Basil Rathbone
The Man Behind the Deerstalker
He looked, spoke and acted like an aristocrat, knew how to fence and sword fight, tought Douglas Fairbanks and Errol Flynn how to look as if they could do it too and created the most copied on-screen portrait of Arthur Canon Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes. He was the ultimate suave and intellectual villain as well as the most iconic detective ever on screen.
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