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Basil Rathbone , to the civilian Philip St John Basil Rathbone , is a British actor , born the June 13rd 1892 with Johannesburg (South Africa) and deceased of an heart attack the July 21st 1967 with New York (New York, the United States).

Biography

Its family settles with London in 1895. Basil follows its studies to Derby in the Derbyshire to the Repton School where he discovers the theater. Employed in an insurance company, it belongs to the theatrical association of the town of Stratford-upon-Avon, directed by his cousin Frank Benson, which enables him to make knowledge with the boards, and to learn the trade from actor. He marries Ethel Foreman in 1914 with which he will have a son, Rodion, in 1915 and will divorce in 1920. Called under the flags, it carries out its military service during the First World War, in a battalion of the Scot of Liverpool. Its courage is worth off to him the Military Cross England in 1918. He marries Ouida Bergere and begins a cinematographic career in famous the Subway-Goldwyn-Mayer; he personifies celebrates it detective Sherlock Holmes with the radio as with the screen with the Universal. In 1946, the couple settles with New York and Basil will continue to interpret the detective on the scene with an adaptation written by his Ouida wife. It publishes its memories in 1962: In and Out off Character , and dies of an heart attack in its property of Ferncliff, close to New York, the July 21st 1967.

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