Biography
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 45
1960s
- 1960
1950s
- 1959
John Paul Jones
Sir William Young
- 1958
A Question of Adultery
Sir John Loring
- 1957
Sea Wife
Bulldog
Island in the Sun
Julian Fleury
Mayerling
The Emperor Franz Joseph
- 1956
Armchair Theatre
Pastor Manders · 1 episode
- 1955
The Dam Busters
Air Chief Marshal Sir Arthur Harris G.C.B., O.B.E., A.F.C.
Simba
Mr Crawford
- 1954
Hell Below Zero
Bland
- 1953
Salome
Pontius Pilate
- 1952
The Magic Box
William Fox-Talbot
- 1950
The Angel with the Trumpet
Francis Alt
1940s
- 1948
- 1947
Jassy
Nick Helmar
The Man Within
Sir Henry Merriman
Meet Me at Dawn
Georges Vermorel
- 1945
- 1942
Went the Day Well?
Major Hammond / Kommandant Orlter
The Next of Kin
Naval captain
The Black Sheep of Whitehall
Costello
- 1941
Ships with Wings
Capt. Fairfax
The Farmer's Wife
Samuel Sweetland
Spring Meeting
James
1930s
- 1939
The Four Just Men
Frank Snell
- 1936
Accused
Eugene Roget
Talk of the Devil
Movie
Crime Over London
'Joker' Finnigan
Rhodes of Africa
Dr. Jim Jameson
The Amateur Gentleman
Louis Chichester
- 1935
The Tunnel
Mostyn
The Riverside Murder
Inspector Philip Winton
- 1934
Dirty Work
Hugh Stafford
The Third Clue
Reinhardt Conway
- 1932
The Midshipmaid
Cmdr. Fosberry
1920s
- 1922
Red Hot Romance
Rowland Stone
- 1920
Romance
Movie