1894-04-23 ( 130 years old ) in 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.
Movies
The Hands of Orlac
1960-12-01
A Story of David
1960-12-01
The 3 Worlds of Gulliver
1960-11-30
The Devil's Disciple
1959-08-20
John Paul Jones
1959-06-16
A Question of Adultery
1958-07-15
Sea Wife
1957-08-20
Island in the Sun
1957-06-12
Mayerling
1957-02-04
Around the World in Eighty Days
1956-10-17
The Dam Busters
1955-05-16
Simba
1955-01-07
Hell Below Zero
1954-01-13
Star of India
1954-01-02
Three's Company
1953-10-26
Salome
1953-03-24
Ivanhoe
1952-07-31
The Magic Box
1952-01-01
Treasure Island
1950-07-19
The Angel with the Trumpet
1950-03-20
Hamlet
1948-12-10
Jassy
1947-08-13
The Man Within
1947-05-19
Meet Me at Dawn
1947-02-17
Caesar and Cleopatra
1945-12-11
Went the Day Well?
1942-12-07
The Next of Kin
1942-06-15
The Black Sheep of Whitehall
1942-02-23
Ships with Wings
1941-11-10
The Farmer's Wife
1941-04-20
Spring Meeting
1941-01-23
Bits of Our Aircraft are Missing
1940-01-01
The Four Just Men
1939-06-01
Accused
1936-12-18
Talk of the Devil
1936-12-09
Crime Over London
1936-10-21
Rhodes of Africa
1936-06-30
The Amateur Gentleman
1936-04-26
Blind Man's Bluff
1936-03-01
The Tunnel
1935-10-27
The Riverside Murder
1935-03-02
Dirty Work
1934-12-07
The Third Clue
1934-11-20
The Midshipmaid
1932-12-08
Red Hot Romance
1922-02-13
Romance
1920-05-16
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