Basil Rathbone: His Life and His Films
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To the average moviegoer, the name of Basil Rathbone conjures up an
image of fiction's most famous detective - Sherlock Holmes.
Certainly, of all the actors who have played the Baker Street
sleuth, his interpretation was definitive. Yet, for cinema
aficionados, the actor was much more than the personification of
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's character. He began his film career in
1921 in Innocent, which was one of several silent films in which he
appeared. He was also Mr. Murdstone in David Copperfield, Richard
III in Tower of London, Louis XI in If I Were King, Tybalt in Romeo
and Juliet, Captain Estaban Pasquale in The Mark of Zorro, Sir Guy
of Gisbourne in The Adventures of Robin Hood, and Baron Wolf von
Frankenstein in Son of Frankenstein. For most of his years in
motion pictures, Rathbone was the victim of type casting. During
the 1930s, he was known as the screen's ultimate villain,
constantly in demand by producers to carry out dastardly deeds
against such heroes as Errol Flynn, Tyrone Power, Ronald Colman,
Gary Cooper, and Leslie Howard. He also appeared opposite such
leading ladies as Greta Garbo, Norma Shearer, Loretta Young, Olivia
de Havilland, and Joan Crawford. Rathbone earned Academy Award
nominations for Best Actor in a Supporting Role for his
performances as Tybalt in Romeo and Juliet (1936) and as King Louis
XI in If I Were King (1938). He portrayed Sherlock Holmes in
fourteen Hollywood films made between 1939 and 1946 and in an Old
Time Radio series. His later career included roles on Broadway, as
well as television work. He received a Tony Award in 1948 as Best
Actor in a Play. Through the 1950s and 1960s, he appeared on
television as a panelist on the game show The Name's the Same (in
1954), and he also took roles in cheap film thrillers of far lesser
quality, such as The Black Sleep (1956), Queen of Blood (1966), The
Ghost in the Invisible Bikini (1966), Hillbillys in a Haunted House
(1967, also featuring Lon Chaney Jr and John Carradine.), and his
last film, a low-budget, Mexican horror film called Autopsy of a
Ghost (1968). He is also known for his spoken word recordings,
including his interpretation of Clement C. Moore's The Night Before
Christmas. Rathbone's readings of the stories and poems of Edgar
Allan Poe are collected together with readings by Vincent Price in
Caedmon Audio's The Edgar Allan Poe Audio Collection on CD.
Rathbone also made many other recordings, of everything from a
dramatised version of Oliver Twist to a recording of Prokofiev's
Peter and the Wolf (with Leopold Stokowski conducting) to a
dramatised version of Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol. On
television he appeared in two musical versions of Dickens's A
Christmas Carol: one in 1954, in which he played Marley's Ghost
opposite Fredric March's Scrooge, and the original 1956 live-action
version of The Stingiest Man In Town, in which he starred as a
singing Ebenezer Scrooge. In the 1960s, he also toured with a
one-man show titled (like his autobiography) In and Out of
Character. In this show, he recited poetry and Shakespeare, as well
as reminisced about his life and career. He appeared with Vincent
Price and Boris Karloff, in Tower of London (1939) and The Comedy
of Terrors (1964). The latter was the only film to feature the Big
Four of American International Pictures' horror films: Out-of-print
for over thirty-five years, Michael B. Druxman's Basil Rathbone:
His Life and His Films is a carefully researched work that
thoroughly examines the life and professional career of one of
Hollywood's most respected character actors. This new edition
includes an Introduction by the author, a Biography, Filmography,
and more than 250 rare photographs.
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