BASIL RATHBONE

Basil Rathbone was born in 1892 in South Africa and started acting in 1911, and by 1920, he had achieved enough success that he could alternate between the New York and London stage. It was not until talking movies came in that his attention shifted to cinema (because of his great speaking voice), and he went to Hollywood and became a major star, but his greatest stardom did not happen until 1939 with his first Sherlock Holmes movie! 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, Son of Frankenstein (in the title role), The Mark of Zorro, The Dawn Patrol, Romeo & Juliet (nominated for the Best Supporting Actor Academy Award for this film) and If I Were King (nominated for the Best Supporting Actor Academy Award for this film) to name a few! He passed away in 1967 at the age of 75.