Basil Sydney
Age: 73 | From: Essex, England, UK
Person Details
Birthday: 1894-04-23 06:22:58
Death: 1968-01-10 06:22:58
Aliases: No known aliases
Gender: Male
Place of birth: Essex, England, UK
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Movie Involvements: 33
TV Involvements: 0
Most Famous Work
Biography
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.
Most Famous Work
Hamlet
(1948) Claudius - The King
Ivanhoe
(1952) Waldemar Fitzurse
The Dam Busters
(1955) Air Chief Marshal Sir Arthur Harris G.C.B., O.B.E., A.F.C.
Treasure Island
(1950) Captain Smollett
Went the Day Well?
(1942) Major Hammond / Kommandant Orlter
Salome
(1953) Pontius Pilate
Simba
(1955) Mr Crawford
John Paul Jones
(1959) Sir William YoungActing
| Year | Character | Movie/Tv |
|---|---|---|
| 1962 | N/A | |
| 1960 | King Saul | |
| Maurice Seidelman | ||
| Emperor of Lilliput | ||
| 1959 | N/A | |
| Lawyer Hawkins | ||
| Sir William Young | ||
| 1958 | Sir John Loring | |
| 1957 | Bulldog | |
| Julian Fleury | ||
| The Emperor Franz Joseph | ||
| 1956 | Reform Club Member | |
| 1955 | Air Chief Marshal Sir Arthur Harris G.C.B., O.B.E., A.F.C. | |
| Mr Crawford | ||
| 1954 | Bland | |
| King Louis XIV | ||
| 1953 | Pontius Pilate | |
| 1952 | Waldemar Fitzurse | |
| William Fox-Talbot | ||
| 1950 | Captain Smollett | |
| Francis Alt | ||
| 1948 | Claudius - The King | |
| 1947 | Nick Helmar | |
| Sir Henry Merriman | ||
| Georges Vermorel | ||
| 1945 | Rufio | |
| 1942 | Major Hammond / Kommandant Orlter | |
| Naval captain | ||
| Costello | ||
| 1941 | Capt. Fairfax | |
| Samuel Sweetland | ||
| James | ||
| 1940 | (uncredited) | |
| 1939 | Frank Snell | |
| 1936 | Eugene Roget | |
| N/A | ||
| 'Joker' Finnigan | ||
| Dr. Jim Jameson | ||
| Louis Chichester | ||
| Dr. Peter Fairfax | ||
| 1935 | Mostyn | |
| Inspector Philip Winton | ||
| 1934 | Hugh Stafford | |
| Reinhardt Conway | ||
| 1932 | Cmdr. Fosberry | |
| 1922 | Rowland Stone | |
| 1920 | N/A | |
| Year | Character | Movie/Tv |
