Sir Basil Rathbone (1892)
Rathbone was a British actor who made his film debut in the 1920s. With his distinctive voice and gaunt appearance, he was cast as a villain in several swashbuckling movies. He won praise for his roles in Romeo and Juliet and If I Were King, but he became best known for portraying Sherlock Holmes in a series of films beginning with 1939′s The Hound of the Baskervilles. Why did his English family have to flee South Africa when he was just three years old?
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