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.
Treasure Island
as Captain SmollettEnchanted by the idea of locating treasure buried by Captain Flint, Squire Trelawney, Dr....
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Ivanhoe
as Waldemar FitzurseSir Walter Scott's classic story of the chivalrous Ivanhoe who joins with Robin of Locksley in...
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Around the World in Eighty Days
as Reform Club MemberBased on the famous book by Jules Verne the movie follows Phileas Fogg on his journey around the...
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Hamlet
as Claudius - The KingWinner of four Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Actor, Sir Laurence Olivier’s...
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The Dam Busters
as Air Chief Marshal Sir Arthur Harris G.C.B., O.B.E., A.F.C.The story of the conception of a new British weapon for smashing the German dams in the Ruhr...
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The 3 Worlds of Gulliver
as Emperor of LilliputDoctor Gulliver is poor, so nothing - not even his charming fiancée Elisabeth - keeps him in the...
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Went the Day Well?
as Major Hammond / Kommandant OrlterThe quiet village of Bramley End is taken over by German troops posing as Royal Engineers. Their...
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The Devil's Disciple
as Lawyer HawkinsIn a small New England town during the American War of Independence, Dick Dudgeon, a...
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The Magic Box
as William Fox-TalbotNow old, ill, poor, and largely forgotten, William Freise-Greene was once very different. As...
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Caesar and Cleopatra
as RufioThe aging Caesar finds himself intrigued by the young Egyptian queen. Adapted by George Bernard...
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John Paul Jones
as Sir William YoungThe career of Revolutionary War naval hero John Paul Jones, from his youth in Scotland through...
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Salome
as Pontius PilateIn the reign of emperor Tiberius, Gallilean prophet John the Baptist preaches against King Herod...
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Mayerling
as The Emperor Franz JosephMayerling is the name of a notorious Austrian village linked to a romantic tragedy. At a royal...
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The Hands of Orlac
as Maurice SeidelmanFamed concert pianist Stephen Orlac survives a plane crash, but his hands are permanently...
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Simba
as Mr CrawfordA European family in East Africa finds itself caught up in an uprising by local black Africans...
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Sea Wife
as BulldogIn 1942, a cargo ship jammed with British evacuees from Singapore is sunk by a Japanese sub. A...
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The Four Just Men
as Frank SnellThe Four Men of the title are British WWI veterans who decide to work secretly against enemies...
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Hell Below Zero
as BlandDuncan Craig signs on a whaling ship, partly because his own business deal has fallen through,...
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Accused
as Eugene RogetTony and his dance partner/wife Gaby headline a Paris musical. Tony becomes the unwilling target...
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Island in the Sun
as Julian FleuryOn a Caribbean island, a rich landowner's son, Maxwell Fleury, is fighting for political office...
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Jassy
as Nick HelmarIn 19th century England, Jassy is a young Gypsy girl blessed with the gift of second sight....
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Meet Me at Dawn
as Georges VermorelA young man makes his living in Paris in 1900 by fighting duels on behalf of other parties. He...
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Star of India
as King Louis XIVSquire Pierre St. Laurent returns from wars in India to 17th-century provincial France to find...
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The Riverside Murder
as Inspector Philip WintonThis is a great rainy day/night murder mystery in a mansion that all whodunit lovers will...
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Ships with Wings
as Capt. FairfaxBefore the war, a Fleet Air Arm pilot is dismissed for causing the death of a colleague. Working...
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A Story of David
as King SaulDirected by Bob McNaught. King Saul of Israel is jealous of the fame and adoration of David, who...
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Dirty Work
as Hugh StaffordStaff in a jewellery store hatch a plan to catch a thief.
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The Tunnel
as MostynAn engineer leads the building of a trans-Atlantic tunnel linking Britain and the United States.
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Crime Over London
as 'Joker' FinniganWith the police on their tail, a gang of New York criminals decided to relocate to London where...
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Talk of the Devil
as uncreditedA ruthless businessman tries to steal his brother's successful shipping company. He hires a...
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The Next of Kin
as Naval captainWartime propaganda piece giving the warning "Be like Dad, Keep Mum". A gossipy housewife is...
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The Midshipmaid
as Cmdr. FosberrySir Percy Newbiggin visits the fleet to find ways to economize Naval expenditures. Daughter...
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The Black Sheep of Whitehall
as CostelloA professor teaching at a correspondence school discovers that a Nazi agent is trying to...
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The Angel with the Trumpet
as Francis AltSad tale of a woman who marries the man her family wishes her to wed, not Wooland, the man she...
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A Question of Adultery
as Sir John LoringMark Loring is madly jealous of his wife, Mary, former American cabaret singer. Due to an...
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The Man Within
as Sir Henry MerrimanA man goes on the run from hardened smugglers.
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Red Hot Romance
as Rowland StoneAfter his father's death, Roland Stone learns that his will stipulates that he must go to the...
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The Farmer's Wife
as Samuel SweetlandEden Philpotts' "provincial" comic novel and play The Farmer's Wife was first filmed in the...
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Spring Meeting
as JamesTiny Fox-Collier and her son, Tony, are broke. A cheery and handsome young man about town, Tony...
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The Amateur Gentleman
as Louis ChichesterA former boxing champion, now an innkeeper, is accused of stealing a watch from a party of...
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The Third Clue
as Reinhardt ConwaySet in an Old Dark House, a man is murdered in his study. With his dying breath, he tells his...
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No Hiding Place
as uncreditedNo Hiding Place is a British television series that was produced at Wembley Studios by...
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