1943年 第15届奥斯卡金像奖 埃尔文·G·撒尔伯格纪念奖
生于纽约市。十二岁就开始在华盛顿轮换剧目剧团登台演出，到十八岁时已是百老汇的主角，先后与波林·洛德等名演员同台演出。
Basil Rathbone was born in Johannesburg, South Africa, in 1892, but three years later his family was forced to flee the country because his father was accused by the Boers of being a British spy at a time when Dutch-British conflicts were leading to the Boer War. The Rathbones escaped to England, where Basil and his two younger siblings, Beatrice and John, were raised. Their mother, Anna Barbara (George), was a violinist, who was born in Grahamstown, South Africa, of British parents, and their father, Edgar Philip Rathbone, was a mining engineer born in Liverpool.
