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.
Acting
Movie
Around the World in 80 Days
as Reform Club Member
1956
Movie
Hamlet
as Claudius - The King
1948
Movie
Treasure Island
as Captain Smollett
1950
Movie
Ivanhoe
as Waldemar Fitzurse
1952
Movie
The Dam Busters
as Air Chief Marshal Sir Arthur Harris G.C.B., O.B.E., A.F.C.
1955
Movie
The 3 Worlds of Gulliver
as Emperor of Lilliput
1960
Movie
Went the Day Well?
as Major Hammond / Kommandant Orlter
1942
Movie
Caesar and Cleopatra
as Rufio
1945
Movie
Salome
as Pontius Pilate
1953
Movie
The Devil's Disciple
as Lawyer Hawkins
1959
Movie
The Tunnel
as Mostyn
1935
Movie
The Magic Box
as William Fox-Talbot
1952
Movie
Island in the Sun
as Julian Fleury
1957
Movie
Simba
as Mr Crawford
1955
Movie
Sea Wife
as Bulldog
1957
Movie
The Riverside Murder
as Inspector Philip Winton
1935
Movie
John Paul Jones
as Sir William Young
1959
Movie
Jassy
as Nick Helmar
1947
Movie
The Hands of Orlac
as Maurice Seidelman
1960
Movie
The Next of Kin
as Naval captain
1942
Movie
Star of India
as King Louis XIV
1954
Movie
Mayerling
as The Emperor Franz Joseph
1957
Movie
The Black Sheep of Whitehall
as Costello
1942
Movie
The Four Just Men
as Frank Snell
1939