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Apr 1, 2021 · Who's the Best Sherlock Holmes? 17 Incredibly Different Takes on the Great Detective, Ranked By Liz Shannon Miller Published Apr 1, 2021
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- Jeremy Brett, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1984-1985), etc. It’s really, really hard to pick a #1 slot, but I think first place has to go to Jeremy Brett, whose long-running Holmes (from 1984 to 1994) is both serious and brilliantly diagnostic while also being a tiny bit absurd (Brett’s Holmes, though rather unsmiling, does lean into Holmes’s nutty penchant for disguise and performance).
- Basil Rathbone, The Hound of the Baskervilles (1939), etc. The consummate actor Basil Rathbone, besides having my favorite name ever, is often considered to be the gold-standard for Holmes portrayals, having played Holmes in fourteen films in the 1930s and 40s.
- Arthur Wontner, Sherlock Holmes’ Fatal Hour, (1931), etc. In 1933, the critic Vincent Starett wrote, in his foundational collection of Sherlockian scholarship The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes, that “No better ‘Sherlock Holmes’ than Arthur Wontner is likely to be seen and heard in pictures, in our time… The keen, worn, kindly face and quiet prescient smile are out of the very pages of the book.”
- Douglas Wilmer, Sherlock Holmes (1964-1965) Douglas Wilmer’s Sherlock Interpretation is one of the best, helped by the fact that he looks a lot like Sherlock Holmes in Sydney Paget’s original illustrations (so, a bit, do Basil Rathbone and Arthur Wontner).
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- Jeremy Brett in The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes. Every generation has their preferred Sherlock, but for many, Jeremy Brett's sleuth remains the definitive version.
- Benedict Cumberbatch in Sherlock. The BBC brought Baker Street into the 21st century with this ambitious miniseries, following an internet-savvy Holmes as he outwitted criminals in modern London.
- Basil Rathbone in multiple films. Basil Rathbone was far from the first actor to play Sherlock Holmes on screen, but he was certainly the first to turn Sherlock into a star.
- Peter Cushing in Hound of the Baskervilles. With his sky-high cheekbones and piercing stare, Peter Cushing looked every part the aloof British detective.
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- The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes,’ ‘The Return of Sherlock Holmes,’ ‘The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes’ and ‘Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes’ (1984-1994)
- Sherlock’ (2010-2017) Played by: Benedict Cumberbatch. Perhaps one of the best-known “Sherlock Holmes” adaptations, BBC’s “Sherlock” took the world by storm when it premiered in 2010.
- The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes’ and more (1939-1946) Played by: Basil Rathbone. Many generations (before Jeremy Brett and Benedict Cumberbatch came along) might consider Basil Rathbone as the quintessential Holmes.
- The Hound of the Baskervilles’ (1959) Played by: Peter Cushing. Perhaps the most well-known “Sherlock Holmes” case, 1959’s “The Hound of the Baskervilles” tackles the famous case with eerie and gothic flair.
- Sherlock Holmes (2009) Not based on any book, the 2009 Sherlock Holmes movie is a total reinvention of the character and his mythos by the creative mind of Guy Ritchie.
- The Private Life Of Sherlock Holmes (1970) Legendary writer-director Billy Wilder made what is considered his last great movie with this funny, clever, and surprisingly moving Sherlock Holmes movie.
- Sherlock Holmes: A Game Of Shadows (2011) After being teased at the end of the first Robert Downey Jr. film, Moriarty became the main villain of the sequel.
- The Hound Of The Baskervilles (1939) Not only is it the most famous book but The Hound Of The Baskervilles is the most famous Basil Rathbone movie. It also happens to be the movie where Rathbone and Nigel Bruce debuted as the dynamic duo, investigating the strange murders that are supposedly committed by a supernatural animal.
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