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Basil Sydney
Born · April 23, 1894
Died · January 10, 1968 (73 years old)
Known For: Acting
Place of Birth: Essex, England, UK
Bio
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.
Silent Evidence
(6 episodes)
0.0
1962
The Hands of Orlac
Maurice Seidelman
4.3
1960
A Story of David
King Saul
4.2
1960
The 3 Worlds of Gulliver
Emperor of Lilliput
6.6
1960
No Hiding Place
(1 episode)
3.7
1959
The Devil's Disciple
Lawyer Hawkins
6.5
1959
John Paul Jones
Sir William Young
6.1
1959
A Question of Adultery
Sir John Loring
4.0
1958
Sea Wife
Bulldog
5.4
1957
Island in the Sun
Julian Fleury
6.5
1957
Mayerling
The Emperor Franz Joseph
5.5
1957
Around the World in Eighty Days
Reform Club Member
6.6
1956
The Dam Busters
Air Chief Marshal Sir Arthur Harris G.C.B., O.B.E., A.F.C.
6.9
1955
Simba
Mr Crawford
6.5
1955
Hell Below Zero
Bland
6.0
1954
Star of India
King Louis XIV
4.3
1954
Three's Company
Dr. Graham
0.0
1953
Salome
Pontius Pilate
5.8
1953
Ivanhoe
Waldemar Fitzurse
6.8
1952
The Magic Box
William Fox-Talbot
6.3
1952
Treasure Island
Captain Smollett
6.5
1950
The Angel with the Trumpet
Francis Alt
6.3
1950
Hamlet
Claudius - The King
7.4
1948
Jassy
Nick Helmar
5.4
1947
The Man Within
Sir Henry Merriman
5.7
1947
Meet Me at Dawn
Georges Vermorel
7.0
1947
Caesar and Cleopatra
Rufio
6.1
1945
Went the Day Well?
Major Hammond / Kommandant Orlter
7.2
1942
The Next of Kin
Naval captain
5.0
1942
The Black Sheep of Whitehall
Costello
7.2
1942
Ships with Wings
Capt. Fairfax
4.0
1941
The Farmer's Wife
Samuel Sweetland
6.0
1941
Spring Meeting
James
4.8
1941
Bits of Our Aircraft are Missing
(uncredited)
6.0
1940
The Four Just Men
Frank Snell
6.2
1939
Accused
Eugene Roget
0.0
1936
Talk of the Devil
0.0
1936
Crime Over London
'Joker' Finnigan
6.0
1936
Rhodes of Africa
Dr. Jim Jameson
6.0
1936
The Amateur Gentleman
Louis Chichester
4.0
1936
Blind Man's Bluff
Dr. Peter Fairfax
0.0
1936
The Tunnel
Mostyn
5.3
1935
The Riverside Murder
Inspector Philip Winton
5.0
1935
Dirty Work
Hugh Stafford
0.0
1934
The Third Clue
Reinhardt Conway
3.0
1934
The Midshipmaid
Cmdr. Fosberry
0.0
1932
Red Hot Romance
Rowland Stone
0.0
1922
Romance
9.0
1920