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Known For
Acting
Birthday
April 23, 1894
Died
January 10, 1968
Place of Birth
Essex, England, UK
Basil Sydney
0.6 Popularity
Biography
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
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Silent Evidence
1962
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Mourtzinos
Drama 61-67
1961
4.2
King Saul
A Story of David
1960
3.9
Maurice Seidelman
The Hands of Orlac
1960
6.6
Emperor of Lilliput
The 3 Worlds of Gulliver
1960
3.7
No Hiding Place
1959
6.6
Lawyer Hawkins
The Devil's Disciple
1959
5.9
Sir William Young
John Paul Jones
1959
3.3
Sir John Loring
A Question of Adultery
1958
5.2
Bulldog
Sea Wife
1957
Credits
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Silent Evidence
1962
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Drama 61-67
as Mourtzinos
1961
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A Story of David
as King Saul
1960
4.2
The Hands of Orlac
as Maurice Seidelman
1960
3.9
The 3 Worlds of Gulliver
as Emperor of Lilliput
1960
6.6
No Hiding Place
1959
3.7
The Devil's Disciple
as Lawyer Hawkins
1959
6.6
John Paul Jones
as Sir William Young
1959
5.9
A Question of Adultery
as Sir John Loring
1958
3.3
Sea Wife
as Bulldog
1957
5.2
Island in the Sun
as Julian Fleury
1957
6.6
Mayerling
as The Emperor Franz Joseph
1957
5.5
Around the World in 80 Days
as Reform Club Member
1956
6.6
The Dam Busters
as Air Chief Marshal Sir Arthur Harris G.C.B., O.B.E., A.F.C.
1955
6.9
Simba
as Mr Crawford
1955
6.7
Hell Below Zero
as Bland
1954
6.7
Star of India
as King Louis XIV
1954
3.7
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Three's Company
as Dr. Graham
1953
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Salome
as Pontius Pilate
1953
5.7
Ivanhoe
as Waldemar Fitzurse
1952
6.8
The Magic Box
as William Fox-Talbot
1952
6.4
Treasure Island
as Captain Smollett
1950
6.6
The Angel with the Trumpet
as Francis Alt
1950
6.3
Hamlet
as Claudius - The King
1948
7.4
Jassy
as Nick Helmar
1947
5.4
The Man Within
as Sir Henry Merriman
1947
5.7
Meet Me at Dawn
as Georges Vermorel
1947
7.0
Caesar and Cleopatra
as Rufio
1945
6.2
Went the Day Well?
as Major Hammond / Kommandant Orlter
1942
7.2
The Next of Kin
as Naval captain
1942
5.1
The Black Sheep of Whitehall
as Costello
1942
7.8
Ships with Wings
as Capt. Fairfax
1941
4.0
The Farmer's Wife
as Samuel Sweetland
1941
6.0
Spring Meeting
as James
1941
4.8
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Bits of Our Aircraft are Missing
as (uncredited)
1940
6.0
The Four Just Men
as Frank Snell
1939
6.2
Accused
as Eugene Roget
1936
0.0
Talk of the Devil
1936
0.0
Crime Over London
as 'Joker' Finnigan
1936
6.0
Rhodes of Africa
as Dr. Jim Jameson
1936
6.0
The Amateur Gentleman
as Louis Chichester
1936
4.0
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Blind Man's Bluff
as Dr. Peter Fairfax
1936
0.0
The Tunnel
as Mostyn
1935
5.3
The Riverside Murder
as Inspector Philip Winton
1935
5.2
Dirty Work
as Hugh Stafford
1934
0.0
The Third Clue
as Reinhardt Conway
1934
3.0
The Midshipmaid
as Cmdr. Fosberry
1932
0.0
Red Hot Romance
as Rowland Stone
1922
0.0
Romance
1920
9.0