Basil Sydney
Birthday
1894/04/23
Day of death
1968/01/10 (73 years old)
Gender
Male
Place of Birth
Essex, England, UK
Also know as
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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...Read more
Acting
(1942) Went the Day Well?
as Major Hammond / Kommandant Orlter
(1950) Treasure Island
as Captain Smollett
(1945) Caesar and Cleopatra
as Rufio
(1952) Ivanhoe
as Waldemar Fitzurse
(1953) Salome
as Pontius Pilate
(1947) Meet Me at Dawn
as Georges Vermorel
(1922) Red Hot Romance
as Rowland Stone
(1960) The Hands of Orlac
as Maurice Seidelman
(1955) Simba
as Mr Crawford
(1940) Bits of Our Aircraft are Missing
as (uncredited)
(1957) Sea Wife
as Bulldog
(1954) Hell Below Zero
as Bland
(1936) Accused
as Eugene Roget
(1942) The Black Sheep of Whitehall
as Costello
(1960) A Story of David
as King Saul
(1957) Mayerling
as The Emperor Franz Joseph
(1935) The Riverside Murder
as Inspector Philip Winton
(1947) Jassy
as Nick Helmar
(1950) The Angel with the Trumpet
as Francis Alt
(1934) Dirty Work
as Hugh Stafford
(1955) The Dam Busters
as Air Chief Marshal Sir Arthur Harris G.C.B., O.B.E., A.F.C.
(1960) The 3 Worlds of Gulliver
as Emperor of Lilliput
(1936) The Amateur Gentleman
as Louis Chichester
(1936) Blind Man's Bluff
as Dr. Peter Fairfax
(1932) The Midshipmaid
as Cmdr. Fosberry
(1939) The Four Just Men
as Frank Snell
(1935) The Tunnel
as Mostyn
(1948) Hamlet
as Claudius - The King
(1953) Three's Company
as Dr. Graham
(1934) The Third Clue
as Reinhardt Conway
(1936) Rhodes of Africa
as Dr. Jim Jameson
(1941) Spring Meeting
as James
(1941) Ships with Wings
as Capt. Fairfax
(1942) The Next of Kin
as Naval captain
(1941) The Farmer's Wife
as Samuel Sweetland
(1956) Around the World in Eighty Days
as Reform Club Member
(1954) Star of India
as King Louis XIV
(1952) The Magic Box
as William Fox-Talbot
(1936) Crime Over London
as 'Joker' Finnigan
(1959) The Devil's Disciple
as Lawyer Hawkins
(1936) Talk of the Devil
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(1959) John Paul Jones
as Sir William Young
(1920) Romance
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(1957) Island in the Sun
as Julian Fleury
(1947) The Man Within
as Sir Henry Merriman
(1958) A Question of Adultery
as Sir John Loring
(1959) No Hiding Place
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(1962) Silent Evidence
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