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  2. Basil Rathbone - Wikipedia

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    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.

  3. Philo Vance - Wikipedia

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    Basil Rathbone Warren William Paul Lukas Edmund Lowe Wilfrid Hyde-White ... Philo Vance is a fictional amateur detective originally featured in 12 crime novels by S ...

  4. The Bishop Murder Case (film) - Wikipedia

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    The Bishop Murder Case is a 1929 American pre-Code mystery film directed by David Burton (credited for stage direction) and Nick Grinde (credited for screen direction) and starring Basil Rathbone, Leila Hyams and Roland Young.

  5. The Bishop Murder Case - Wikipedia

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    A film starring Basil Rathbone was made of The Bishop Murder Case [3] in 1930. The film was an early " talkie " and lacks a music soundtrack. Some elements from the mystery's plot were referenced in Dario Argento 's giallo comeback movie, Sleepless (called Non ho sonno in Italy), which featured killings referencing a nursery rhyme.

  6. The Dragon Murder Case (film) - Wikipedia

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    The Dragon Murder Case was the first Philo Vance film to star Warren William as Vance; the character had previously been played by Basil Rathbone and William Powell. William would play the character only once more, in The Gracie Allen Murder Case. [1] H. Bruce Humberstone was not the first director considered for the film.

  7. S. S. Van Dine - Wikipedia

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    [citation needed] All but two of his novels were adapted as feature-length films, and the role of Philo Vance was played by stars such as William Powell (before his Nick Charles period), Basil Rathbone, and Edmund Lowe. [17]

  8. This Des Moines band formed more than 30 years ago. They ...

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    With a taste for new wave, funk and alternative music, the five-piece act got their name from actor Basil Rathbone, who starred as Sherlock Holmes in a series of films spanning the early 1940s ...

  9. Paul Lukas - Wikipedia

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    He followed William Powell and Basil Rathbone, portraying the series detective Philo Vance, a cosmopolitan New Yorker, once in The Casino Murder Case (1935). His major film success was Watch on the Rhine (1943), where he played a man working against the Nazis, a role he originated in the Broadway premiere of the play of the same name in 1941. [6]