Basil Sydney

Known for ActingBorn 1894-04-23Died 1968-01-10 Essex, England, UK

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.Read more

Movies & web series

Accused

Red Hot Romance

Romance

Three's Company

Blind Man's Bluff

The Black Sheep of Whitehall

Talk of the Devil

Meet Me at Dawn

Hamlet

Rhodes of Africa

Went the Day Well?

Hell Below Zero

The Angel with the Trumpet

The Dam Busters

The Farmer's Wife

Crime Over London

Ivanhoe

Dirty Work

The Midshipmaid

The Man Within

Around the World in 80 Days

The Devil's Disciple

The 3 Worlds of Gulliver

Simba

Island in the Sun

The Four Just Men

Treasure Island

The Magic Box

Mayerling

Caesar and Cleopatra

John Paul Jones

Armchair Theatre

Ships with Wings

Bits of Our Aircraft Are Missing

Salome

The Amateur Gentleman

Sea Wife

A Story of David

The Tunnel

The Riverside Murder

Spring Meeting

Jassy

The Next of Kin

The Third Clue

No Hiding Place

A Question of Adultery

The Hands of Orlac

Star of India