Basil Rathbone

Award won Role or nomination

1. 1892 age 0

   Born

2. 1935 age 43

   CreditCaptain Blood

3. 1938 age 46

   CreditThe Adventures of Robin Hood

4. 1939 age 47

   CreditSon of Frankenstein

5. 1940 age 48

   CreditThe Mark of Zorro

6. 1955 age 63

   CreditWe're No Angels

7. 1967 age 75

   Died

• MCMichael Curtiz3 titles
• FPFrank Puglia2 titles
• LMLouis Mercier2 titles
• HWHal B. Wallis2 titles
• OHOlivia de Havilland2 titles
• CKColin Kenny2 titles
• EPEugene Pallette2 titles
• CMChrispin Martin2 titles
• ISIvan Simpson2 titles
• LBLionel Belmore2 titles

• That is the most wonderful training an actor can have. If you can speak Shakespeare, you can speak anything. And it gives you complete poise and grace of movement.

  Basil Rathbone, CC BY-SA 4.0

• I don’t know the why of anything, even when I pretend most diligently I do. The truth is the last time I had any idea why or what I was supposed to do I was lying in a shell hole, looking up at the sky. My mind was filled with a Bach keyboard sonata , which was one of the last I’d learned, I forget which one now. I absolutely knew I was about to die and I was completely happy and at peace, in a way I never was before or since, not even with you, in our best moments. It was so easy, you see, a kind of absolute joy and peace, because I knew it was all done and I was all square with life. Nothing left to do but let things take their course. And when I didn’t die, I didn’t know what to do. So I thought, I’ll take my revolver, go out and blow a hole through my head. Only I knew it wouldn’t work. I knew, I just knew you couldn’t do it that way. You couldn’t make it happen, not if you wanted to find peace. So, I thought, then, a sniper can do it for me. But no matter how I tried to let them n

  Basil Rathbone, CC BY-SA 4.0