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