Actor Jeremy Brett took the part of Holmes and the series eventually consisted of 41 TV films, starting with “A Scandal in Bohemia” and including “The Hound of the Baskervilles.” He also appeared in a Holmes stage play separate from the Granada productions. Brtish actor Peter Cushing was a memorable Holmes in the 1960’s in a series which appeared on BBC television. After so many years, however, Rathbone grew tired of playing Holmes They continued playing Holmes and Watson on radio and in films for seven years. In 1939 was the year that Basil Rathbone made his first Sherlock Holmes film, “The Hound of the Baskervilles.” After making the first two Holmes films, Rathbone and Nigel Bruce began doing Sherlock Holmes stories on radio. The earliest actor to have essayed the role is William Gillette, who gave several popular theatrical portrayals at the turn of the 20th century. Holmes stories have been broadcast on radio and television and he is widely known on both stage and screen. Holmes appears to undergo bouts of mania and depression, the latter of which are accompanied by pipe smoking, violin playing, and cocaine use. His London address at 221B, Baker Street, is tended by his housekeeper, Mrs. Holmes is a complex and moody character who, although of strict habit, is untidy. Although Holmes rebuffs praise, declaring his abilities to be “elementary,” the oft-quoted phrase “Elementary, my dear Watson,” never actually appears in Conan Doyle’s writings. All but four stories are narrated by Watson, two are narrated by Holmes himself, and two others are written in the third person. Conan Doyle wrote four novels and 56 short stories that feature Holmes. Watson, who recounts the criminal cases they jointly pursue.
His detecting abilities become clear, when explained by his companion, Dr. In particular, Holmes’s uncanny ability to gather evidence based upon his honed skills of observation and deductive reasoning paralleled Bell’s method of diagnosing a patient’s disease. Joseph Bell, who had been his professor at the University of Edinburgh Medical School. The story goes that a curved pipe allowed him to deliver his lines while still smoking. He was the one who invented and popularised Holmes' curved tobacco pipe. Gillette adapted Sherlock Holmes for the stage in 1899 and played Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's detective more than 1,000 times. Conan Doyle modelled Holmes’s methods and mannerisms on those of Dr. William Gillette truly defined the on-screen Sherlock Holmes.
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