Basil Sydney
Acting
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.
Born: April 23, 1894
Place of Birth: Essex, England, UK
Known For
Filmography
as King Saul
as Maurice Seidelman
as Emperor of Lilliput
as Lawyer Hawkins
as Sir William Young
as Sir John Loring
as Bulldog
as Julian Fleury
as The Emperor Franz Joseph
as Reform Club Member
as Air Chief Marshal Sir Arthur Harris G.C.B., O.B.E., A.F.C.
as Mr Crawford
as Bland
as King Louis XIV
as Pontius Pilate
as Waldemar Fitzurse
as William Fox-Talbot
as Captain Smollett
as Francis Alt
as Claudius - The King
as Nick Helmar
as Sir Henry Merriman
as Georges Vermorel
as Rufio
as Major Hammond / Kommandant Orlter
as Naval captain
as Costello
as Capt. Fairfax
as Samuel Sweetland
as James
as Frank Snell
as Eugene Roget
as 'Joker' Finnigan
as Dr. Jim Jameson
as Louis Chichester
as Mostyn
as Inspector Philip Winton
as Hugh Stafford
as Reinhardt Conway
as Cmdr. Fosberry
as Rowland Stone