生于纽约市，其父为电影明星道格拉斯·范朋克。9岁时随离婚的母亲生活，直到14岁。1923年首登银幕，出演《史蒂芬失足记》。小费尔班克斯靠自己的努力在电影打拼，出演各类角色，甚至群众演员。1928年与琼·克劳馥结婚。除了电影表演外，他在英、美两国的社交和政治关系上更负盛名，二战时期作为美国海军上尉军官，曾参加过一些英美联合军事行动，曾获得多枚英国勋章，1949年被封为爵士。次年退出电影界，定居伦敦。60年代参加电视片集《道格拉斯·范朋克》的演出。之后和第二任妻子定居佛罗里达州的棕榈滩。2000年5月去世。
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.
莱昂内尔·阿特威尔，美国电影、戏剧演员，生于英格兰克罗伊登市，从1904年起，就是伦敦戏剧界一位富有经验的演员。二十年代，他在美国演过许多百老汇戏剧，也学过不少无声片。三十年代初，定居好莱坞，曾在很多影片中扮演过角色，以饰演奸诈狡猾的反面角色见长，在恐怖片《蜡像陈列馆的秘密》(1...
