EXCLUSIVE: Rathbone - celebrated by many as the 'real' Holmes - has told how Sherlock was a curse that ruined his credibility as an actor ...

10 great movie swordfights 1. Errol Flynn and Basil Rathbone: “Captain Blood” (1935), “The Adventures of Robin Hood” (1938). Moviedom’s primo duelists. Ironically, villain Rathbone, who ...

Mr. Rathbone was born Philip St. John Basil Rathbone on June 13, 1892, in Johannesburg, South Africa, the son of a British engineer. His mother was a descendant of King Henry IV.