Devil's Disciple (1959)
as Lawyer Hawkins
Hell Below Zero (1954)
as Bland
Sea Wife (1957)
as Bulldog
Jassy (1947)
as Nick Helmar
The Next of Kin (1942)
as Naval captain
The Tunnel (1935)
as Mostyn
The Black Sheep of Whitehall (1942)
as Costello
Rhodes of Africa (1936)
as Dr. Jim Jameson
The Amateur Gentleman (1936)
as Louis Chichester
Star of India (1954)
as King Louis XIV
The Man Within (1947)
as Sir Henry Merriman
Meet Me at Dawn (1947)
as Georges Vermorel
Simba (1955)
as Mr Crawford
The Four Just Men (1939)
as Frank Snell
Crime Over London (1936)
as 'Joker' Finnigan
The Angel with the Trumpet (1950)
as Francis Alt
Talk of the Devil (1936)
Actor
Dirty Work (1934)
as Hugh Stafford
The Riverside Murder (1935)
as Inspector Philip Winton
A Question of Adultery (1958)
as Sir John Loring
Three's Company (1953)
as Dr. Graham
Accused (1936)
as Eugene Roget
The Farmer's Wife (1941)
as Samuel Sweetland
Ships with Wings (1941)
as Capt. Fairfax
Red Hot Romance (1922)
as Rowland Stone
Romance (1920)
Actor
The Midshipmaid (1932)
as Cmdr. Fosberry
Spring Meeting (1941)
as James
Blind Man's Bluff (1936)
as Dr. Peter Fairfax
The Third Clue (1934)
as Reinhardt Conway
Bits of Our Aircraft Are Missing (1940)
as (uncredited)