# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/basil-rathbone
# Generated: 2026-08-12T23:00:20.011Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/basil-rathbone"
name: "Basil Rathbone"
slug: "basil-rathbone"
description: "Philip St. John Basil Rathbone was an English actor. Born in South Africa and raised in Derbyshire, he rose to prominence in the United Kingdom as a Shakespearean stage actor and went on to appear in more than 70 films, primarily costume dramas, swashbucklers, and, occasionally, horror films."
tagline: "English actor (1892–1967)"
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gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "GB"
category:
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profileType:
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  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1892-06-13"
deathDate: "1967-07-21"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump