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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.
Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce in Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon. A series of fourteen films based on Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes stories was released between 1939 and 1946; the British actors Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce played Holmes and Dr. John Watson, respectively.
William Nigel Ernle Bruce (4 February 1895 – 8 October 1953) was an English character actor on stage and screen. [1] He was best known for his portrayal of Dr. Watson in a series of films and in the radio series The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, starring with Basil Rathbone as Sherlock Holmes in both.
A small number of actors have played both Holmes and Watson, including Reginald Owen who played Watson in Sherlock Holmes (1932) and Holmes in A Study in Scarlet (1933); [95] [96] Jeremy Brett, who played Watson on stage in the United States prior to adopting the mantle of Holmes on British television; [97] Howard Marion-Crawford, who played ...
List of British actors. 3 languages. Nederlands; ... Basil Rathbone (1892–1967) Kynaston Reeves (1893–1971) Arnold Ridley (1896–1984) Margaret Rutherford (1892 ...
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 ...
Son of Frankenstein is a 1939 American horror film directed by Rowland V. Lee and starring Basil Rathbone, Boris Karloff and Bela Lugosi.The film is the third in Universal Pictures' Frankenstein series and is the follow-up to the 1935 film Bride of Frankenstein.
He has three sisters, including ceramic artist Kelly Rathbone. [4] [5] [6] He is distantly related to Civil War general Stonewall Jackson and English actor Basil Rathbone, being descended from the Rathbone family of Liverpool. [7] His great-grandfather, Monroe Jackson Rathbone II, was the chairman of Standard Oil, which later became Exxon. [6]