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Basil Sydney
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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 star…
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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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The Hands of Orlac
as Maurice Seidelman
A Story of David
as King Saul
The 3 Worlds of Gulliver
as Emperor of Lilliput
The Devil's Disciple
as Lawyer Hawkins
John Paul Jones
as Sir William Young
A Question of Adultery
as Sir John Loring
Sea Wife
as Bulldog
Island in the Sun
as Julian Fleury
Mayerling
as The Emperor Franz Joseph
Around the World in 80 Days
as Reform Club Member
The Dam Busters
as Air Chief Marshal Sir Arthur Harris G.C.B., O.B.E., A.F.C.
Simba
as Mr Crawford
Hell Below Zero
as Bland
Star of India
as King Louis XIV
No Poster
Three's Company
as Dr. Graham
Salome
as Pontius Pilate
Ivanhoe
as Waldemar Fitzurse
The Magic Box
as William Fox-Talbot
Treasure Island
as Captain Smollett
The Angel with the Trumpet
as Francis Alt
Hamlet
as Claudius - The King
Jassy
as Nick Helmar
The Man Within
as Sir Henry Merriman
Meet Me at Dawn
as Georges Vermorel
Caesar and Cleopatra
as Rufio
Went the Day Well?
as Major Hammond / Kommandant Orlter
The Next of Kin
as Naval captain
The Black Sheep of Whitehall
as Costello
Ships with Wings
as Capt. Fairfax
The Farmer's Wife
as Samuel Sweetland
Spring Meeting
as James
No Poster
Bits of Our Aircraft Are Missing
as (uncredited)
The Four Just Men
as Frank Snell
Accused
as Eugene Roget
Talk of the Devil
Crime Over London
as 'Joker' Finnigan
Rhodes of Africa
as Dr. Jim Jameson
The Amateur Gentleman
as Louis Chichester
No Poster
Blind Man's Bluff
as Dr. Peter Fairfax
The Tunnel
as Mostyn
The Riverside Murder
as Inspector Philip Winton
Dirty Work
as Hugh Stafford
The Third Clue
as Reinhardt Conway
The Midshipmaid
as Cmdr. Fosberry
Red Hot Romance
as Rowland Stone
