Basil Sydney

He met the American actress Doris Keane when they appeared together in the original London production of the play “Romance” by Edward Sheldon and they married in 1918. They appeared together in a silent film version of the play in 1920 and when Keane revived the play in New York in 1921 he made his Broadway debut in it. They divorced in 1925.

His second wife was actress and singer Mary Ellis.

His third wife was actress Joyce Howard with whom he had three children.

Past productions

Von Gerlach, Altona, Royal Court Theatre started 19^th April 1961, Royal Court Theatre, London.
The Captain, The Captain’s Lamp 10^th – 15^th October 1955, New Theatre, Oxford.
The Marechal Francois de Sevres, The Little Glass Clock 1954 – 2^nd April 1955, Bristol Hippodrome and Aldwych Theatre, London.
Treasure on Pelican 1951 – 1952, Bristol Hippodrome.
Robert Fenton, The Hat Trick 25^th May – 17^th June 1950, Duke of York’s Theatre, London.
Arnold Holt (replacement), Edward, My Son, Gilbert Miller and Henry Sherek 21^st April 1947 – 23^rd April 1949, His Majesty’s Theatre, Haymarket, London (now His Majesty’s Theatre, Haymarket, London), Lyric Theatre (Shaftesbury Ave), London, and other locations.
Salvatore Ferraro, A Man About the House, H M Tennent Ltd 15^th October 1945 – 25^th May 1946, Piccadilly Theatre, London, Grand Theatre, Blackpool, and other locations.
Claudius (King of Denmark, Brother to the late King), Hamlet, Old Vic Company 1943 – 1944, New Theatre (now Noël Coward Theatre), London.
Drake 1938 – 1939, London Coliseum.
Stephen Byrne, Flood Tide 23^rd March – 2^nd April 1938, Phoenix Theatre, London.
Doctor Zander 1936 – 1937, Film Version.
Tsar Lenin 1936 – 1937, Westminster Theatre, London.
Edmund Darrell, Strange Interlude 3^rd February – 14^th March 1931, Lyric Theatre (Shaftesbury Ave), London.
Count la Ruse / Director, Knave and Quean 22^nd September – 11^th October 1930, Ambassadors Theatre, London and Grand Theatre, Blackpool.
Count la Ruse, Children of Darkness 7^th January – March 1930, Biltmore Theatre (now Samuel J Friedman Theatre), New York City.
Bishop Armstrong (Prologue and Epilogue) / Thomas Armstrong, Romance 28^th February – May 1921, Playhouse Theatre, New York.
Love for Love 1917 – 1918, Aldwych Theatre, London.
Designer, Hamlet 1916 – 1917, Savoy Theatre, London.
Love for Love 1916 – 1917, Aldwych Theatre, London.
Bishop Armstrong (Prologue and Epilogue) (Replacement) / Thomas Armstrong (Replacement), Romance 6^th October 1915 – 27^th April 1918, Duke of York’s Theatre, London and Lyric Theatre (Shaftesbury Ave), London.
Touchstone, As You Like It, Royal Shakespeare Company 1^st May 1914 (press night), Shakespeare Memorial Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon.
Laertes, Hamlet, Royal Shakespeare Company 30^th April 1914 (press night), Shakespeare Memorial Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon.
Feste, Twelfth Night, Royal Shakespeare Company 30^th April 1914 (press night), Shakespeare Memorial Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon.
Mr Page, The Merry Wives of Windsor, Royal Shakespeare Company 28^th April 1914 (press night), Shakespeare Memorial Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon.
Nevill, A Woman is a Weathercock 27^th April 1914 (press night), Shakespeare Memorial Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon.
Balthazar, The Comedy of Errors, Royal Shakespeare Company 22^nd April 1914 (press night), Shakespeare Memorial Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon.
Philip Barnes, The Two Angry Women of Abington, Royal Shakespeare Company 21^st April 1914 (press night), Shakespeare Memorial Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon.
Gratiano, The Merchant of Venice, Royal Shakespeare Company 20^th April 1914 (press night), Shakespeare Memorial Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon.
Typhoon 1912 – 1913, Theatre Royal, Haymarket, London.

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