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Basil Rathbone
Philip St. John Basil Rathbone was an English actor. Born in South Africa and raised in Derbyshire, he rose to prominence in the United Kingdom as a Shakespearean stage actor and went on to appear in more than 70 films, primarily costume dramas, swashbucklers, and, occasionally, horror films.
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entertainment · English actor (1892–1967) · character actor · stage actor · film actor · television actor · actor · voice actor · military officer · military personnel · also Basil Rathbone, Rathbone
Born 13 June 1892 · Died 21 July 1967 · Q336865
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2026· 1 entry
2012· 1 entry
Two letters Rathbone wrote to his family while he was serving on the Western Front were published
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1967· 1 entry
Died 1967-07-21.
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1965· 1 entry
Belmont Books issued the anthology Basil Rathbone Selects Strange Tales, a collection of horror stories by Poe, Hawthorne, Bulwer-Lytton, Charles Dickens, Allston Collins, Le Fanu, and Wilkie Collins
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1954· 1 entry
In which he played Marley's Ghost opposite Fredric March's Scrooge, and the original 1956 live action version of The Stingiest Man in Town (1956), in which he starred as a singing Ebenezer Scrooge
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1953· 1 entry
Rathbone played the detective in The Adventure of the Black Baronet, an episode of the anthology television series Suspense
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1949· 1 entry
Was also the narrator for the segment "The Wind in the Willows" in the Disney animated feature, The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr
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1948· 3 entries
Awarded Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play (1948).
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Shared the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play with two others
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Shared the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play for his performance as the unyielding Dr
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1946· 1 entry
Rathbone ceded his radio part to Tom Conway
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1940· 1 entry
This trend inspired a joke in The Ghost Breakers (1940), a film in which Rathbone does not appear: during a tremendous thunderstorm in New York City Bob Hope observes that "Basil Rathbone must be throwing a party." Actress Mrs Patrick Campbell described Rathbone as "two profiles pasted together".
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1934· 1 entry
To the US, where he appeared with Katharine Cornell in several plays
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1927· 1 entry
And 1930 and again in 1931, when he appeared on stage with Ethel Barrymore
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1926· 1 entry
Along with every other member of the cast of The Captive, a play in which his character's wife left him for another woman
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1925· 1 entry
Appearing in San Francisco in May and the Lyceum Theatre, New York, in October
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1921· 1 entry
In silent movies and appeared in 1923's The School for Scandal, and in The Masked Bride, plus a few other silents
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1918· 1 entry
Awarded Military Cross (1918).
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1892· 1 entry
Born 1892-06-13.
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