Philip St. John Basil Rathbone MC was an Anglo-South African actor. He rose to prominence in the United Kingdom as a Shakespearean stage actor and went on to appear in more than 70 films, primarily costume dramas, swashbucklers, and, occasionally, horror films.
Basil Rathbone (1935)
Rathbone as Robert Browning in Katharine Cornell's 1933–1934 touring production of The Barretts of Wimpole Street
With John Barrymore and Leslie Howard in Romeo and Juliet, 1936
Basil Rathbone as Sherlock Holmes
Edward Murdstone is a fictional character and the primary antagonist in the first part of the Charles Dickens 1850 novel David Copperfield, secondary to Uriah Heep in the second part.
Phiz: "The momentous interview". Edward Murdstone and his sister Jane discuss David Copperfield's future with his aunt, Betsey Trotwood.
Edward Murdstone - by Frank Reynolds