1892 - 1967
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 3,139,799 page views. His biography is available in 39 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 34 in 2019). Basil Rathbone is the 1,111th most popular actor (up from 1,318th in 2019), the 32nd most popular biography from South Africa (up from 36th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular South African Actor.
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Among actors, Basil Rathbone ranks 1,111 out of 9,996. Before him are Hugh Griffith, Lyudmila Gurchenko, Nino Manfredi, Tom Hulce, Tony Leung Chiu-wai, and Joan Plowright. After him are Robert Ryan, John Nettles, Andy Whitfield, Scott Adkins, Martin Kove, and Marika Rökk.
1912 - 1980
HPI: 57.36
Rank: 1,105
1935 - 2011
HPI: 57.35
Rank: 1,106
1921 - 2004
HPI: 57.34
Rank: 1,107
1953 - Present
HPI: 57.34
Rank: 1,108
1962 - Present
HPI: 57.33
Rank: 1,109
1929 - Present
HPI: 57.33
Rank: 1,110
1892 - 1967
HPI: 57.32
Rank: 1,111
1909 - 1973
HPI: 57.32
Rank: 1,112
1943 - Present
HPI: 57.32
Rank: 1,113
1971 - 2011
HPI: 57.31
Rank: 1,114
1976 - Present
HPI: 57.31
Rank: 1,115
1946 - Present
HPI: 57.29
Rank: 1,116
1913 - 2004
HPI: 57.28
Rank: 1,117
Among people born in 1892, Basil Rathbone ranks 80. Before him are Kang Pan-sok, Richard Neutra, César Vallejo, Mirsaid Sultan-Galiev, Thomas Mitchell, and Reinhold Niebuhr. After him are Mikhail Gurevich, Jack L. Warner, Walther Nehring, Rashid Ali al-Gaylani, Agnes Smedley, and Paul Abraham. Among people deceased in 1967, Basil Rathbone ranks 70. Before him are Günther Blumentritt, Dorothy Parker, Woody Guthrie, Primo Carnera, Géza Lakatos, and Roger B. Chaffee. After him are George Kelly, Marcel Aymé, Walter A. Shewhart, Stanisław Sosabowski, Walter Weiß, and Langston Hughes.
1892 - 1932
HPI: 58.05
Rank: 74
1892 - 1970
HPI: 58.03
Rank: 75
1892 - 1938
HPI: 57.97
Rank: 76
1892 - 1940
HPI: 57.80
Rank: 77
1892 - 1962
HPI: 57.42
Rank: 78
1892 - 1971
HPI: 57.41
Rank: 79
1892 - 1967
HPI: 57.32
Rank: 80
1892 - 1976
HPI: 57.32
Rank: 81
1892 - 1978
HPI: 57.12
Rank: 82
1892 - 1983
HPI: 57.04
Rank: 83
1892 - 1965
HPI: 56.98
Rank: 84
1892 - 1950
HPI: 56.96
Rank: 85
1892 - 1960
HPI: 56.90
Rank: 86
1892 - 1967
HPI: 58.15
Rank: 64
1893 - 1967
HPI: 58.01
Rank: 65
1912 - 1967
HPI: 57.99
Rank: 66
1906 - 1967
HPI: 57.85
Rank: 67
1890 - 1967
HPI: 57.57
Rank: 68
1935 - 1967
HPI: 57.40
Rank: 69
1892 - 1967
HPI: 57.32
Rank: 70
1905 - 1967
HPI: 57.30
Rank: 71
1902 - 1967
HPI: 57.24
Rank: 72
1891 - 1967
HPI: 56.74
Rank: 73
1892 - 1967
HPI: 56.73
Rank: 74
1890 - 1967
HPI: 56.67
Rank: 75
1902 - 1967
HPI: 56.57
Rank: 76
Among people born in South Africa, Basil Rathbone ranks 32 out of 374. Before him are Jan Smuts (1870), Winnie Madikizela-Mandela (1936), Seymour Papert (1928), D. F. Malan (1874), Peter Abrahams (1919), and Abba Eban (1915). After him are Kgalema Motlanthe (1949), Kevin Carter (1960), André Brink (1935), Arnold Vosloo (1962), Angelique Rockas (1951), and Cetshwayo kaMpande (1826).
1870 - 1950
HPI: 59.62
Rank: 26
1936 - 2018
HPI: 59.39
Rank: 27
1928 - 2016
HPI: 58.44
Rank: 28
1874 - 1959
HPI: 58.28
Rank: 29
1919 - 2017
HPI: 57.66
Rank: 30
1915 - 2002
HPI: 57.43
Rank: 31
1892 - 1967
HPI: 57.32
Rank: 32
1949 - Present
HPI: 56.81
Rank: 33
1960 - 1994
HPI: 56.69
Rank: 34
1935 - 2015
HPI: 56.20
Rank: 35
1962 - Present
HPI: 56.02
Rank: 36
1951 - Present
HPI: 55.08
Rank: 37
1826 - 1884
HPI: 54.90
Rank: 38
Among actors born in South Africa, Basil Rathbone ranks 2. Before him are Charlize Theron (1975). After him are Arnold Vosloo (1962), Angelique Rockas (1951), Glynis Johns (1923), Alice Krige (1954), Cyril Cusack (1910), Cecil Kellaway (1890), Lesley-Ann Brandt (1981), Sharlto Copley (1973), John Kani (1943), and Janet Suzman (1939).
1975 - Present
HPI: 64.53
Rank: 1
1892 - 1967
HPI: 57.32
Rank: 2
1962 - Present
HPI: 56.02
Rank: 3
1951 - Present
HPI: 55.08
Rank: 4
1923 - 2024
HPI: 51.43
Rank: 5
1954 - Present
HPI: 51.17
Rank: 6
1910 - 1993
HPI: 51.04
Rank: 7
1890 - 1973
HPI: 49.53
Rank: 8
1981 - Present
HPI: 47.59
Rank: 9
1973 - Present
HPI: 47.12
Rank: 10
1943 - Present
HPI: 46.07
Rank: 11
1939 - Present
HPI: 43.94
Rank: 12