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Basil Sydney (23 April 1894 – 10 January 1968) was an English stage and screen actor. Career [ edit] Basil Sydney and Doris Keane as Romeo and Juliet. 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.
Basil Sydney. Actor: Hamlet. The son of a stage manager, Basil Sydney entered the acting profession in 1909. His burgeoning career was interrupted by the outbreak of World War I, during which he saw action with the Norfolk Regiment in the British Army.
Basil Sydney. Actor: Hamlet. The son of a stage manager, Basil Sydney entered the acting profession in 1909. His burgeoning career was interrupted by the outbreak of World War I, during which he saw action with the Norfolk Regiment in the British Army.
A.F.C. 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.
Basil Sydney is an actor most teachers of Shakespeare immediately recognize; he played Claudius in Laurence Olivier’s benchmark 1948 film of Hamlet. His first stage appearance was in 1911 and his first part in Shakespeare was as Claudius in 1914 at the Old Vic.
Quick Reference. (1894–1968), actor. The distinguished English leading man first came to America with Granville Barker in 1914. He made several other trips in the 1920s and 1930s but is most remembered ...
Basil Sydney. Highest Rated: 100% Treasure Island (1950) Lowest Rated: 79% Ivanhoe (1952) Birthday: Apr 23, 1894. Birthplace: St. Osyth, Essex, England, UK.
Basil Sydney. Photo Gallery. 18 photos. Biography. The son of a stage manager, Basil Sydney entered the acting profession in 1909. His burgeoning career was interrupted by the outbreak of World War I, during which he saw action with the Norfolk Regiment in the British Army.
Basil Sydney was a actor who was born in 1894 in United Kingdom and died in 1968 known for Hamlet, Treasure Island, Salome, The 3 Worlds Of Gulliver, Caesar and Cleopatra, The Hands of Orlac, Hell Below Zero, Island in the Sun, Went the Day Well? and John Paul Jones
On the British stage from the age of 15, Basil Sydney first toured the U.S. in 1914, just before his army service in World War I. During the postwar years, Sydney established himself as a dependable leading man, rising to matinee idol status with the London stage hit Romance.
