

Acting
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...
Highest rated appearances
The Devil's Disciple
as Lawyer Hawkins

Hamlet
as Claudius - The King

Jassy
as Nick Helmar

The Man Within
as Sir Henry Merriman

Meet Me at Dawn
as Georges Vermorel

Caesar and Cleopatra
as Rufio

Went the Day Well?
as Major Hammond / Kommandant Orlter

The Next of Kin
as Naval captain

The Black Sheep of Whitehall
as Costello

Ships with Wings
as Capt. Fairfax

The Farmer's Wife
as Samuel Sweetland

Spring Meeting
as James
Bits of Our Aircraft Are Missing
as (uncredited)

The Four Just Men
as Frank Snell

Accused
as Eugene Roget

Talk of the Devil

Crime Over London
as 'Joker' Finnigan

Rhodes of Africa
as Dr. Jim Jameson

The Amateur Gentleman
as Louis Chichester
Blind Man's Bluff
as Dr. Peter Fairfax

The Tunnel
as Mostyn

The Riverside Murder
as Inspector Philip Winton

Dirty Work
as Hugh Stafford

The Third Clue
as Reinhardt Conway

The Midshipmaid
as Cmdr. Fosberry