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. The couple married in 1918, and when Keane revived Romance in New York City in 1921, Sydney made his Broadway debut in the parts. He stayed in New York for over a decade playing classical roles such as Mercutio in Romeo and Juliet (1922), Richard Dudgeon in The Devils Disciple (1923), the title role in Hamlet (1923), Prince Hal in Henry IV, Part I (1926), and Petruchio in Taming of the Shrew (1927).[citation needed] In 1937 he starred in the murder mystery Blondie White in the West End.He made over 50 screen appearances, most memorably as Claudius in Laurence Oliviers 1948 film of Hamlet. He also appeared in classic films like Treasure Island (1950), Ivanhoe (1952), and Around the World in Eighty Days (1956), but the focus of his career was the stage on both sides of the Atlantic.
Major Hammond / Kommandant Orlter
Film 1942
Pontius Pilate
Film 1953
Georges Vermorel
Film 1947
Rowland Stone
Film 1922
Maurice Seidelman
Film 1960
Mr Crawford
Film 1955
(uncredited)
Film 1940
Bulldog
Film 1957
Eugene Roget
Film 1936
King Saul
Film 1960
The Emperor Franz Joseph
Film 1957
Inspector Philip Winton
Film 1935
Nick Helmar
Film 1947
Francis Alt
Film 1950
Hugh Stafford
Film 1934
Air Chief Marshal Sir Arthur Harris G.C.B., O.B.E., A.F.C.
Film 1955
Emperor of Lilliput
Film 1960
Louis Chichester
Film 1936
Dr. Peter Fairfax
Film 1936
Cmdr. Fosberry
Film 1932
Frank Snell
Film 1939
Mostyn
Film 1935
Dr. Graham
Film 1953
Reinhardt Conway
Film 1934
Dr. Jim Jameson
Film 1936
James
Film 1941
Capt. Fairfax
Film 1941
Naval captain
Film 1942
Samuel Sweetland
Film 1941
King Louis XIV
Film 1954
'Joker' Finnigan
Film 1936
Lawyer Hawkins
Film 1959
Film 1936
Film 1920
Julian Fleury
Film 1957
Sir Henry Merriman
Film 1947
Sir John Loring
Film 1958
Tv 1959
Tv 1962