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person_profile-Basil Sydney

Basil Sydney Died at age: 73

Actor | Producer

Fullname:

Basil Sydney

Date of Birth:

Apr 23, 1894

Country of birth:

UK

Died:

Jan 10, 1968

Biography of

Basil Sydney

    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.

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Filmography of

Basil Sydney

Found 43 Movies in total

The Hands of Orlac

Maurice Seidelman ( Actor )

... 1960

A Story of David

King Saul ( Actor )

... 1960

The 3 Worlds of Gulliver

Emperor of Lilliput ( Actor )

... 1960

The Devil's Disciple

Lawyer Hawkins ( Actor )

... 1959

John Paul Jones

Sir William Young ( Actor )

... 1959

A Question of Adultery

Sir John Loring ( Actor )

... 1958

Sea Wife

Bulldog ( Actor )

... 1957

Island in the Sun

Julian Fleury ( Actor )

... 1957

Mayerling

The Emperor Franz Joseph ( Actor )

... 1957

Around the World in Eighty Days

Reform Club Member ( Actor )

... 1956

The Dam Busters

Air Chief Marshal Sir Arthur Harris G.C.B., O.B.E., A.F.C. ( Actor )

... 1955

Simba

Mr Crawford ( Actor )

... 1955

Hell Below Zero

Bland ( Actor )

... 1954

Star of India

King Louis XIV ( Actor )

... 1954

Salome

Pontius Pilate ( Actor )

... 1953

Ivanhoe

Waldemar Fitzurse ( Actor )

... 1952

The Magic Box

William Fox-Talbot ( Actor )

... 1952

Treasure Island

Captain Smollett ( Actor )

... 1950

The Angel with the Trumpet

Francis Alt ( Actor )

... 1950

Hamlet

Claudius - The King ( Actor )

... 1948

Jassy

Nick Helmar ( Actor )

... 1947

The Man Within

Sir Henry Merriman ( Actor )

... 1947

Meet Me at Dawn

Georges Vermorel ( Actor )

... 1947

Caesar and Cleopatra

Rufio ( Actor )

... 1945

Went the Day Well?

Major Hammond / Kommandant Orlter ( Actor )

... 1942

The Next of Kin

Naval captain ( Actor )

... 1942

... 1942

Ships with Wings

Capt. Fairfax ( Actor )

... 1941

The Farmer's Wife

Samuel Sweetland ( Actor )

... 1941

Spring Meeting

James ( Actor )

... 1941

The Four Just Men

Frank Snell ( Actor )

... 1939

Accused

Eugene Roget ( Actor )

... 1936

... 1936

Crime Over London

'Joker' Finnigan ( Actor )

... 1936

Rhodes of Africa

Dr. Jim Jameson ( Actor )

... 1936

The Amateur Gentleman

Louis Chichester ( Actor )

... 1936

The Tunnel

Mostyn ( Actor )

... 1935

The Riverside Murder

Inspector Philip Winton ( Actor )

... 1935

Dirty Work

Hugh Stafford ( Actor )

... 1934

The Third Clue

Reinhardt Conway ( Actor )

... 1934

The Midshipmaid

Cmdr. Fosberry ( Actor )

... 1932

Red Hot Romance

Rowland Stone ( Actor )

... 1922

Romance

Actor

... 1920