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article: Basil Rathbone, Big Screen Villain and Sherlock Holmes - A Biography, by Mike Haberfelner, November 2010

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1.) The Adventures of Robin Hood, USA 1938, directed by Michael Curtiz, William Keighley, starring Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, Basil Rathbone, Claude Rains, Patric Knowles, Eugene Pallette, Alan Hale, Melville Cooper, Ian Hunter, Una O'Connor, Herbert Mundin, Montagu Love, Leonard Willey, Robert Noble, Kenneth Hunter, Robert Warwick, Colin Kenny, Lester Matthews, Harry Cording, Howard Hill, Ivan F.Simpson, James Baker, Herbert Evans, Austin Fairman, Crauford Kent

2.) The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, USA 1939, directed by Alfred L.Werker, starring Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce, George Zucco, Ida Lupino, Alan Marshal, Henry Stephenson, E.E. Clive, Arthur Hohl, May Beatty, Terry Kilburn, Peter Willes, Mary Gordon, Holmes Herbert, George Regas, Mary Forbes, Frank Dawson, William Austin, Anthony Kemble-Cooper

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3.) Anna Karenina, USA 1935, directed by Clarence Brown, starring Greta Garbo, Frederic March, Freddie Bartholomew, Maureen O'Sullivan, May Robson, Basil Rathbone, Reginald Owen, Phoebe Foster, Reginald Denny, Gyles Isham, Joan Marsh, Ethel Griffies, Harry Beresford, Sarah Padden, Cora Sue Collins, Mary Forbes, Joseph R. Tozer, Guy D'ennery, Buster Phelps, Sidney Bracey, Harry Allen, Ella Ethridge, Andrea Leeds

4.) Autopsia de un Fantasma / Autopsy of a Ghost, Mexico 1968, directed by Ismael Rodríguez, starring Basil Rathbone, John Carradine, Amadee Chabot, Cameron Mitchell, Pompín Iglesias, Nacho Contla, Manuel Palacios (as Manolin), Estanislao Schillinsky, Carlos Pinar, Susana Cabrera, Famie Kaufman (as Vitola), Javier Lopéz (as Chabela), Pancho Córdova, Delia Magana, Mario García Harapos, Ahui Camacho (as Ahuizotl), Jorge Delong, Hermanas Tejada, Arturo Castro Bigotón, Manuel Trjo Morales

5.) Bathing Beauty, USA 1944, directed by George Sidney, starring Red Skelton, Esther Williams, Basil Rathbone, Bill Goodwin, Jean Porter, Nana Bryant, Carlos Ramírez, Ethel Smith, Xavier Cugat and his Orchestra, Lina Romay (II), Harry James and his Music Makers, Helen Forrest, Donald Meek, Jacqueline Dalya, Francis Pierlot, Ann Codee, Margaret Dumont, Bunny Waters, Janis Paige

6.) The Bishop Murder Case, USA 1930, directed by David Burton, Nick Grinde, starring Basil Rathbone, Leila Hyams, Roland Young, Alec B.Francis, George F.Marion, Zelda Sears, Bodil Rosing, Carroll Nye, Charles Quatermaine, James Donlan, Sidney Bracey, Clarence Geldart, Delmer Daves, Nillie Bly Baker

7.) The Black Cat, USA 1941, directed by Albert S. Rogell, starring Basil Rathbone, Hugh Herbert, Broderick Crawford, Bela Lugosi, Anne Gwynne, Gladys Cooper, Gale Sondergaard, Cecilia Loftus, Claire Dodd, John Eldredge, Alan Ladd

8.) The Black Sleep, USA 1956, directed by Reginald Le Borg, starring Basil Rathbone, Akim Tamiroff, Lon Chaney jr, John Carradine, Bela Lugosi, Herbert Rudley, Patricia Blair, Phyllis Stanley, Tor Johnson, Sally Yarnell, George Sawaya, Claire Carleton, Louanna Gardner, Clive Morgan, Aubrey Schenck, John Sheffield

9.) Captain Blood, USA 1935, directed by Michael Curtiz, starring Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, Lionel Atwill, Basil Rathbone, Ross Alexander, Guy Kibbee, Henry Stephenson, Robert Barrat, Hobart Cavanaugh, Donald Meek, Jessie Ralph, Forrester Harvey, Frank McGlynn sr, Holmes Herbert, David Torrence, J. Carrol Naish, Pedro de Cordoba, George Hassell, Harry Cording, Leonard Mudie, Ivan F.Simpson, Stuart Casey, David Cavendish (as Dennis D.Auburn), Mary Forbes, E.E. Clive, Colin Kenny, Maude Leslie, Gardner James, Vernon Steele, Reginald Barlow

10.) Casanova's Big Night, USA 1954, directed by Norman Z. McLeod, starring Bob Hope, Joan Fontaine, Audrey Dalton, Basil Rathbone, Hugh Marlowe, Arnold Moss, John Carradine, John Hoyt, Hope Emerson, Robert Hutton, Vincent Price, Lon Chaney jr, Raymond Burr, Frieda Inescort, Primo Carnera, Frank Puglia, Paul Cavanagh, Romo Vincent, Henry Brandon, Natalie Schafer, Douglas Fowley, Nestor Paiva, Lucien Littlefield, Barbara Freking, Joan Shawlee, Oliver Blake, Skelton Knaggs, Paul Newlan

11.) The Comedy of Terrors, USA 1963, directed by Jacques Tourneur, starring Vincent Price, Peter Lorre, Boris Karloff, Joyce Jameson, Basil Rathbone, Joe E. Brown, Beverly Hills (= Beverly Powers), Alan DeWitt, Buddy Mason, Douglas Williams, Linda Rogers, Luree Holmes, Paul Barselou, Harvey Parry

12.) The Court Jester, USA 1955, directed by Melvin Frank, Norman Panama, starring Danny Kaye, Glynis Johns, Basil Rathbone, Angela Lansbury, Cecil Parker, Mildred Natwick, Robert Middleton, Michael Pate, Herbert Rudley, Noel Drayton, John Carradine, Edward Ashley, Alan Napier, Lewis Martin, Patrick Aherne, Richard Kean, Hermine's Midgets, the Jackson Michigan Zouave Drill Team

13.) Crossroads, USA 1942, directed by Jack Conway, starring William Powell, Hedy Lamarr, Claire Trevor, Basil Rathbone, Margaret Wycherly, Felix Bressart, Sig Ruman, H.B. Warner, Philip Merivale, Vladimir Sokoloff, Bertram Marburgh, John Mylong, Anna Q.Nilsson, Irene Shirley

14.) David Copperfield, USA 1935, directed by George Cukor, starring Frank Lawton, Freddie Bartholomew, W.C. Fields, Roland Young, Maureen O'Sullivan, Lionel Barrymore, Jessie Ralph, Madge Evans, Basil Rathbone, Violet Kemble Cooper, Edna May Oliver, Lennox Pawle, Lewis Stone, Elizabeth Allan, Hugh Williams, Elsa Lanchester, Jean Cadell, Una O'Connor, John Buckler, Ivan F. Simpson, Herbert Mundin, Fay Chaldecott, Marilyn Knowlden, Florine McKinney, Harry Beresford, Mabel Colcord, Renee Gadd, Hugh Walpole

15.) The Dawn Patrol, USA 1938, directed by Edmund Goulding, starring Errol Flynn, Basil Rathbone, David Niven, Donald Crisp, Melville Cooper, Barry Fitzgerald, Carl Esmond, Peter Willes, Morton Lowry, Michael Brooke, James Burke, Stuart Hall, Herbert Evans, Sidney Bracey, Leo Nomis

16.) Dressed to Kill, USA 1946, directed by Roy William Neill, starring Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce, Patricia Morison, Edmund Breon, Frederick Worlock, Carl Harbord, Patricia Cameron, Holmes Herbert, Harry Cording, Leyland Hodgson, Mary Gordon, Ian Wolfe, Olaf Hytten

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17.) The Garden of Allah, USA 1936, directed by Richard Boleslawski, starring Marlene Dietrich, Charles Boyer, Basil Rathbone, C. Aubrey Smith, Joseph Schildkraut, John Carradine, Alan Marshal, Lucile Watson, Henry Brandon, Tilly Losch

18.) The Ghost in the Invisible Bikini, USA 1966, directed by Don Weis, starring Tommy Kirk, Deborah Walley, Aron Kincaid, Patsy Kelly, Basil Rathbone, Boris Karloff, Susan Hart, Quinn O'Hara, Jesse White, Harvey Lembeck, Nancy Sinatra, Claudia Martin, Francis X.Bushman, Benny Rubin, Bobbie Shaw Chance, Piccola Pupa, Luree Holmes, Ed Garner, Frank Alesia, Mary Hughes, Salli Sachse, Patti Chandler, Sue Hamilton, Alberta Nelson, Andy Romano, Myrna Ross, Jerry Brutsche, Bob Harvey, John Macchia, Allen Fife, the Bobby Fuller Four, and as a gorilla: George Barrows

19.) Heartbeat, USA 1946, directed by Sam Wood, starring Ginger Rogers, Jean-Pierre Aumont, Basil Rathbone, Melville Cooper, Mikhail Rasumny, Adolphe Menjou, Eduardo Ciannelli, Mona Maris, Henry Stephenson, Eddie Hayden, Ivan Lebedeff, Torben Meyer

20.) Hillbillys in a Haunted House, USA 1967, directed by Jean Yarbrough, starring Ferlin Husky, Joi Lansing, Don Bowman, John Carradine, Lon Chaney jr, Linda Ho, Basil Rathbone, Richard Webb, Molly Bee, Merle Haggard, Sonny James, Jim Kent, Marcella Wright, Larry Barton, Pat Patterson, Allen Jung, James Nusser, Jay Jasin, Marshall Wright, Virginia Lee, and as gorilla George Barrows

21.) The Hound of the Baskervilles, USA 1939, directed by Sidney Lanfield, starring Basil Rathbone, Richard Greene, Wendy Barrie, Nigel Bruce, Lionel Atwill, John Carradine, Barlowe Borland, Beryl Mercer, Morton Lowry, Ralph Forbes, E.E. Clive, Eily Malyon, Lionel Pape, Nigel De Brulier, Mary Gordon, Ian Maclaren

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22.) The House of Fear, USA 1945, directed by Roy William Neill, starring Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce, Aubrey Mather, Dennis Hoey, Paul Cavanagh, Holmes Herbert, Harry Cording, Sally Shepherd, Gavin Muir, Florette Hillier, David Clyde, Richard Alexander, Wilson Benge, Cyril Delevanti, Alec Craig, Leslie Denison, Doris Lloyd, David Thursby

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23.) The Last Days of Pompeii, USA 1935, directed by Ernest B. Schoedsack, starring Preston Foster, Alan Hale, Basil Rathbone, John Wood, Louis Calhern, David Holt, Dorothy Wilson, Wyrley Birch, Gloria Shea, Frank Conroy, William V. Mong, Murray Kinnell, Henry Kolker, Edward Van Sloan, Zeffie Tilbury, John Davidson

24.) The Last of Mrs. Cheyney, USA 1929, directed by Sidney Franklin, starring Norma Shearer, Basil Rathbone, George Barraud, Herbert Bunston, Hedda Hopper, Moon Carroll, Madeline Seymour, Cyril Chadwick, George K. Arthur, Frank Finch Smiles, Maude Turner Gordon

25.) Love from a Stranger, UK 1937, directed by Rowland V.Lee, starring Ann Harding, Basil Rathbone, Binnie Hale, Bruce Seton, Jean Cadell, Bryan Powley, Joan Hickson, Donald Calthrop, Eugene Leahy

26.) The Magic Sword, USA 1962, directed by Bert I. Gordon, starring Basil Rathbone, Estelle Winwood, Gary Lockwood, Anne Helm, Liam Sullivan, Danielle De Metz, Merritt Stone, Jacques Gallo, David Cross, John Mauldin, Taldo Kenyon, Angus Duncan, Leroy Johnson, Marlene Callahan, Nick Bon Tempi, Paul Bon Tempi, Ann Graves, Lorrie Richards, Jack Kosslyn, Maila Nurmi (= Vampira), Ted Finn, Angelo Rossitto

27.) The Mark of Zorro, USA 1940, directed by Rouben Mamoulian, starring Tyrone Power, Basil Rathbone, Linda Darnell, Gale Sondergaard, Eugene Pallette, J. Edward Bromberg, Montagu Love, Janet Beecher, George Regas, Chris-Pin Martin, Robert Lowery, Belle Mitchell, Frank Puglia, Pedro de Cordoba

28.) The Pearl of Death, USA 1944, directed by Roy William Neill, starring Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce, Dennis Hoey, Evelyn Ankers, Miles Mander, Ian Wolfe, Charles Francis, Holmes Herbert, Richard Nugent, Mary Gordon, Rondo Hatton, J.W. Austin, Harry Cording, Leslie Denison, Connie Leon, John Merkyl, Arthur Mulliner, Lillian Bronson, Harold De Becker, Eric Wilton

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29.) Pursuit to Algiers, USA 1945, directed by Roy William Neill, starring Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce, Marjorie Riordan, Rosalind Ivan, Morton Lowry, Leslie Vincent, Martin Kosleck, Rex Evans, John Abbott, Gerald Hamer, William 'Wee Willie' Davis, Frederick Worlock, Sven Hugo Borg, James Craven, Tom Dillon, Gregory Gaye, Olaf Hytten, Dorothy Kellogg, George Leigh, Ashley Cowan, Wilson Benge

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30.) Queen of Blood, USA 1966, directed by Curtis Harrington, starring John Saxon, Basil Rathbone, Judi Meredith, Dennis Hopper, Florence Marly, Robert Boon, Don Eitner, Virgil Frye, Robert Porter, Terry Lee, Forrest J. Ackerman

31.) The Scarlet Claw, USA 1944, directed by Roy William Neill, starring Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce, Gerald Hamer, Paul Cavanagh, Arthur Hohl, Miles Mander, Kay Harding, David Clyde, Ian Wolfe, Victoria Horne

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32.) Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon, USA 1943, directed by Roy William Neill, starring Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce, Lionel Atwill, Kaaren Verne, William Post jr, Dennis Hoey, Holmes Herbert, Mary Gordon, Harold De Becker, Harry Cording, Henry Victor, Harry Woods

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33.) Sherlock Holmes and the Voice of Terror, USA 1942, directed by John Rawlins, starring Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce, Evelyn Ankers, Reginald Denny, Thomas Gomez, Henry Daniell, Montagu Love, Olaf Hytten, Leyland Hodgson, Robert Barron, Mary Gordon, Hillary Brooke, Rudolph Anders, Edgar Barrier, Harry Cording, Leslie Denison, Herbert Evans, Fred Graham, John Wilde

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34.) Sherlock Holmes Faces Death, USA 1943, directed by Roy William Neill, starring Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce, Dennis Hoey, Arthur Margetson, Hillary Brooke, Halliwell Hobbes, Minna Phillips, Milburn Stone, Gavin Muir, Gerald Hamer, Vernon Downing, Olaf Hytten, Frederick Worlock, Mary Gordon, Joan Blair, Norma Varden, Heather Wilde

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35.) Sherlock Holmes in Washington, USA 1943, directed by Roy William Neill, starring Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce, Marjorie Lord, Henry Daniell, George Zucco, John Archer, Gavin Muir, Edmund MacDonald, Don Terry, Bradley Page, Holmes Herbert, Thurston Hall, Mary Gordon, Gilbert Emery, Gerald Hamer, Mary Forbes, Caroline Cooke, Alice Fleming, Margaret Seddon, Regina Wallace

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36.) Son of Frankenstein, USA 1939, directed by Rowland V. Lee, starring Boris Karloff, Basil Rathbone, Bela Lugosi, Lionel Atwill, Josephine Hutchinson, Donnie Dunagan, Emma Dunn, Edgar Norton, Perry Ivins, Lawrence Grant, Lionel Belmore, Lorimer Johnson, Gustav von Seyffertitz

37.) The Spider Woman, USA 1944, directed by Roy William Neill, starring Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce, Gale Sondergaard, Dennis Hoey, Vernon Downing, Alec Craig, Arthur Hohl, Mary Gordon, Lydia Bilbrook, Angelo Rossitto, Harry Cording, Teddy Infuhr, Stanley Logan, Gene Roth, Donald Stuart, Frank Benson, Sylvia Andrew, Marie De Becker, John Burton, Jimmy Aubrey, George Kirby, Belle Mitchell, John Roche, Arthur Stenning

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38.) Tales of Terror, USA 1962, directed by Roger Corman, starring Vincent Price, Maggie Pierce, Leona Gage, Peter Lorre, Joyce Jameson, Basil Rathbone, Debra Paget, David Frankham, Edmund Cobb, John Hackett, Lennie Weinrib, Wally Campo, Alan DeWitt, Scott Brown

39.) Terror by Night, USA 1946, directed by Roy William Neill, starring Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce, Alan Mowbray, Dennis Hoey, Mary Forbes, Renee Godfrey, Frederick Worlock, Gerald Hamer, Janet Murdoch, Leyland Hodgson, Billy Bevan, Geoffrey Steele, Boyd Davis, Skelton Knaggs

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40.) Tower of London, USA 1939, directed by Rowland V. Lee, starring Basil Rathbone, Boris Karloff, Barbara O'Neil, Ian Hunter, Vincent Price, Nan Grey, Ernest Cossart, John Sutton, Leo G. Carroll, Miles Mander, Lionel Belmore, Rose Hobart, Ronald Sinclair, John Herbert-Bond, Ralph Forbes, Frances Robinson, G.P.Huntley, John Rodion, Walter Tetley, Donnie Dunagan, Joan Carroll, Harry Cording, Nigel De Brulier, Martin Faust, Jean Fenwick, Al Ferguson, Russ Powell, C.Montague Shaw, Ivan F.Simpson

41.) Voyage to the Prehistoric Planet, USA 1965, directed by John Sebastian (= Curtis Harrington), Pavel Klushantsev (Russian footage), starring Yuri Sarantsev, Georgi Tejkh, Gennadi Vernov, Vladimir Yemelyanov, Georgi Zhzhyonov, Basil Rathbone, Faith Domergue

42.) The Woman in Green, USA 1945, directed by Roy William Neill, starring Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce, Hillary Brooke, Henry Daniell, Paul Cavanagh, Matthew Boulton, Eve Amber, Frederick Worlock, Tom Bryson, Sally Shepherd, Mary Gordon, John Burton, Tony Ellis, Olaf Hytten, Percival Vivian, Violet Seaton, Alec Harford, Arthur Stenning, William H.O'Brien, Harold De Becker, Boyd Irwin

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