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 Devil's 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 Olivier's 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 foc...
Around the World in 80 Days
1956
Crime Over London
1936
The Black Sheep of Whitehall
1942
The Third Clue
1934
The 3 Worlds of Gulliver
1960
Treasure Island
1950
Accused
1936
The Hands of Orlac
1960
Went the Day Well?
1942
Ivanhoe
1952
The Next of Kin
1942
The Man Within
1947
Hamlet
1948
Sea Wife
1957
The Dam Busters
1955
The Devil's Disciple
1959
Salome
1953
John Paul Jones
1959
Caesar and Cleopatra
1945
Rhodes of Africa
1936
The Magic Box
1952
Mayerling
1957
The Four Just Men
1939
Romance
1920
The Tunnel
1935
The Angel with the Trumpet
1950
Island in the Sun
1957
Simba
1955
Hell Below Zero
1954
Ships with Wings
1941
A Question of Adultery
1958
The Riverside Murder
1935
Jassy
1947
Dirty Work
1934
Spring Meeting
1941
Star of India
1954
Meet Me at Dawn
1947
The Farmer's Wife
1941
Talk of the Devil
1936