Acting · Essex, England, UK · Born April 23, 1894
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.
Silent Evidence
1962
Drama 61-67
1961
as Mourtzinos
MovieThe Hands of Orlac
1960
as Maurice Seidelman
MovieA Story of David
1960
as King Saul
MovieThe 3 Worlds of Gulliver
1960
as Emperor of Lilliput
TVNo Hiding Place
1959
MovieThe Devil's Disciple
1959
as Lawyer Hawkins
MovieJohn Paul Jones
1959
as Sir William Young
MovieA Question of Adultery
1958
as Sir John Loring
MovieSea Wife
1957
as Bulldog
MovieIsland in the Sun
1957
as Julian Fleury
MovieMayerling
1957
as The Emperor Franz Joseph
MovieAround the World in 80 Days
1956
as Reform Club Member
TVArmchair Theatre
1956
as Pastor Manders
MovieThe Dam Busters
1955
as Air Chief Marshal Sir Arthur Harris G.C.B., O.B.E., A.F.C.
MovieSimba
1955
as Mr Crawford
MovieHell Below Zero
1954
as Bland
MovieStar of India
1954
as King Louis XIV
Three's Company
1953
as Dr. Graham
MovieSalome
1953
as Pontius Pilate
MovieIvanhoe
1952
as Waldemar Fitzurse
MovieThe Magic Box
1952
as William Fox-Talbot
MovieTreasure Island
1950
as Captain Smollett
MovieThe Angel with the Trumpet
1950
as Francis Alt
MovieHamlet
1948
as Claudius - The King
MovieJassy
1947
as Nick Helmar
MovieThe Man Within
1947
as Sir Henry Merriman
MovieMeet Me at Dawn
1947
as Georges Vermorel
MovieCaesar and Cleopatra
1945
as Rufio
MovieWent the Day Well?
1942
as Major Hammond / Kommandant Orlter
MovieThe Next of Kin
1942
as Naval captain
MovieThe Black Sheep of Whitehall
1942
as Costello
MovieShips with Wings
1941
as Capt. Fairfax
MovieThe Farmer's Wife
1941
as Samuel Sweetland
MovieSpring Meeting
1941
as James
Bits of Our Aircraft Are Missing
1940
as (uncredited)
MovieThe Four Just Men
1939
as Frank Snell
MovieAccused
1936
as Eugene Roget
MovieTalk of the Devil
1936
MovieCrime Over London
1936
as 'Joker' Finnigan
MovieRhodes of Africa
1936
as Dr. Jim Jameson
MovieThe Amateur Gentleman
1936
as Louis Chichester
Blind Man's Bluff
1936
as Dr. Peter Fairfax
MovieThe Tunnel
1935
as Mostyn
MovieThe Riverside Murder
1935
as Inspector Philip Winton
MovieDirty Work
1934
as Hugh Stafford
MovieThe Third Clue
1934
as Reinhardt Conway
MovieThe Midshipmaid
1932
as Cmdr. Fosberry
MovieRed Hot Romance
1922
as Rowland Stone
MovieRomance
1920
