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Philip St. John Basil Rathbone MC (13 June 1892 – 21 July 1967) was an Anglo-South African actor. He rose to prominence in the United Kingdom as a Shakespearean stage actor and went on to appear in more than 70 films, primarily costume dramas, swashbucklers , and, occasionally, horror films.
William Nigel Ernle Bruce (4 February 1895 – 8 October 1953) was a British character actor on stage and screen. [1] He was best known for his portrayal of Dr. Watson in a series of films and in the radio series The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, starring with Basil Rathbone as Sherlock Holmes in both.
Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce in Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon. A series of fourteen films based on Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes stories was released between 1939 and 1946; the British actors Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce played Holmes and Dr. John Watson, respectively.
Laurie Main portrays Watson, the medical associate/partner of Sherlock Holmes, who also lives above Basil. Unlike Rathbone, voice samples of Nigel Bruce were not used for the voice of Watson as he had died in 1953. [3] In addition to Bettin, Wayne Allwine, Tony Anselmo, and Walker Edmiston as Ratigan's thug guards.
Power and Basil Rathbone in their duelling scene from The Mark of Zorro (1940) (note: the movie was shot in black and white; this is the colorized version) In 1940, the direction of Power's career took a dramatic turn when his movie The Mark of Zorro was released. Power played the role of Don Diego Vega/Zorro, a fop by day, a bandit hero by night.
The Comedy of Terrors is a 1963 [1] American International Pictures horror comedy film directed by Jacques Tourneur and starring Vincent Price, Peter Lorre, Basil Rathbone, Boris Karloff and Joe E. Brown (in a cameo performance that also serves as his final film appearance).
With a taste for new wave, funk and alternative music, the five-piece act got their name from actor Basil Rathbone, who starred as Sherlock Holmes in a series of films spanning the early 1940s ...
David Copperfield, which also featured Basil Rathbone, Maureen O'Sullivan, W. C. Fields and Lionel Barrymore, was a success and made Bartholomew an overnight star. [19] He was subsequently cast in a succession of film productions with some of the most popular stars of the day.