Basil Rathbone

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. Rathbone frequently portrayed suave villains or morally ambiguous characters, such as Mr. Murdstone in David Copperfield (1935), Tybalt in Romeo and Juliet (1936) and Sir Guy of Gisbourne in The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938). His most famous role was that of Sherlock Holmes in fourteen Hollywood films made between 1939 and 1946 and in a radio series. His later career included roles on Broadway, as well as self-ironic film and television work. In 1948, he shared the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play with two others. He was also nominated for two Academy Awards and was honoured with three stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

Basil Rathbone Reads Edgar Allan Poe - 2014-02-04T00:00:00.000000Z

Read Edgar Allan Poe Stories & Poems - 2013-08-15T00:00:00.000000Z

The Three Musketeers & Oliver Twist - 2013-04-01T00:00:00.000000Z

Ghostly Short Stories - 2011-07-10T00:00:00.000000Z

The Very Best of Charles Dickens - 2010-04-01T00:00:00.000000Z

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes Vol. 6 - 2009-12-22T00:00:00.000000Z

Stories, Witticisms & Scenes Of Oscar Wilde - 2008-07-22T00:00:00.000000Z

Sherlock Holmes - The Bruce Partington Plans and the Final Problem - 2014-01-23T00:00:00.000000Z

Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - A Scandal in Bohemia - 2014-01-22T00:00:00.000000Z

Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - The Manor House Case and the Great Gandolfo - 2014-01-22T00:00:00.000000Z

Sherlock Holmes - The Adventure of the Retired Colourman and the Case of the Accidental Murders - 2014-01-22T00:00:00.000000Z

Sherlock Holmes - The Fifth of November and the Adventure of the Speckled Band - 2014-01-22T00:00:00.000000Z

The Happy Prince and Other Oscar Wilde Fairy Tales - 2014-01-17T00:00:00.000000Z

The Adventure of the Copper Beeches and Murder in the Moonlight - 2014-01-16T00:00:00.000000Z

The Redheaded League (Stories of Sherlock Holmes), Vol. 2 - 2014-01-16T00:00:00.000000Z

Short Stories by Nathaniel Hawthorne - 2011-09-12T00:00:00.000000Z

Hansel and Gretel - 2010-07-04T00:00:00.000000Z

Sherlock Holmes: Murder Beyond The Mountains & The Book of Tobit - 2010-04-01T00:00:00.000000Z

Rimsky-Korsakov: Sinbad the Sailor - 2010-02-01T00:00:00.000000Z

Hawthorne: Young Goodman Brown - 2009-10-01T00:00:00.000000Z

The Minister's Black Veil By Nathaniel Hawthorne - 2009-10-01T00:00:00.000000Z

Idylis of the King - The Passing of Arthur - 2009-01-21T00:00:00.000000Z

Idylls of the King - Lancelot and Elaine (by Alfred Lord Tennyson) - 2008-12-09T00:00:00.000000Z

Sherlock Holmes - Tales From Baker Street - 2008-09-02T00:00:00.000000Z

Oliver Twist - 2008-08-26T00:00:00.000000Z