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Basil Rathbone

Basil Rathbone
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Basil Rathbone

When Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce were chosen to play Holmes and Watson in the 1939 film The Hound of the Baskervilles, no one realized that they would be forever linked with the chracters of the great detective and his loyal friend. The immediate success of the film led to their being chosen to portray Holmes and Watson on the radio for 8 years in 213 episodes of the Sherlock Holmes mysteries.

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The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes Collection Volume Three will be released on December 06, 2011 in Compact Disk
Dec 06, 2011
The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes Collection Volume Three is now available in Compact Disk
Dec 06, 2011
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Murder by Moonlight and Other Mysteries
Oct 13, 2011
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The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes Collection Volume One
Dec 02, 2009
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The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes Collection Volume Two
Dec 02, 2009
The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes Collection Volume Two will be released on December 01, 2009 in Compact Disk
Dec 01, 2009
The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes Collection Volume Two is now available in Compact Disk
Dec 01, 2009
The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes Collection Volume One will be released on December 01, 2009 in Compact Disk
Dec 01, 2009
The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes Collection Volume One is now available in Compact Disk
Dec 01, 2009
The Unfortunate Tobacconist and The Paradol Chamber is now available in
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The Unfortunate Tobacconist and The Paradol Chamber will be released on January 10, 2008 in
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The Tell Tale Pigeon Feathers and The Indiscretion of Mr. Edwards will be released on January 10, 2008 in eAudio
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The Tell Tale Pigeon Feathers and The Indiscretion of Mr. Edwards is now available in eAudio
Jan 10, 2008
The Unfortunate Tobacconist and The Paradol Chamber will be released on January 10, 2008 in eAudio
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The Unfortunate Tobacconist and The Paradol Chamber is now available in eAudio
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The Living Doll and The Disappearing Scientists will be released on January 10, 2008 in eAudio
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FreeRange productions The Hound of the Baskervilles
Reading Post, April 18, 2013
...taking the best bits of lots of different ones that have come before. It goes right back to Basil Rathbone [who starred in the 1939 US film version of Sherlock Holmes]." For the infamous hound FreeRange will be getting creative, making the most of the...
Wilmington on DVDs: Ruthless; Despicable Me; Battleship; Lawless
MCN, April 11, 2013
...sister in The Big Sleep) are two more ladies Vendig loves and loses. Dennis Hoey (Inspector Lestrade to Basil Rathbone’s Sherlock)  and Edith Barrett are two more betrayed benefactors. And that ace noir heavy of heavies Raymond Burr pops up as...
Who needs books when real life is a horror show?
Glasgow Sunday Mail, March 24, 2013
...understand what all the fuss was about. Hopefully, that’s because it looked as ancient to him as Basil Rathbone in The Hound Of The Baskervilles did to me and not because it didn’t have as much cruelty as he’s used to. It’s a real concern...
Gunfight at the Universal-International Corral
New York Times, March 1, 2013
...Collection, a set of six films on three discs from the Warner Archive Collection, offers a wide sampling: Basil Rathbone in (1930); Paul Lukas in (1935); Edmund Lowe in (1936); and James Stephenson in (1940). But the most engaging Philo by far was...
Confessions of a Sherlock Wannabe
Flagpole, February 20, 2013
...course, Sherlock Holmes, whose adventures I revisit every couple of years and whose cinematic iterations, whether it be Basil Rathbone, Jeremy Brett or Benedict Cumberbatch (best name in showbiz), I’ll watch over and over again. I realized early on...
Heir of mystery
WA Today, January 27, 2013
...the decades. You always run the risk of comparison. That's only natural.'' Elementary, Ten, Sunday, 8.30pm Basil Rathbone Played Sherlock Holmes in 14 films made between 1939 and 1946, including The Hound of the Baskervilles (1939) and Pursuit to...
In and Out of Character Book Review
BellaOnline, January 21, 2013
...As an admirer of actor Basil Rathbone (1892-1967), I looked forward to reading his autobiography and I was not disappointed. In and Out of Character is a memoir of Rathbone’s life from his childhood in...
Review: Shatner calls the tune, ironically
Orange County Register, January 18, 2013
...not in front of the viewers. I wonder if YouTube will reveal a scene of august British actor Basil Rathbone hobbling around with one foot accidentally stuck in a bucket, as Shatner describes? "Star Trek" gets its due, in reminiscences and video clips,...
Shatner calls the tune, ironically
Orange County Register, January 18, 2013
...not in front of the viewers. I wonder if YouTube will reveal a scene of august British actor Basil Rathbone hobbling around with one foot accidentally stuck in a bucket, as Shatner describes? "Star Trek" gets its due, in reminiscences and video clips,...
O.C. gets a peek into Shatner's world
Orange County Register, January 18, 2013
...not in front of the viewers. I wonder if YouTube will reveal a scene of august British actor Basil Rathbone hobbling around with one foot accidentally stuck in a bucket, as Shatner describes? "Star Trek" gets its due, in reminisces and video clips, but...
Father Brown: the empathetic detective
NewsRT.co.uk, January 18, 2013
...immediate 200 hits, with many more following: there's Young Sherlock, Robert Downey Jr, Benedict Cumberbatch, Jeremy Brett, Basil Rathbone and Billy Wilder, as well as the Bake...
O.C. gets a peak into Shatner's world
Orange County Register, January 18, 2013
...not in front of the viewers. I wonder if YouTube will reveal a scene of august British actor Basil Rathbone hobbling around with one foot accidentally stuck in a bucket, as Shatner describes? "Star Trek" gets its due, in reminisces and video clips, but...
Father Brown: the empathetic detective
Guardian.co.uk, January 18, 2013
...immediate 200 hits, with many more following: there's Young Sherlock, Robert Downey Jr, Benedict Cumberbatch, Jeremy Brett, Basil Rathbone and Billy Wilder, as well as the Baker Street Irregulars, all the spoofs, the debunkings, the modernisations, and...
The case of the private eyes
StarBanner.com, January 18, 2013
...wife not to go through with the divorce.5. ?The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes' (1939) Sleuth Sherlock Holmes (Basil Rathbone) needs all of his famous brain cells when he matches wits with his archenemy Professor Moriarty (George Zucco). The fiendish...