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Basil Rathbone (Philip St. John Basil Rathbone) was born on 13 June, 1892 in Johannesburg, South Africa, is an actor,soundtrack,miscellaneous. Discover Basil Rathbone's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 75 years old?

Popular As Philip St. John Basil Rathbone
Occupation actor,soundtrack,miscellaneous
Age 75 years old
Zodiac Sign Gemini
Born 13 June 1892
Birthday 13 June
Birthplace Johannesburg, South Africa
Date of death 21 July, 1967
Died Place New York City, New York, USA
Nationality South Africa

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Basil Rathbone Height, Weight & Measurements

At 75 years old, Basil Rathbone height is 6' 1½" (1.87 m) .

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Height 6' 1½" (1.87 m)
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Who Is Basil Rathbone's Wife?

His wife is Ouida Bergère (18 April 1926 - 21 July 1967) ( his death) ( 1 child), Ethel Marion Foreman (13 October 1914 - 1926) ( divorced) ( 1 child)

Family
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Wife Ouida Bergère (18 April 1926 - 21 July 1967) ( his death) ( 1 child), Ethel Marion Foreman (13 October 1914 - 1926) ( divorced) ( 1 child)
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Basil Rathbone Net Worth

His net worth has been growing significantly in 2023-2024. So, how much is Basil Rathbone worth at the age of 75 years old? Basil Rathbone’s income source is mostly from being a successful Actor. He is from South Africa. We have estimated Basil Rathbone's net worth, money, salary, income, and assets.

Captain Blood (1935)$5,000 /week
Son of Frankenstein (1939)$3,500 /week
Rhythm on the River (1940)$33 .333
The Pearl of Death (1944)$20 .000
Hillbillys in a Haunted House (1967)$10,000

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1883

Distant cousin of Maj. Henry Rathbone, who was part of President Abraham Lincoln's theater party the night he was assassinated. Maj. Rathbone himself was stabbed by John Wilkes Booth as the latter was escaping, but the wound was not fatal. Rathbone later married Clara Harris, who was also in the Lincoln party, but he killed her in an insane rage on December 23, 1883 and spent the rest of his life in an insane asylum. He had suffered from what would now be characterized as a form of PTSD ever since the assassination.

1892

Basil Rathbone was born in Johannesburg, South Africa, in 1892, but three years later his family was forced to flee the country because his father was accused by the Boers of being a British spy at a time when Dutch-British conflicts were leading to the Boer War. The Rathbones escaped to England, where Basil and his two younger siblings, Beatrice and John, were raised. Their mother, Anna Barbara (George), was a violinist, who was born in Grahamstown, South Africa, of British parents, and their father, Edgar Philip Rathbone, was a mining engineer born in Liverpool.

1906

From 1906 to 1910 Rathbone attended Repton School, where he was more interested in sports--especially fencing, at which he excelled--than studies, but where he also discovered his interest in the theater. After graduation he planned to pursue acting as a profession, but his father disapproved and suggested that his son try working in business for a year, hoping he would forget about acting. Rathbone accepted his father's suggestion and worked as a clerk for an insurance company--for exactly one year. Then he contacted his cousin Frank Benson, an actor managing a Shakespearean troupe in Stratford-on-Avon. Rathbone was hired as an actor on the condition that he work his way through the ranks, which he did quite rapidly.

1911

Starting in bit parts in 1911, he was playing juvenile leads within two years.

1915

In 1915 his career was interrupted by the First World War. During his military service, as a second lieutenant in the Liverpool Scottish 2nd Battalion, he worked in intelligence and received the Military Cross for bravery.

1919

In 1919, released from military service, he returned to Stratford-on-Avon and continued with Shakespeare but after a year moved onto the London stage.

1920

During the 1920s his roles had evolved from the romantic lead to the suave lady-killer to the sinister villain (usually wielding a sword), and Hollywood put him to good use during the 1930s in numerous costume romps, including Captain Blood (1935), David Copperfield (1935), A Tale of Two Cities (1935), Anna Karenina (1935), The Last Days of Pompeii (1935), The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938), Tower of London (1939), The Mark of Zorro (1940) and others.

1921

The year after that he made his first appearance on Broadway and his film debut in the silent Innocent (1921). For the remainder of the decade Rathbone alternated between the London and New York stages and occasional appearances in films.

1929

In 1929 he co-wrote and starred as the title character in a short-running Broadway play called "Judas". Soon afterwards he abandoned his first love, the theater, for a film career.

1933

Is one of 13 actors who have received an Academy Award nomination for his portrayal of a real-life king. The others in chronological order are Charles Laughton for The Private Life of Henry VIII. (1933), Robert Morley for Marie Antoinette (1938), Laurence Olivier for Henry V (1944) and Richard III (1955), José Ferrer for Joan of Arc (1948), Yul Brynner for King and I, The (1956), John Gielgud for Becket (1964), Peter O'Toole for Becket (1964) and The Lion in Winter (1968), Robert Shaw for A Man for All Seasons (1966), Richard Burton for Anne of the Thousand Days (1969), Kenneth Branagh for Henry V (1989), Nigel Hawthorne for The Madness of King George (1994), and Colin Firth for The King's Speech (2010).

1935

Although he has been immortalized as a screen villain, before he played Murdstone in 1935 he had never played a villain and was known, both on film and stage, exclusively as a matinée idol and romantic leading man.

1936

Rathbone earned two Oscar nominations for Best Supporting Actor as Tybalt in Romeo and Juliet (1936) and as King Louis XI in If I Were King (1938).

1938

He has two roles in common with Tom Baker: (1) Rathbone played Sir Guy of Gisbourne in The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938) while Baker played him in The Zany Adventures of Robin Hood (1984) and (2) Rathbone played Sherlock Holmes in 14 films from The Hound of the Baskervilles (1939) to The Mystery of Sherlock Holmes: Dressed To Kill (1946) and Baker played him in The Hound of the Baskervilles (1982).

1939

However, it was in 1939 that Rathbone played his best-known and most popular character, Sherlock Holmes, with Nigel Bruce as Dr.

Watson, first in The Hound of the Baskervilles (1939) and then in The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1939), which were followed by 12 more films and numerous radio broadcasts over the next seven years.

1945

He campaigned in vain for the role of Lord Henry Wotton in the film adaptation of Oscar Wilde's novel The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945). He believed that his typecasting as Sherlock Holmes cost him the role and was a contributing factor in his leaving the Universal series.

1946

Feeling that his identification with the character was killing his film career, Rathbone went back to New York and the stage in 1946. The next year he won a Tony Award for his portrayal of Dr. Sloper in the Broadway play "The Heiress," but afterwards found little rewarding stage work.

1948

Won Broadway's 1948 Tony Award as Best Actor (Dramatic) for his performance as Dr. Sloper in the original Broadway production of "The Heiress". The award was shared with Henry Fonda for "Mister Roberts" and Paul Kelly for "Command Decision".

1953

His final appearance as Sherlock Holmes was in a play written by his wife Ouida Bergère, appropriately titled "Sherlock Holmes". The production opened on Broadway on October 30, 1953, and lasted only three performances.

1956

His autobiography "In and Out of Character," was written in 1956 but not published until 1961.

1968

He was due to appear in 'Blood Beast Terror' (1968) with Peter Cushing but died before filming started.

1986

The Sherlock Holmes-esque Basil of Baker Street in The Great Mouse Detective (1986) is named after Rathbone, who was perhaps best known for the many times he played Sherlock Holmes.