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 in
Silent Evidence
1962
The Hands of Orlac
1960
as Maurice Seidelman
A Story of David
1960
as King Saul
The 3 Worlds of Gulliver
1960
as Emperor of Lilliput
No Hiding Place
1959
The Devil's Disciple
1959
as Lawyer Hawkins
John Paul Jones
1959
as Sir William Young
A Question of Adultery
1958
as Sir John Loring
Sea Wife
1957
as Bulldog
Island in the Sun
1957
as Julian Fleury
Mayerling
1957
as The Emperor Franz Joseph
Around the World in Eighty Days
1956
as Reform Club Member
The Dam Busters
1955
as Air Chief Marshal Sir Arthur Harris G.C.B., O.B.E., A.F.C.
Simba
1955
as Mr Crawford
Hell Below Zero
1954
as Bland
Star of India
1954
as King Louis XIV
Three's Company
1953
as Dr. Graham
Salome
1953
as Pontius Pilate
Ivanhoe
1952
as Waldemar Fitzurse
The Magic Box
1952
as William Fox-Talbot
Treasure Island
1950
as Captain Smollett
The Angel with the Trumpet
1950
as Francis Alt
Hamlet
1948
as Claudius - The King
Jassy
1947
as Nick Helmar
The Man Within
1947
as Sir Henry Merriman
Meet Me at Dawn
1947
as Georges Vermorel
Caesar and Cleopatra
1945
as Rufio
Went the Day Well?
1942
as Major Hammond / Kommandant Orlter
The Next of Kin
1942
as Naval captain
The Black Sheep of Whitehall
1942
as Costello
Ships with Wings
1941
as Capt. Fairfax
The Farmer's Wife
1941
as Samuel Sweetland
Spring Meeting
1941
as James
Bits of Our Aircraft are Missing
1940
as (uncredited)
The Four Just Men
1939
as Frank Snell
Accused
1936
as Eugene Roget
Talk of the Devil
1936
Crime Over London
1936
as 'Joker' Finnigan
Rhodes of Africa
1936
as Dr. Jim Jameson
The Amateur Gentleman
1936
as Louis Chichester
Blind Man's Bluff
1936
as Dr. Peter Fairfax
The Tunnel
1935
as Mostyn
The Riverside Murder
1935
as Inspector Philip Winton
Dirty Work
1934
as Hugh Stafford
The Third Clue
1934
as Reinhardt Conway
The Midshipmaid
1932
as Cmdr. Fosberry
Red Hot Romance
1922
as Rowland Stone
Romance
1920