The list of actors who have played Sherlock Holmes Sherlock Holmes is a fictional character of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries who first appeared in publication in 1887. He is the creation of British author and physician Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. A brilliant London-based "consulting detective", Holmes is famous for his intellectual prowess and is renowned for his skillful in film, television, stage, or radio includes:

• Hans Albers
  • The Man Who Was Sherlock Holmes (1937 film, Der Mann, der Sherlock Holmes war)
• Joaquim de Almeida Joaquim António Portugal Baptista de Almeida, CavIH is a Portuguese actor. One of the most appraised Portuguese actors alive, well known in the world of international cinema, he has travelled the world working in Europe, Argentina, Mexico, United States and Brazil in many film and stage productions. He was born in Lisbon, Portugal, and became a
  • The Xango from Baker Street (2001 film, O Xangô de Baker Street)
• James D'Arcy
  • Sherlock (2002 TV film)
• Tom Baker
  • The Hound of the Baskervilles (1982 mini series)
• John Barrymore John Sidney Blyth Barrymore was an American actor, frequently called the greatest of his generation. He first gained fame as a stage actor, lauded for his portrayals of Hamlet and Richard III. His success continued with motion pictures in both the silent and sound eras. His distinguished features won him the nickname "The Great Profile".[
  • Sherlock Holmes (1922 film)
• Jeremy Brett
  • The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1984-1994 TV series)
• Clive Brook
  • Sherlock Holmes (1932 film)
  • The Return of Sherlock Holmes (1929 film)
• Michael Caine Sir Michael Caine, CBE is an English film actor. Caine has appeared in more than 100 films, and is one of only two actors to have been nominated for an Academy Award for acting (leading or supporting) in every decade since the 1960s (Jack Nicholson is the other, while Dustin Hoffman has maintained a similar record until the 2000's). He became
  • Without a Clue (1988 film)
• John Cleese John Marwood Cleese is an English actor, comedian, writer, film producer and singer, who is known as being a member of Monty Python, a group of comedians responsible for the sketch show Monty Python's Flying Circus and for all of the four Monty Python films: And Now for Something Completely Different, Holy Grail, Life of Brian and The Meaning of
  • The Strange Case of the End of Civilization as We Know It (1977 film)
  • Elementary, My Dear Watson (1973 TV film)
• Peter Cook Peter Edward Cook was an English satirist, writer and comedian. He is widely regarded as the leading figure in the British satire boom of the 1960s. He has been described by Stephen Fry as 'the funniest man who ever drew breath'
  • The Hound of the Baskervilles (1978 film)
• Peter Cushing Peter Wilton Cushing, OBE was an English actor, known for his many appearances in Hammer Films, in which he played Baron Frankenstein and Dr. Van Helsing, amongst many other roles, often appearing opposite Christopher Lee, and occasionally Vincent Price. A familiar face on both sides of the Atlantic, he also starred as Grand Moff Tarkin in Star
  • The Masks of Death (1984 TV film)
  • Sherlock Holmes (1965-1968 TV series)
  • The Hound of the Baskervilles (1959 film)
• Robert Downey, Jr. Robert John Downey, Jr. is an American actor and musician. Downey made his screen debut at the age of five when he started to appear in his father's films. During the 1980s he had minor roles in a series of coming of age films associated with the Brat Pack. Less Than Zero (1987) is particularly notable, not only because it was the first time
  • Sherlock Holmes
• Rupert Everett Rupert James Hector Everett is an English actor and singer. He first came to public attention in 1981, when he was cast in Julian Mitchell's play and subsequent film Another Country as an openly homosexual student at an English public school, set in the 1930s. Since then he has subsequently appeared in many other films including My Best Friend's
  • Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Silk Stocking (2004 TV film)
• Matt Frewer
  • The Case of the Whitechapel Vampire (2002 TV film)
  • The Sign of Four (2001 TV film)
  • The Royal Scandal (2001 TV film)
  • The Hound of the Baskervilles (2000 TV film)
• William Gillette
  • Sherlock Holmes (1899 Broadway Broadway theatre, commonly called simply Broadway, refers to theatrical performances presented in one of the 40 large professional theaters with 500 seats or more located in the Theatre District, New York in Manhattan, New York City. Along with London's West End theatre, Broadway theatre is usually considered to represent the highest level of production)
  • Sherlock Holmes (1916 motion picture)
• Stewart Granger Stewart Granger , born James Lablache Stewart, was an English American film actor of Scottish descent, mainly associated with heroic and romantic leading roles. He was a popular leading man from the 1940s to the 1960s
  • The Hound of the Baskervilles (1972 TV film)
• John Gielgud
  • On BBC Radio in the 1950s
• Charlton Heston Charlton Heston was an American actor of film, theater and television
  • The Crucifer of Blood (1991 TV film)
• Carleton Hobbs
  • On BBC Radio (1952-1969 radio series)
• Ronald Howard
  • Sherlock Holmes (1954-1955 TV series)
• Frank Langella Frank A. Langella Jr. is an American stage and film actor. His Tonys include two for Best Featured Actor in a Play for Edward Albee's Seascape (1975), and Ivan Turgenev's Fortune's Fool (2002), and for Best Leading Actor in a Play for his performance as Richard Nixon in Peter Morgan's Frost/Nixon (2008). Langella was nominated for two other Best
  • Sherlock Holmes (1981 TV film)
• John Longden
  • The Man Who Disappeared (1951, 26 min TV episode)
• Peter Lawford Peter Sydney Vaughn Aylen , better known as Peter Lawford, was an English actor, member of the "Rat Pack," and brother-in-law to President John F. Kennedy, perhaps more noted in later years for his off-screen activities as a celebrity than for his acting. In his earlier professional years (late 1930s through the 1950s) he had a strong
  • Fantasy Island, episode "The Case Against Mr. Roarke/Save Sherlock Holmes" (1982 TV series)
• Christopher Lee
  • Sherlock Holmes and the Deadly Necklace (1962 film, Sherlock Holmes und das Halsband der Todes)
  • Sherlock Holmes and the Leading Lady (1992 TV film)
  • Incident at Victoria Falls (1991 TV film)
• Vasili Livanov
  • Nine Russian TV films from 1979 to 1986
• Patrick Macnee
  • The Hound of London (1993 TV film)
• Raymond Massey Massey was born in Toronto, Ontario, the son of Anna and Chester Daniel Massey, the wealthy owner of the Massey-Ferguson Tractor Company. Massey's family could trace their ancestry back to the American Revolutionary War. He attended secondary school briefly at Upper Canada College, before transferring to Appleby College in Oakville, Ontario, and
  • The Speckled Band (1931 film)
• Clive Merrison
  • On BBC Radio (1989-2004 radio series)

roy marsdden as holmes and john moffat as watson (bbc radio)

• Nis Bank-Mikkelsen
  • The Blue Carbuncle (2007 Danish children's audio-drama)
• Ron Moody
  • Sherlock Holmes: The Musical Sherlock Holmes - The Musical was a musical based on characters created by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, which opened on 22 October 1988 at the Northcott Theatre, in Exeter and ran for a limited season of five weeks. It then played at the Cambridge Theatre on Seven Dials in London's Covent Garden area for a successful couple of months. During this time (1989 stage production)
• Roger Moore Sir Roger George Moore KBE is a English actor and film producer. He is perhaps best known for portraying two British action heroes, Simon Templar in the television series The Saint from 1962 to 1969, and James Bond in seven films from 1973 to 1985
  • Sherlock Holmes in New York (1976 TV film)
• Alwin Neuss [1]
  • Sherlock Holmes (1908)
  • Der Hund von Baskerville (1914)
  • Detektiv Braun (1914)
• John Neville
  • A Study in Terror (1965 film)
  • Sherlock Holmes (Royal Shakespeare Company The Royal Shakespeare Company is a major British theatre company. Located primarily at Stratford-upon-Avon, with bases also in London and Newcastle upon Tyne, it is one of the United Kingdom's two most prominent publicly-funded theatre companies, alongside the Royal National Theatre stage production)
• Leonard Nimoy Leonard Simon Nimoy is an American actor, film director, poet, musician and photographer. He is famous for playing character of Spock on the original Star Trek series, and he reprised the role in various movie and television sequels
  • Sherlock Holmes (Royal Shakespeare Company The Royal Shakespeare Company is a major British theatre company. Located primarily at Stratford-upon-Avon, with bases also in London and Newcastle upon Tyne, it is one of the United Kingdom's two most prominent publicly-funded theatre companies, alongside the Royal National Theatre stage production)
• Eille Norwood
  • Numerous silent films from 1920 to 1923
• Peter O'Toole Peter Seamus O'Toole is an actor of stage and screen who achieved stardom in 1962 playing T. E. Lawrence in Lawrence of Arabia. He went on to become a highly-honored film and stage actor. He has been nominated for eight Academy Awards, and holds the record for most competitive Academy Award acting nominations without a win. He has won four Golden
  • Sherlock Holmes and the Baskerville Curse (1983 cartoon)
  • Sherlock Holmes and a Study in Scarlet (1983 cartoon)
  • Sherlock Holmes and the Sign of Four (1983 cartoon)
  • Sherlock Holmes and the Valley of Fear (1983 cartoon)
• Reginald Owen Reginald Owen, or John Reginald Owen, was a British character actor (of Welsh ancestry) known for playing in many film roles in British and American movies and later in television programs. He was born in Wheathampstead, Hertfordshire, England
  • A Study in Scarlet (1933 film)
• Michael Pennington
  • The Return of Sherlock Holmes (1987 TV film)
• Christopher Plummer
  • Murder by Decree (1979 film)
• Jonathan Pryce
  • Baker Street Irregulars (2007 film)
  • Silver Blaze (1977 TV film)
• Basil Rathbone Basil Rathbone, MC , was a South African-born British actor most famous for his portrayal of Sherlock Holmes and of suave villains in such swashbuckler films as The Mark of Zorro, Captain Blood, and The Adventures of Robin Hood
  • Suspense, episode "The Adventure of the Black Baronet" (1953 TV series)
  • Dressed to Kill (1946 film)
  • Terror by Night (1946 film)
  • Pursuit to Algiers (1945 film)
  • The Woman in Green (1945 film)
  • The House of Fear (1945 film)
  • The Pearl of Death (1944 film)
  • The Scarlet Claw (1944 film)
  • The Spider Woman (1944 film)
  • Sherlock Holmes Faces Death (1943 film)
  • Sherlock Holmes in Washington (1943 film)
  • Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon (1943 film)
  • Sherlock Holmes and the Voice of Terror (1942 film)
  • The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1939 film)
  • The Hound of the Baskervilles (1939 film)
• Robert Rendel
  • The Hound of the Baskervilles (1932 film)
• Ian Richardson Ian William Richardson CBE was a Scottish actor best known as a leading Shakespearian on stage and for his portrayal of the Machiavellian Conservative politician Francis Urquhart in the House of Cards trilogy for the BBC. He was made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in 1989
  • The Hound of the Baskervilles (1983 TV film)
  • The Sign of Four (1983 TV film)
• Nicholas Rowe
  • Young Sherlock Holmes Young Sherlock Holmes is a 1985 film directed by Barry Levinson and written by Chris Columbus. The movie depicts a young Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson meeting and solving a mystery together at a boarding school (1985 film)
• Richard Roxburgh
  • The Hound of the Baskervilles (2002 TV film)
• Tod Slaughter
  • on stage in the start of the 1930's
• Robert Stephens
  • The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes (1970 film)
• Geoffrey Whitehead
  • Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson (1980 TV series)
• Paxton Whitehead
  • The Crucifer of Blood (1978 Broadway Broadway theatre, commonly called simply Broadway, refers to theatrical performances presented in one of the 40 large professional theaters with 500 seats or more located in the Theatre District, New York in Manhattan, New York City. Along with London's West End theatre, Broadway theatre is usually considered to represent the highest level of production)
• Nicol Williamson
  • The Seven-Per-Cent Solution The Seven-Per-Cent Solution is the title of a 1974 novel by Nicholas Meyer. It is written as a pastiche of a Sherlock Holmes adventure, and was adapted for the cinema in 1976. The novel's full title is The Seven-Per-Cent Solution: Being a Reprint from the Reminiscences of John H. Watson, M.D (1976 film)
• Douglas Wilmer
  • The Adventure of Sherlock Holmes' Smarter Brother (1975 film)
  • BBC series (1964-1965 TV series)
• Arthur Wontner
  • Silver Blaze (1937 film)
  • The Triumph of Sherlock Holmes (1935 film)
  • The Sign of Four (1932 film)
  • The Missing Rembrandt (1932 film)
  • The Sleeping Cardinal (1931 film)
• John Wood
  • Sherlock Holmes (1974-1976 Broadway theatre Broadway theatre, commonly called simply Broadway, refers to theatrical performances presented in one of the 40 large professional theaters with 500 seats or more located in the Theatre District, New York in Manhattan, New York City. Along with London's West End theatre, Broadway theatre is usually considered to represent the highest level of production)
• Edward Woodward
  • Hands of a Murderer (1990 TV film)
• Ian Buchanan
  • Batman: The Brave and the Bold (2008 TV episode, Trials of the Demon)

Categories: Sherlock Holmes lists | Lists of actors by role

See Also:

• List of Actors Who Have Played Sherlock Holmes
• List of People
• Lists of Films
• List of Actors
• Lists of Actors

What Links Here:

• Home

Recently Viewed Pages:

• Home
• Arts: Entertainment: News and Media: Digital
• Sitemap
• Apocalypse Now
• Girls: Images
• 364 Girls a Year: Images
• About Us
• Barry, Gene: Blogs
• Arts: Chats and Forums: Out: Arts: Animation: Chats and Forums: Directory
• Arts: Chats and Forums: Directory

Most Popular Pages:

• List of Actors Who Have Played Sherlock Holmes: Web Search
• Digital Intermediate: Blogs
• Saved: Blogs
• Arts: Performing Arts: Acting: Chats and Forums: Directory
• Business: Arts and Entertainment: Employment: Individual Resumes: Directory
• List of Actors
• List of Actors: Encyclopedia
• Arts: Chats and Forums: Directory
• Barry, Gene: Blogs
• Girls: Images

Related 'List of Actors Who Have Played Sherlock Holmes' Searches: