Sherlock Holmes - Dressed To Kill / Terror By Night

Starring: Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce Dvd Release: 25th April, 2005 Number Of Discs: 1 Format: Full Screen, PAL, Region 0 Encoding

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Basil Rathbone was an English actor. He was born Philip St. John Basil Rathbone in Johannesburg, South Africa, a son of Edgar Philip Rathbone & Anna Barbara George. His younger sister & brother were Beatrice Rathbone & John Rathbone. Rathbone was married to actress Marion Foreman & writer Ouida Bergere. He & Foreman had one son, Rodion Rathbone & he & Bergere had one adopted daughter, Cynthia Rathbone. He died of a heart attack at his home in New York City. He is interred in the Ferncliff Cemetery, Hartsdale, New York. During the 1920s, Rathbone appeared in Shakespearean roles on the British stage. He was in a few silent movies & played detective Philo Vance in the 1929 movie The Bishop Murder Case. Rathbone became famous for playing suave villains in many swashbucklers of the 1930s, including David Copperfield, Anna Karenina, The Last Days of Pompeii, Captain Blood, A Tale of Two Cities, The Adventures of Robin Hood & The Mark of Zorro. He was most notable for his starring roles in fifteen Sherlock Holmes movies. Posters Of Basil Rathbone

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William Nigel Bruce, usually credited as Nigel Bruce, was a British character actor, best known as Dr Watson in a series of films starring Basil Rathbone as Sherlock Holmes. The son of a baronet, he was born in Ensenada, Mexico, where his parents were on vacation. He was severely wounded in World War I & spent most of the war in a wheelchair. In 1920 he began his career on stage & eight years later started working in silent films. In 1934 he moved to Hollywood. During his career he worked on 77 movies, including Treasure Island, The Scarlet Pimpernel, Lassie Come Home, The Corn is Green & Bwana Devil. He played buffoonish, fuzzy-minded gentlemen & his signature role was that of Dr Watson in the Sherlock Holmes series beginning in 1939 with his good friend Basil Rathbone. Holmes purists objected that Watson in the books was an intelligent & capable person, just not a super detective & that the Bruce portrayal made him seem dimmer & more bumbling than he was. But for millions of fans, Bruce was the definitive Watson. There were 14 films made & he also played Watson on the radio. Posters Of The Scarlet Claw

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