Basil Sydney
Acting
Born April 23, 1894 · Essex, England, UK
Biography
Basil Sydney (23 April 1894 – 10 January 1968) was an English stage and screen actor. Sydney made his name in 1915 in the London stage hit Romance by Edward Sheldon, with Broadway star Doris Keane, and he costarred with Keane in the 1920 silent film of the play. The couple married in 1918, and when Keane revived Romance in New York City in 1921, Sydney made his Broadway debut in the parts. He stayed in New York for over a decade playing classical roles such as Mercutio in Romeo and Juliet (1922), Richard Dudgeon in The Devil's Disciple (1923), the title role in Hamlet (1923), Prince Hal in He…
Known For · 40 titles
No Hiding Place
Drama 61-67
Thursday Theatre
Around the World in 80 Days
Treasure Island
Ivanhoe
Hamlet
Armchair Theatre
The Dam Busters
The Devil's Disciple
Silent Evidence
Caesar and Cleopatra
The 3 Worlds of Gulliver
John Paul Jones
The Hands of Orlac
Salome
Meet Me at Dawn
Hell Below Zero
Went the Day Well?
Talk of the Devil
Island in the Sun
The Black Sheep of Whitehall
Red Hot Romance
The Magic Box
Sea Wife
The Amateur Gentleman
Three's Company
Romance
Ships with Wings
The Man Within
The Angel with the Trumpet
The Next of Kin
Star of India
Rhodes of Africa
Jassy
Mayerling
Simba
A Question of Adultery
Blind Man's Bluff
The Tunnel