Basil Sydney
Acting
1894-04-23 · 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.
Filmography
Thursday Theatre
1964 · Series
Silent Evidence
1962 · Series
Drama 61-67
1961 · Series
The Hands of Orlac
1960 · Movie
A Story of David
1960 · Movie
The 3 Worlds of Gulliver
1960 · Movie
No Hiding Place
1959 · Series
The Devil's Disciple
1959 · Movie
John Paul Jones
1959 · Movie
A Question of Adultery
1958 · Movie
Sea Wife
1957 · Movie
Island in the Sun
1957 · Movie
Mayerling
1957 · Movie
Around the World in 80 Days
1956 · Movie
Armchair Theatre
1956 · Series
The Dam Busters
1955 · Movie
Simba
1955 · Movie
Hell Below Zero
1954 · Movie
Star of India
1954 · Movie
Three's Company
1953 · Movie
Salome
1953 · Movie
Ivanhoe
1952 · Movie
The Magic Box
1952 · Movie
Treasure Island
1950 · Movie
The Angel with the Trumpet
1950 · Movie
Hamlet
1948 · Movie
Jassy
1947 · Movie
The Man Within
1947 · Movie
Meet Me at Dawn
1947 · Movie
Caesar and Cleopatra
1945 · Movie
Went the Day Well?
1942 · Movie
The Next of Kin
1942 · Movie
The Black Sheep of Whitehall
1942 · Movie
Ships with Wings
1941 · Movie
The Farmer's Wife
1941 · Movie
Spring Meeting
1941 · Movie
Bits of Our Aircraft Are Missing
1940 · Movie
The Four Just Men
1939 · Movie
Accused
1936 · Movie
Talk of the Devil
1936 · Movie
Crime Over London
1936 · Movie
Rhodes of Africa
1936 · Movie
The Amateur Gentleman
1936 · Movie
Blind Man's Bluff
1936 · Movie
The Tunnel
1935 · Movie
The Riverside Murder
1935 · Movie
Dirty Work
1934 · Movie
The Third Clue
1934 · Movie
The Midshipmaid
1932 · Movie
Red Hot Romance
1922 · Movie
Romance
1920 · Movie