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A small number of actors have played both Holmes and Watson, including Reginald Owen who played Watson in Sherlock Holmes (1932) and Holmes in A Study in Scarlet (1933); [57] [58] Jeremy Brett, who played Watson on stage in the United States prior to adopting the mantle of Holmes on British television; [59] Howard Marion-Crawford, who played ...
A small number of actors have played both Holmes and Watson, including Reginald Owen who played Watson in Sherlock Holmes (1932) and Holmes in A Study in Scarlet (1933); [84] [85] Jeremy Brett, who played Watson on stage in the United States prior to adopting the mantle of Holmes on British television; [86] Howard Marion-Crawford, who played ...
For most of the run of the 1930–1936 radio series The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, Leigh Lovell played Watson with Richard Gordon as Holmes. [41] Nigel Bruce reprised his film role of Watson on the radio opposite first Basil Rathbone, then Tom Conway as Holmes for most of the 1940s radio series The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes ...
He played Dr. John Watson in Sherlock, the BBC contemporary adaptation of the Sherlock Holmes detective stories. Its first episode, " A Study in Pink ", was broadcast on 25 July 2010 to critical acclaim.
Brett had previously played Doctor Watson on stage opposite Charlton Heston as Holmes in the 1980 Los Angeles production of The Crucifer of Blood, making him one of only a small number of actors to play both Holmes and Watson professionally. [28] [fn 1] Brett was approached in February 1982 by Granada Television to play Holmes.
David Burke (born 25 May 1934) [1] is an English actor, known for playing Dr. John Watson in the initial series of Granada Television's 1980s The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, which starred Jeremy Brett in the title role. [2] He also starred as Joseph Stalin in the last two episodes of Reilly, Ace of Spies. [3]
Owen was one of several actors to play both Sherlock Holmes and his companion Dr. Watson, [4] assaying Watson in the film Sherlock Holmes (1932) starring Clive Brook as Holmes, and then Holmes in A Study in Scarlet (1933).
Christopher Plummer plays Holmes and James Mason plays Watson. Young Sherlock Holmes, a film about Sherlock Holmes's early adventures as a teenager, was released in 1985. [29] In 1986 Walt Disney released The Great Mouse Detective, an animated animal film based on the tradition of Sherlock Holmes.