Biography: life and films
Basil Rathbone was a British actor whose birth name was Philip St. John Basil Rathbone. He was born in Johannesburg, South African Republic on 13th June 1892 and died in New York City, New York, USA on 21st July 1967, aged 75.His best films as an actor include Michael Curtiz's Captain Blood (1935), The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938), Alfred L. Werker's crime-thriller The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1939), Rouben Mamoulian's The Mark of Zorro (1940) and Roy William Neill's The Scarlet Claw (1944).
Basil Rathbone appeared in 84 films.
He has most frequently worked with the following directors: Roy William Neill (11 films), Rowland V. Lee (4), Michael Curtiz (3), Tim Whelan (2), Sidney Franklin (2), Paul L. Stein (2), Maurice Elvey (2), Jack Conway (2), George Cukor (2) and Curtis Harrington (2).
His most frequent genres include: drama (40 films), Thriller (23), comedy (17), crime-thriller (16), Horror (16), romance (13), history (5), comedy-romance (5), War (5), comedy-drama (2), Fantasy (2) and Animation (2).
Our average rating for Basil Rathbone over all films is: 3.0
Filmography
Key: a = actor
Innocent (1921) [a]
The Fruitful Vine (1921) [a]
The Loves of Mary, Queen of Scots (1923) [a]
The School for Scandal (1923) [a]
Trouping with Ellen (1924) [a]
The Masked Bride (1925) [a]
The Great Deception (1926) [a]
The Last of Mrs. Cheyney (1929) [a]
A Lady Surrenders (1930) [a]
A Notorious Affair (1930) [a]
Sin Takes a Holiday (1930) [a]
The Bishop Murder Case (1930) [a]
The Flirting Widow (1930) [a]
The Lady of Scandal (1930) [a]
This Mad World (1930) [a]
A Woman Commands (1932) [a]
After the Ball (1932) [a]
Loyalties (1933) [a]
One Precious Year (1933) [a]
A Feather in Her Hat (1935) [a]
A Tale of Two Cities (1935) [a]
Kind Lady (1935) [a]
The Last Days of Pompeii (1935) [a]
The Personal History, Adventures, Experience, & Observation of David Copperfield the Younger (1935) [a]
Private Number (1936) [a]
Romeo and Juliet (1936) [a]
The Garden of Allah (1936) [a]
Confession (1937) [a]
Love from a Stranger (1937) [a]
Make a Wish (1937) [a]
Tovarich (1937) [a]
If I Were King (1938) [a]
The Adventures of Marco Polo (1938) [a]
The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938) [a]
The Dawn Patrol (1938) [a]
Rio (1939) [a]
Son of Frankenstein (1939) [a]
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1939) [a]
The Hound of the Baskervilles (1939) [a]
The Sun Never Sets (1939) [a]
Tower of London (1939) [a]
Rhythm on the River (1940) [a]
International Lady (1941) [a]
Paris Calling (1941) [a]
The Black Cat (1941) [a]
The Mad Doctor (1941) [a]
Crossroads (1942) [a]
Fingers at the Window (1942) [a]
Sherlock Holmes and the Voice of Terror (1942) [a]
Above Suspicion (1943) [a]
Sherlock Holmes Faces Death (1943) [a]
Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon (1943) [a]
Sherlock Holmes in Washington (1943) [a]
Bathing Beauty (1944) [a]
Frenchman's Creek (1944) [a]
Heartbeat (1946) [a]
The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad (1949) [a]
Casanova's Big Night (1954) [a]
The Court Jester (1955) [a]
We're No Angels (1955) [a]
The Black Sleep (1956) [a]
The Last Hurrah (1958) [a]
Ponzio Pilato (1962) [a]
Tales of Terror (1962) [a]
The Magic Sword (1962) [a]
Two Before Zero (1962) [a]
The Comedy of Terrors (1964) [a]
Voyage to the Prehistoric Planet (1965) [a]
Queen of Blood (1966) [a]
The Ghost in the Invisible Bikini (1966) [a]
Hillbillys in a Haunted House (1967) [a]
Madhouse (1974) [a]
The Great Mouse Detective (1986) [a]
The very best period film dramas
The best French war films ever made
The best films of Ingmar Bergman
