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.

Known For: Acting

Born: Essex, England, UK, 1894-04-23

Died: 1968-01-10

Film

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1920	Romance		90
2	1922	Red Hot Romance	Rowland Stone	0
3	1932	The Midshipmaid	Cmdr. Fosberry	0
4	1934	The Third Clue	Reinhardt Conway	30
5	1934	Dirty Work	Hugh Stafford	0
6	1935	The Riverside Murder	Inspector Philip Winton	50
7	1935	The Tunnel	Mostyn	53
8	1936	Blind Man's Bluff	Dr. Peter Fairfax	0
9	1936	The Amateur Gentleman	Louis Chichester	40
10	1936	Rhodes of Africa	Dr. Jim Jameson	60
11	1936	Crime Over London	'Joker' Finnigan	60
12	1936	Talk of the Devil		0
13	1936	Accused	Eugene Roget	0
14	1939	The Four Just Men	Frank Snell	62
15	1940	Bits of Our Aircraft are Missing	(uncredited)	60
16	1941	Spring Meeting	James	48
17	1941	The Farmer's Wife	Samuel Sweetland	60
18	1941	Ships with Wings	Capt. Fairfax	40
19	1942	The Black Sheep of Whitehall	Costello	72
20	1942	The Next of Kin	Naval captain	50
21	1942	Went the Day Well?	Major Hammond / Kommandant Orlter	72
22	1945	Caesar and Cleopatra	Rufio	61
23	1947	Meet Me at Dawn	Georges Vermorel	70
24	1947	The Man Within	Sir Henry Merriman	57
25	1947	Jassy	Nick Helmar	54
26	1948	Hamlet	Claudius - The King	74
27	1950	The Angel with the Trumpet	Francis Alt	63
28	1950	Treasure Island	Captain Smollett	66
29	1952	The Magic Box	William Fox-Talbot	63
30	1952	Ivanhoe	Waldemar Fitzurse	68
31	1953	Salome	Pontius Pilate	58
32	1953	Three's Company	Dr. Graham	0
33	1954	Star of India	King Louis XIV	43
34	1954	Hell Below Zero	Bland	60
35	1955	Simba	Mr Crawford	65
36	1955	The Dam Busters	Air Chief Marshal Sir Arthur Harris G.C.B., O.B.E., A.F.C.	69
37	1956	Around the World in Eighty Days	Reform Club Member	66
38	1957	Mayerling	The Emperor Franz Joseph	55
39	1957	Island in the Sun	Julian Fleury	65
40	1957	Sea Wife	Bulldog	54
41	1958	A Question of Adultery	Sir John Loring	40
42	1959	John Paul Jones	Sir William Young	61
43	1959	The Devil's Disciple	Lawyer Hawkins	66
44	1960	The 3 Worlds of Gulliver	Emperor of Lilliput	65
45	1960	The Hands of Orlac	Maurice Seidelman	43
46	1960	A Story of David	King Saul	42

Television

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1959	No Hiding Place		37
2	1962	Silent Evidence		0