Gary Oldman

In 1997 he directed, produced, and wrote Nil by Mouth, partially based on his life, which went on to win the Alexander Korda Award for Best British Film, a BAFTA Award, the Channel 4 Director's Award, and the Empire Award, and was declared by the British Film Academy as one of the 100 best films of all time. Basil Rathbone has three stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame; one for motion pictures at 6549 Hollywood Boulevard; one for radio at 6300 Hollywood Boulevard; and one for television at 6915 Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood. He has played a variety of characters including Dracula, Ludwig van Beethoven, Lee Harvey Oswald, Pontius Pilate, and the Devil. Through the 1950s and 1960s, he continued to appear in several anthology programs on television. He first appeared on the screen in the film Remembrance in 1982, going on the win his first starring role in Sid and Nancy (1986), in which he played the rocker Sid Vicious. Austin Sloper in the original production of The Heiress. Oldman is 1.78m in height (5 foot 10 inches). In 1948, he won a Tony Award for Best Actor in Play for his performance of Dr.

He later studied with the Greenwich Young People's Theatre and went on to appear in a number of plays throughout the early 80s, including The Pope's Wedding, for which he received Time Out's Fringe Award for Best Newcomer of 1985-1986 and the British Theatre Association's Drama Magazine Award as Best Actor of 1985. Rathbone also acted on Broadway numerous times. Gary Oldman was born in London, England. When he was older, he won a scholarship to Britain's Rose Bruford Drama College, where he received a BA in Theatre Arts in 1979. It was in 1939 that Rathbone first starred as Sherlock Holmes, in The Hound of the Baskervilles. Unfortunately, the many sequels typecast him (he gained the nickname 'Razzle Bathrobe') and he was unable to break out of the stereotype, except in certain spoofs of his earlier swashbuckling villains in such movies as Casanova's Big Night (1954) and The Court Jester (1956). Leonard Gary Oldman (born March 21, 1958) is a British actor. Basil Rathbone earned an Academy Award nomination for Best Actor in a Supporting Role for his performance of Tybalt in Romeo and Juliet (1936), and another nomination for Best Actor in a Supporting Role for his performance of King Louis XI in If I Were King (1938). Daniel. The latter duplicates a scene in the former where Rathbone slices a candle in two and leaves it burning.

Remembrance (1982)... Other noteworthy sword fights appear in The Mark of Zorro and The Court Jester (1956). Coxy the Skinhead. He was admired for his athletic cinema swordsmanship, particularly in the duel on the beach in Captain Blood and as Sir Guy of Guisborne in the long fight scene in Robin Hood. Meantime (TV) (1984)... Watson in an old-time radio mystery series, The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1943-1946), and did numerous other radio broadcasts. Colin. He also starred as Holmes with Nigel Bruce as Dr.

Morgan's Boy (TV) (1984)... To many fans, Basil Rathbone was born to play Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's famous London detective. Derek Bates. He was most notable for his starring roles in fifteen Sherlock Holmes movies. Honest, Decent & True (TV) (1985)... Rathbone became famous for playing suave villains in many swashbucklers of the 1930s, including David Copperfield (1935), Anna Karenina (1935), The Last Days of Pompeii (1935), Captain Blood (1935), A Tale of Two Cities (1935), The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938) and The Mark of Zorro (1940). Sid and Nancy (1986).... Sid Vicious. He was in a few silent movies, and played detective Philo Vance in the 1929 movie The Bishop Murder Case.

Joe Orton. During the 1920s, Rathbone appeared in Shakespearean roles on the British stage. Prick Up Your Ears (1987)... He is interred in the Ferncliff Cemetery, Hartsdale, New York. Martin. He died of a heart attack at his home in New York City. Track 29 (1988)... He and Foreman had one son, Rodion Rathbone, and he and Bergere had one adopted daughter, Cynthia Rathbone.

Ben Chase. Rathbone was married to actress Marion Foreman (married 1914-divorced 1926) and writer Ouida Bergere (married 1927-his death 1967). Criminal Law (1988)... His younger sister and brother were Beatrice Rathbone and John Rathbone. Johnny. John Basil Rathbone in Johannesburg, South Africa, a son of Edgar Philip Rathbone and Anna Barbara George. We Think the World of You (1988)... He was born Philip St.