Basil Sydney

Acting

Basil Sydney

Born 1894-04-23 Essex, England, UK 46 films

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 su…

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Filmography

46 films
Sea Wife poster

In 1942, a cargo ship jammed with British evacuees from Singapore is sunk by a Japanese sub. A smal…

Sea Wife

★ 5.6 1957

Mayerling poster

Mayerling is the name of a notorious Austrian village linked to a romantic tragedy. At a royal hunt…

Mayerling

★ 6.1 1957

Simba poster

A European family in East Africa finds itself caught up in an uprising by local black Africans agai…

Simba

★ 6.6 1955