Basil Sydney
- Recitazione
- 23 aprile 1894 · Essex, England, UK
- 10 gennaio 1968
Biografia
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.
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Filmografia
- Thursday Theatre · Sir Norman Tullis
- Silent Evidence · Dr. Martin Westlake
- Drama 61-67 · Mourtzinos
- Le mani dell'altro · Maurice Seidelman
- La storia di David · King Saul
- I viaggi di Gulliver · Emperor of Lilliput
- No Hiding Place
- Il discepolo del diavolo · Lawyer Hawkins
- Il grande capitano · Sir William Young
- A Question of Adultery · Sir John Loring
- La sposa del mare · Bulldog
- L'isola nel sole · Julian Fleury
- Mayerling · The Emperor Franz Joseph
- Il giro del mondo in 80 giorni · Reform Club Member
- Armchair Theatre · Pastor Manders
- I guastatori delle dighe · Air Chief Marshal Sir Arthur Harris G.C.B., O.B.E., A.F.C.
- Simba · Mr Crawford
- Inferno sotto zero · Bland
- Stella dell'India · King Louis XIV
- Three's Company · Dr. Graham
- Salomè · Pontius Pilate
- Ivanhoe · Waldemar Fitzurse
- Stupenda conquista · William Fox-Talbot
- L'isola del tesoro · Captain Smollett
- The Angel with the Trumpet · Francis Alt
- Amleto · Claudius - The King
- Jassy la zingara · Nick Helmar
- The Man Within · Sir Henry Merriman
- Meet Me at Dawn · Georges Vermorel
- Cesare e Cleopatra · Rufio
- E' andata bene la giornata? · Major Hammond / Kommandant Orlter
- The Next of Kin · Naval captain
- The Black Sheep of Whitehall · Costello
- Ships with Wings · Capt. Fairfax
- The Farmer's Wife · Samuel Sweetland
- Spring Meeting · James
- Bits of Our Aircraft Are Missing · (uncredited)
- The Four Just Men · Frank Snell
- Accused · Eugene Roget
- La voce del diavolo
- Crime Over London · 'Joker' Finnigan
- Rhodes of Africa · Dr. Jim Jameson
- The Amateur Gentleman · Louis Chichester
- Una vincita pericolosa · Dr. Peter Fairfax
- The Tunnel · Mostyn
- The Riverside Murder · Inspector Philip Winton
- Dirty Work · Hugh Stafford
- The Third Clue · Reinhardt Conway
- The Midshipmaid · Cmdr. Fosberry
- Red Hot Romance · Rowland Stone
- Romance