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Basil Rathbone was a popular English screen actor (often in horror roles) from the 1920s to the 1960s. He is best remembered for playing Sherlock Holmes in the popular series beginning in 1939. Some of his other movies include: The Adventures of Robin Hood, A Tale of Two Cities, The Court Jester (in which he played a comic version of the role he had played many years earlier in Robin Hood), Captain Blood, The Mark of Zorro, The Dawn Patrol, Romeo & Juliet (in his nominated for Best Supporting Actor Academy Award role) and If I Were King (in his nominated for Best Supporting Actor Academy Award role) to name a few! AND Alan Hale, Sr. was born Rufus Alan MacKahan in Washington, D.C. in 1892. At 19 he got a part in a western, and under his stage name of Alan Hale he quickly settled in as one of the top character actors, appearing in over 80 movies between 1913 and 1917. He married actress Gretchen Hartman in 1914, and she herself appeared in 60 movies, but she pretty much retired when they had three children, one of whom was named Alan Hale Mackahan Jr., but was later called Alan Hale, Jr. Hale, Sr. took a break from movies from 1918 to 1921 (I could not discover what he was doing, but maybe he was just making babies!), but returned to making lots of movies, most notably appearing as Little John in the 1922 Robin Hood, opposite Douglas Fairbanks, Sr. In the mid-1920s, he temporarily quit acting again and he directed seven movies, but he soon returned to acting. He had supporting roles (sometimes very minor) in many of the most memorable films of the 1930s. He became great friends with Errol Flynn, and he appeared in 13 of his movies, most notably reprising his role as Little John in the 1938 The Adventures of Robin Hood, and though he was 16 years older, he looked little different. Hale continued appearing in movies throughout the 1940s, and ironically his final film came in 1950's Rogues of Sherwood Forest, where he played Little John for the third time, and he passed away soon after, having appeared in 236 movies in all! Meanwhile, his son, Alan Hale Jr. had grown to be almost a duplicate to his dad, and he appeared in many small film roles starting from 1941, but never in a movie with his dad. Sometime after his father passed away he dropped the "Jr", and of course he got his big break in 1964 when he was cast as Jonas Grumby in a new TV show called Gilligan's Island, and he was strongly identified with that character (known as 'The Skipper') the rest of his life.

Important Added Info: This cut album page has been personally autographed (signed) by BOTH Basil Rathbone AND Alan Hale Sr. (each star signed on a different side; see our images of both sides)! Our consignor purchased a collection of autographs that were obtained by a bartender at Club 21 in New York City named "Pat", and they were obtained starting in the 1940s. He did not receive a certificate of authenticity, but we have examined the signatures, and we feel sure they are authentic (and most of the ones from this collection are personalized "To Pat"). It could be matted with a vintage or repro still and framed together to make a cool display (but of course, you would have to choose which signature to display)!

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