"in Scarlet"". Ronald Howard, then 36, was chosen to portray Sherlock Holmes. Howard shared Reynolds's view of Holmes and his portrayal was much more laid back than the more famous version portrayed by Basil Rathbone. Howard Marion Crawford, credited as H. Marion Crawford, was cast as Watson and it was a role Crawford had long wanted to play. Crawford desired to play Watson as something other than the buffoon as typified by Nigel Bruce's portrayal. Scottish actor Archie Duncan was cast as Inspector Lestrade. Much akin to Dennis Hoey in the Rathbone/Bruce series of films, Duncan's Lestrade was used as"
"Nigel Bruce William Nigel Ernle Bruce (4 February 1895 – 8 October 1953) was a British character actor on stage and screen. He was best known for his portrayal of Dr. Watson in a series of films and in the radio series ""The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes"" (starring Basil Rathbone as Sherlock Holmes). Bruce is also remembered for his roles in the Alfred Hitchcock films ""Rebecca"" and ""Suspicion"". Bruce was the second son of Sir William Waller Bruce, 10th Baronet (1856–1912) and his wife Angelica Lady Bruce (died 1917), daughter of General George Selby, Royal Artillery. He was born"
"Basil Rathbone Philip St. John Basil Rathbone MC (13 June 1892 – 21 July 1967) was a South African-born English actor. He rose to prominence in the United Kingdom as a Shakespearean stage actor and went on to appear in more than 70 films, primarily costume dramas, swashbucklers and, occasionally, horror films. Rathbone frequently portrayed suave villains or morally ambiguous characters, such as Mr. Murdstone in ""David Copperfield"" (1935) and Sir Guy of Gisbourne in ""The Adventures of Robin Hood"" (1938). His most famous role, however, was heroic—that of Sherlock Holmes in fourteen Hollywood films made between 1939 and 1946"
"""The Lady Vanishes"". However, due to delays in production, Black hired Alfred Hitchcock to direct instead. Neill died in London, England, from a heart attack. Roy William Neill Roy William Neill (4 September 1887 – 14 December 1946) was an Irish-born American film director best known for directing the last eleven of the fourteen Sherlock Holmes films starring Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce, made between 1943 and 1946 and released by Universal Studios. With his father as the captain, Roy William Neill was born on a ship off the coast of Ireland. His birth name was Roland de Gostrie. Neill"
"Roy William Neill Roy William Neill (4 September 1887 – 14 December 1946) was an Irish-born American film director best known for directing the last eleven of the fourteen Sherlock Holmes films starring Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce, made between 1943 and 1946 and released by Universal Studios. With his father as the captain, Roy William Neill was born on a ship off the coast of Ireland. His birth name was Roland de Gostrie. Neill began directing silent films in 1917 and went on to helm 107 films, 40 of them silent. Although most of Neill's films were low-budget B-movies,"
"to that point: ""after Bruce, it would be a near-unthinkable heresy to show Holmes without him"". The Rathbone-Bruce co-star film series lapsed with the death of its producer-director Roy William Neill in 1946. Since then, most major modern adaptations of Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes stories, especially since the 1970s, have consciously defied the popular stereotype, and depicted Watson faithfully as a capable man of action. Nigel Bruce was married from 1921 until his death to British actress Violet Campbell (née Violet Pauline Shelton; 1892–1970) whom he always lovingly called ""Bunny""; they had two daughters: Bruce, known as ""Willie"" to"
"as Sherlock Holmes, nine years before Rathbone would first play the famous detective. The Bishop Murder Case (film) The Bishop Murder Case is a 1930 mystery film directed by Nick Grinde, starring Basil Rathbone, Leila Hyams and Roland Young. Nine years before his role as Sherlock Holmes, Basil Rathbone essayed the character of S.S. Van Dyne's detective Philo Vance. S.S. Van Dyne's novel, ""The Benson Murder Case"" in 1926 success spawned 11 subsequent Vance novels. It is also the first MGM film in the 1930s'. From his private balcony, elderly Prof. Dillard and his servant see the body of family"
"subsequently cremated, with its ashes being placed in a niche at the Chapel of the Pines Crematory in Los Angeles. He wrote an autobiography entitled 'Games, Gossip and Greasepaint', which is unpublished, however excerpts have been printed in the ""Sherlock Holmes Journal"", and these have been posted online with permission. Nigel Bruce William Nigel Ernle Bruce (4 February 1895 – 8 October 1953) was a British character actor on stage and screen. He was best known for his portrayal of Dr. Watson in a series of films and in the radio series ""The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes"" (starring Basil"
"the Basil Rathbone movies of the 1940s, with the aesthete still prevailing, yet tinged with humanity and emotional empathy. Plummer stated that he tried to make Holmes more human and caring saying ""This is a passionate and caring Holmes."" James Mason's Watson is also a departure from previous incarnations; although he may appear at first to resemble the bumbling Nigel Bruce version of the character, he soon shows his level head and scientific and medical training to be as valuable assets as they were in the original stories. Like Plummer, Mason wanted to play up Watson's skills and avoid the"
"Dressed to Kill (1946 film) Dressed to Kill, released in 1946, also known as Prelude to Murder (working title) and Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Code in the United Kingdom, is the last of fourteen films starring Basil Rathbone as Sherlock Holmes and Nigel Bruce as Doctor Watson. A convicted thief in Dartmoor prison (played by an uncredited Cyril Delevanti) hides the location of stolen Bank of England printing plates inside three music boxes (each of which plays a subtly different version of ""The Swagman""). The boxes are sold at a local auction house. The brain of the gang belongs"
"Doctor Watson and the Darkwater Hall Mystery Doctor Watson and the Darkwater Hall Mystery is a 1974 British made-for-television mystery film directed by James Cellan Jones and starring Edward Fox as Doctor Watson. While Sherlock Holmes is away on holiday, Watson journeys to Darkwater Hall in the Cotswolds to protect a woman's husband from harm. Filmed at Stow-on-the-Wold, Watson was portrayed as competent and intelligent as opposed to the popular idea of a bumbling character as Nigel Bruce portrayed him in an earlier series of fourteen films. He is also portrayed as a virile womanizer as the character claims to"
"The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson () is a series of Soviet television films portraying Arthur Conan Doyle's fictional English detective, starting in 1979. They were directed by Igor Maslennikov. In 2006, Vasily Livanov became an Honorary MBE (Member of the Order of the British Empire) for his portrayal of Sherlock Holmes. Between 1979 and 1986, Soviet television produced a series of five films at the Lenfilm movie studio, split into eleven episodes, starring Vasily Livanov as Sherlock Holmes and Vitaly Solomin as Dr. Watson. Later, a cinematic adaptation was"
"Sherlock Holmes (Stoll film series) From 1921 to 1923, Stoll Pictures produced a series of silent black-and-white films based on Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes stories. Forty-five short films and two feature-length films were produced featuring Eille Norwood in the role of Holmes and Hubert Willis cast as Dr. Watson with the exception of the final film, ""The Sign of Four"", where Willis was replaced with Arthur Cullin. Consequently, Norwood holds the record for most appearances as Sherlock Holmes in film. Sir Oswald Stoll, an Australian-born Irish theatre manager ran music halls and West End stages until World War"
"End actor Eille Norwood in the lead with Hubert Willis as Watson. John Barrymore played the role in a 1922 movie entitled ""Sherlock Holmes"", with Roland Young as Watson and William Powell in his first screen appearance. This Goldwyn film is the first Holmes movie made with high production values and a major star. Clive Brook played Sherlock Holmes three times: ""The Return of Sherlock Holmes"" (1929), as part of an anthology film, ""Paramount on Parade"" (1930), and ""Sherlock Holmes"" (1932). In 1931 Raymond Massey played Sherlock Holmes in his screen debut, ""The Speckled Band"", while Arthur Wontner played Holmes"
"on to appear in supporting and bit parts in seven of the twelve Universal Studios ""Sherlock Holmes"" films in which Rathbone starred. Cording died on 1 September 1954. The cause of death was not documented. His wife was Margaret Cording, née Fiero, (1912–91), a native of Michigan; their daughter, Margaret Rose, was born on 7 November 1939. The Cordings lived at 4104 Farmdale Avenue, North Hollywood. Harry Cording was an active member of the Loyal Order of Moose fraternity. Harry Cording Hector William ""Harry"" Cording (26 April 1891 – 1 September 1954) was a British character actor. Cording was born"
"Ian Fleming (actor) Ian Fleming (born Ian Macfarlane; 10 September 1888 – 1 January 1969) was an Australian character actor with credits in over 100 British films. He is perhaps best known for playing Dr. Watson in a series of Sherlock Holmes movies of the 1930s opposite Arthur Wontner's Holmes. He also essayed a number of supporting roles in many classic British films of the era including ""Q Planes"" (1939), ""Night Train to Munich"" (1940), ""We Dive at Dawn"", ""The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp"" (both 1943) and ""Waterloo Road"" (1945). He also appeared regularly in the films of"
"The closing shot shows Holmes and Watson exiting ""Rathbone Place"", a reference to Basil Rathbone, who played Sherlock Holmes in fourteen films and a radio series. In the final sequence, ""The Adventure of the Dancing Men"" (1903) is referenced with the following cipher seen on a chalkboard, which reads ""AM HERE ABE SLANEY"": The setting for Sherrinford, the high-security prison, was filmed at St Catherine's Fort, St Catherine's Island off Castle Beach in Tenby, Pembrokeshire, Wales. Musician Paul Weller made a cameo appearance, in a non-speaking role as a man lying on the floor in a Viking costume, seen near"
"were devout Quakers, William Rathbone being a very close friend of Florence Nightingale who sent a message to his family following his death ""England has lost one of its best son's"". Basil Rathbone the actor (famous for his portrayal as Sherlock Holmes) was connected with Bassenfell and he probably spent some holidays at the manor, but never actually lived there. Bassenfell Manor was built as a country residence for William Rathbone's family and took five years to build. The house has many nautical features; the wing containing bedrooms 1-5 looks like the bridge of a ship and the middle and"
"little slow, their fidelity to the source material often surpassed later more elaborate adaptations. ""Bioscope"" claimed that ""As popular attractions, ""The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes"" are, in our opinion, considerably the best things yet shown by Stoll."" Sherlock Holmes (Stoll film series) From 1921 to 1923, Stoll Pictures produced a series of silent black-and-white films based on Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes stories. Forty-five short films and two feature-length films were produced featuring Eille Norwood in the role of Holmes and Hubert Willis cast as Dr. Watson with the exception of the final film, ""The Sign of Four"", where"
"from then until 1927, eventually totalling four novels and 56 short stories. All but one are set in the Victorian or Edwardian eras, between about 1880 and 1914. Most are narrated by the character of Holmes's friend and biographer Dr. Watson, who usually accompanies Holmes during his investigations and often shares quarters with him at the address of 221B Baker Street, London, where many of the stories begin. Though not the first fictional detective, Sherlock Holmes is arguably the best known, with ""Guinness World Records"" listing him as the ""most portrayed movie character"" in history. Holmes's popularity and fame are"
"Martin Freeman Martin John Christopher Freeman (born 8 September 1971) is an English actor and comedian, who became known for portraying Tim Canterbury in the original UK version of sitcom mockumentary ""The Office"", Dr. John Watson in the British crime drama ""Sherlock"", Bilbo Baggins in Peter Jackson's ""The Hobbit"" film trilogy, and Lester Nygaard in the dark comedy-crime drama TV series ""Fargo"". His other notable film roles include the romantic comedy ""Love Actually"" (2003), the comic science fiction film ""The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"" (2005), the semi-improvised comedy ""Nativity!"" (2009), the comedic ""Three Flavours Cornetto"" trilogy, most prominently in"
"Based on the children's book series ""Basil of Baker Street"" by Eve Titus, it draws heavily on the tradition of Sherlock Holmes with a heroic mouse who consciously emulates the detective; Titus named the main character after actor Basil Rathbone, who is best remembered for playing Holmes in film (and whose voice, sampled from a 1966 reading of ""The Red-Headed League"" was the voice of Holmes in this film, 19 years after his death). Sherlock Holmes also mentions ""Basil"" as one of his aliases in the Arthur Conan Doyle story ""The Adventure of Black Peter"". ""The Great Mouse Detective"" was"
"Vasily Livanov as Holmes and Vitaly Solomin as Watson. Livanov earned honorary membership Order of the British Empire for a performance ambassador Anthony Brenton described as ""one of the best I've ever seen"". In 1983, Ian Richardson portrayed Sherlock Holmes in ""The Sign of Four"" with David Healy as Dr. John H. Watson. Later that same year, Richardson again played Holmes in a version of ""The Hound of the Baskervilles"" with Donald Churchill as his Watson. In 1986, a TV movie called ""My Tenderly Loved Detective"" was made in Soviet Union about the adventures of the female Sherlock Holmes, called"
"that he is not retained by the police to remedy their deficiencies. An American radio adaptation was aired in 1943, with Basil Rathbone as Holmes and Nigel Bruce as Watson. There have been four BBC Radio dramatizations: Peter Cushing portrayed Sherlock Holmes in the 1968 BBC series. ""The Adventure of Blue Carbuncle"" is one of only six surviving episodes. In 1984 the story was the subject of an episode of the Granada TV version directed by David Carson and starring Jeremy Brett. The animated television series ""Sherlock Holmes in the 22nd Century"" featured an adaptation of the story, replacing the"
"reconstruction was released on DVD by Kino International in 2009, with about 26 minutes of footage still missing. A Kino Blu-ray release followed in December 2011. Sherlock Holmes (1922 film) Sherlock Holmes (released as Moriarty in the UK) is a 1922 American silent mystery drama film starring John Barrymore as Sherlock Holmes and Roland Young as Dr. John Watson. The movie, which features the screen debuts of both William Powell (credited as William H. Powell) and Roland Young, was directed by Albert Parker and written by Earle Browne and Marion Fairfax from the 1899 play by William Gillette based upon"
"no better Sherlock Holmes than Arthur Wontner is likely to be seen and heard in pictures, in our time."" Wontner's final performance as Sherlock Holmes was in a 1943 BBC adaptation of ""The Boscombe Valley Mystery"" with Carleton Hobbs as Dr. Watson. Hobbs himself later went on to play Holmes in a radio series. Sherlock Holmes (1931 film series) Sherlock Holmes is a film series running from 1931 to 1937. Arthur Wontner portrayed Sherlock Holmes in five films. Having been told he resembled Doyle's creation for years, Wontner was finally cast in the role for ""The Sleeping Cardinal"" in 1931."
"Arthur Wontner Arthur Wontner (21 January 1875 – 10 July 1960) was a British actor best known for playing Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's master detective Sherlock Holmes in five films from 1931 to 1937. Wontner's acting career began on the stage where he played such roles as Tybalt in ""Romeo and Juliet"", Bassanio in ""The Merchant of Venice"", Bunny Manders in ""Raffles, the Amateur Cracksman"" and Cardinal Richelieu in film ""The Three Musketeers"". In 1926, Wontner appeared in ""The Captive"" alongside Basil Rathbone, both of whom went on to play Sherlock Holmes on film. Wontner landed the role of Sherlock"
"of Sherlock Holmes in ""The Hound of the Baskervilles"" and other Holmes TV series directed by Igor Maslennikov. Those movies were filmed between 1979 and 1986, with the latter four stories forming the plot of a standalone big-screen feature entitled ""The Twentieth Century Approaches"". Vasily Livanov played Sherlock Holmes and Vitaly Solomin played Doctor Watson. On 27 April 2007 a sculpture featuring Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson as portrayed by Vasily Livanov and Vitaly Solomin was opened on the Smolenskaya embankment alongside the Embassy of the United Kingdom in Moscow (sculptor Andrey Orlov). Apart from screenplays Vasily Livanov has been"
"musical comedian George Formby. Fleming's later career included appearances in many television series of the 1950s and 1960s such as ""Fabian of the Yard"", ""Hancock's Half Hour"", ""Dixon of Dock Green"", ""Dr. Finlay's Casebook"", ""The Forsyte Saga"" and ""The Prisoner"". Ian Fleming (actor) Ian Fleming (born Ian Macfarlane; 10 September 1888 – 1 January 1969) was an Australian character actor with credits in over 100 British films. He is perhaps best known for playing Dr. Watson in a series of Sherlock Holmes movies of the 1930s opposite Arthur Wontner's Holmes. He also essayed a number of supporting roles in many"
"releases such as ""Brighton Rock"" (1947), ""The Dam Busters"" (1955), ""The Great Escape"" (1963), ""The Lion in Winter"" and ""The Lost Continent"" (both 1968), and ""Russian Roulette"" (1975). Between 1964 and 1968, Nigel Stock became a household name in the UK for his portrayal of Dr. Watson in a series of Sherlock Holmes dramas for BBC television. Later in life, he portrayed the mentor of Sherlock Holmes in ""Young Sherlock Holmes"". His other numerous television credits included ""Danger Man"" (1965), ""The Avengers"" (1964 & 1966), ""The Prisoner"" (1967), ""The Doctors"" (1969-71), ""Owen, M.D."" (1971–73), ""Quiller"" (1975), ""Van der Valk"" (1977),"
"on to say that he was ""solving significant problems of the present day"". While the 20th Century Fox adaptations had high production values and big budgets, the Universal films changed the approach of the series, and aimed ""simply to be entertaining 'B' pictures"". The second film produced by Universal, ""Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon"", was directed by Roy William Neill; he went on to direct the remaining ten films—and produce the final nine—in the Universal series. Rathbone became frustrated with the role and left the series in 1946; he stated that his ""first picture was, as it were, a"
"Anthony Brenton described as ""one of the best I've ever seen"".Jeremy Brett played the detective in seven series of ""Sherlock Holmes"" for Britain's Granada Television from 1984 to 1994. Watson was played by David Burke (in the first three series) and Edward Hardwicke (in the remainder). Brett and Hardwicke also appeared on stage in 1988-89 in ""The Secret of Sherlock Holmes"", directed by Patrick Garland. Bert Coules penned ""The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes"" starring Clive Merrison as Holmes and Michael Williams/Andrew Sachs as Watson, based on throwaway references in Conan Doyle's short stories and novels. He also produced original"
"Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson is a television series created by Sheldon Reynolds. It starred Geoffrey Whitehead, Donald Pickering and Patrick Newell in the title roles of Sherlock Holmes, Doctor Watson and Inspector Lestrade respectively. The series is considered rather obscure, and was filmed on a relatively low budget in Poland. Sheldon Reynolds structured a deal with the state Polish Television to take over Poltel Studios to produce television shows. Anthony Burgess was brought on as a consultant. Reynolds recycled some aspects from his earlier 1954 television series starring Ronald Howard such as scripts and"