Were these two actors the same person?

Question

Here's a blog entry I just posted suggesting that Basil Rathbone and Peter Cushing might have been the same person.

http://blog.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendID=80582414&blogID=170538256&MyToken=10d7a45c-ee09-43ca-ba56-09a133c6f2ba

What do you think?

IT'S A JOKE, YOU GUYS!!! Geez...

Answer 1

Well they might have similiar patrician features, but definitely Basil Rathbourne is the better looker of the two....

You have a lot of time on your hands, don't you?

Answer 2

Rathbone born 1892, died 1967.

Cushing born 1913, died 1994.

So, I don't think so. Cushing looks enough like Rathbone, maybe he was his son.

Answer 3

Nope

Basil Rathbone was born in Johannesburg, South Africa, in 1892, but 3 years later, his family was forced to flee South Africa 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 by their mother Anna Barbara, a violinist, and their father Edgar Philip, a mining engineer. From 1906 to 1910, Rathbone attended Repton School, where he was more interested in sports than studies, but discovered his interest in the theater. After graduation, he wished to pursue acting as a profession, but his father disapproved and suggested that his son try working in business for a year, hoping his son would forget about acting. Rathbone accepted his father's suggestion and worked as a clerk for an insurance company--for exactly one year. Then he contacted his cousin Frank Benson, an actor managing a Shakespearean troupe in Stratford-on-Avon.


Peter Cushing was born in 1913 in Kenley, Surrey, England. He and his older brother David were raised first in Dulwich Village, a south London suburb, and then later back in Surrey by his mother Nellie Marie and father George Edward, who was a quantity surveyor. At an early age Cushing was attracted to acting, inspired by his favorite aunt, who was a stage actress. While at school Cushing pursued his acting interest in acting and also drawing, a talent he put to good use later in his first job as a government surveyor's assistant in Surrey. At this time he also dabbled in local amateur theater until moving to London to attend the Guildhall School of Music and Drama on scholarship. He then performed in repertory theater, deciding in 1939 to head for Hollywood, where he made his film debut in The Man in the Iron Mask (1939). Other Hollywood films included A Chump at Oxford (1940) with Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy, Vigil in the Night (1940) and They Dare Not Love (1941). However, after a short stay, he returned to England by way of New York (making brief appearances on Broadway) and Canada. Back in his homeland he contributed to the war effort during World War II by joining the Entertainment National Services Association.

Answer 4

Basil Rathbone killed himself. No they werent the same person.

Answer 5

I agree with you! Now do I get the 10 points?

Answer 6

Considering that they have appeared together on screen and off sorta puts that one to bed. B.

Answer 7

lol they are not the same person. look them up on the internet. 2 different people

Answer 8

they do look a lot alike but they also look like Al Bundy

Answer 9

I think you are living in a fantasy world

Answer 10

some people don't know how to take a joke i can see LOL!