Line #9 Creator/BasilRathbone


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3	->''"Never regret anything you have done with a sincere affection; nothing is lost that is born of the heart."''
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5	Philip St. John Basil Rathbone [[UsefulNotes/KnightFever MC]] (13 June 1892 – 21 July 1967) was a South African-born English actor best known for his portrayal of Literature/SherlockHolmes in [[Film/TheBakerStreetDozen fourteen Hollywood films]] and in [[Radio/TheNewAdventuresOfSherlockHolmes a radio series]].
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7	When he wasn't playing Holmes, he was often playing sneering villains. A real-life MasterSwordsman, he got cast in a lot of swashbucklers (where he almost always lost those sword fights to the likes of Creator/ErrolFlynn).
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10	!!Roles with TV Tropes pages:
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13	[[folder:Film roles]]
14	* ''Film/SinTakesAHoliday'' (1930) as Reginald 'Reggie' Durant
15	* ''Film/{{David Copperfield\|1935}}'' (1935) as Mr. Murdstone
16	* ''Film/{{Anna Karenina\|1935}}'' (1935) as Karenin
17	* ''Film/{{A Tale of Two Cities\|1935}}'' (1935) as Marquis St. Evremonde
18	* ''Film/CaptainBlood'' (1935) as Levasseur
19	* ''Film/{{Romeo and Juliet\|1936}}'' (1936) as Tybalt
20	* ''Film/{{Tovarich}}'' (1937) as Commissar Dimitri Gorotchenko
21	* ''Film/TheAdventuresOfRobinHood'' (1938) as Sir Guy of Gisbourne
22	* ''Film/TheDawnPatrol'' (1938) as Maj. Brand
23	* ''Film/SonOfFrankenstein'' (1939) as Baron Wolf von Frankenstein
24	* ''Film/TheHoundOfTheBaskervilles'' (1939) as Franchise/SherlockHolmes
25	* ''Film/{{The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes\|1939}}'' (1939) as Sherlock Holmes
26	* ''Film/TowerOfLondon'' (1939) as [[UsefulNotes/RichardIII Richard, Duke of Gloucester]]
27	* ''Film/{{The Mark of Zorro\|1940}}'' (1940) as Capt. Esteban Pasquale
28	* ''Film/TheBakerStreetDozen'' as Sherlock Holmes
29	** ''Sherlock Holmes and the Voice of Terror'' (1942)
30	** ''Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon'' (1943)
31	** ''Sherlock Holmes in Washington'' (1943)
32	** ''Sherlock Holmes Faces Death'' (1943)
33	** ''The Spider Woman'' (1944)
34	** ''The Scarlet Claw'' (1944)
35	** ''The Pearl of Death'' (1944)
36	** ''Sherlock Holmes and the House of Fear'' (1945)
37	** ''The Woman in Green'' (1945)
38	** ''Pursuit to Algiers'' (1945)
39	** ''Terror by Night'' (1946)
40	** ''Dressed to Kill'' (1946)
41	* ''Film/WereNoAngels'' (1955) as Andre Trochard
42	* ''Film/TheCourtJester'' (1956) as Sir Ravenhurst
43	* ''Film/TheMagicSword'' (1962) as Lodac
44	* ''Film/TalesOfTerror'' (1962) as Carmichael
45	* ''Film/TheComedyOfTerrors'' (1963) as John F. Black, Esq.
46	* ''Film/VoyageToThePrehistoricPlanet'' (1965) as Prof. Hartman, Lunar 7
47	* ''Film/QueenOfBlood'' (1966) as Dr. Farraday
48	* ''Film/HillbillysInAHauntedHouse'' (1967) as Gregor
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51	[[folder:Voice acting roles]]
52	* ''Radio/TheNewAdventuresOfSherlockHolmes'' (1939–46) as Sherlock Holmes
53	* ''Music/PeterAndTheWolf'' (1941) as Narrator – sound recording with Leopold Stokowski and the All-American Orchestra
54	* ''WesternAnimation/TheAdventuresOfIchabodAndMrToad'' (1949) as Narrator of "The Wind in the Willows" segment
55	* ''WesternAnimation/TheGreatMouseDetective'' (1986) as Sherlock Holmes – Sort of; a sample from the 1966 reading of "The Adventure of the Red-Headed League" by Rathbone was used for the voice of Sherlock Holmes.
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59	!!Tropes associated with this actor:
60	* AwesomeDearBoy: He was a longtime fan of Literature/SherlockHolmes, so when he was offered the role of the Great Detective, he naturally jumped at the chance.
61	* TheCastShowoff: Rathbone was judged ''the'' premiere fencer in Hollywood, as demonstrated in his many swashbuckling roles.
62	* LargeHam: By his own admission, this was why he enjoyed performing in radio shows.
63	* MasterSwordsman: He was a skilled and enthusiastic fencer in real life, which meant that he was often called upon to either play these or [[{{Jobber}} make other, less martially-talented actors look like they were these]].
64	* NoStuntDouble: As TheCastShowoff (above), Rathbone largely performed his own stunts in fight scenes.

Context Creator / BasilRathbone