Ferncliff Cemetery Shrine of Memories, Hartsdale, New York, U.S.
Occupation
Actor
Years active
1911–1967
Spouses
Ethel Marian Foreman
(m. 1914; div. 1926)
Ouida Bergère
(m. 1926)
Children
3
Relatives
Sir Frank Benson (cousin)
Military career
Allegiance
United Kingdom
Service/branch
British Army
Years of service
1915–18
Rank
Captain[1]
Unit
London Scottish Regiment Liverpool Scottish
Awards
Military Cross
Philip St. John Basil Rathbone MC (13 June 1892 – 21 July 1967) was an Anglo-South African actor. He rose to prominence in the United Kingdom as a Shakespearean stage actor and went on to appear in more than 70 films, primarily costume dramas, swashbucklers, and, occasionally, horror films.
Rathbone frequently portrayed suave villains or morally ambiguous characters, such as Mr. Murdstone in David Copperfield (1935), 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.
His later career included roles on Broadway, as well as self-ironic film and television work. In 1948, he shared the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play with two others. He was also nominated for two Academy Awards and was honoured with three stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
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Philip St. John BasilRathbone MC (13 June 1892 – 21 July 1967) was an Anglo-South African actor. He rose to prominence in the United Kingdom as a Shakespearean...
Kelly Rathbone. He is distantly related to Civil War general Stonewall Jackson and English actor BasilRathbone, being descended from the Rathbone family...
The Jack Benny Program, starring Jack Benny, is a radio and television comedy series. The show ran for over three decades, from 1932 to 1955 on radio,...
Silver in a July 18, 1938, broadcast of The Mercury Theatre on the Air. BasilRathbone starred as both The Narrator and Silver in a 1944 audio recording for...
(1942) as Celia Wellsby Sherlock Holmes and the Voice of Terror (with BasilRathbone) (1942) as Kitty The Great Impersonation (1942) as Lady Muriel Dominey...
Curtiz and William Keighley, and stars Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, BasilRathbone, Claude Rains, Patric Knowles, Eugene Pallette, and Alan Hale. The film...
emulates the detective. Titus named the main character after actor BasilRathbone, who is best remembered for playing Holmes in film (and whose voice...
the radio series The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, starring with BasilRathbone as Sherlock Holmes in both. Bruce is also remembered for his roles in...
a 1939 American horror film directed by Rowland V. Lee and starring BasilRathbone, Boris Karloff and Bela Lugosi. The film is the third in Universal Pictures'...
directed by Jacques Tourneur and starring Vincent Price, Peter Lorre, BasilRathbone, Boris Karloff and Joe E. Brown (in a cameo performance) in his final...
portions of the source film, and directed new principal scenes featuring BasilRathbone and Faith Domergue. The resulting new film was syndicated directly to...
American historical musical comedy film starring Danny Kaye, Glynis Johns, BasilRathbone, Angela Lansbury and Cecil Parker. The film was written, produced, and...
him the name "Basil" in honor of actor BasilRathbone, who donned the role of Sherlock Holmes numerous times. Dr. David Q. Dawson – Basil's personal biographer;...
directed by Archie Mayo and starring Gary Cooper, Sigrid Gurie, and BasilRathbone. It was one of the most elaborate and costly of Samuel Goldwyn's productions...
quality condition. For most of the show's run, the program starred BasilRathbone as Sherlock Holmes and Nigel Bruce as Dr. Watson. Other actors played...
Orson Welles in Katharine Cornell's 1934 production; his Broadway debut BasilRathbone in George Cukor's 1936 film version; nominated for Best Supporting Actor...
BasilRathbone; and The Raven (1963), again with Price, as well as Boris Karloff and Jack Nicholson. He again worked with Price, Karloff and Rathbone...
Samuel Z. Arkoff, directed by Curtis Harrington, that stars John Saxon, BasilRathbone, Dennis Hopper, and Judi Meredith. The film is based on the screenplay...
written by John C. Higgins from a story by Gerald Drayson Adams. It stars BasilRathbone, Lon Chaney Jr., John Carradine, Bela Lugosi, and Akim Tamiroff. Tor...
Warner Baxter as the Crime Doctor, Warren William as the Lone Wolf and BasilRathbone as Sherlock Holmes. These smaller budget films led to more major productions...
Theodore Woolman (1798–1863) Benson (1800–1834) Basil (1802–1804) Gordon, Alexander; Kirby, M. W. "Rathbone, William (1757–1809), merchant and philanthropist"...
Global Information
United Kingdom
British Army
Captain[1]