The Baz Posted by Neve on October 14, 2024

Basil Rathbone and John Dall in the City Center production of The Heiress   read more

The Baz Posted by Neve on July 21, 2023

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The Baz Posted by Neve on May 18, 2022

Sea Cliff Summer Theatre, Long Island   read more

The Baz Posted by Neve on November 18, 2021

Rathbone standing on the garden steps outside his Bel Air home   read more

The Baz Posted by Neve on May 16, 2021

Don Diego finishes off Capitan Esteban Pasquale in The Mark of Zorro (1940)   read more

Caftan Woman Posted by on June 13, 2020

Pale Writer is hosting The Suave Swordsman: Basil Rathbone Blogathon on June 13th and 14th. Click HERE to read about the actor's exciting life and career. Thank you, Gabriela. Richard III plays a dangerous game of thrones in Tower of London, 1939 from Universal Studios. The historical epic wa   read more

The Baz Posted by Neve on May 5, 2020

Basil Rathbone, a member of F.R. Benson’s Shakespeare Company, in 1913 or 1914   read more

The Baz Posted by Neve on September 15, 2019

Frederick Kerr   read more

The Baz Posted by Neve on August 15, 2018

The Prince of Wales, 1919   read more

The Baz Posted by Neve on June 13, 2018

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The Baz Posted by Neve on April 16, 2018

The caption to this photo reads “A costume ball given in 1929 by Mrs. Basil Rathbone.” It was in Hollywood, so it may have been the $5000 ball.   read more

The Baz Posted by Neve on July 21, 2017

Rathbone as Sherlock Holmes   read more

The Baz Posted by Neve on August 7, 2016

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Classic Film Freak Posted by Greg Orypeck on September 5, 2015

Share This! “Mr. Holmes, they were the footprints of a gigantic hound!”—— Dr. Mortimer (Lionel Atwill) to Sherlock Holmes (Basil Rathbone) Now, with the 2015 release of Mr. Holmes and a new, if older Sherlock Holmes in Ian McKellen, it seems appropriate to look back seventy-five years, to an earlier   read more

Classic Film Freak Posted by Orson De Welles on March 26, 2015

Share This! The Terror Drug That Wakes the Dead! Basil Rathbone comes to mind for most as the definitive Sherlock Holmes or perhaps to a smaller and more dedicated set as the foil to Errol Flynn’s Peter Blood or Robin Hood. What true die-hards will also know is that Rathbone...   read more

Classic Film Freak Posted by Orson De Welles on March 26, 2015

Share This! The Terror Drug That Wakes the Dead! Basil Rathbone comes to mind for most as the definitive Sherlock Holmes or perhaps to a smaller and more dedicated set as the foil to Errol Flynn’s Peter Blood or Robin Hood. What true die-hards will also know is that Rathbone...   read more

Classic Film Freak Posted by Greg Orypeck on October 16, 2014

Share This!DEATH STALKS ITS HALLS!  Horror seeps from its walls! The House of Fear(1945) is the tenth in the series of fourteen Sherlock Holmes films starring Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce.  The first two (1939) are from 20th Century-Fox, a first-class studio which, while most movies and plays had   read more

Phantom Empires Posted by Clayton on June 13, 2014

Happy Birthday, Basil Rathbone!  (June 13, 1892) ~ The Mad Doctor (1941) 6/13/2014 2 Comments Well, it's both Basil Rathbone's b-day AND Friday the 13th, so I thought I'd pick a spooky-type picture for this sp   read more

The Baz Posted by Neve on June 8, 2014

The Baz as Sherlock is the focus of a new piece on I HEAR OF SHERLOCK EVERYWHERE, and there’s even a few choice words of epic wisdom fro yours truly. :D. So hurry and visit…. http://www.ihearofsherlock.com/2014/06/basil-rathbone-reluctant-sherlock-holmes.html#.U5TVjyjv6l4   read more

The Baz Posted by Neve on November 8, 2013

Well, it seems Alyssia has a fan… http://boswelling.wordpress.com/2013/10/07/the-real-basil-rathbone/ “…I just wanted to say, my faith in humanity has been somewhat restored. The fantastic AlyssiaBasilOne has created a blog called “The Real Basil Rathbone: The true life of a grea   read more