Sherlock Holmes-actors 🔍

Basil Rathbone - British actor 🔎
https://www.arthur-conan-doyle.com/index.php/Basil_Rathbone
Basil Rathbone is best known for playing Sherlock Holmes in 14 movies between 1939 and 1946… The series began with two hits in 1939 for Fox : The Hound of the Baskervilles and The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
Rathbone and Bruce worked with Universal and played Holmes and Watson in 12 sherlockian movies (in fact pastiches far from the original Conan Doyle stories) : Sherlock Holmes and the Voice of Terror (1942), Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon (1942), Sherlock Holmes in Washington (1943), Sherlock Holmes Faces Death (1943), The Scarlet Claw (1944), The Spider Woman (1944), The Pearl of Death (1944), The House of Fear (1945), The Woman in Green (1945), Pursuit to Algiers (1945), Terror by Night (1946) et Dressed to Kill (1946).

Sherlock Holmes (Stoll film series) 📺
From 1921 to 1923, Stoll Pictures produced three 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[1] 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.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - The Dying Detective
Wikipedia
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dying_Detective_(film)
The great detective Sherlock Holmes, near death after having contracted a rare and usually fatal Asiatic disease, is determined to solve one last murder case before he passes on.
Archive 🏛️
https://archive.org/details/TheAdventuresOfSherlockHolmes-TheDyingDetective

Eille Norwood - The Sign of Four (movie 1923) 🏛️
https://www.arthur-conan-doyle.com/index.php/The_Sign_of_Four_(movie_1923)
The Sign of Four is a British movie released in june 1923, produced by Stoll Picture Productions, starring Eille Norwood (Sherlock Holmes) and Arthur M. Cullin (Watson). Adaptation of Arthur Conan Doyle's short story : The Sign of Four (1890).
Other titles:
Das Zeichen der Vier (Germany)
Wikipedia
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sign_of_Four_(1923_film)
Holmes and Watson are called in to investigate a strange murder in South London which appears to have its roots in events in India some years before.

The Hound of the Baskervilles (movie 1921) 🐕‍🦺
Sherlock Encyclopedia
https://www.arthur-conan-doyle.com/index.php/The_Hound_of_the_Baskervilles_(movie_1921)
The Hound of the Baskervilles is a silent British movie released 8 august 1921, produced by Stoll Picture Productions, starring Eille Norwood (Sherlock Holmes) and Hubert Willis (Watson).
This is an adaptattion of the Conan Doyle's novel: The Hound of the Baskervilles (1901-1902).
In other countries:
Der Hund der Baskerville (Germany) september 1925

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The Hound of the Baskervilles (1929 film)
Wikipedia - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hound_of_the_Baskervilles_(1929_film)
Watch on Archive - https://archive.org/details/der-hund-von-baskerville-1929-by-richard-oswald

The Hound of the Baskervilles (German: Der Hund von Baskerville) is a 1929 German silent mystery film… an adaptation of the 1902 Sherlock Holmes novel The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle.

Der Hund von Baskerville (1929) German silent film and the 1939 version with Basil Rathbone

 The film stars Carlyle Blackwell
Litcharts
https://www.litcharts.com/lit/the-hound-of-the-baskervilles

Reginald Owen
British actor who has the particularity of having played Holmes and Watson at cinema ☠️
Sherlock Encyclopedia
https://www.arthur-conan-doyle.com/index.php/Reginald_Owen
He played Watson in 1932 in Sherlock Holmes with Clive Brook as Sherlock Holmes, and he played Sherlock Holmes in 1933 in A Study in Scarlet with Warburton Gamble as Watson.
1932 : Sherlock Holmes (as Dr. Watson)
1933 : A Study in Scarlet (as Sherlock Holmes)

Raymond Massey
The Speckled Band (movie 1931)  British movie 🐍
Sherlock Encyclopedia
https://www.arthur-conan-doyle.com/index.php/The_Speckled_Band_(movie_1931)
1931 - The Speckled Band 🏛️
Archive
https://archive.org/details/SpeckledBand
Wikipedia story
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Adventure_of_the_Speckled_Band
The Speckled Band (1931 film)
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Speckled_Band_(1931_film)
Inside the mansion, Violet Stonor screams in her bedroom and then collapses in the hallway. She is discovered by her sister, Helen (Angela Baddeley). Violet's dying words are "the band, speckled."
Victorian Web
“He made neither sound nor motion” — an illustration (1892) by Sidney Paget for Arthur Conan Doyle's “The Adventure of the Speckled Band,” p. 121
https://victorianweb.org/victorian/art/illustration/pagets/112.html

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Jeremy Brett
The Cardboard Box (1923)
Wikipedia
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Adventure_of_the_Cardboard_Box
The Cardboard Box (1923) - short silent film 📦
The story was adapted as a short silent film titled The Cardboard Box in 1923, as one of the short films in the Sherlock Holmes film series by Stoll Pictures. It starred Eille Norwood as Sherlock Holmes and Hubert Willis as Dr. Watson.
Sherlock Holmes (1965 TV series)
YouTube - in colour
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cFQ-kShIM6o
Archive
https://archive.org/details/SherlockHolmesGranada
The Cardboard Box (episode No. 41) is the 6th episode of season 6 of the Granada series: Sherlock Holmes (The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes), starring Jeremy Brett as Sherlock Holmes and Edward Hardwicke as Dr. Watson, aired on ITV on 11 april 1994. 51 min.
Sherlock Encyclopedia
https://www.arthur-conan-doyle.com/index.php/The_Cardboard_Box_(TV_episode_1994)

Illustrations - Sidney Paget 🕵🏻
Sherlock Encyclopedia
https://www.arthur-conan-doyle.com/index.php/Sidney_Paget
illustration (1892) by Sidney Paget for Arthur Conan Doyle's “The Adventure of the Speckled Band,” p. 121
Victorian Web
https://victorianweb.org/art/illustration/pagets/112.html
Illustration for Arthur Conan Doyle's “The Adventure of the Cardboard Box,” p. 200.
Victorian Web
https://victorianweb.org/art/illustration/pagets/58.html
Illustration for Arthur Conan Doyle's “The Adventure of the Solitary Cyclist,” p. 502
Victorian Web
https://victorianweb.org/victorian/art/illustration/pagets/290.html
The Hound of the Baskervilles
Illustration for Arthur Conan Doyle's “The Hound of the Baskervilles,” p. 368
Victorian Web
https://victorianweb.org/victorian/art/illustration/pagets/220.html
Sherlock Encyclopedia
https://www.arthur-conan-doyle.com/index.php/The_Hound_of_the_Baskervilles

The Speckled Band 🐍
Victorian Web
https://victorianweb.org/victorian/art/illustration/pagets/112.html
Sherlock Encyclopedia - The Adventure of the Speckled Band
https://www.arthur-conan-doyle.com/index.php/The_Adventure_of_the_Speckled_Band

The Adventure of the Cardboard Box 📦
Wikimedia Commons
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:The_Adventure_of_the_Cardboard_Box
Wikisource
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Strand_Magazine/Volume_5/Issue_25/The_Adventure_of_the_Cardboard_Box
Flickr
Sherlock Holmes page illustration by Sidney Paget Newspaper Article The Strand 1894
https://www.flickr.com/photos/93779577@N00/8570257393
https://www.flickr.com/photos/93779577@N00/albums/72157633036171346/with/15306298448

Ronald Howard
Sherlock Holmes (1954 TV series) 📺
Archive i
https://archive.org/details/SherlockHolmes1954-55/S01.mp4
https://archive.org/details/Sherlock_Holmes_1954
Sherlock Holmes is an American detective television series syndicated in the autumn of 1954, based on the Sherlock Holmes stories of Arthur Conan Doyle. The 39 half-hour mostly original stories were produced by Sheldon Reynolds
The Case of the Cunningham Heritage
Archive
https://archive.org/details/SherlockHolmes-TheCaseoftheCunninghamHeritage
The Red-Headed League 👨🏻‍🦰
The first American television adaptation of the story was in the 1954–1955 television series Sherlock Holmes starring Ronald Howard.
Wikipedia
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Red-Headed_League
Sherlock Holmes - The Case of the Belligerent Ghost 👻
Ronald Howard - Sherlock Holmes
Archive
https://archive.org/details/SherlockHolmes-TheCaseoftheBelligerentGhost

Douglas Wilmer
Sherlock Holmes (TV series 1964-1968) Set in the Victorian era 📺
Sherlock Holmes is a British TV series aired between 1964 and 1968 on BBC starring Douglas Wilmer (season 1) as Sherlock Holmes, with Nigel Stock as Dr. Watson in both seasons. The first season is in black and white, and the second season in color. Some episodes are considered lost.
Sherlock Encyclopedia
https://www.arthur-conan-doyle.com/index.php/Sherlock_Holmes_(TV_series_1964-1968)
Archive 🐍
https://archive.org/details/s01e01.The.Speckled.Band/s01e01.The.Speckled.Band.mp4


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Eille Norwood 🔎
1921 - The Hound of the Baskervillesch
1923 - The Sign of Four 🏛️

Raymond Massey
1931 - The Speckled Band 🏛️

Reginald Owen 🔎
1932 : Sherlock Holmes (as Dr. Watson)
1933 : A Study in Scarlet (as Sherlock Holmes)

Basil Rathbone 🔎
1939 : The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
1939 : The Hound of the Baskervilles
1942 : Sherlock Holmes and the Voice of Terror
1942 : Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon
1943 : Sherlock Holmes in Washington
1943 : Sherlock Holmes Faces Death
1944 : The Spider Woman
1944 : The Scarlet Claw
1944 : The Pearl of Death
1945 : The House of Fear
1945 : The Woman in Green
1945 : Pursuit to Algiers
1946 : Terror by Night
1946 : Dressed to Kill
TV
1953 : The Adventure of the Black Baronet (as Sherlock Holmes)
1954 : The Texaco Star Theatre S06E11 (as Sherlock Holmes)

Ronald Howard (Holmes) and Howard Marion-Crawford (Watson).🏛️
01 : Video available The Case of the Cunningham Heritage (18 october 1954)
02 : Video available The Case of Lady Beryl (25 october 1954)
03 : Video available The Case of the Pennsylvania Gun (1 november 1954) *
04 : Video available The Case of the Texas Cowgirl (8 november 1954)
05 : Video available The Case of the Belligerent Ghost (15 november 1954)
06 : Video available The Case of the Shy Ballerina (22 november 1954)
07 : Video available The Case of the Winthrop Legend (29 november 1954)
08 : Video available The Case of the Blind Man's Bluff (6 december 1954) *
09 : Video available The Case of Harry Crocker (13 december 1954)
10 : Video available The Mother Hubbard Case (20 december 1954)
11 : Video available The Red Headed League (27 december 1954) *
12 : Video available The Case of the Shoeless Engineer (3 january 1955) *
13 : Video available The Case of the Split Ticket (10 january 1955)
14 : Video available The Case of the French Interpreter (17 january 1955) *
15 : Video available The Case of the Singing Violin (24 january 1955) *
16 : Video available The Case of the Greystone Inscription (31 january 1955) *
17 : Video available The Case of the Laughing Mummy (7 february 1955)
18 : Video available The Case of the Thistle Killer (14 february 1955)
19 : Video available The Case of the Vanished Detective (21 february 1955)
20 : Video available The Case of the Careless Suffragette (28 february 1955)
21 : Video available The Case of the Reluctant Carpenter (7 march 1955)
22 : Video available The Case of the Deadly Prophecy (14 march 1955)
23 : Video available The Case of the Christmas Pudding (4 april 1955)
24 : Video available The Case of the Night Train Riddle (11 april 1955)
25 : Video available The Case of the Violent Suitor (18 april 1955)
26 : Video available The Case of the Baker Street Nursemaids (25 april 1955)
27 : Video available The Case of the Perfect Husband (2 may 1955)
28 : Video available The Case of the Jolly Hangman (9 may 1955)
29 : Video available The Case of the Imposter Mystery (16 may 1955)
30 : Video available The Case of the Eiffel Tower (23 may 1955)
31 : Video available The Case of the Exhumed Client (30 may 1955)
32 : Video available The Case of the Impromptu Performance (6 june 1955)
33 : Video available The Case of the Baker Street Bachelors (20 june 1955)
34 : Video available The Case of the Royal Murder (27 june 1955)
35 : Video available The Case of the Haunted Gainsborough (4 july 1955)
36 : Video available The Case of the Neurotic Detective (11 july 1955)
37 : Video available The Case of the Unlucky Gambler (18 july 1955)
38 : Video available The Case of the Diamond Tooth (19 septmber 1955)
39 : Video available The Case of the Tyrant's Daughter (17 october 1955)

Season 1 (1964-1965)
Starring Douglas Wilmer (Holmes) and Nigel Stock (Watson) Set in the Victorian era 🔎
S01E00 : The Speckled Band (18 may 1964)
S01E01 : The Illustrious Client (20 february 1965)
S01E02 : The Devil's Foot (27 february 1965)
S01E03 : The Copper Beeches (6 march 1965)
S01E04 : The Red-Headed League (13 march 1965)
S01E05 : The Abbey Grange (20 march 1965)
S01E06 : The Six Napoleons (27 march 1965)
S01E07 : The Man with the Twisted Lip (3 april 1965)
S01E08 : The Beryl Coronet (10 april 1965)
S01E09 : The Bruce-Partington Plans (17 april 1965)
S01E10 : Charles Augustus Milverton (24 april 1965)
S01E11 : The Retired Colourman (1 may 1965)
S01E12 : The Disappearance of Lady Frances Carfax (8 may 1965)