Karloff again enjoyed sending up his image in Roger Corman's Edgar Allan Poe spoof, The Raven , and The Comedy of Terrors , where he appeared with fellow screen bad guys Peter Lorre, Basil Rathbone, and Vincent Price. One of Karloff's best roles came almost at the last, more or less ...
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Basil Rathbone(born June 13, 1892,Johannesburg, S.Af.—died July 21, 1967,New York, N.Y., U.S.) was a British character actor whose portrayal ofSherlock Holmeshighlighted a long and varied stage and screen career. Upon graduating from Repton school in England in 1910, Rathbone made his...
Lanfield directed perhaps his best film,The Hound of the Baskervilles, which marked the debut ofBasil RathboneasSherlock Holmes. Regarded as a classic, the film—which was based onSir Arthur Conan Doyle’snovel of the same name—was long the standard against which other Holmes films were ...
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