Basil Rathbone (Rathbone, [Philip St. John] Basil)

English (South African-born) movie actor

1892 - Born - June 13th- Johannesburg, South Africa

1939-1946 - He played the character of Sherlock Holmes

starred in movies "David Copperfield" 1935 (as Mr. Murdstone), "Anna Karenina" 1935 (as Alexei Karenin), "Romeo and Juliet" 1936 (as Tybalt), "The Hound of the Baskervilles" 1939 (as Sherlock Holmes

1st of sixteen Sherlock Holmes movies), "Adventures of Sherlock Holmes" 1939 (as Sherlock Holmes)

1962 - In and Out of Character (Doubleday, autobiography)