Basil Rathbone

Basil Rathbone

Basil Rathbone

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Top Songs

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The Minister's Black Veil
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Young Goodman Brown
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Oliver Twist
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Peter And The Wolf (from "Peter, Tubby And Pan")
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The Final Problem

Albums

  • Basil Rathbone Reads Edgar Allan Poe

    Feb 2014 • 8 songs

  • Sherlock Holmes - The Bruce Partington Plans and the Final Problem
  • Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - A Scandal in Bohemia

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Basil Rathbone

Biography

Basil Rathbone's acting career spanned from Shakespeare to low-budget horror and in fact included both at once in the Comedy of Terrors, where he recites every Shakespeare line there is about dying. Reciting was his specialty, because he had one of the greatest voices in the history of the acting profession. There is little one could do with the human voice to make it sound more dignified than Rathbone. It is also hard to sound more intelligent than Rathbone, a skill he put to good use in his many performances as master detective Sherlock Holmes. He recorded a great deal of th...
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