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Douglas Norman Wilmer (8 January 1920 – 31 March 2016) [1] was an English actor, best known for playing Sherlock Holmes in the 1965 TV series Sherlock Holmes.
In 1964, an adaptation of "The Adventure of the Speckled Band" was commissioned as a pilot for a twelve part series of Sherlock Holmes stories. [13][3] Giles Cooper wrote the adaptation and Douglas Wilmer was cast as Holmes and Nigel Stock as Watson, with Felix Felton as Dr. Grimesby Roylott. [3]
Douglas Wilmer was born on 8 January 1920 in London, England, UK. He was an actor and writer, known for Octopussy (1983), Jason and the Argonauts (1963) and El Cid (1961). He was married to Anne Harding and Elizabeth Joan Melville. He died on 31 March 2016 in Ipswich, Suffolk, England, UK.
Mar 31, 2016 · Douglas Wilmer, who began a long association with Sherlock Holmes when he ably portrayed Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s legendary sleuth on a 1960s series for the BBC, died Thursday. He was 96.
Douglas Wilmer was born on 8 January 1920 in London, England, UK. He was an actor and writer, known for Octopussy (1983), Jason and the Argonauts (1963) and El Cid (1961). He was married to Anne Harding and Elizabeth Joan Melville.
Mar 31, 2016 · Stage and screen actor Douglas Wilmer, best known for portraying Sherlock Holmes in the 1960s BBC series, died today at Ipswich Hospital in Suffolk, England following a short illness. He was...
Sherlock Holmes: With Nigel Stock, Peter Cushing, Douglas Wilmer, Peter Madden. A series of Sherlock Holmes adaptations, based on the stories of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
Douglas Wilmer, who played Sherlock Holmes and appeared in The Saint and Octopussy alongside Sir Roger Moore, has died at the age of 96. The “Sherlock for all seasons”, who made a cameo in the Benedict Cumberbatch iteration in 2012, at the very end of his career.
Apr 4, 2016 · Douglas Wilmer, who died on 31 March 2016 at the age of 96, was a veteran of British film and television. Most famously, he was the face of Sherlock Holmes for the generation who watched the BBC ’s 1960s serialisation of the Conan Doyle detective stories.
Apr 4, 2016 · Douglas Wilmer, who has died aged 96, was a character actor who worked with, among others, Sir Donald Wolfit, Tyrone Guthrie, Laurence Olivier and Alec Guinness, but became best known as the...
