Basil Sydney

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Basil Sydney
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St Osyth, Essex, England
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London, England
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Years active1920–1964
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Doris Keane
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Mary Ellis
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Joyce Howard
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Basil Sydney (23 April 1894 – 10 January 1968) was an English stage and screen actor.

Career

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Basil Sydney and Doris Keane as Romeo and Juliet

Sydney made his name in 1915 in the London stage hit Romance by Edward Sheldon, with American Broadway star Doris Keane. He also costarred with Keane in the 1920 silent film of the play.[1][2]

The couple married in 1918. When Keane revived Romance in New York City in 1921, Sydney made his Broadway debut in his lead role.[3][4]

He and Keane divorced in 1925, but he stayed in New York for more than a decade playing a variety of roles, such as Mercutio in Romeo and Juliet (1922), Domin in R.U.R. (1922), Richard Dudgeon in The Devil's Disciple (1923), the title role in Hamlet (1923), Prince Hal in Henry IV, Part I (1926), and Petruchio in Taming of the Shrew (1927).[1][4][5] In 1937 he starred in the murder mystery Blondie White in the West End.[6]

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Trailer for Ivanhoe (1952)

Embracing the new art of movies, Sydney performed in more than 50 films, most memorably as Claudius in Laurence Olivier's 1948 film of Hamlet.[7] He also appeared in classic films such as Treasure Island (1950), Ivanhoe (1952), and Around the World in Eighty Days (1956). Still, the focus of his career was always the stage, on both sides of the Atlantic.[8]

In 1946 he starred with Flora Robson in A Man About the House at the Piccadilly Theatre.[9]

Personal life

Sydney divorced Keane in 1925.[10] In 1929, he married actress Mary Ellis, and the couple moved to England.[11] There he concentrated more on film than on theatre work. In the 1940s, he married English film actress Joyce Howard;[12] they had three children.[7]

A heavy smoker, Sydney died from pleurisy in 1968, aged 73.[13]

Filmography

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  1. ^ a b Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Basil Sydney | Biography, Movie Highlights and Photos". AllMovie.
  2. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Romance (1920)". BFI. Archived from the original on 22 July 2017.
  3. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."DORIS KEANE MARRIED.; American Actress Bride of Basil Sydney, Actor, in London". The New York Times. 5 January 1918 – via NYTimes.com.
  4. ^ a b Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Basil Sydney – Broadway Cast & Staff | IBDB". www.ibdb.com.
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  6. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Wearing, J. P. (15 May 2014). The London Stage 1930-1939: A Calendar of Productions, Performers, and Personnel. Rowman & Littlefield. ISBN 9780810893047 – via Google Books.
  7. ^ a b Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Joyce Howard obituary". the Guardian. 29 December 2010.
  8. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Basil Sydney". BFI. Archived from the original on 20 October 2017.
  9. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Wearing, J. P. (22 August 2014). The London Stage 1940-1949: A Calendar of Productions, Performers, and Personnel. Rowman & Littlefield. ISBN 9780810893061 – via Google Books.
  10. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Fisher, James; Londré, Felicia Hardison (22 November 2017). Historical Dictionary of American Theater: Modernism. Rowman & Littlefield. ISBN 9781538107867 – via Google Books.
  11. ^ A Special Relationship
  12. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.III, Harris M. Lentz (21 March 2016). Obituaries in the Performing Arts, 2010. McFarland, Incorporated, Publishers. ISBN 9780786486496 – via Google Books.
  13. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Willis, John (14 August 1969). Screen World: 1969. Biblo & Tannen Publishers. ISBN 9780819603104 – via Google Books.
  14. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."The Magic Box (1951)". BFI. Archived from the original on 9 March 2016.

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