With his long slender features visible under a deerstalker hat and a smoking pipe in hand, actor Basil Rathbone is as synonymous with Sherlock Holmes as Baker street. One of Britain’s first ...

Actor Basil Rathbone, whose roles ranged from Shakespeare to Sherlock Holmes, died of a heart attack Friday in New York. He was 75. Mr. Rathbone’s career spanned 56 years, two continents and all ...

The actor was born William Henry Pratt in Victorian ... And Me" that he came up with it by combining Boris Karloff and Basil Rathbone (most famous for playing Sherlock Holmes) and that Clayface's ...

That actor was the amazing Basil Rathbone. In 1939 20th Century Fox acquired the rights to make The Hound Of The Baskervilles, and they cast Rathbone as Holmes; the casting of Watson was ...

“The people that saw Basil Rathbone play Sherlock Holmes then like ‘No one could ever do this!’ They’re gonna, though. It’ll get passed on to somebody.” The South African-born actor ...

Sir Basil Rathbone, KBE, MC, Kt (13 June 1892, Johannesburg – 21 July 1967, New York City) was an English actor. He rose to prominence in England as a Shakespearean stage actor and went on to ...

Winfield Scott in 1786 -- Irish poet/dramatist William Butler Yeats in 1865 -- British actor Basil Rathbone in 1892 -- British author Dorothy L. Sayers in 1893 -- Finnish runner Paavo Nurmi ...

While at summer camp in the Maine woods, little Bobby Breen befriends composer Basil Rathbone, who left the city to try and break his creative block, and is soon playing matchmaker for his widowed ...

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