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Basil Rathbone

English
Filmography

The Great Mouse Detective

1986
as Sherlock Holmes (voice)

The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad

1949
as Narrator (segment "The Wind in the Willows")

The Dawn Patrol

1938
as Major Brand

Captain Blood

1935
as Levasseur

Pontius Pilate

1962
as Caiaphas

Anna Karenina

1935
as Alexei Alexandrovitch Karenin

Tower of London

1939
as Richard - Duke of Gloucester

Sherlock Holmes in Washington

1943
as Sherlock Holmes

Kind Lady

1935
as Henry Abbott

Paris Calling

1941
as Andre Benoit

The Last Hurrah

1958
as Norman Cass, Sr.

The Mad Doctor

1940
as Dr. George Sebastian / Dr. Langamann

Private Number

1936
as Wroxton

A Feather in Her Hat

1935
as Captain Randolph Courtney

Soldier in Love

1967
as The Duke of York

Two Before Zero

1962
as Narrator

The Great Deception

1926
as Rizzio

The Last Days of Pompeii

1935
as Pontius Pilate

The Adventures of Robin Hood

1938
as Sir Guy of Gisbourne

The Garden of Allah

1936
as Count Ferdinand Anteoni

The Pearl of Death

1944
as Sherlock Holmes

The Black Sleep

1956
as Sir Joel Cadman

Cole Porter's Aladdin

1958
as Emperor

A Notorious Affair

1930
as Paul Gherardi

International Lady

1941
as Reggie Oliver

The Magic Sword

1962
as Lodac

Love from a Stranger

1937
as Gerald Lovell

The Comedy of Terrors

1963
as Mr. Black

David Copperfield

1935
as Mr. Murdstone

The Mark of Zorro

1940
as Captain Esteban Pasquale

Queen of Blood

1966
as Dr. Farraday

We're No Angels

1955
as Andre Trochard

The Fruitful Vine

1921
as Don Cesare Carelli

Fingers at the Window

1942
as Dr. H. Santelle

Make a Wish

1937
as Johnny Selden

The Flirting Widow

1930
as Col. Smith

Casanova's Big Night

1954
as Lucio / Narrator

A Tale of Two Cities

1935
as Marquis St. Evremonde

Rio

1939
as Paul Reynard

The Adventures of Errol Flynn

2005
as Himself / Various Roles (archive sound) (archive footage)

Confession

1937
as Michael Michailow

The Adventures of Marco Polo

1938
as Ahmed

This Mad World

1930
as Paul Parisot

A Christmas Carol

1954
as Marley's Ghost

The Black Cat

1941
as Montague Hartley

Tales of Terror

1962
as Carmichael

If I Were King

1938
as King Louis XI

Rhythm on the River

1940
as Oliver Courtney

Dressed to Kill

1946
as Sherlock Holmes

Pursuit to Algiers

1945
as Sherlock Holmes

The Scarlet Claw

1944
as Sherlock Holmes

Sherlock Holmes Faces Death

1943
as Sherlock Holmes

The Sun Never Sets

1939
as Clive Randolph

Bathing Beauty

1944
as George Adams

Breakdowns of 1938

1938
as Himself

Sherlock Holmes and the Voice of Terror

1942
as Sherlock Holmes

The Bishop Murder Case

1930
as Philo Vance

The Woman in Green

1945
as Sherlock Holmes

Voyage to the Prehistoric Planet

1965
as Prof. Hartman, Lunar 7

The Last of Mrs. Cheyney

1929
as Lord Arthur Dilling

Son of Frankenstein

1939
as Baron Wolf von Frankenstein

The Court Jester

1956
as Sir Ravenhurst

Frenchman's Creek

1944
as Lord Rockingham

Hillbillys in a Haunted House

1967
as Gregor

The Ghost in the Invisible Bikini

1966
as Reginald Ripper

Elementary My Dear Watson: The Man Behind Sherlock Holmes

2009
as Sherlock Holmes

Tovarich

1937
as Commissar Dimitri Gorotchenko

Captain Blood: A Swashbuckler Is Born

2005
as Various Roles

The Lady of Scandal

1930
as Edward Warrington

The House of Fear

1945
as Sherlock Holmes

Heartbeat

1946
as Professor Aristide

Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon

1942
as Sherlock Holmes

Romeo and Juliet

1936
as Tybalt - Nephew to Lady Capulet

Sherlock Holmes (1939)

1939
as Sherlock Holmes

Sin Takes a Holiday

1930
as Reginald 'Reggie' Durant

The Hound of the Baskervilles

1939
as Sherlock Holmes

Crossroads

1942
as Henri Sarrou

Terror by Night

1946
as Sherlock Holmes

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

1939
as Sherlock Holmes

The Wind in the Willows

1949
as Narrator

Above Suspicion

1943
as Sig von Aschenhausen

Autopsia de un fantasma

1968
as Canuto Pérez

A Woman Commands

1932
as Capt. Alex Pastitsch

The Spider Woman

1943
as Sherlock Holmes

Host

Movie Mystical Prophecies and Nostradamus 1961

Guest Star

Episode Burke's Law
Who Killed Hamlet? 		1965
Episode Dr. Kildare
To Walk In Grace 		1964
Episode Mystery Science Theater 3000
The Magic Sword 		1992
Episode I've Got a Secret
Basil Rathbone 		1956
Episode Suspense
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde 		1951
Episode I've Got a Secret
Basil Rathbone 		1952
Episode The Schlocky Horror Picture Show
Voyage To The Prehistoric Planet (1965) 		2010
Episode The Milton Berle Show
Basil Rathbone 		1954