Basil Sydney
Basil Sydney
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.
Acted Movies
Director: Jack Sher
Writers: Jack Sher,
Cast: Basil Sydney, Charles Lloyd Pack, Grégoire Aslan, Jo Morrow, June Thorburn, Kerwin Mathews, Lee Patterson, Marian Spencer, Martin Benson, Mary Ellis,
Director: Michael Anderson
Writers: R.C. Sherriff,
Cast: Basil Sydney, Charles Carson, Colin Tapley, Derek Farr, Ernest Clark, Michael Redgrave, Patrick Barr, Richard Todd, Stanley Van Beers, Ursula Jeans,
Director: Byron Haskin
Writers: Lawrence Edward Watkin,
Cast: Basil Sydney, Bobby Driscoll, Denis O'Dea, Finlay Currie, Geoffrey Keen, Geoffrey Wilkinson, John Laurie, Ralph Truman, Robert Newton, Walter Fitzgerald,
Director: Laurence Olivier
Writers: Laurence Olivier,
Cast: Basil Sydney, Eileen Herlie, Felix Aylmer, Jean Simmons, Laurence Olivier, Norman Wooland, Peter Cushing, Russell Thorndike, Stanley Holloway, Terence Morgan,
Director: Alberto Cavalcanti
Writers: Angus MacPhail,
Cast: Basil Sydney, C. V. France, David Farrar, Edward Rigby, Elizabeth Allan, Frank Lawton, Leslie Banks, Marie Lohr, Mervyn Johns, Valerie Taylor,