Basil Rathbone was a British character actor whose portrayal of Sherlock Holmes highlighted a long and varied stage and screen career. Upon graduating from Repton school in England in 1910, Rathbone made his stage debut in Shakespeare’s The Taming of th
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(1954), which starred Hope as an 18th-century Venetian tailor who pretends to beCasanova; lending colourful support wereBasil Rathbone,Vincent Price, and Raymond Burr.Public Pigeon No. 1(1957) was afeebleSkelton vehicle, but McLeod was able to wrap up his film career on a relatively high ...
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In 1939 Lanfield directed perhaps his best film, The Hound of the Baskervilles, which marked the debut of Basil Rathbone as Sherlock Holmes. Regarded as a classic, the film—which was based on Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s novel of the same name—was long the standard against which other Holme...