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.
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Movies (46)
The Hands of Orlac
1960 · Maurice Seidelman
A Story of David
1960 · King Saul
The 3 Worlds of Gulliver
1960 · Emperor of Lilliput
The Devil's Disciple
1959 · Lawyer Hawkins
John Paul Jones
1959 · Sir William Young
A Question of Adultery
1958 · Sir John Loring
Sea Wife
1957 · Bulldog
Island in the Sun
1957 · Julian Fleury
Mayerling
1957 · The Emperor Franz Joseph
Around the World in 80 Days
1956 · Reform Club Member
The Dam Busters
1955 · Air Chief Marshal Sir Arthur Harris G.C.B., O.B.E., A.F.C.
Simba
1955 · Mr Crawford
Hell Below Zero
1954 · Bland
Star of India
1954 · King Louis XIV
Three's Company
1953 · Dr. Graham
Salome
1953 · Pontius Pilate
Ivanhoe
1952 · Waldemar Fitzurse
The Magic Box
1952 · William Fox-Talbot
Treasure Island
1950 · Captain Smollett
The Angel with the Trumpet
1950 · Francis Alt
Hamlet
1948 · Claudius - The King
Jassy
1947 · Nick Helmar
The Man Within
1947 · Sir Henry Merriman
Meet Me at Dawn
1947 · Georges Vermorel
Caesar and Cleopatra
1946 · Rufio
Went the Day Well?
1942 · Major Hammond / Kommandant Orlter
The Next of Kin
1942 · Naval captain
The Black Sheep of Whitehall
1942 · Costello
Ships with Wings
1941 · Capt. Fairfax
The Farmer's Wife
1941 · Samuel Sweetland
Spring Meeting
1941 · James
Bits of Our Aircraft Are Missing
1940 · (uncredited)
The Four Just Men
1939 · Frank Snell
Accused
1936 · Eugene Roget
Talk of the Devil
1936
Crime Over London
1936 · 'Joker' Finnigan
Rhodes of Africa
1936 · Dr. Jim Jameson
The Amateur Gentleman
1936 · Louis Chichester
Blind Man's Bluff
1936 · Dr. Peter Fairfax
The Tunnel
1935 · Mostyn
The Riverside Murder
1935 · Inspector Philip Winton
Dirty Work
1934 · Hugh Stafford
The Third Clue
1934 · Reinhardt Conway
The Midshipmaid
1932 · Cmdr. Fosberry
Red Hot Romance
1922 · Rowland Stone
Romance
1920
