Basil Rathbone

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Basil Rathbone

AKA Philip St. John Basil Rathbone

Born: 13-Jun-1892
Birthplace: Johannesburg, South Africa
Died: 21-Jul-1967
Location of death: New York City
Cause of death: Heart Failure
Remains: Buried, Ferncliff Cemetery, Hartsdale, NY

Gender: Male
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Actor

Nationality: England
Executive summary: Played original Sherlock Holmes

Military service: British Army (1916-18)

Father: Edgar Philip Rathbone (mining engineer, perhaps British spy, d. 13-Jun-1924)
Mother: Anna Barbara (violinist, d. 1917)
Sister: Beatrice
Brother: John (d., World War II)
Wife: Marion Foreman (m. Oct-1914, div. 1926)
Wife: Ouida Bergere (m. 18-Apr-1926, d. 29-Nov-1974)
Son: Rodion Rathbone (actor, b. Jul-1915, by Foreman)
Daughter: Cynthia (adopted, to Bergere, b. 1939, d. 1969)

High School: Repton School, Repton, Derby, England (1910)

Endorsement of Liggett Group Chesterfield cigarettes
Endorsement of Liggett Group Fatima cigarettes
Obscenity performing the play The Captive with lesbian characters, New York City 1920s, charges dropped
Risk Factors: Smoking

FILMOGRAPHY AS ACTOR
Hillbillys in a Haunted House (1967)
The Ghost in the Invisible Bikini (6-Apr-1966)
Queen of Blood (Mar-1966)
Voyage to the Prehistoric Planet (1-Aug-1965)
The Comedy of Terrors (22-Jan-1964)
Tales of Terror (4-Jul-1962)
The Magic Sword (26-Feb-1962)
The Last Hurrah (24-Oct-1958)
The Black Sleep (Jun-1956)
The Court Jester (27-Jan-1956)
We're No Angels (7-Jul-1955)
Casanova's Big Night (12-Apr-1954)
The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad (5-Oct-1949) [VOICE]
Dressed to Kill (7-Jun-1946)
Terror by Night (1-Feb-1946)
Pursuit to Algiers (26-Oct-1945)
The Woman in Green (27-Jul-1945)
Sherlock Holmes and the House of Fear (16-Mar-1945)
Frenchman's Creek (20-Sep-1944)
The Pearl of Death (1-Aug-1944)
Bathing Beauty (27-Jun-1944)
The Scarlet Claw (26-May-1944)
Sherlock Holmes and the Spider Woman (21-Jan-1944)
Sherlock Holmes Faces Death (17-Sep-1943)
Above Suspicion (6-Aug-1943)
Sherlock Holmes in Washington (19-Apr-1943)
Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon (4-Jan-1943)
Sherlock Holmes and the Voice of Terror (18-Sep-1942)
Crossroads (23-Jul-1942)
The Black Cat (2-May-1941)
The Mark of Zorro (1-Nov-1940)
Tower of London (17-Nov-1939)
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1-Sep-1939)
The Hound of the Baskervilles (31-Mar-1939)
Son of Frankenstein (13-Jan-1939)
The Dawn Patrol (24-Dec-1938)
If I Were King (11-Nov-1938)
The Adventures of Robin Hood (14-May-1938)
The Adventures of Marco Polo (7-Apr-1938)
Tovarich (25-Dec-1937)
Love from a Stranger (18-Apr-1937)
The Garden of Allah (15-Oct-1936)
Romeo and Juliet (20-Aug-1936)
A Tale of Two Cities (25-Dec-1935)
Captain Blood (19-Dec-1935)
The Last Days of Pompeii (18-Oct-1935)
Anna Karenina (30-Aug-1935)
David Copperfield (8-Jan-1935)

Author of books:
In and Out of Character (1962, Doubleday, autobiography)

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