* When Lord Rathbone revealed an automatic Gatling gun and said it was British ingenuity he was partially incorrect.

The role of Guy of Gisbourne has been interpreted on film since Rathbone in 1938, by Tom Baker ( The Zany Adventures of Robin Hood, 1984 ), Robert Addie ( in the British television series Robin of Sherwood, 1984-6 ) and Michael Wincott ( in the movie Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves ) where he is said to be the Sherrif's cousin.

There was a little blood on the hem of her dress, for the assassin had slashed Miss Harris's companion, Major Rathbone, with a knife.

) This plot point was also used in a Sherlock Holmes story based on the Basil Rathbone era, where a friend of Dr. Watson's is a baronet who is due to receive his inheritance on the New Year's Day of the year where his twenty-first birthday will be celebrated, only for the law to deprive him of the money as he was born on February 29 ; with the 84-year-old Baronet distraught at the news that 1900 is not a leap year, Holmes helps the Baronet fake his death long enough for his grandson-who is the appropriate age to receive the inheritance-to establish his claim and receive the money himself.

Gulacy was a film buff, and modeled many characters after film stars: Juliette on Marlene Dietrich, James Larner on Marlon Brando, Clive Reston ( often broadly hinted at as being the son of James Bond as well as the grand nephew of Sherlock Holmes ) occasionally looking like Basil Rathbone and Sean Connery, and a minor character Ward Sarsfield ( after the real-life name of Sax Rohmer ) who looked like David Niven.

Despite his having died at the age of 32, Richard is often depicted as being considerably older: Basil Rathbone, in the Tower of London, and Peter Cook were both 46 when they played him, Laurence Olivier was 47 ( in his 1955 film ), Vincent Price was 51, Ian McKellen was 56 as was Pacino in his 1996 film ( although Pacino was 39 when he played him on Broadway in 1979, and Olivier was 37 when he played him on stage in 1944 ).

Early portrayers of the character Sherlock Holmes, particularly William Gillette and Basil Rathbone, took advantage of this fact when it was required to portray Holmes smoking.

It was the first of eight films co-starring De Havilland and Flynn, and in 1938, the two would be re-united with Rathbone in The Adventures of Robin Hood.

Captain Blood was adapted as a radio play on the February 22, 1937 broadcast of Lux Radio Theater with Flynn, de Havilland and Rathbone all reprising their film parts.

In 1939, he was picked to play the role that would eventually go to Basil Rathbone in Son of Frankenstein ; Lorre had to decline the part due to illness.

Along with Rathbone, Gollancz was the foremost British campaigner during the Second World War on the issue of the Nazi extermination of European Jewry.

Philip St. John Basil Rathbone, MC ( 13 June 1892 – 21 July 1967 ) was a South African-born British actor.

Rathbone was educated at Repton School in Repton, Derbyshire and was engaged with the Liverpool and Globe Insurance Companies.

During the war, Rathbone displayed a penchant for disguise ( a skill which he coincidentally shared with what would become perhaps his most memorable character, Sherlock Holmes ), when on one occasion, in order to have better visibility, Rathbone convinced his superiors to allow him to scout enemy positions during daylight hours instead of during the night, as was the usual practice in order to minimize the chance of detection by the enemy.

In Green Lantern: The New Corps, during his weeks-long adventure in space, Rayner first recruited Magaan Van ' n Intraktus of the planet Van ' n, Hammeroon, a bounty hunter from Ilskado System, Anya Savenlovich, a lieutenant colonel from the Soviet Air Forces who was in suspended animation after she participated in a space mission in 1964, Garl Rathbone, a miner from the debris belt over the planet Daffith, and Sool, a judge from Daffith.

In 1856, part of Woodhull was taken for the Town of Rathbone.

They were John, Amariah and Hannah ( wife of George L. Byon ) Hammond ; Esther Wright ( second wife of Ira Bulkley ); Elizabeth Cook ( wife of Orsemus Rathbone ); Willis and Nancy ( wife of Brockhurst L. Baker ) Hammond ; George L. and Harris T. Ryon ; Benson, Elizabeth and Charles Tubbs ; Maria Coates ( wife of Lorenzo Cook ); Edward, Charlotte and Hester Buck ; Phebe Mascho, who died young, and her brother Charles ; and a girl named Rifle, who lived in the family of John Ryon, Sr. Miss Wright ’ s pay for teaching was " calculated at one dollar per week, or one bushel of good merchantable wheat.

In 1940, the Old People ’ s Welfare Committee ( OPWC ), chaired by Eleanor Rathbone, was formed as a forum for discussion between government and voluntary organisations.

Rathbone, bleeding severely from the knife wound in his arm, collapsed from loss of blood after arriving at the Petersen House.

Luckily, Roy catches Wang, as Rathbone plummets to his death.

Based on the children's book series Basil of Baker Street by Eve Titus, it draws heavily on the tradition of Sherlock Holmes with a heroic mouse who consciously emulates the detective ; Titus named the main character after actor Basil Rathbone, who is best remembered for playing Holmes in film ( and whose voice, sampled from a 1966 reading of " The Adventure of the Red-Headed League " was the voice of Holmes in this film, 19 years after his death ).

Her nephew John Rankin Rathbone was the Conservative MP for Bodmin from 1935 until his death in the Battle of Britain, 1940, when his wife Beatrice succeeded him as MP.

In 1788, William Rathbone IV leased the family house and estate of Greenbank, then part of the Toxteth Park estate, to serve as a country retreat for his young family, and purchased the freehold of Greenbank House in 1809, the year of his death.

The Rathbone family purchased the freehold of Greenbank House in 1809, the year of William Rathbone IV's death.

Greenbank was occupied by Hugh Reynolds Rathbone and Emily Evelyn Rathbone in 1918 on the death of Emily Acheson Rathbone, widow of William Rathbone VI.

The house and remaining estate remained in Rathbone hands until the death of Hugh Reynolds Rathbone on 19 January 1940.

A 1938 US radio production starred Joan Crawford as Nora and Basil Rathbone as Torvald.

A later US radio version by the Theatre Guild in 1947 featured Rathbone with Wendy Hiller and Catherine Rowan, his co-star from a contemporary Broadway production.

Introduced by Augustus John, Caitlin's lover, they met in The Wheatsheaf pub on Rathbone Place in London's West End.

* 1892 – Basil Rathbone, English actor ( d. 1967 )

He returned in the same season to direct the episode " Conflicted ", featuring the actor Jackson Rathbone.

In 1954 plans were developed for a new Western District Office at Rathbone Place, which required a diversion, opening in 1958.

Richard's career is also the subject of the 1939 film Tower of London, in which he is played by Basil Rathbone.

* Universal Pictures made two films titled The Black Cat, one in 1934, starring Bela Lugosi and Boris Karloff, and another in 1941, starring Lugosi and Basil Rathbone.

The film stars of the time that starred in these films, playing both heroes and villains alike include Greer Garson, Cary Grant, James Cagney, Raymond Massey, Basil Rathbone, Walter Slezak, Dana Andrews, Don Ameche, Richard Loo, Humphrey Bogart, Paul Henreid, Richard Conte, Anthony Quinn and the most popular film star of the era, John Wayne.

* District nursing begins in Liverpool, England, when philanthropist William Rathbone employs Mary Robinson to nurse the sick poor in their own homes.

** Basil Rathbone, British actor ( b. 1892 )

Niven joined what became known as the Hollywood Raj, a group of British actors in Hollywood which included Rex Harrison, Errol Flynn, Boris Karloff, Stan Laurel, Basil Rathbone, Ronald Colman, Leslie Howard and C. Aubrey Smith.

The film stars Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland with Lionel Atwill and Basil Rathbone.

Some years later, whilst travelling back to the Caribbean, the ship on which Arabella and royal emissary Lord Willoughby ( Henry Stephenson ) are travelling is captured by Blood's treacherous partner, Captain Levasseur ( Basil Rathbone ) and the two personages held for ransom.

Filmed in Technicolor, the picture stars Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, Basil Rathbone, and Claude Rains.

Rains served in the First World War in the London Scottish Regiment, with fellow actors Basil Rathbone, Ronald Colman and Herbert Marshall.