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Basil Rathbone gives the definitive portrayal of the Sherlock Holmes character. The greatest to date for the big screen. I watch these movies over and over. ...
Basil Rathbone: His Life and His Films is once again available to buy! Michael Druxman's biography of Rathbone is well-researched and well-written--a "must have" for every Basil Rathbone fan. The book traces the fascinating life of the actor and provides detailed descriptions of all of Rathbone's films, including cast, credits, critics' reviews ...
This website exists to honor one of Hollywood's greatest screen and stage actors: Basil Rathbone. Perhaps best known for his portrayal of Sherlock Holmes in the 1930s and 1940s, Rathbone gave outstanding performances in many, many other films as well. Rathbone also appeared in many plays, and his voice could be heard in numerous radio ...
Basil Rathbone is again superlative in the role of Sherlock Holmes, infusing the detective with the color, mystery and genius which have made the character a byword all over the world. Nigel Bruce likewise is outstanding in the same character he portrayed in The Hound of the Baskervilles —the grumpy, lovable and sometimes blundering confidant ...
David Niven called Basil Rathbone the highest paid freelancer of the era. When factoring in the Holmes radio work — he and Nigel Bruce did more than 200 weekly shows— Rathbone’s yearly Holmes income probably approached $800,000 or so (still dealing in today’s dollar).
In 1939, he teamed up with Basil Rathbone for the first two Holmes/Watson movies, The Hound of the Baskervilles (1939) and The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1939), filmed at 20th Century Fox. Both films had an authentic period feel for Victorian England and the chemistry between the two stars was just right.
Born Philip St. John Basil Rathbone in Johannesburg, South Africa, to Edgar Philip Rathbone, a mining engineer, and his wife, Anna Barbara, a violinist. In 1895, his family was forced to return to Great Britain, when the Boers accused his father of being a British spy at a time when Dutch-British animosity would soon lead to the Boer War.
