ACTOR

Basil Rathbone

1892 - 1967

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Philip St. John Basil Rathbone MC (13 June 1892 – 21 July 1967) was an Anglo-South African actor. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Basil Rathbone has received more than 3,360,151 page views. His biography is available in 43 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 39 in 2019). Basil Rathbone is the 983rd most popular actor (up from 1,109th in 2019), the 28th most popular biography from South Africa (up from 32nd in 2019) and the 3rd most popular South African Actor.

Memorability Metrics

  • 3.4M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 58.95

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 43

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.16

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.60

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ACTORS

Among actors, Basil Rathbone ranks 983 out of 13,578. Before him are Lou Ferrigno, Dean Stockwell, Conrad Bain, Lee Sun-kyun, Ving Rhames, and Barbara Bel Geddes. After him are Sacha Baron Cohen, Stephen Lang, Paul Muni, Dirk Bogarde, Honor Blackman, and Jean Dujardin.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1892, Basil Rathbone ranks 75. Before him are Mikhail Gurevich, Germaine Tailleferre, S. R. Ranganathan, César Vallejo, Günther Blumentritt, and Andrés Nin Pérez. After him are Mirsaid Sultan-Galiev, Kang Pan-sok, Harry Stack Sullivan, Walther Nehring, Rafael Moreno Aranzadi, and Vita Sackville-West. Among people deceased in 1967, Basil Rathbone ranks 64. Before him are Roger B. Chaffee, Léon M'ba, Primo Carnera, G. W. Pabst, Julien Duvivier, and Günther Blumentritt. After him are Paul Muni, Marcel Aymé, Julius Schaub, Géza Lakatos, Carson McCullers, and Walter A. Shewhart.

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In South Africa

Among people born in South Africa, Basil Rathbone ranks 28 out of 454. Before him are Sydney Brenner (1927), Christiaan Hendrik Persoon (1761), Steve Biko (1946), Glynis Johns (1923), Winnie Madikizela-Mandela (1936), and D. F. Malan (1874). After him are Seymour Papert (1928), Jan Smuts (1870), Abba Eban (1915), Kgalema Motlanthe (1949), Michael Levitt (1947), and Peter Abrahams (1919).

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Among ACTORS In South Africa

Among actors born in South Africa, Basil Rathbone ranks 3. Before him are Charlize Theron (1975), and Glynis Johns (1923). After him are Arnold Vosloo (1962), Angelique Rockas (1951), Cyril Cusack (1910), Alice Krige (1954), David Bailie (1937), Sharlto Copley (1973), Cecil Kellaway (1890), Janet Suzman (1939), and John Kani (1943).

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Television and Movie Roles

The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad
Narrator (segment "The Wind in the Willows")
The Wind in the Willows: Concise version of Kenneth Grahame's story of the same name. J. Thaddeus Toad, owner of Toad Hall, is prone to fads, such as the newfangled motor car. This desire for the very latest lands him in much trouble with the wrong crowd, and it is up to his friends, Mole, Rat and Badger to save him from himself. - The Legend of Sleepy Hollow: Retelling of Washington Irving's story set in a tiny New England town. Ichabod Crane, the new schoolmaster, falls for the town beauty, Katrina Van Tassel, and the town Bully Brom Bones decides that he is a little too successful and needs "convincing" that Katrina is not for him.
Oct 5th 19496.5 / 10
The Adventures of Robin Hood
Sir Guy of Gisbourne
Robin Hood fights nobly for justice against the evil Sir Guy of Gisbourne while striving to win the hand of the beautiful Maid Marian.
May 13th 19387.449 / 10
Son of Frankenstein
Baron Wolf von Frankenstein
One of the sons of late Dr. Henry Frankenstein finds his father's ghoulish creation in a coma and revives him, only to find out the monster is controlled by Ygor who is bent on revenge.
Jan 13th 19396.673 / 10