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BASIL RATHBONE

Basil Rathbone (real name Philip St John Basil Rathbone) was a South African born English actor. He was born in 1892 at Johannesburg and died in 1967 of a heart attack. He appeared as the character 'Sherlock Holmes' in fourteen 'Sherlock Holmes' films, and played a comedy cameo role in the 1943 film 'Crazy House'.
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