Basil Sydney
Acting
Born 1894-04-23
Died 1968-01-10
Essex, England, UK
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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.
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Filmography
Acting
47 credits
Thursday Theatre
Drama 61-67
Around the World in 80 Days
Treasure Island
Ivanhoe
The Dam Busters
Hamlet
Caesar and Cleopatra
The 3 Worlds of Gulliver
The Devil's Disciple
John Paul Jones
Salome
Hell Below Zero
Island in the Sun
Armchair Theatre
The Hands of Orlac
The Magic Box
Went the Day Well?
Star of India
Jassy
The Amateur Gentleman
The Man Within
Ships with Wings
The Next of Kin
Meet Me at Dawn
A Story of David
Sea Wife
The Midshipmaid
The Tunnel
Crime Over London
The Farmer's Wife
Dirty Work
The Black Sheep of Whitehall
The Four Just Men
The Angel with the Trumpet
Rhodes of Africa
Simba
The Riverside Murder
Accused
Red Hot Romance
A Question of Adultery
Three's Company
The Third Clue
Mayerling
Spring Meeting
Bits of Our Aircraft Are Missing
Blind Man's Bluff
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