
Basil Sydney
Known for ActingBorn 1894-04-23Died 1968-01-10 Essex, England, UK
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.Read more
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Accused
1936 · Movie
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Red Hot Romance
1922 · Movie
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Romance
1920 · Movie
Three's Company
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Three's Company
1953 · Movie
Blind Man's Bluff
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Blind Man's Bluff
1936 · Movie
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The Black Sheep of Whitehall
1942 · Movie
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Talk of the Devil
1936 · Movie
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Meet Me at Dawn
1947 · Movie
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Hamlet
1948 · Movie
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Rhodes of Africa
1936 · Movie
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Went the Day Well?
1942 · Movie
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Hell Below Zero
1954 · Movie
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The Angel with the Trumpet
1950 · Movie
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The Dam Busters
1955 · Movie
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The Farmer's Wife
1941 · Movie
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Crime Over London
1936 · Movie
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Ivanhoe
1952 · Movie
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Dirty Work
1934 · Movie
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The Midshipmaid
1932 · Movie
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The Man Within
1947 · Movie
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The 3 Worlds of Gulliver
1960 · Movie
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Around the World in 80 Days
1956 · Movie
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The Devil's Disciple
1959 · Movie
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Simba
1955 · Movie
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Treasure Island
1950 · Movie
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Island in the Sun
1957 · Movie
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The Four Just Men
1939 · Movie
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The Magic Box
1952 · Movie
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Mayerling
1957 · Movie
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Caesar and Cleopatra
1945 · Movie
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John Paul Jones
1959 · Movie
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Armchair Theatre
1956 · Series
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Ships with Wings
1941 · Movie
Bits of Our Aircraft are Missing
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Bits of Our Aircraft are Missing
1940 · Movie
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Salome
1953 · Movie
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The Amateur Gentleman
1936 · Movie
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Sea Wife
1957 · Movie
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Jassy
1947 · Movie
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A Story of David
1960 · Movie
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The Next of Kin
1942 · Movie
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The Riverside Murder
1935 · Movie
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The Tunnel
1935 · Movie
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Spring Meeting
1941 · Movie
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The Third Clue
1934 · Movie
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No Hiding Place
1959 · Series
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A Question of Adultery
1958 · Movie
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The Hands of Orlac
1960 · Movie
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Star of India
1954 · Movie