Sherlockian.Net: Actors

[Dressing-gown, pipe]
A Russian Holmes and Watson: Vasili Livanov and Vitali Solomin in one of their eight popular films. An overview of the series appears on the Baker Street Dozen web site, and there is a fan site in Russian. (Photo courtesy of Nadezhda Cherneckaya)

Robert Downey Jr. in 'Sherlock Holmes' and its sequel

  • The official web site
  • Draft of the screenplay
  • Review by Rod Mollise
  • Audio interview with Sarah Montague about Holmes's character
  • Television Tropes and Idioms
  • Pornographic version
  • Sequel, 'A Game of Shadows', review from McMurdo's Camp

    Benedict Cumberbatch in “Sherlock” for the BBC

  • BBC One program site
  • Videos on fanpop.com
  • The Independent: 'A revelation'
  • No shit, Sherlock (Laurie Penny, New Statesman)
  • Review in The Atlantic
  • Watson's blog
  • Sherlockology (fan site)

    Jeremy who?

    See the separate page about Jeremy Brett's portrayal of Sherlock Holmes for Granada Television.

    Stage, screen, radio and television

  • Holmes on Screen (Sherlock Holmes on Oxford Lane)
  • List of film actors, from IMDB
  • Sublime Sherlocks, from Underwire
  • Retrovision Internet TV
  • Laserscans list of Holmes on DVD
  • Internet Movie Database
  • Sherlock Holmes in the Virtual Museum
  • Orson Welles, "The Immortal Sherlock Holmes", 1930
  • Revisiting Sherlock Holmes: The Multimedia Collector
  • "Holmes on Screen" by Damian Magee
  • Ronald Howard series, 1954, episode guide
  • Actors on British SH television shows
  • Peter Cushing in 'The Hound', 1968
  • "The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes", 1970
  • Old Radio World downloads

    William Gillette

    On stage 1899-1932.
  • Audio, with pictures
  • An American Legend
  • Molding the Image (University of Minnesota)
  • Gillette Castle State Park • Friends
  • Gillette Castle feature from WTIC-TV | Another story
  • Victorian Actors and Actresses
  • Sherlockian.Net extra: Images of William Gillette
  • Forthcoming biography by Henry Zecher

    Where can I buy videos and DVDs?

    A comprehensive list from the Baker Street Dozen web site

    Otherwise, the most detailed information I've seen about Basil Rathbone videos is on Marcia Jessen's Rathbone web site. The full set of films is currently being released on DVD.

  • DVDs from Laser Scans.
  • DVDs from Video Universe

    • Basil Rathbone (with Nigel Bruce as Watson)

    Fourteen films were made between 1939 and 1946.
    [Bullet] A Sherlockian.Net special feature: Poster for one of them, "Pursuit to Algiers" (1945), with Basil Rathbone as Sherlock Holmes, Nigel Bruce as Dr. Watson, Marjorie Riordan as Sheila.
  • Marcia Jessen's Rathbone page
  • The Basil and Nigel Holmes Page
  • Appreciation from Greenbriar Picture Shows
  • Basil Rathbone as Sherlock Holmes, by B. T. Tonjes
  • Michael Druxman's biography of Rathbone
  • Two films available with narrator's voice added
  • Two films available over the Internet
  • Movies in streaming video: The Woman in Green, Dressed to Kill
  • Several films in English and German, AVI format from Guba

    Sherlock Holmes and the Vengeance of Dracula

  • "Coming Attractions" from Corona
  • News from Flixburg
  • IGN Movies Script Asylum

    [H's long-stemmed pipe, W's moustache]
    A photo from the Frewer production -- courtesy of Scarlet Street

    Some new versions of The Hound

  • Starring Matt Frewer. There's much about it on the Baker Street Dozen web site.
  • Starring Richard Roxburgh, produced by the BBC, later aired on PBS. Photo of Richard E. Grant as Stapleton, Ian Hart as Watson and Roxburgh as Holmes.
  • Promised for 2004

    Clive Merrison and Michael Williams on radio

    From the BBC, the only complete Canon by a single actor (and a single writer, Bert Coules).
  • Bert Coules web site

    Sherlock Holmes in the 22nd Century

  • Tribune TV home page
  • Maureen O'Brien fan page
  • Episode guide

    Other modern manifestations

  • The Many Voices of Sherlock Holmes — an overview of audio recordings
  • The Secret of Sherlock Holmes, by Jeremy Paul
  • Peter Cushing and Sherlock Holmes: An Overview | Tapes for sale
  • Christopher Plummer and "Murder by Decree"
  • Elementary, Dear Data (Star Trek 1988)
  • Basil's Reading Room, about the Eve Titus "Basil of Baker Street" children's books
  • Home of Disney's Great Mouse Detective
  • The Adventures of Shirley Holmes | Episode filmed at University of Manitoba
  • Sherlock's Secret Life
  • "The Misadventures of Sherlock Holmes" on public radio
  • "Sherlock Holmes and the First English Gentleman" (script)
  • The Baker Street Boys (1983)
  • The Timely Adventures of Bones and Whatsit
  • 'Five unusual new cases' (audio from BBC)
  • 'Sherlock, Stock and Barrel'
  • Sherlock Holmes Literary Song Videos
  • Online Radio: The Mis-Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
  • The Watson Files, from Strobie Studios
  • No Place Like Holmes, video by Ross K. Foad
  • Sherlock Holmes Strikes Back
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