Data Regarding Sherlock Holmes on Stage, Screen and Radio

MOVIES

Most Appearances

Ellie Norwood 47

Basil Rathbone 15

Viggo Larsen 12

First Holmes Silent Film

1900 - “Sherlock Holmes Baffled”

First (identified) Holmes in a Silent Film

Maurice Costello

(1903 – “The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes”)

First Holmes in a Sound Film

Clive Brook

(1929 – “The Return of Sherlock Holmes”)

First Two to Play Holmes and Watson

Alwin Neuss

(Watson in 1908 – Sherlock Holmes III

(Holmes in 1911 – The One Million Dollar Bond)

Reginald Owen

(Watson in 1932 - “Sherlock Holmes”)

(Holmes in 1933 – “A Study in Scarlet”)

TELEVISION

Most Appearances

Jeremy Brett 41

Ronald Howard 39

Peter Cushing 16

Douglas Wilmer 12

First Holmes on TV

Louis Hector

(1937 – “The Three Garridebs”)

STAGE

Most Appearances

H. Hamilton Stewart 2,000 (approx)

H.A. Saintsbury 1,400 (approx)

William Gillette 1,300 (approx)

First Public Sherlock Holmes

Charles Brookfield

(1893 – “Under The Clock”)

First Two to Play Holmes on Stage and In Film

William Gillette

(1899 – “Sherlock Holmes – A Play in Four Acts”)

(1916 – “Sherlock Holmes”)

H.A. Saintsbury

(1901 – “Sherlock Holmes – A Play in Four Acts”)

(1916 – “The Valley of Fear”)