Basil Rathbone

Philip St. John Basil Rathbone, MC was a South African Republicborn British actor. He rose to prominence in the United Kingdom as a Shakespearean stage actor and went on to appear in more than 70 films, primarily costume dramas, swashbucklers and, occasionally, horror films.

Rathbone was born Philip St. John Basil Rathbone in Johannesburg, to British parents. His mother, Anna Barbara , was a violinist, and his father, Edgar Philip Rathbone, was a mining engineer and scion of the Liverpool Rathbone family. He had two older halfbrothers, Harold and Horace, as well as two younger siblings, Beatrice and John. Basil was the greatgrandson of the noted Victorian philanthropist, William Rathbone V, and thus a descendant of William Rathbone II. The Rathbones fled to Britain when Basil was three years old after his father was accused by the Boers of being a spy after the Jameson Raid. He was a distant cousin of Major Henry Rathbone, who was present at the assassination of Abraham Lincoln and was seriously wounded trying to stop John Wilkes Booth.

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