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Mycroft Holmes is a fictional character appearing in stories written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle from 1893 to 1908. [1] The elder brother (by seven years) of detective Sherlock Holmes, he is a government official and a founding member of the Diogenes Club.
Watson enlists the aid of Sherlock's brother, Mycroft, to trick Holmes into traveling to Vienna, where he will be treated by Sigmund Freud. During the course of his treatment, Holmes investigates a kidnapping case with international implications and Freud uncovers a dark personal secret suppressed in Holmes's subconscious.
Gatiss was born in Sedgefield, County Durham, [3] England, to Winifred Rose (née O'Kane, 1931–2003) and Maurice Gatiss (1931–2021). [4] He grew up opposite the Victorian psychiatric hospital Winterton, and later in Trimdon, before his father, a colliery engineer, took a job as engineer at the School Aycliffe Mental Hospital in Heighington.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes [7] 1954 Radio series (BBC Light Programme) Richard Hurndall: The Sign of Four Parts 1–5 1959 BBC Light Programme Robert Langford Sherlock Holmes: 1967 South African Broadcasting Corporation Robert Hardy: Sherlock Holmes [8] 1970–1971 LP record series Robert Powell: A Study in Scarlet [9] 1974 BBC Radio 4 ...
Mycroft Holmes, 1893 illustration by Sidney Paget in the Strand Magazine. One summer evening, while engaged in an aimless conversation that has come round to the topic of hereditary attributes, Doctor Watson learns that Sherlock Holmes, far from being a one-off in his powers of observation and deductive reasoning, in fact has an elder brother whose skills Holmes claims outstrip even his own.
The following is a list and description of the characters of Sherlock, a British television series that started airing on BBC One in July 2010. The series is a contemporary adaptation of the Sherlock Holmes stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and was created by Steven Moffat and Mark Gatiss.
Sherlock Holmes has become an icon of a detective. The term "Sherlock" is also used to refer to a detective. [4] David Addison in Moonlighting – created by Glenn Gordon Caron; Angel (Buffy the Vampire Slayer) – Vampire with a soul and private investigator in Los Angeles; Byomkesh Bakshi – created by Sharadindu Bandyopadhyay
He played Mycroft Holmes in the 2011 film Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows, directed by Guy Ritchie. [101] He portrayed the Master of Lake-town in two of Peter Jackson's three film adaptation of J. R. R. Tolkien's The Hobbit: the second The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug, [102] and the third The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies.