Heres Alexs top 10 list…
This top ten concentrates on actors whove played Sherlock Holmes in drama.
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It was no easy task to identify a top ten.
Id welcome your own lists and thoughts.
This, then, is my personal choice, so here goes…
10.
Some three years earlier, Guy Henry played a juvenile Holmes in ITVsYoung Sherlockmade by Granada television.
Terence Rigby played Watson in a bluff style, akin to Nigel Bruce.
The cast dubbed the production the Tom and Terry show.
He appeared in five films in total between 1931 and 1937.
He made a further twelve Conan Doyle stories in 1965.
Even as late as 1984, Cushing appeared as Holmes in the TV movieThe Masks Of Death.
Nigel Bruce played Watson in a blustering and bewildered style, which more recently has fallen by the wayside.
Rathbones silhouette is iconic, and he is often spoken of as the doyen of the detective melodrama.
It proves that Conan Doyle can be as relevant in 2012 as he was in the 1890s.
Jeremy Brett
The sorely-missed Jeremy Brett was a genuine one-off an actor of immense skill and intense personality.
Brett filmed 41 of the Conan Doyle stories over a period of ten years.
In part, this dedication to intricate character detail contributed to his untimely death in 1995.
