Around the World in 80 Days1956
As Reform Club Member
TMDb 6.7 / 10
Basil Sydney
Born
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 (46)
Treasure Island1950
As Captain Smollett
TMDb 6.5 / 10
Ivanhoe1952
As Waldemar Fitzurse
TMDb 6.8 / 10
The Dam Busters1955
As Air Chief Marshal Sir Arthur Harris G.C.B., O.B.E., A.F.C.
TMDb 6.9 / 10
Went the Day Well?1942
As Major Hammond / Kommandant Orlter
TMDb 7.1 / 10
The 3 Worlds of Gulliver1960
As Emperor of Lilliput
TMDb 6.6 / 10
Caesar and Cleopatra1945
As Rufio
TMDb 6.2 / 10
Hamlet1948
As Claudius - The King
TMDb 7.4 / 10
Salome1953
As Pontius Pilate
TMDb 5.8 / 10
Island in the Sun1957
As Julian Fleury
TMDb 6.5 / 10
The Devil's Disciple1959
As Lawyer Hawkins
TMDb 6.6 / 10
The Magic Box1952
As William Fox-Talbot
TMDb 6.5 / 10
John Paul Jones1959
As Sir William Young
TMDb 6.0 / 10
A Story of David1960
As King Saul
TMDb 5.4 / 10
The Hands of Orlac1960
As Maurice Seidelman
TMDb 4.4 / 10
Hell Below Zero1954
As Bland
TMDb 7.0 / 10
Sea Wife1957
As Bulldog
TMDb 5.6 / 10
The Next of Kin1942
As Naval captain
TMDb 5.0 / 10
Talk of the Devil1936
TMDb 8.0 / 10
The Riverside Murder1935
As Inspector Philip Winton
TMDb 5.5 / 10
Meet Me at Dawn1947
As Georges Vermorel
TMDb 7.5 / 10
Simba1955
As Mr Crawford
TMDb 6.6 / 10
The Angel with the Trumpet1950
As Francis Alt
TMDb 7.0 / 10
Star of India1954
As King Louis XIV
TMDb 4.4 / 10
Mayerling1957
As The Emperor Franz Joseph
TMDb 6.1 / 10
Accused1936
As Eugene Roget
TMDb 10.0 / 10
The Man Within1947
As Sir Henry Merriman
TMDb 6.8 / 10
The Four Just Men1939
As Frank Snell
TMDb 6.7 / 10
Dirty Work1934
As Hugh Stafford
TMDb 7.0 / 10
The Farmer's Wife1941
As Samuel Sweetland
TMDb 7.0 / 10
Romance1920
TMDb 9.5 / 10
The Black Sheep of Whitehall1942
As Costello
TMDb 8.2 / 10
The Tunnel1935
As Mostyn
TMDb 5.5 / 10
A Question of Adultery1958
As Sir John Loring
TMDb 4.5 / 10
The Amateur Gentleman1936
As Louis Chichester
TMDb 6.0 / 10
Spring Meeting1941
As James
TMDb 5.3 / 10
Jassy1947
As Nick Helmar
TMDb 5.2 / 10
Three's Company
Three's Company1953
As Dr. Graham
TMDb 9.0 / 10
Rhodes of Africa1936
As Dr. Jim Jameson
TMDb 7.5 / 10
Crime Over London1936
As 'Joker' Finnigan
TMDb 7.0 / 10
Ships with Wings1941
As Capt. Fairfax
TMDb 6.0 / 10
Red Hot Romance1922
As Rowland Stone
TMDb 10.0 / 10
Bits of Our Aircraft Are Missing
Bits of Our Aircraft Are Missing1940
As (uncredited)
TMDb 6.0 / 10
The Midshipmaid1932
As Cmdr. Fosberry
TMDb 7.0 / 10
Blind Man's Bluff
Blind Man's Bluff1936
As Dr. Peter Fairfax
TMDb 9.0 / 10
The Third Clue1934
As Reinhardt Conway
TMDb 5.0 / 10
Filmography and biography: TMDb