Basil Rathbone
Birthday: 1892-06-13
Place of Birth: Johannesburg, South African Republic
Biography: Sir Basil Rathbone, KBE, MC, Kt (13 June 1892 – 21 July 1967), was an English actor. He rose to prominence in England as a Shakespearean stage actor and went on to appear in over 70 films, primarily costume dramas, swashbucklers, and, occasionally, horror films. He frequently portrayed suave villains or morally ambiguous characters, such as Murdstone in David Copperfield (1935) and Sir Guy of Gisbourne in The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938). His most famous role, however, was heroic—that of Sherlock Holmes in fourteen Hollywood films made between 1939 and 1946 and in a radio series. His later career included Broadway and television work; he received a Tony Award in 1948 as Best Actor in a Play.
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Son of Frankenstein
One of the sons of late Dr. Henry Frankenstein finds his father's ghoulish creation in a coma and re...
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The Spider Woman
Sherlock Holmes investigates a series of so-called "pajama suicides". He knows the female villain be...
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The Movie Orgy
Clips from assorted television programs, B-movies, commercials, music performances, newsreels, bloop...
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The Adventures of Robin Hood
Robin Hood fights nobly for justice against the evil Sir Guy of Gisbourne while striving to win the ...
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Terror by Night
Holmes and Watson board a passenger train bound from London to Edinburgh, to guard the Star of Rhode...
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Dressed to Kill
A convicted thief in Dartmoor prison hides the location of the stolen Bank of England printing plate...
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We're No Angels
Three convicts escape from prison on Devil's Island just before Christmas and arrive at a nearby Fre...
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The Court Jester
A hapless carnival performer masquerades as the court jester as part of a plot against a usurper who...
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The Mark of Zorro
In 1820 Spain, the son of a California nobleman comes home to find his native land under a villainou...
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Above Suspicion
Two newlyweds spy on the Nazis for the British Secret Service during their honeymoon in Europe....
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Sherlock Holmes and the Voice of Terror
England, at the start of World War Two. Mysterious wireless broadcasts, apparently from Nazi Germany...
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The Hound of the Baskervilles
When a nobleman is threatened by a family curse on his newly inherited estate, detective Sherlock Ho...
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Autopsy of a Ghost
Satan offers a weary ghost a chance for redemption through true love....
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The Magic Sword
The son of a sorceress, armed with weapons, armour and six magically summoned knights, goes on a que...
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The House of Fear
The Good Comrades are a collection of varied gentlemen who crave one thing - solitude. They reside a...
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The Pearl of Death
The famous Borgia Pearl, a valuable gem with a history of bringing murder and misfortune to its owne...
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The Scarlet Claw
When a woman is found dead with her throat torn out, the local villagers blame a supernatural monste...
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The Great Mouse Detective
When the diabolical Professor Ratigan kidnaps London's master toymaker, the brilliant master of disg...
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Rio
Diabolical French capitalist Paul Reynard is forced to leave Irene, his bride of one year, when he i...
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Queen of Blood
A spaceship is sent to Mars after an alien distress signal is picked up. They find one survivor, but...
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The Woman in Green
Sherlock Holmes investigates when young women around London turn up murdered, each with a finger sev...
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The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad
The Wind in the Willows: Concise version of Kenneth Grahame's story of the same name. J. Thaddeus To...
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Tower of London
In the 15th century Richard Duke of Gloucester, aided by his club-footed executioner Mord, eliminate...
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The Black Sleep
In 19th century England, a noted brain surgeon rescues a former student from being hanged on a false...
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The Black Cat
Greedy heirs wait in a mansion for a rich cat lover to die, only to learn her cats come first....
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Love from a Stranger
Ann Harding plays a lovely but somewhat naive young woman who goes on a European vacation after winn...
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Crazy House
Ole Olsen and Chic Johnson are Broadway stars who return to Universal Studios to make another movie....
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The Mad Doctor
A reporter sleuths the mystery behind an oft-married Viennese doctor whose wives met mysterious fate...
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Tales of Terror
Three stories adapted from the work of Edgar Allen Poe: 1) A man and his daughter are reunited, but...
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The Comedy of Terrors
An undertaker who hasn't had any 'customers' in a long time is forced to pay one year's back-rent. T...
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Crossroads
A French diplomat who's recovered from amnesia is blackmailed over crimes he can't remember....
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Tovarich
When upper-class Parisian Charles Dupont and his family hire Tina and Michel as their servants, they...
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Bathing Beauty
After breaking up with her fiancé, a gym teacher returns to work at a women's college, but a legal l...
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Sherlock Holmes in Washington
In World War II, a British secret agent carrying a vitally important document is kidnapped en route ...
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The Bishop Murder Case
The murders start with the body of Robin. He is found with a arrow through the heart, but Vance dedu...
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Romeo and Juliet
Young love is poisoned by a generations long feud between two noble families....
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David Copperfield
A young man journeys from a difficult childhood to maturity, exploring social injustice, personal de...
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Captain Blood
Dr. Peter Blood, unjustly convicted of treason and exiled from England, becomes a notorious pirate....
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The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
Having once again avoided criminal conviction, Professor Moriarity develops a murderous plan to “fin...
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Fingers at the Window
In Chicago, an unemployed actor aims to solve the mystery concerning a string of ax murders, apparen...
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The Dawn Patrol
In 1915 France, Major Brand commands the 39th Squadron of the Royal Flying Corps. The young airmen g...
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A Tale of Two Cities
Set against the conditions leading up to the French Revolution and the Reign of Terror, French docto...
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The Masked Bride
An American millionaire wants to reform a Parisian cabaret singer who moonlights as a jewel thief....
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Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon
In the midst of World War II, Sherlock Holmes rescues the Swiss inventor of a new bomb-sight from th...
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Trouping with Ellen
Ellen Llewellyn is a chorus girl who is loved by orchestra leader Andy Owens, a genuinely nice guy. ...
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The Loves of Mary, Queen of Scots
The Dauphin's widow weds a lord and is executed for plotting against the queen....
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One Precious Year
A classy woman has an affair with a rake after she learns that she has a terminal disease...
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Hans Brinker or the Silver Skates
In Holland, poor but industrious and honorable 15-year-old Hans Brinker and his younger sister yearn...
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Pursuit to Algiers
After the King of Rovenia has been assassinated, Holmes and Watson are engaged to escort his son to ...
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Sherlock Holmes Faces Death
During WWII several murders occur at a convalescent home where Dr. Watson has volunteered his servic...
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Anna Karenina
In Imperial Russia, Anna, wife of the officer Karenin, goes to Moscow to visit her brother. On the w...
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Voyage to the Prehistoric Planet
In 2020, after the colonization of the moon, the spaceships Vega, Sirius and Capella are launched fr...
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The Last Hurrah
In a changing world where television has become the main source of information, Adam Caulfield, a yo...
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The Lark
Adaptation of Jean Anouilh's 1952 play about Joan of Arc, the young girl who led the French to victo...
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Confession
Vera Kowalska is put on trial for murdering concert pianist Michael Michailow. In court it is reveal...
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Casanova's Big Night
Italy 1757, Pippo Popolino, a lowly tailor, disguises himself as the great Casanova in order to roma...
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The Ghost in the Invisible Bikini
A corpse has 24 hours to mastermind a good deed without leaving his crypt, to go "up there" and have...
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Paris Calling
Marianne Jannetier, a well-to-do Parisian, engaged to Andre Benoit, a high-ranking government offici...
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Hillbillys in a Haunted House
Country singers on their way to Nashville have car trouble, forcing them to stop at an old haunted m...
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The Wind in the Willows
This animated fairy tale for kids tells the classic story of a dapper, automobile loving fellow name...
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The Adventures of Errol Flynn
A documentary about the life of Errol Flynn, with recollections from friends and family....
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If I Were King
King Louis XI masquerades as a commoner in Paris, seeking out the treachery he is sure lurks in his ...
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Rhythm on the River
Popular songwriter Oliver Courtney has been getting by for years using one ghost writer for his musi...
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The Garden of Allah
The star-crossed desert romance of a cloistered woman and a renegade monk....
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Frenchman's Creek
An English lady falls in love with a French pirate after he kidnaps her from her ancestral home on t...
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Frankenstein: A Cinematic Scrapbook
Documentary with a treasure trove of rare footage and vintage trailers, offering a rich and unusual ...
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The Adventures of Marco Polo
The Venetian traveler Marco Polo meets Kublai Khan and foils a plotter with fireworks in medieval Ch...
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Sin Takes a Holiday
Dowdy Sylvia accepts her boss' marriage proposal, even though he only asked her to avoid marriage to...
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The Last Days of Pompeii
In this action-filled spectacle set in ancient Pompeii, a blacksmith becomes a Roman gladiator, thou...
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Pontius Pilate
The events that culminated with the Passion of Christ seen from the perspective of Pontius Pilate, t...
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Kind Lady
Mary, a woman with good intentions, takes pity on Henry, an artist with no home. What begins as a si...
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The Sun Never Sets
The Randolph family have a tradition of working in the British colonial service. Clive comes home fr...
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Make a Wish
While vacationing at a boys' camp, the rambunctious Chip Winters befriends a famed composer Johnny S...
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Loyalties
A houseguest at an upper-class gathering, wealthy Jew Ferdinand de Levis, is robbed of £1,000 with e...
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The Lady of Scandal
A famous British actress gets involved with two members of a reserved British noble family, whose pl...
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The Flirting Widow
An older daughter invents a fiancé so that her father will allow her younger sister to marry. Howeve...
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A Feather in Her Hat
After the woman who raised him claims he's not her son, Richard searches for clues about his identit...
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The Last of Mrs. Cheyney
There is a big charity function at the house of Mrs. Cheyney and a lot of society is present. With h...
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Private Number
Ellen Neal, a young and inexperienced maid, becomes romantically involved with her employers son whi...
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A Lady Surrenders
A wealthy industrialist's wife gets into a big argument with him; to cool off, she goes on an ocean ...
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The Horror of It All
A collection of film clips from horror movies and interviews with the actors and directors who made ...
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This Mad World
Parisot, a French spy in World War 1, returns home on a secret mission to visit his mother, and find...
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The General's Boots
A martinet of a general, one of his former officers, and a middle aged plane passenger find themselv...
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A Christmas Carol
Miser Ebenezer Scrooge is awakened on Christmas Eve by spirits who reveal to him his own miserable e...
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Victoria Regina
Julie Harris portrays the famed Queen Victoria over a 60 year span, from the age of 18 through her r...
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After the Ball
The wife of a diplomat in Geneva pretends to be a maid in order to continue her flirting with a hand...
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The Great Deception
Cyril Mansfield, a handsome young Englishman, is associated with the German Secret Service as a spy ...
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A Woman Commands
In order to keep his lover, Maria Draga, in luxury, Captain Alex Pastitsch contracts huge debts whic...
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International Lady
Tim Hanley, an American agent, posing as a lawyer with the United States Embassy in London, and Reg...
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The Fruitful Vine
An old knight weds his dead friend's daughter but she gives herself to an Italian Don to bear an hei...
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Breakdowns of 1938
Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1938....
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The Many Faces of Sherlock Holmes
This documentary examines the making of the Sherlock Holmes cinematic dynasty and includes interview...
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Hedda Hopper’s Hollywood No. 6
Narrator Hopper covers two war benefit affairs, a garden party and a USO fashion show, at Pickfair, ...
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The School for Scandal
An uncle poses as a usurer to learn which nephew deserves his fortune....
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A Christmas Carol
Miser Ebenezer Scrooge is awakened on Christmas Eve by spirits who reveal to him his own miserable e...
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Innocent
An orphan named Innocence leaves her county home after her foster-father dies. She travels to the c...
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Two Before Zero
A black-robed purveyor of communism is periodically interrupted by the questions of a white-robed ev...
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Aladdin
Cole Porter's version of the story of Aladdin--his only musical written especially for television....
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The Stingiest Man in Town
This is a musical version of Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol". Ebenezer Scrooge is given a chanc...
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In the Footsteps of Sherlock Holmes
Actor Patrick Macnee leads the viewer through London in the footsteps of the genius private investig...
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Madhouse
A horror movie star returns to his famous role after spending years in a mental institution, but the...
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Affair in Sumatra
On a rubber plantation in Sumatra, a woman of mixed Dutch and Indonesian parentage must choose betwe...
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Mystic Prophecies and Nostradamus
Basil Rathbone narrates this documentary that takes a look at the prophecies of Nostradamus....
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