Basil Rathbone

Sir Basil Rathbone, KBE, MC, Kt (13 June 1892 – 21 July 1967), was an English actor. He rose to prominence in England as a Shakespearean stage actor and went on to appear in over 70 films, primarily costume dramas, swashbucklers, and, occasionally, horror films. He frequently portrayed suave villains or morally ambiguous characters, such as Murdstone in David Copperfield (1935) and Sir Guy of Gisbourne in The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938). His most famous role, however, was heroic—that of Sherlock Holmes in fourteen Hollywood films made between 1939 and 1946 and in a radio series. His later career included Broadway and television work; he received a Tony Award in 1948 as Best Actor in a Play.

Cast

Son of Frankenstein

Baron Wolf von Frankenstein

The Spider Woman

Sherlock Holmes

Self (archival footage)

The Adventures of Robin Hood

Sir Guy of Gisbourne

Terror by Night

Sherlock Holmes

Dressed to Kill

Sherlock Holmes

We're No Angels

The Court Jester

The Mark of Zorro

Captain Esteban Pasquale

Above Suspicion

Sig von Aschenhausen

Sherlock Holmes and the Voice of Terror

Sherlock Holmes

The Hound of the Baskervilles

Sherlock Holmes

Autopsy of a Ghost

The Magic Sword

The House of Fear

Sherlock Holmes

The Pearl of Death

Sherlock Holmes

The Scarlet Claw

Sherlock Holmes

The Great Mouse Detective

Sherlock Holmes (voice)

The Woman in Green

Sherlock Holmes

The Horror Show

(archive footage)

The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad

Narrator (segment "The Wind in the Willows")

Tower of London

Richard - Duke of Gloucester

The Black Sleep

Sir Joel Cadman

Montague Hartley

Love from a Stranger

Sherlock Holmes

Dr. George Sebastian / Dr. Langamann

Tales of Terror

Carmichael ("The Case of M. Valdemar")

Professor Aristide

The Comedy of Terrors

Commissar Dimitri Gorotchenko

Sherlock Holmes in Washington

Sherlock Holmes

The Bishop Murder Case

Romeo and Juliet

David Copperfield

Mr. Edward Murdstone

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

Sherlock Holmes

Fingers at the Window

Cesar Ferrari / Dr. H. Santelle

The Dawn Patrol

A Tale of Two Cities

Marquis St. Evremonde

The Masked Bride

Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon

Sherlock Holmes

Trouping with Ellen

Tony Winterslip

The Loves of Mary, Queen of Scots

Undetermined Subordinate Role

One Precious Year

Hans Brinker or the Silver Skates

Pursuit to Algiers

Sherlock Holmes

Sherlock Holmes Faces Death

Sherlock Holmes

Alexei Alexandrovitch Karenin

Voyage to the Prehistoric Planet

Prof. Hartman, Lunar 7

The Last Hurrah

Norman Cass Sr.

Chief Inquisitor

Michael Michailow

Casanova's Big Night

Lucio / Narrator

The Ghost in the Invisible Bikini

Reginald Ripper

Hillbillys in a Haunted House

The Wind in the Willows

Narrator (voice)

The Adventures of Errol Flynn

Self / Various Roles (archive sound) (archive footage)

Rhythm on the River

Oliver Courtney

The Garden of Allah

Count Ferdinand Anteoni

Frenchman's Creek

Lord Rockingham

Frankenstein: A Cinematic Scrapbook

Baron Wolf von Frankenstein (archive footage)

The Adventures of Marco Polo

Sin Takes a Holiday

Reginald 'Reggie' Durant

A Notorious Affair

The Last Days of Pompeii

The Sun Never Sets

Ferdinand de Levis

The Lady of Scandal

The Flirting Widow

A Feather in Her Hat

Captain Randolph Courtney

The Last of Mrs. Cheyney

Lord Arthur Dilling

A Lady Surrenders

The Horror of It All

Carmichael (archive footage)

The General's Boots

A Christmas Carol

Victoria Regina

Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli (Lord Beaconsfield)

Soldier in Love

The Great Deception

A Woman Commands

Capt. Alex Pastitsch

International Lady

The Fruitful Vine

Don Cesare Carelli

Breakdowns of 1938

Basil (archive footage) (uncredited)

The Many Faces of Sherlock Holmes

Sherlock Holmes (archive footage)

Hedda Hopper’s Hollywood No. 6

The School for Scandal

A Christmas Carol

Amadis de Jocelyn

Two Before Zero

The Stingiest Man in Town

Ebenezer Scrooge

In the Footsteps of Sherlock Holmes

Basil (archive footage)

Affair in Sumatra

Mystic Prophecies and Nostradamus