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Sherlock Holmes (2009 film) Sherlock Holmes is a 2009 mystery period action film based on the character of the same name created by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. The film was directed by Guy Ritchie and produced by Joel Silver, Lionel Wigram, Susan Downey, and Dan Lin. The screenplay, by Michael Robert Johnson, Anthony Peckham, and Simon Kinberg, was developed from a story by Wigram and Johnson. Robert Downey Jr. and Jude Law portray Sherlock Holmes and Dr. John Watson respectively. Set in 1890, eccentric detective Holmes and his companion Watson are hired by a secret society to foil a mysticist's
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killer with a foot fetish. The production was an original story written by Allan Cubitt. This was preceded by "The Hound of the Baskervilles" (2002 TV movie) with Holmes now played by Richard Roxburgh and Ian Hart returning as Watson. "Sherlock Holmes" (2009) was directed by Guy Ritchie for Warner Bros. and stars Robert Downey Jr. and Jude Law as Holmes and Watson. It also features Rachel McAdams as Irene Adler. The film explores Holmes and Watson's most complex adventure in which the antagonist Lord Blackwood (Mark Strong) seemingly rises from his grave after being executed and draws plans to
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Sherlock Holmes (2009 film) Sherlock Holmes is a 2009 mystery period action film based on the character of the same name created by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. The film was directed by Guy Ritchie and produced by Joel Silver, Lionel Wigram, Susan Downey, and Dan Lin. The screenplay, by Michael Robert Johnson, Anthony Peckham, and Simon Kinberg, was developed from a story by Wigram and Johnson. Robert Downey Jr. and Jude Law portray Sherlock Holmes and Dr. John Watson respectively. Set in 1890, eccentric detective Holmes and his companion Watson are hired by a secret society to foil a mysticist's
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25, 2020, with Downey and Law reprising their roles, Richie returning as director and Chris Brancato writing the script. Sherlock Holmes (2009 film) Sherlock Holmes is a 2009 mystery period action film based on the character of the same name created by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. The film was directed by Guy Ritchie and produced by Joel Silver, Lionel Wigram, Susan Downey, and Dan Lin. The screenplay, by Michael Robert Johnson, Anthony Peckham, and Simon Kinberg, was developed from a story by Wigram and Johnson. Robert Downey Jr. and Jude Law portray Sherlock Holmes and Dr. John Watson respectively. Set
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Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows is a 2011 period action mystery film directed by Guy Ritchie and produced by Joel Silver, Lionel Wigram, Susan Downey, and Dan Lin. It is the sequel to the 2009 film "Sherlock Holmes", and features the Sherlock Holmes and Dr. John Watson characters created by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. The film's screenplay was written by Michele Mulroney and Kieran Mulroney. Robert Downey Jr. and Jude Law reprise their roles as Holmes and Watson, and were joined by Noomi Rapace as Simza, Stephen Fry as Mycroft Holmes, and Jared
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from any other appellation, and its best-known vineyard, Château Margaux, was one of only four wines to be awarded the Premier Cru status. The singer-songwriter and oenologist Al Stewart released an album of songs involving wine in 2000 called "Down in the Cellar", of which one track is entitled "Waiting for Margaux." In the movie Withnail & I, the character Uncle Monty brings a bottle of '53 Margaux ("best of the century") to the cottage in the country. In the 2009 movie "Sherlock Holmes", Holmes (Robert Downey Jr.) refers to a Margaux 1858 and expresses fascination that an astronomical event
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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
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Sherlock Holmes the following year in "A Study in Scarlet". Owen is the first of only four actors to play both Holmes and Watson — Jeremy Brett played Watson on stage in the United States and, most famously, Holmes on British television, Carleton Hobbs played both roles in British radio adaptations, while Patrick Macnee played both roles in US television movies. "Uncredited:" Sherlock Holmes (1932 film) Sherlock Holmes (a.k.a. Conan Doyle's Master Detective Sherlock Holmes) is a 1932 American Pre-Code film starring Clive Brook as the eponymous London detective. The movie is based on the successful stage play "Sherlock Holmes"
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his guide. Of the creation of the film, Columbus stated: The cast includes actors with previous associations to Sherlock Holmes. Nigel Stock, who played Professor Waxflatter, portrayed Dr. Watson alongside both Douglas Wilmer and Peter Cushing in the BBC series of the 1960s. Patrick Newell, who played Bentley Bobster, played both PC Benson in 1965's "A Study in Terror" as well as Inspector Lestrade in 1979's "Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson". The movie explains where Holmes gains the attire popularly associated with him. His pipe is shown as being a Christmas present from Watson, the deerstalker hat originally belonged to
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Sherlock Holmes (1932 film) Sherlock Holmes (a.k.a. Conan Doyle's Master Detective Sherlock Holmes) is a 1932 American Pre-Code film starring Clive Brook as the eponymous London detective. The movie is based on the successful stage play "Sherlock Holmes" by William Gillette, in turn based on the stories by Arthur Conan Doyle, and is directed by William K. Howard for the Fox Film Corporation. Brook had played Holmes previously in "The Return of Sherlock Holmes" and the "Murder Will Out" segment of "Paramount on Parade". Reginald Owen plays Dr. Watson, and Ernest Torrence is Holmes's arch-rival, Professor Moriarty. Reginald Owen played
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Queen of Bohemia in the film. Patrick Macnee was cast as Sherlock Holmes. Previously, Macnee had portrayed Watson three times: once to Roger Moore's Sherlock Holmes in a 1976 TV movie, "Sherlock Holmes in New York" and twice with Christopher Lee ("Incident at Victoria Falls" and "Sherlock Holmes and the Leading Lady"). This film made Macnee only the fourth actor to have played both Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson, joining Reginald Owen (Watson in the 1932 film "Sherlock Holmes", and then Holmes in 1933's "A Study in Scarlet"), Jeremy Brett (Watson on stage in "The Crucifer of Blood" and Holmes
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and boredom", this friend being an opium-addicted and increasingly weak Sherlock Holmes. Rupert Everett plays the Great Detective. 2002 also saw the made for television cable movie, "Case of Evil", about a 20-something Sherlock Holmes (James D'Arcy) and a Doctor Watson who worked as an early practitioner of autopsies, on the trail of Holmes' archenemy, Professor Moriarty (Vincent D'Onofrio). An adaptation of "The Speckled Band" aired on the early TV anthology series "Your Show Time", and starred Alan Napier as Holmes and Melville Cooper as Watson. John Cleese played Holmes in a 1973 episode of "Comedy Playhouse": "Elementary My Dear
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1976 "The Return of the World's Greatest Detective" policemen Sherman Holmes suffers from a blow to the head resulting in him thinking he is Sherlock Holmes. John Cleese starred as Holmes' grandson - Arthur Sherlock Holmes - in the comic TV special "The Strange Case of the End of Civilization as We Know It" (1977). Arthur Lowe played Dr. William Watson, the original doctor's grandson. Between 1979 and 1986, Soviet television produced a series of five television films at the Lenfilm movie studio, "The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson". The series were split into eleven episodes and starred
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1994 Baker Street: Sherlock Holmes Returns 1994 Baker Street: Sherlock Holmes Returns, or Sherlock Holmes Returns! In The Adventure of the Tiger's Revenge and sometimes shortened to just Sherlock Holmes Returns, is a 1993 American television movie about the fictional detective Sherlock Holmes, starring Anthony Higgins as Holmes. In its title and basic premise, it is very similar to a 1987 TV movie, "The Return of Sherlock Holmes", but the plot details of the two films are quite different. Sherlock Holmes is awakened in modern times from suspended animation as a result of an earthquake. He is aided in his
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values, awkward dialogue...and consistent overacting." 1994 Baker Street: Sherlock Holmes Returns 1994 Baker Street: Sherlock Holmes Returns, or Sherlock Holmes Returns! In The Adventure of the Tiger's Revenge and sometimes shortened to just Sherlock Holmes Returns, is a 1993 American television movie about the fictional detective Sherlock Holmes, starring Anthony Higgins as Holmes. In its title and basic premise, it is very similar to a 1987 TV movie, "The Return of Sherlock Holmes", but the plot details of the two films are quite different. Sherlock Holmes is awakened in modern times from suspended animation as a result of an earthquake.
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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
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1971 film "They Might Be Giants", adapted from James Goldman's 1961 British stage play of the same name, featured George C. Scott as a widowed judge named Justin Playfair who imagines himself to be Holmes. When his brother seeks to have him committed, he is brought to Dr. Mildred Watson (Joanne Woodward). In "The Return of the World's Greatest Detective" (1976 TV movie) a rather ineffectual Los Angeles cop, and avid fan of Sherlock Holmes, named "Sherman Holmes" (played by American actor Larry Hagman) suffers a brain injury when his parked motorcycle tips over and falls onto his head (he
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successful novel, concentrates on Holmes' cocaine addiction and stars Nicol Williamson and Robert Duvall as Holmes and Watson, respectively. Professor Moriarty (Laurence Olivier) is characterised here as an inoffensive mathematics tutor, his villainy a fantasy of Holmes's drug habit. "Sherlock Holmes in New York" (1976 TV movie) starred Roger Moore as Holmes and Patrick Macnee as Watson. "Murder by Decree" (1979) portrays Holmes (played by Christopher Plummer) and Watson (played by James Mason) tracking down Jack the Ripper, and dealing with the violent political situation of the day. The theory of the Ripper murders presented in that film is similar
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"The Painful Predicament of Sherlock Holmes" written by William Gillette. In 1903 Charlie Chaplin began his career by playing Billy on stage in both the four-act play and Gillette's spoof. Billy has appeared in the films "Sherlock Holmes" (1922), "Sherlock Holmes" (1932) and "The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes" (1939). In the episode of the TV series "Sherlock" entitled "The Abominable Bride", Billy makes an appearance played by Adam Greaves-Neal, who previously played an original character named Archie in "The Sign of Three" (though presumably Archie drew some inspiration from Billy). Inspector Bradstreet is a detective who appears in three short
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Holmes and Professor Moriarty. The film was produced by Steven Spielberg and written by Chris Columbus; the novelization was written by Alan Arnold. In both "The Return of Sherlock Holmes" (1987 TV movie) and "Sherlock Holmes Returns" (1993 TV movie) a cryogenically frozen Holmes is awakened in the present day. "Hands of a Murderer" (1990 TV movie) sees Edward Woodward playing Holmes and John Hillerman (of Magnum, P.I. fame) as Watson, in a plot involving Mycroft (Peter Jeffrey) and Moriarty (Anthony Andrews) battling for control of government secrets. "" (2002 TV movie) has James D'Arcy as a youthful, bed-hopping Holmes,
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The Man Who Was Sherlock Holmes The Man Who Was Sherlock Holmes () is a German mystery comedy of 1937, directed by Karl Hartl. Detective Morris Flynn (Hans Albers) and his assistant Macky McMacpherson (Heinz Rühmann), masquereading as Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson, investigate two attractive sisters, Mary and Jane Berry, and the theft and forgery of valuable postage stamps. "Lexikon des Internationalen Films" calls it a swinging, lively comedy. Albers and Rühmann have been two longtime major stars of German cinema and are still known for the main song in this movie, "Jawohl, meine Herr'n". "The Man Who Was
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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
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Holmes' enemy Professor Moriarty, in two different decades of his career. He was the villain Rathe (not yet going by the name Moriarty) in "Young Sherlock Holmes" (1985), and played Sherlock Holmes himself in "Sherlock Holmes Returns" (1993). In 1993 he played a lead part in the film "Sweet Killing". In 2005 he appeared in "Chromophobia". He played General Jacques Francois Dugommier in 2007 in "". In 2009 he appeared in "Lewis", "", and "Agatha Christie's Marple ("The Secret of Chimneys"). Anthony Higgins (actor) Anthony Higgins (born 9 May 1947) is an English stage, film and television actor. Higgins started
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Mayo's BBC Radio One breakfast show. Macnee appeared in "Magnum, P.I." (1984) as a retired, but delusional, British agent, who believed he was Sherlock Holmes, in a season four episode titled "Holmes Is Where the Heart Is". He played both Holmes and Dr. Watson on several occasions. He played Watson three times: once alongside Roger Moore's Sherlock Holmes in a TV film, "Sherlock Holmes in New York" (1976), and twice with Christopher Lee, first in "Incident at Victoria Falls" (1991), and then in "Sherlock Holmes and the Leading Lady" (1992). He played Holmes in another TV film, "The Hound of
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hijacked for ransom by D. B. Cooper. The 1991-92 series "Sherlock Holmes the Golden Years" consisted of two TV films, in which Sherlock Holmes (played by Christopher Lee) and Dr. Watson (played by Patrick Macnee) are older adults who continue investigating cases. The two films were "Incident at Victoria Falls" and "Sherlock Holmes and the Leading Lady". In 1991, Charlton Heston played Holmes in the Turner Network Television production of Paul Giovanni's play "The Crucifer of Blood". From 2000 to 2002, Muse Entertainment Enterprises produced four television films for the Hallmark Channel, starring Matt Frewer as Holmes and Kenneth Welsh
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Sherlock Holmes" was released on DVD on 24 March 2009. The Man Who Was Sherlock Holmes The Man Who Was Sherlock Holmes () is a German mystery comedy of 1937, directed by Karl Hartl. Detective Morris Flynn (Hans Albers) and his assistant Macky McMacpherson (Heinz Rühmann), masquereading as Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson, investigate two attractive sisters, Mary and Jane Berry, and the theft and forgery of valuable postage stamps. "Lexikon des Internationalen Films" calls it a swinging, lively comedy. Albers and Rühmann have been two longtime major stars of German cinema and are still known for the main song
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bar areas have been augmented with photographs of the actors who have played Holmes and Watson since the original display was set up. The collection is curated and maintained by the Sherlock Holmes Society of London. Today "The Sherlock Holmes" is owned by Bury St Edmunds based brewer Greene King. The Sherlock Holmes The Sherlock Holmes is a Victorian era themed public house in Northumberland Street near Charing Cross railway station and Trafalgar Square which contains a large collection of memorabilia related to the fictional detective Sherlock Holmes. The original collection was put together for display in Baker Street in
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of Sherlock Holmes" published in 1975 but Pointer later realized his error and wrote to Klinger stating Sherlock Holmes has also been a prolific screen character in foreign language films, such as the Russian 2013 mini-series version broadcast in November 2013. Many similar films were made in the early years of the twentieth century, most notably the 13 one- and two-reel silent films produced by the Danish Nordisk Film Company between 1908 and 1911. The only non-lost film is "Sherlock Holmes i Bondefangerkløer", produced in 1910. Holmes was originally played by Viggo Larsen. Other actors who played Holmes in those
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impersonates Lady Beatrice in the 1991 episode "The Adventure of Shoscombe Old Place" was played by Jude Law, who later played Dr. Watson in the 2009 film "Sherlock Holmes" and its 2011 sequel "". Helen Ryan made two guest appearances in the show as different characters, appearing in The Adventure of the Norwood Builder as Mrs McFarlane, and in The Adventure of the Mazarin Stone as the Princess of Wales (a role she previously played in Edward the Seventh). The series came to an end owing to the death of Brett at the age of 61 from heart failure in
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Wilder and rather daring Sherlock Holmes, not a perfect mix, perhaps, but a fond and entertaining one". Kim Newman, reviewing it in "Empire" magazine, described it as the "best Sherlock Holmes movie ever made" and "sorely underrated in the Wilder canon". Roger Ebert was more critical, giving the film two-and-a-half stars out of four. He wrote that it is "disappointingly lacking in bite and sophistication", that it "begins promisingly enough" but that "before the movie is 20 minutes old, Wilder has settled for simply telling a Sherlock Holmes adventure". Gene Siskel gave the film one-and-a-half stars out of four and
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has a "spark of entertainment to it." Freddie Young of "Fangoria" called "Sherlock Holmes" "probably the best Asylum film to date" but recommended it only to those "willing to check reality at the door and just enjoy the silly ride." Jay Seaver of "eFilmCritic" called the film "kind of fun" but "disappointing," criticizing Syder's Holmes in particular, concluding that "a better Holmes would have allowed this movie to more squarely hit the mark." Flickchart ranked this as the best of all of the Asylum movies. Sherlock Holmes (2010 film) Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes, also known simply as Sherlock
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Watson's grandson, played by Arthur Lowe. "The Adventures of Shirley Holmes" is the story of the teenage Anglo-Canadian grandniece of Sherlock Holmes, Shirley, who after discovering some of Sherlock Holmes' effects (which he had concealed to ensure that only a fitting successor of similar intellect would find them), goes on to solve many crimes and mysteries with the assistance of her male Watson-like friend, Bo Sawchuk. She also has a Moriarty-like arch-enemy in the form of Molly Hardy. In "Hidan no Aria" series, the character Aria Holmes Kanzake is the descendant of Sherlock Holmes. "Tantei Opera Milky Holmes" has four
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story was adapted for the 1968 BBC series with Peter Cushing. The episode is now lost. The story was also dramatised in 1990 in Granada TV's "Sherlock Holmes", starring Jeremy Brett. Jude Law, who later played Dr. Watson in the 2009 film Sherlock Holmes has a small but very important role in the episode. "Shoscombe Old Place" was dramatised for BBC Radio 4 in 1994 by as part of Bert Coules’ complete radio adaptation of the canon, starring Clive Merrison as Holmes and Michael Williams as Watson, and featuring Nicholas Le Prevost as John Mason, Donald Pickering as Sir Robert,
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adapted to a female pupil who loves animals and speaks like a boy. She cooperates with Holmes in his investigations. Following the broadcast of "The Three Musketeers" from 2009 to 2010, Kōki Mitani planned to adapt "The Brothers Karamazov" to a puppetry. Despite his love for the stories of Sherlock Holmes, Mitani was reluctant to adapt the series into puppetry due to the difficulty in describing the details of investigations through the operation of puppets. He also worried that it was too late to produce a Sherlock Holmes series as "The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes" gained popularity and the modern
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1960s, there was a BBC TV series entitled "Sherlock Holmes" with Douglas Wilmer and Nigel Stock. Peter Cushing, who had earlier played the detective in the Hammer version of "The Hound of the Baskervilles", later took over from Wilmer in the lead role. The 24 part series "Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson" (1979–1980) starred Geoffrey Whitehead as Holmes and Donald Pickering as Watson. In 1982, Granada Television aired an eight-part series entitled "" which told the story of Holmes' youth. The show starred Guy Henry as Sherlock Holmes. Also in 1982, the BBC produced an adaptation of The Hound of
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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
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Rathbone and Bruce, the historian Jim Harmon considered that this was "near perfect casting". The series included continuity of two actors playing recurring characters: Mary Gordon, who played Mrs. Hudson, and Dennis Hoey, who portrayed Inspector Lestrade. Other recurring characters were played by numerous actors, with Professor Moriarty being played by three people: Lionel Atwill in "Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon", Henry Daniell in "The Woman in Green" and George Zucco in "The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes". Some supporting actors reappeared in a number of roles in what Davies called the series' "own little repertory company of actors"; these
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Miss Sherlock Miss Sherlock (ミス・シャーロック) is a female-led adaptation of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes detective stories. The show is primarily set in Tokyo, Japan. It is a co-production between HBO Asia and Hulu Japan. Both the main characters, Sherlock Holmes and Dr. John Watson are played by women, Yuko Takeuchi and Shihori Kanjiya respectively and it is the first major series to cast a woman as Holmes. "Miss Sherlock" depicts "consulting detective" Sara "Sherlock" Shelly Futaba (Yūko Takeuchi) solving various mysteries in modern-day Tokyo. Sherlock is assisted by her flatmate, Dr. Wato Tachibana (Shihori Kanjiya), a doctor who
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Liu), an ex-surgeon turned sober companion. She is appointed to monitor the recovery of former heroin addict Sherlock Holmes (Jonny Lee Miller), but takes to detective work, becoming his protégée and eventually his partner. The adaptation is set in New York. In the 2013 Russian adaptation "Sherlock Holmes", Dr Watson is portrayed as older than Holmes. The character was played by Andrei Panin, in his last role, as he died shortly after the filming was finished. In the 2014 Japanese puppetry "Sherlock Holmes", John H. Watson who transfers from Australia is a son of doctor and roommate of Sherlock Holmes
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Ukraine, giving Arthur Conan Doyle the task to convince everyone that he was just an imaginary character. With the help of his serum, Holmes prolonged his life for several decades. In 1990s he indirectly helped Martin Mystère to capture a villain who found a formula of his serum. Leah Moore and John Reppion's "The Trial of Sherlock Holmes" (2009) and Scott Beatty's "Sherlock Holmes Year One" (2011) published by Dynamite Entertainment. Ian Edginton wrote the 2010 Wildstorm comic book limited series "Victorian Undead" which pitted Holmes against zombies. New Paradigm Studios in August 2012 debuted "Watson and Holmes" digital comic
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included Harry Cording, who played seven roles in different films, and Gerald Hamer and Harold De Becker, who both played four roles, among others. Four of the films—"Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon", "The Woman in Green", "Terror by Night" and "Dressed to Kill"—are in the public domain. In 2006 the four films were digitally restored and computer colourised by Legend Films, who released the colour and black and white films on DVDs. The two 20th Century Fox films—"The Hound of the Baskervilles" and "The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes"—had survived complete and in good condition, but those in the Universal
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1974 - "Heidi" (TV Mini-Series) (6 episodes) 1973 - "Pollyanna" (TV Mini-Series) (6 episodes) 1970-1972 - "Kate" (TV Series) 1969 - "Who-Dun-It" (TV Series) (1 episode) 1967 - Boy Meets Girl (TV Series) (1 episode) 1998 -"The Cater Street Hangman" (TV Movie) 1996 - "August" (Film) 1994 -"The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes" (TV Mini-Series) (6 episodes) 1990 - "Made in Heaven" (TV Series) (producer - 4 episodes) 1989 - "The Heat of the Day" (TV Movie) 1988 - "The Hound of the Baskervilles" (TV Movie) 1986-1988 - "The Return of Sherlock Holmes" (TV Mini-Series) 1987 - "The Sign of Four"
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meeting Roger Morlidge's Watson for the first time while pursuing Vincent D'Onofrio's Moriarty, whose opium-trading schemes have left Mycroft (Richard E. Grant) physically and mentally scarred. "The Case of the Whitechapel Vampire" (2002 TV movie) stars Matt Frewer and Kenneth Welsh as Holmes and Watson investigating reports of vampire attacks in Whitechapel, East London. The film was preceded by adaptations of "The Hound of the Baskervilles" (2000 TV movie) and "The Sign of Four" (2001 TV movie). "Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Silk Stocking" (2004 TV movie), has Holmes (Rupert Everett) and Watson (Ian Hart) searching for a
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in which Holmes is played by Robert Downey, Jr.. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (film) The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (released theatrically as Sherlock Holmes in the United Kingdom) is a 1939 mystery-adventure film released by Twentieth Century Fox. It is a pastiche featuring the characters of the Sherlock Holmes series of books written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. The film is an adaptation of the 1899 play "Sherlock Holmes" by William Gillette, though there is little resemblance in the plots. The picture is the second installment to the series of fourteen "Sherlock Holmes" film series released between 1939 and
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her real name. She also appeared in "Africa Screams" (1949) and "Abbott and Costello Meet Captain Kidd" (1952) with the comedy team. She co-starred in three Sherlock Holmes movies with Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce, "Sherlock Holmes and the Voice of Terror" (1942), "Sherlock Holmes Faces Death" (1943) and "The Woman in Green" (1945). Her other film credits include "Jane Eyre" (1943), "The Enchanted Cottage" (1945), "Lucky Losers" (1950) with The Bowery Boys, the Alfred Hitchcock thriller "The Man Who Knew Too Much" (1956), the 3-D film "The Maze" (1953), and the sci-fi B-movie classic "Invaders from Mars" (1953). On
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"Sherlock Holmes" films together, top billing went to Richard Greene, who was the film's romantic lead. Rathbone was billed second. Wendy Barrie, who played Beryl Stapleton, the woman with whom Greene falls in love, received third billing, and Nigel Bruce, the film's Dr. Watson, was billed fourth. In all their other Holmes films, Rathbone and Bruce would receive first and second billing respectively. "The Hound of the Baskervilles" marks the first of the fourteen "Sherlock Holmes" films starring Rathbone and Bruce as Holmes and Watson, respectively. It is also notable as the earliest known "Sherlock Holmes" film to be set
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was William Baring-Gould's 1967 "The Annotated Sherlock Holmes". This two-volume set was ordered to fit Baring-Gould's preferred chronology, and was written from a Great Game perspective. The second was 1993's "The Oxford Sherlock Holmes" (general editor: Owen Dudley Edwards), a nine-volume set written in a straight scholarly manner. The most recent is Leslie Klinger's "The New Annotated Sherlock Holmes" (2004–05), a three-volume set that returns to a Great Game perspective. "Guinness World Records" has listed Holmes as the "most portrayed movie character", with more than 70 actors playing the part in over 200 films. His first screen appearance was in
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on the stage play by William Gillette, though little of the play's original plot remains aside from the Holmes/Moriarty conflict. The play featured a very young Charlie Chaplin in one of his very first acting roles during its first London production, playing the character of Billy, who, in this movie, is played by Terry Kilburn. The picture begins with Moriarty and Holmes verbally sparring on the steps outside the Old Bailey where Moriarty has just been acquitted on a charge of murder due to lack of evidence. Holmes remarks, "You've a magnificent brain, Moriarty. I admire it. I admire it
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a character called Wiggins (played by Graham Armitage) who is a footman at the Diogenes Club. He delivers a note to Mycroft Holmes (played by Christopher Lee) and receives instructions concerning various items. The character, credited as "Bill Wiggins", also appears in the series three finale of "Sherlock" portrayed by Tom Brooke as a drug user who actually demonstrates the beginning of Sherlock's deductive skills, and later appoints himself a "pupil" of Sherlock's. Some fictional characters associated with Sherlock Holmes are not part of the Conan Doyle canon and were created by other writers. Auguste Lupa is the son of
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Sherlock: Case of Evil Sherlock: Case of Evil is a 2002 made-for-television movie focusing on Sherlock Holmes (James D'Arcy) as a young adult in his late 20s. The story noticeably departs from the classic depiction, style and backstory of the original material. As the movie opens, Sherlock is in pursuit of the criminal Professor Moriarty (Vincent D'Onofrio) and apparently shoots him to death. His body cannot be found, however, as it falls in a sewer. After this incident, Holmes gains notoriety with the press and the police for his apparent killing of Moriarty, and meets Dr. Watson (Roger Morlidge), an
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becomes a thug without any sort of air of mystery about him. ... The two leads, D'Arcy and D'Onofrio, are especially weak. Forget previous portrayals of Holmes and Moriarty, and just focus on their tendency to chew scenery and do little, if anything, with body language." Sherlock: Case of Evil Sherlock: Case of Evil is a 2002 made-for-television movie focusing on Sherlock Holmes (James D'Arcy) as a young adult in his late 20s. The story noticeably departs from the classic depiction, style and backstory of the original material. As the movie opens, Sherlock is in pursuit of the criminal Professor
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it out further. Some sequences in the movie were more than suggested by uncredited incidents found in a 1979 novel "Enter the Lion: A Posthumous Memoir of Mycroft Holmes". Lord Blackwood's character was developed as a nod to Victorian interests in spiritualism and the later influence of Aleister Crowley. The producer felt he was "almost clever" pitting Holmes, who has an almost supernatural ability to solve crimes, against a supposedly supernatural villain. The plot point, moreover, nods to the Holmesian tale of "The Hound of the Baskervilles", where a string of seemingly supernatural events is finally explained through intuitive reasoning
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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 Arthur Conan Doyle's characters, and was produced by Goldwyn Pictures Corporation. The film was considered lost for decades, but was rediscovered in the mid-1970s and restored
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ones, becomes better—truer, often against long odds—because she's in it. Her work feels emotionally spontaneous yet technically precise. She has an unusually easy touch with both comedy and drama, and she never holds a melodramatic moment hostage." The film was a commercial success, earning over $101 million worldwide. In late 2009, McAdams starred in the mystery/action-adventure film "Sherlock Holmes" with Robert Downey, Jr. and Jude Law. She played Irene Adler, an antagonist and love interest of Downey's title character Sherlock Holmes, and welcomed the opportunity to play a character who is "her own boss and a real free spirit". Todd
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Here he is direct about a method of preserving discretion and confidentiality that other scholars have inferred from the stories, with pseudonyms replacing the "real" names of clients, witnesses, and culprits alike, and altered place-names replacing the real locations. Bruce McRae created the character of Dr Watson in the 1899 Broadway production of "Sherlock Holmes", a play by William Gillette and Arthur Conan Doyle. Edward Fielding played Watson in the 1916 film "Sherlock Holmes" Roland Young played Watson in the 1922 film "Sherlock Holmes" Ian Fleming played Watson in the 1931" Sherlock Holmes" film series except for "The Sign of
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intelligent as Holmes and far more duplicitous. As Watson moves out of 221B, the police report to him and Holmes that a dead officer was found near Blackwood's device. Professor Moriarty used the confrontations with Adler and Blackwood as a diversion while he took a key component, based on the infant science of radio, from the machine. Holmes looks forward to the new case and new adversary. Director Guy Ritchie declined to say who voiced the character of Professor Moriarty, though after the release of "", the actor's lines were dubbed over by Jared Harris, who played Moriarty in the
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The Adventure of Sherlock Holmes' Smarter Brother The Adventure of Sherlock Holmes' Smarter Brother is a 1975 American musical comedy film with Gene Wilder, Marty Feldman, Madeline Kahn, Dom DeLuise, Roy Kinnear and Leo McKern. The film was Wilder's directorial debut, from his own original script. Douglas Wilmer and Thorley Walters appear as Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson, respectively. Wilmer had previously appeared as Sherlock Holmes in the 1960s BBC TV series, and Walters played Watson in three other films: "Sherlock Holmes and the Deadly Necklace" (1962), "The Best House in London" (1969), and "Silver Blaze" (1977). In 1891, Foreign
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on April 4, 2006. The Adventure of Sherlock Holmes' Smarter Brother The Adventure of Sherlock Holmes' Smarter Brother is a 1975 American musical comedy film with Gene Wilder, Marty Feldman, Madeline Kahn, Dom DeLuise, Roy Kinnear and Leo McKern. The film was Wilder's directorial debut, from his own original script. Douglas Wilmer and Thorley Walters appear as Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson, respectively. Wilmer had previously appeared as Sherlock Holmes in the 1960s BBC TV series, and Walters played Watson in three other films: "Sherlock Holmes and the Deadly Necklace" (1962), "The Best House in London" (1969), and "Silver Blaze"
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Stuart Davies. Cover art was by Timothy Lantz; the book features twelve full-page black and white illustrations by Phil Cornell. The story "His Last Arrow" by Christopher Sequeira was nominated for a WSFA Small Press Award in 2009. Gaslight series The Gaslight series is a set of four anthologies of short fiction combining the character of Sherlock Holmes with elements of fantasy, horror, adventure and supernatural fiction. It consists of "Gaslight Grimoire: Fantastic Tales of Sherlock Holmes" (2008), "Gaslight Grotesque: Nightmare Tales of Sherlock Holmes" (2009), "Gaslight Arcanum: Uncanny Tales of Sherlock Holmes" (2011) and "Gaslight Gothic: Strange Tales of
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him to focus on writing detective stories instead. The idea for a new Russian TV series about Sherlock Holmes was first announced in 2009, shortly before the release of Guy Ritchie's "Sherlock Holmes". But the choosing of the director and actors was much delayed, and the première was therefore put off for 3 years. The official production of the series only began in 2011. Andrey Kavun, who is known for his work on the film "Kandahar", was appointed director. Igor Petrenko was chosen for the role of Sherlock, and Andrei Panin was cast as Dr. Watson. For the role of
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on television in "The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes") and Carleton Hobbs (who played both roles in British radio adaptations). Author Alan Barnes claimed the film was "Cheap, nasty and painful to watch", and he described Macnee's Holmes as "a truly dreadful Holmes, wheezing out every line while resembling nothing less than an unshelled tortoise poured into a monkey suit." The Hound of London The Hound of London is a television film directed by Peter Reynolds-Long and starring Patrick Macnee as Arthur Conan Doyle's character Sherlock Holmes. At the request of Inspector Lestrade (Colin Skinner), Sherlock Holmes (Patrick Macnee) investigates a
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he departed from his role as an inquisitor, his torture and the death of the accused remain fresh in his mind. In the 1986 movie "The Name of the Rose", Sean Connery played the role of Brother William of Baskerville. The fictional friar, William of Baskerville, alludes both to the fictional sleuth Sherlock Holmes and to William of Ockham. The name itself is derived from William of Ockham and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's book "The Hound of the Baskervilles". Another view is that Eco has created Brother William as a combination of Roger Bacon, William of Ockham and Sherlock Holmes.
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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
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Shirley Holmes here, and female Dr.Watson, called Jane Watson here. The contemporarily-set 1987 television movie "The Return of Sherlock Holmes" starred Michael Pennington as the detective and Margaret Colin as Dr. Watson's granddaughter, Jane. Jane, after following directions written by her grandfather years ago, finds out that she has thawed Holmes who had been cryogenically frozen by Dr. Watson for 88 years due to Bubonic plague. They become a team—the essential Victorian gentleman and a post-feminist young woman—to solve a case that combines elements of "The Sign of the Four" with elements from the celebrated news story of a plane
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Gaslight series The Gaslight series is a set of four anthologies of short fiction combining the character of Sherlock Holmes with elements of fantasy, horror, adventure and supernatural fiction. It consists of "Gaslight Grimoire: Fantastic Tales of Sherlock Holmes" (2008), "Gaslight Grotesque: Nightmare Tales of Sherlock Holmes" (2009), "Gaslight Arcanum: Uncanny Tales of Sherlock Holmes" (2011) and "Gaslight Gothic: Strange Tales of Sherlock Holmes" (2018). The first volume was published in October 2008 by EDGE Science Fiction and Fantasy Publishing of Calgary, Alberta, Canada. The book was edited by J. R. Campbell and Charles Prepolec, with a foreword by David
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Sherlock Holmes spoof film "Without a Clue "the character played by Peter Cook called Norman Greenhough (who was publisher for the Holmes stories) was clearly based on Greenhough Smith. He has also been portrayed on television, by Ralph Riach in "Murder Rooms, "and by Allan Corduner in "The Strange Case of Sherlock Holmes and Arthur Conan Doyle." Herbert Greenhough Smith Herbert Greenhough Smith (1855 – 14 January 1935) was the first editor of "The Strand Magazine" which published many of Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes stories. His active support and encouragement to Conan Doyle, and the magazine's vigorous promotion of
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dilemmas, Watson hires Reginald Kincaid (Michael Caine), an alcoholic, womanizing, ne'er-do-well actor to impersonate Holmes. The twenty-third film in the VeggieTales series is entitled "Sheerluck Holmes and the Golden Ruler", and features Larry the Cucumber as Holmes and Bob the Tomato as Watson. Robert Downey, Jr. appears as the detective in the Guy Ritchie–directed "Sherlock Holmes" (2009) and its sequel "" (2011), with Jude Law as Dr. Watson, Rachel McAdams as Irene Adler, and Jared Harris as Moriarty. "Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows" is the highest-grossing Sherlock Holmes film, grossing $545 million worldwide. In 2010, low-budget film company the
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Sherlock Holmes: The Mystery of the Mummy Sherlock Holmes: The Mystery of the Mummy is an adventure game for Microsoft Windows, developed by Frogwares and released in 2002. The player controls Arthur Conan Doyle's detective Sherlock Holmes, investigating the mysteriously abandoned mansion of British archeologist Lord Montecalf. It is the first in the "Sherlock Holmes" series of adventure games developed by Frogwares and Viva Media, and was ported to the Nintendo DS in 2009. According to Frogwares, "Mystery of the Mummy" was a surprise hit for the team and sold roughly 1 million units by 2013. The original version of
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Sherlock Holmes in New York Sherlock Holmes in New York is a 1976 American made-for-television mystery film about Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson, played by Roger Moore and Patrick Macnee respectively. Despite the film's title the production was shot entirely in Southern California at the 20th Century-Fox lot in West Los Angeles, with some scenes filmed at the Mayfair Music Hall in Santa Monica. The great detective Sherlock Holmes and his trusted companion Dr. John Watson travel to New York City to investigate a recent threat made by Professor Moriarty. During their investigation, Holmes and Watson are reunited with their
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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
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Sir Henry Baskerville (to Cushing's Sherlock Holmes) in "The Hound of the Baskervilles" (1959). Lee later played Holmes himself in 1962's "Sherlock Holmes and the Deadly Necklace", and returned to Holmes films with Billy Wilder's British-made "The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes" (1970), in which he plays Sherlock's smarter brother, Mycroft. Lee considers this film to be the reason he stopped being typecast: "I've never been typecast since. Sure, I've played plenty of heavies, but as Anthony Hopkins says, "I don't play villains, I play people."" Lee played a leading role in the German film "The Puzzle of the Red
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recovery by Dr. Amy Winslow (Debrah Farentino), who lives in Baker Street in San Francisco. Holmes pits his wits against the descendants of the Moriarty family, led by James Moriarty Booth. He is also aided by a new group of Baker Street Irregulars led by Zapper (Mark Adair-Rios). It was written and directed by Kenneth Johnson, and was broadcast on CBS. Higgins had previously played Professor Moriarty in "Young Sherlock Holmes" (1985). The television film was intended to lead to an ongoing series featuring Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Winslow. "Variety" described the film as "derivative premise, thin content and production
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South Africa for the Rhodesian Police. "The Three Students" was dramatised for BBC Radio 4 in 1993 by Denys Hawthorne (who also played Hilton Soames) as part of Bert Coules' complete radio adaptation of the canon, starring Clive Merrison as Holmes and Michael Williams as Watson, and featuring Desmond Llewelyn as Bannister. The Adventure of the Three Students "The Adventure of the Three Students", one of the 56 Sherlock Holmes short stories written by the British author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, is one of 13 stories in the cycle collected as "The Return of Sherlock Holmes". Sherlock Holmes and Dr.
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European screens, it was released in France in an expanded nine reels format. This was so it could be shown as a four-part serial, a popular format at the time. The first episode had three reels while the other three had two reels each. The film is based on the 1899 stage play "Sherlock Holmes". Gillette had played the role of Holmes 1,300 times on stage before it was made into a "moving picture". It was he who was responsible for much of the costume still associated with the character, notably the deerstalker hat and the calabash pipe. "Sherlock Holmes"
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film was released as a manufactured on demand DVD by 20th Century-Fox Cinema Archives. Sherlock Holmes in New York Sherlock Holmes in New York is a 1976 American made-for-television mystery film about Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson, played by Roger Moore and Patrick Macnee respectively. Despite the film's title the production was shot entirely in Southern California at the 20th Century-Fox lot in West Los Angeles, with some scenes filmed at the Mayfair Music Hall in Santa Monica. The great detective Sherlock Holmes and his trusted companion Dr. John Watson travel to New York City to investigate a recent threat
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of the first series is played followed by a quiz programme presented by puppetry characters John H. Watson, Lestrade and Langdale Pike. Special programme (Let's search "Sherlock Holmes" thoroughly!) was broadcast on 5 October 2014 by NHK Educational TV, promoting the series one week before its ETV debut. In the programme, stage actor and YouTube personality Koji Seto reports on how the puppet show is made, interviews the puppeteers and interviews Holmesians at a cosplay event of Sherlock Holmes in Leeds, at the Sherlock Holmes Museum and at Sherlock Holmes Pub in London, and their reactions to the show are
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nunca" (2004), where Sherlock Holmes meets Mary Poppins. The Conan Doyle estate commissioned Anthony Horowitz, author of the Alex Rider novels, "The Power of Five" and TV's "Foyle's War", to write a new, uniquely "authorised" Sherlock Holmes novel. Published by Orion Books in 2011 under the title "The House of Silk", the content and title were a "closely guarded secret" before publication. . The BBC's TV series "Sherlock" re-imagines Holmes and Watson (played by Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman) as contemporary figures with Watson publishing his accounts of Holmes' exploits online. The US TV series "Elementary" features a modern Holmes
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distant descendant of Sherlock Holmes himself and has inherited his intellect in solving crimes. In 2007, the BBC released "Sherlock Holmes and the Baker Street Irregulars", a children's series focusing on the Baker Street Irregulars and starring Jonathan Pryce as Holmes. In 2009, the BBC began making "Sherlock", created by Steven Moffat and Mark Gatiss. Three seasons of three 90-minute episodes each were broadcast in 2010, 2012, 2014 and 2016, starring Benedict Cumberbatch as Sherlock and Martin Freeman as John. Moriarty appears as a recurring villain. A special episode, "The Abominable Bride", was broadcast in January 2016, with a limited
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and shot and post produced in Dublin, Ireland. Sherlock Holmes and the Baker Street Irregulars Sherlock Holmes and the Baker Street Irregulars is a 2007 BBC television drama about Sherlock Holmes and the Baker Street Irregulars, a gang of children who would occasionally help him. It stars Jonathan Pryce as Sherlock Holmes and Bill Paterson as Dr Watson with Anna Chancellor and Aaron Johnson. The Baker Street Irregulars investigate as several of their members go missing, while also trying to prevent Sherlock Holmes — who is undergoing a personal crisis — being convicted of murder. It is an original story
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the source novel, the movie features Holmes meeting with a Scotland Yard chemist named Professor Morgan who not only identifies the poison which killed Bartholomew Sholto but creates an antidote for Holmes. Tonga is portrayed not as the savage pygmy of the novel but instead as an Asian with facial markings. The Sign of Four (2001 film) The Sign of Four (2001) is a Canadian television film directed by Rodney Gibbons and starring Matt Frewer and Kenneth Welsh. The movie is based on Arthur Conan Doyle's second Sherlock Holmes story. The second of four Holmes adaptations starring Frewer as Holmes,
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Sherlock Holmes and the Baker Street Irregulars Sherlock Holmes and the Baker Street Irregulars is a 2007 BBC television drama about Sherlock Holmes and the Baker Street Irregulars, a gang of children who would occasionally help him. It stars Jonathan Pryce as Sherlock Holmes and Bill Paterson as Dr Watson with Anna Chancellor and Aaron Johnson. The Baker Street Irregulars investigate as several of their members go missing, while also trying to prevent Sherlock Holmes — who is undergoing a personal crisis — being convicted of murder. It is an original story by Kurti & Doyle, Produced by Andy Rowley
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historical artifacts. Solving the mysteries of the game involve examining locations and discovering clues. On May 18, 2010, Frogwares released a remastered version of "Sherlock Holmes Versus Arsène Lupin". This version adds the option of a third person perspective, as well as walking animations for the sections of the game in which Holmes and Watson are together. The version of the game downloadable from Steam and GOG has been updated to include these changes as well. The first four "Sherlock Holmes" titles from Frogwares—"", "", "" and "Nemesis"—totaled roughly 1.5 million global sales by February 2009. "Sherlock Holmes Versus Arsène
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was released in March 2009 and had Sherlock Holmes against the infamous serial killer Jack the Ripper. This is the first game in the series to be released on console, specifically Xbox 360. The game consists of poems, puzzles and tasks that take Holmes from one clue to the next. In September 2009, there were rumors of the release of the sixth installment, "The Testament of Sherlock Holmes". The game was explicitly for the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3, but later was released for the PC. After being delayed from an original 2010 release, the game was released in Europe
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was played by John Wood, John Neville, Patrick Horgan, Robert Stephens and Leonard Nimoy. Frank Langella played Holmes in a 1981 production for HBO. In 1923 the play "The Return of Sherlock Holmes" ran for 130 performances at the Princes Theatre, London. It was written by Arthur Rose and J. E. Harold Terry, and starred Eille Norwood as Holmes and H. G. Stoker as Watson. One of the performances was attended by Conan Doyle. The play "Sherlock's Last Case" by Charles Marowitz ran on Broadway in 1987, starring Frank Langella. "The Secret of Sherlock Holmes" by Jeremy Paul was staged
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out to have Holmes' mortal enemy Moriarty (Geoffrey Whitehead) behind each mystery. This series has since been re-broadcast on BBC Radio 7. Starting in 1998, U.S. radio producer Jim French was given permission from the Conan Doyle estate to produce new, original Sherlock Holmes stories for radio in North America. These are presented within the Imagination Theater program on radio stations and XM satellite radio. The new stories are also broadcast under the banner "The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes". John Gilbert played Holmes until 2000, and subsequently by John Patrick Lowrie. Watson is played in all shows by Lawrence
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of "Polygon" recommended the show and said "Self-professed Sherlockians dig "Miss Sherlock". Global audiences dig "Miss Sherlock". And if you don’t mind ditching the deerstalker, you might love "Miss Sherlock", too." Miss Sherlock Miss Sherlock (ミス・シャーロック) is a female-led adaptation of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes detective stories. The show is primarily set in Tokyo, Japan. It is a co-production between HBO Asia and Hulu Japan. Both the main characters, Sherlock Holmes and Dr. John Watson are played by women, Yuko Takeuchi and Shihori Kanjiya respectively and it is the first major series to cast a woman as Holmes.
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mail coach that passed a radioactive asteroid in the eighteenth century - Holmes is a descendant of one of the travelers in that coach. Some of the earliest films use Holmes as a character, notably the early films of William Gillette, the American actor who played Holmes in various plays. Later films would blur the lines between canon and non-canon, however. Sherlock Holmes appears in In the Italian comic book "Martin Mystère" and spin-off series "Storie di Altrove/Stories from Elsewhere" Holmes is a historical character. In late 1880s he worked on the case of Jack the Ripper and met professor
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the same trick on Watson that Holmes uses on Irene Adler in the story. In addition, Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce, who played Holmes and Watson in the film, did the story for their radio series, "The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes". The episode was followed by a sequel, "Second Generation", featuring Irene's daughter hiring Holmes in retirement. The story was adapted for a 1951 TV episode of "We Present Alan Wheatley as Mr Sherlock Holmes in..." starring Alan Wheatley as Holmes, Raymond Francis as Dr. Watson and Olga Edwardes as Irene Adler. The 1965 Broadway musical "Baker Street" was
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control the British Empire. The sequel, "" (2011) pits the original cast against Professor Moriarty (played by Jared Harris). "Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes" (2010) was directed by Rachel Lee Gondenberg and produced by low-budget direct-to-DVD film company The Asylum. It stars Gareth David Lloyd as Watson and new actor Ben Syder as Holmes. The film placed a younger Holmes and Watson in a steampunk science fiction story set in 1881, in which Holmes and Watson investigate the crimes of a mechanical genius known as Spring Heeled Jack, who creates mechanical monsters to terrorise London. Holmes' talents have sometimes
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Sequeira sold three Sherlockian prose stories to anthologies appearing in 2008. "His Last Arrow" in Charles Prepolec (ed) "Gaslight Grimoire: Fantastic Tales of Sherlock Holmes" (Edge Publishing) was nominated for a WSFA Small Press Award in 2009. Two other Holmesian stories – "The Return of the Sussex Vampire" and "The Adventure of the Haunted Showman" – appeared in David Stuart Davies (ed) "Sherlock Holmes: The Game's Afoot!" (Wordsworth). "The Adventure of the Haunted Showman" was also reprinted in "The Dark Detective Sherlock Holmes" Issue 6 (Dec 2010). "Sherlock Holmes: The Crossovers Casebook" (Moonstone Publishing, 2012) features two Holmesian prose stories
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from beginning to end." 1985 – Academy Award For Visual Effects (nominated) A video game based on the movie was released in 1987 for the MSX called "" released exclusively in Japan by Pack-In-Video. Although the game is based on the film, the plot of the game had little to do with the film's story. Young Sherlock Holmes Young Sherlock Holmes (also known with the title card name of "Pyramid of Fear") is a 1985 American mystery adventure film directed by Barry Levinson and written by Chris Columbus, based on the characters created by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. The film
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"Mosquito Squadron", "Cromwell" and "The Beast Must Die". In 1991 Gray co-starred with Oliver Tobias in the science-fiction film "Firestar - First Contact" for Ice International Films. Gray portrayed Mycroft Holmes in both the 1976 film "The Seven-Per-Cent Solution" and opposite Jeremy Brett's Sherlock in four episodes of the 1984 Granada Television series "The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes". In two episodes of the final Brett series, "The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes", he had leading roles as Mycroft, the first because Edward Hardwicke, who played Dr Watson, was busy on another project and the second as a result of Brett's illness.
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To this day, Brett is still widely considered to have given the definitive portrayal of Conan Doyle’s detective. Wyndham Davies went on to produce the second series: "The Return of Sherlock Holmes", as well as "The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes" in 1994, and several feature-length television films including: "Sherlock Holmes – The Sign of Four", also starring Jenny Seagrove. 1986 - "Shades of Darkness" (TV Series) (1 episode) 1980-1981 - "Cribb" (TV Series) (3 episodes) 1981 - "Christmas Spirits" (TV Movie) 1979 - "Screenplay" (TV Series) 1973-1977 - "Crown Court" (TV Series) (7 episodes) 1975-1976 - "Coronation Street" (TV Series)
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adaption of the series of Sherlock Holmes and that the material is worth creating derivative work. He also said that the presence of John Watson as a storyteller is very important and a splendid invention of Arthur Conan Doyle. He describes Watson as having warmth and passion that Holmes lacks and appreciates Martin Freeman who plays Watson with good nature in "Sherlock". In 2007, Freeman appeared in the play "The Last Laugh", based on "University of Laughs" (Warai no daigaku, ) written by Mitani. Mitani has said that what a human plays can also be played by a puppet. The
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twelve episodes of the "Sherlock Holmes" series. In 1973, Wilmer played author Jacques Futrelle's Holmesian detective Professor Van Dusen in "The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes" for ITV. In 1975, he once again appeared as Holmes (albeit in a supporting role) in Gene Wilder's "The Adventure of Sherlock Holmes' Smarter Brother", with Thorley Walters as Dr. Watson. Wilmer also played Sir Denis Nayland Smith in two of Harry Alan Towers' Fu Manchu films, "The Brides of Fu Manchu" (1966) and "The Vengeance of Fu Manchu" (1967). He recorded a series of the stories on audiocassette for Penguin audio books and appeared
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Sherlock Holmes (1954 TV series) Sherlock Holmes was a detective television series aired in syndication in the fall of 1954, based on the Sherlock Holmes stories of Arthur Conan Doyle. The 39 half-hour mostly original stories were produced by Sheldon Reynolds and filmed in France by Guild Films, starring Ronald Howard (son of Leslie Howard) as Holmes and Howard Marion Crawford as Watson. Archie Duncan appeared in many episodes as Inspector Lestrade (and in a few as other characters). Richard Larke, billed as Kenneth Richards, played Sgt. Wilkins in about fifteen episodes. The series' associate producer, Nicole Milinaire, was one
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Alan Cox played a teenage Watson in the 1985 film "Young Sherlock Holmes", narrated by Michael Hordern as an older Watson. Ian Hart portrayed a young, capable, and fit Watson twice for BBC Television, once opposite Richard Roxburgh as Holmes (in a 2002 adaptation of "The Hound of the Baskervilles") and for a second time opposite Rupert Everett as the Great Detective in the new story "Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Silk Stocking" (2004). In the Soviet Sherlock Holmes film series, directed by Igor Maslennikov, Dr Watson was played by Vitaly Solomin. He is portrayed as a brave
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Game"; in his words, Chris Columbus, who directed the first two "Harry Potter" film adaptations, has cited the 1985 film "Young Sherlock Holmes", which he wrote, as an influence in his direction for those films. "That was sort of a predecessor to this movie, in a sense", he told the BBC in 2001, "It was about two young boys and a girl in a British boarding school who had to fight a supernatural force." Scenes from "Young Sherlock Holmes" were subsequently used to cast the first Harry Potter film. On 3 January 2010, Irish journalist Declan Lynch (writing in "The
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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
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Sherlock Holmes Baffled Sherlock Holmes Baffled is a very short American silent film created in 1900 with cinematography by Arthur Marvin. It is the earliest known film to feature Arthur Conan Doyle's detective character Sherlock Holmes, albeit in a form unlike that of later screen incarnations. The inclusion of the character also makes it the first recorded detective film. In the film, a thief who can appear and disappear at will steals a sack of items from Sherlock Holmes. At each point, Holmes's attempts to thwart the intruder end in failure. Originally shown in Mutoscope machines in arcades, "Sherlock Holmes
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"Sherlock Holmes" titles from Frogwares—"Mummy", "Silver Earring", "" and "Nemesis"—totaled roughly 1.5 million global sales by February 2009. In 2013, Ryzhko reported that "Mystery of the Mummy"s computer version alone had sold "around a million units worldwide". The game was met with mixed reception. GameRankings and Metacritic gave it 63.17% and 61 out of 100 for the PC version, and 51.80% and 57 out of 100 for the DS version. Sherlock Holmes: The Mystery of the Mummy Sherlock Holmes: The Mystery of the Mummy is an adventure game for Microsoft Windows, developed by Frogwares and released in 2002. The player
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