Basil Rathbone - biography

“Sometimes I just crave to play in Shakespeare again and I know and love playing Orlando so much.”

“Could you let me have the 3 weeks due to me now and if I work again before August I must of course repay you at the rate of exchange you let me have it at now if you kindly will.”

“As one grows older one becomes more critical of oneself and less of other people.”

“I cannot tell you much about the picture- it depends on so many things, the first of which that comes to my mind is: splendid as he is, is there too much of Spencer Tracy.”

“Never regret anything you have done with a sincere affection; nothing is lost that is born of the heart.”

Basil Rathbone has appeared in the following films:
Innocent (1921)
The Fruitful Vine (1921)
The School for Scandal (1923)
The Loves of Mary, Queen of Scots (1923)
Trouping with Ellen (1924)
The Masked Bride (1925)
The Great Deception (1926)
The Last of Mrs. Cheyney (1929)
The Bishop Murder Case (1930)
This Mad World (1930)
A Notorious Affair (1930)
The Flirting Widow (1930)
The Lady of Scandal (1930)
A Lady Surrenders (1930)
Sin Takes a Holiday (1930)
A Woman Commands (1932)
After the Ball (1932)
One Precious Year (1933)
Loyalties (1933)
The Personal History, Adventures, Experience, & Observation of David Copperfield the Younger (1935)
Anna Karenina (1935)
The Last Days of Pompeii (1935)
A Feather in Her Hat (1935)
Kind Lady (1935)
Captain Blood (1935)
A Tale of Two Cities (1935)
Private Number (1936)
Romeo and Juliet (1936)
The Garden of Allah (1936)
Love from a Stranger (1937)
Confession (1937)
Make a Wish (1937)
Tovarich (1937)
The Adventures of Marco Polo (1938)
The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938)
If I Were King (1938)
The Dawn Patrol (1938)
Son of Frankenstein (1939)
The Hound of the Baskervilles (1939)
The Sun Never Sets (1939)
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1939)
Rio (1939)
Tower of London (1939)
Rhythm on the River (1940)
The Mark of Zorro (1940)
The Mad Doctor (1941)
The Black Cat (1941)
International Lady (1941)
Paris Calling (1941)
Fingers at the Window (1942)
Crossroads (1942)
Sherlock Holmes and the Voice of Terror (1942)
Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon (1943)
Sherlock Holmes in Washington (1943)
Above Suspicion (1943)
Sherlock Holmes Faces Death (1943)
Crazy House (1943)
The Spider Woman (1944)
The Scarlet Claw (1944)
Bathing Beauty (1944)
The Pearl of Death (1944)
Frenchman’s Creek (1944)
The House of Fear (1945)
The Woman in Green (1945)
Pursuit to Algiers (1945)
Terror by Night (1946)
Heartbeat (1946)
Dressed to Kill (1946)
The Wind in the Willows (1949)
The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad (1949)
Casanova’s Big Night (1954)
We’re No Angels (1955)
The Court Jester (1955)
The Black Sleep (1956)
The Last Hurrah (1958)
Mystic Prophecies and Nostradamus (1961)
The Black Cat (1961)
Ponzio Pilato (1962)
The Magic Sword (1962)
Tales of Terror (1962)
Two Before Zero (1962)
The Comedy of Terrors (1964)
Voyage to the Prehistoric Planet (1965)
Queen of Blood (1966)
The Ghost in the Invisible Bikini (1966)
Hillbillys in a Haunted House (1967)
Autopsia de un fantasma (1968)
The Great Mouse Detective (1986)