Basil Rathbone
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Philip St. John Basil Rathbone was an English actor. Born in South Africa and raised in Derbyshire, he rose to prominence in the United Kingdom as a Shakespearean stage actor and went on to appear in
Rathbone in 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
A series of fourteen films based on Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes stories was released between 1939 and 1946; the British actors Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce played Holmes and Dr. John Wa
Basil Rathbone
…Tybalt in Romeo and Juliet (1936) and Sir Guy of Gisbourne in The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938). His most famous role was that of Sherlock Holmes in fourteen Hollywood films made between 1939 and 1946 and in a radio series. Rathbone's later career included roles on Broadway, as well as self-ironic film and television work. In 1948, he shared the Tony…
Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce in Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon
Dennis Hoey, as Inspector Lestrade in Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon