Basil Rathbone

Sir Basil Rathbone, KBE, MC, Kt (13 June 1892, Johannesburg – 21 July 1967, New York City) 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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Basil Rathbone, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Known For: Acting

Born: Johannesburg, South African Republic, 1892-06-14

Died: 1967-07-21

Film

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1921	Innocent	Amadis de Jocelyn	0
2	1921	The Fruitful Vine	Don Cesare Carelli	0
3	1923	The School for Scandal	Joseph Surface	0
4	1924	The Loves of Mary, Queen of Scots	Undetermined Subordinate Role	0
5	1924	Trouping with Ellen	Tony Winterslip	0
6	1925	The Masked Bride	Antoine	0
7	1926	The Great Deception	Rizzio	0
8	1929	The Last of Mrs. Cheyney	Lord Arthur Dilling	55
9	1929	The Bishop Murder Case	Philo Vance	52
10	1930	This Mad World	Paul Parisot	70
11	1930	A Notorious Affair	Paul Gherardi	44
12	1930	The Flirting Widow	Col. Smith	40
13	1930	The Lady of Scandal	Edward	51
14	1930	A Lady Surrenders	Carl Vandry	35
15	1930	Sin Takes a Holiday	Reginald 'Reggie' Durant	58
16	1932	A Woman Commands	Capt. Alex Pastitsch	80
17	1932	After the Ball	Jack Harrowby	0
18	1933	One Precious Year	Derek Nagel	0
19	1933	Loyalties	Ferdinand de Levis	60
20	1935	David Copperfield	Mr. Edward Murdstone	66
21	1935	Anna Karenina	Alexei Alexandrovitch Karenin	66
22	1935	The Last Days of Pompeii	Pontius Pilate	56
23	1935	A Feather in Her Hat	Captain Randolph Courtney	68
24	1935	Kind Lady	Henry Abbott	66
25	1935	A Tale of Two Cities	Marquis St. Evremonde	68
26	1935	Captain Blood	Levasseur	72
27	1936	Private Number	Thomas Wroxton	65
28	1936	Romeo and Juliet	Tybalt	62
29	1936	The Garden of Allah	Count Ferdinand Anteoni	57
30	1937	Love from a Stranger	Gerald Lovell	59
31	1937	Confession	Michael Michailow	61
32	1937	Make a Wish	Johnny Selden	59
33	1937	Tovarich	Commissar Dimitri Gorotchenko	62
34	1938	The Adventures of Marco Polo	Ahmed	60
35	1938	The Adventures of Robin Hood	Sir Guy of Gisbourne	75
36	1938	If I Were King	King Louis XI	67
37	1938	The Dawn Patrol	Maj. Brand	68
38	1938	Breakdowns of 1938	Basil (archive footage) (uncredited)	50
39	1939	Son of Frankenstein	Baron Wolf von Frankenstein	67
40	1939	The Hound of the Baskervilles	Sherlock Holmes	71
41	1939	The Sun Never Sets	Clive Randolph	48
42	1939	The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes	Sherlock Holmes	68
43	1939	Rio	Paul Reynard	51
44	1939	Tower of London	Richard - Duke of Gloucester	60
45	1940	Rhythm on the River	Oliver Courtney	70
46	1940	The Mark of Zorro	Captain Esteban Pasquale	71
47	1940	The Mad Doctor	Dr. George Sebastian / Dr. Langamann	60
48	1941	The Black Cat	Montague Hartley	65
49	1941	International Lady	Reggie Oliver	64
50	1941	Paris Calling	Andre Benoit	54
51	1942	Fingers at the Window	Cesar Ferrari / Dr. H. Santelle	54
52	1942	Crossroads	Henri Sarrou	59
53	1942	Sherlock Holmes and the Voice of Terror	Sherlock Holmes	65
54	1942	Hedda Hopper’s Hollywood No. 6	Himself	60
55	1942	Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon	Sherlock Holmes	63
56	1943	Sherlock Holmes in Washington	Sherlock Holmes	67
57	1943	Above Suspicion	Sig von Aschenhausen	65
58	1943	Sherlock Holmes Faces Death	Sherlock Holmes	68
59	1943	Crazy House	Sherlock Holmes	50
60	1943	The Spider Woman	Sherlock Holmes	69
61	1944	The Scarlet Claw	Sherlock Holmes	69
62	1944	Bathing Beauty	George Adams	58
63	1944	The Pearl of Death	Sherlock Holmes	70
64	1944	Frenchman's Creek	Lord Rockingham	50
65	1945	The House of Fear	Sherlock Holmes	68
66	1945	The Woman in Green	Sherlock Holmes	64
67	1945	Pursuit to Algiers	Sherlock Holmes	68
68	1946	Terror by Night	Sherlock Holmes	66
69	1946	Heartbeat	Professor Aristide	49
70	1946	Dressed to Kill	Sherlock Holmes	65
71	1949	The Wind in the Willows	Narrator (voice)	67
72	1949	The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad	Narrator (segment "The Wind in the Willows")	65
73	1954	Casanova's Big Night	Lucio / Narrator	61
74	1954	The General's Boots	General Lee	0
75	1954	A Christmas Carol	Marley's Ghost	63
76	1955	We're No Angels	Andre Trochard	72
77	1955	The Court Jester	Sir Ravenhurst	73
78	1956	The Black Sleep	Sir Joel Cadman	61
79	1956	The Stingiest Man in Town	Ebenezer Scrooge	35
80	1957	The Lark	Chief Inquisitor	0
81	1958	Hans Brinker and the Silver Skates	Dr. Boekman	0
82	1958	Aladdin	Emperor	0
83	1958	The Last Hurrah	Norman Cass Sr.	71
84	1959	A Christmas Carol	Scrooge	84
85	1960	The Black Cat		0
86	1961	Victoria Regina	Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli (Lord Beaconsfield)	0
87	1962	Pontius Pilate	Caiaphas	64
88	1962	The Magic Sword	Lodac	41
89	1962	Tales of Terror	Carmichael ("The Case of M. Valdemar")	66
90	1962	Two Before Zero		50
91	1964	The Comedy of Terrors	John F. Black	64
92	1965	The Son of Frankenstein	Frankenstein (archive footage)	0
93	1965	Voyage to the Prehistoric Planet	Prof. Hartman, Lunar 7	40
94	1966	Queen of Blood	Dr. Farraday	53
95	1966	The Ghost in the Invisible Bikini	Reginald Ripper	50
96	1967	Soldier in Love	Duke of York	0
97	1967	Hillbillys in a Haunted House	Gregor	27
98	1968	The Movie Orgy	Self (archival footage)	62
99	1968	Autopsy of a Ghost	Canuto Pérez	48
100	1974	Madhouse	Basil (archive footage)	61
101	1979	The Horror Show	(archive footage)	60
102	1983	The Horror of It All	Carmichael (archive footage)	80
103	1985	The Many Faces of Sherlock Holmes	Sherlock Holmes (archive footage)	70
104	1986	The Great Mouse Detective	Sherlock Holmes (voice)	70
105	1991	Frankenstein: A Cinematic Scrapbook	Baron Wolf von Frankenstein (archive footage)	57
106	1996	In the Footsteps of Sherlock Holmes		0
107	2005	The Adventures of Errol Flynn	Self / Various Roles (archive sound) (archive footage)	78

Television

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1948	Studio One	Hazelton Crome	47
2	1949	Suspense	Dr. Jekyll / Mr. Hyde	46
3	1949	Suspense	Sherlock Holmes	46
4	1949	Lights Out		53
5	1950	What's My Line?	Self	69
6	1950	Your Show of Shows		55
7	1950	Lux Video Theatre	Frampton	60
8	1950	Lux Video Theatre	Sir Paul Maxim	60
9	1950	Lux Video Theatre	Ambrose Wallington	60
10	1950	The Jack Benny Program	Basil Rathbone	77
11	1951	Schlitz Playhouse of Stars	Self - Host / General Lee	70
12	1951	Schlitz Playhouse of Stars	The Jewel Thief	70
13	1951	Hallmark Hall of Fame	Inquisitor	87
14	1951	Hallmark Hall of Fame	Dr. Boekman	87
15	1951	Hallmark Hall of Fame	Lord Beaconsfield	87
16	1951	Hallmark Hall of Fame	The Duke of York	87
17	1955	Screen Director's Playhouse	Paul Charters	65
18	1957	DuPont Show of the Month	Emperor	67
19	1959	Tales from Dickens	Scrooge	70
20	1961	Dr. Kildare	Frederick Foray	54
21	1962	The Merv Griffin Show	Self	56
22	1963	Burke's Law	Milo James	60
23	1966	Summer Fun		0