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