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23 Apr 1894

Essex, England, UK

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Basil Sydney

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.

Around the World in Eighty Days

17 October 1956

Hamlet

10 December 1948

Treasure Island

19 July 1950

Ivanhoe

31 July 1952

The Dam Busters

16 May 1955

The 3 Worlds of Gulliver

30 November 1960

Went the Day Well?

7 December 1942

Caesar and Cleopatra

11 December 1945

Salome

24 March 1953

The Devil's Disciple

20 August 1959