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Showing posts with label Sir Philip St. John Basil Rathbone. Show all posts
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Friday, August 10, 2012

Basil Rathbone

Sir Philip St. John Basil Rathbone, KBE MC, (13 June 1892 – 21 July 1967) was a South African-born British actor. He rose to prominence in England as a Shakespearean stage actor and went on to appear in over 70 films, primarily costume dramas, swashbucklers, and, occasionally, horror films.
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photo from "The Hound of the Baskervilles," copyright 20th Century Fox