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Ronald Howard (7 April 1918 – 19 December 1997) was an English actor and writer. He appeared as Sherlock Holmes in a weekly television series of the same name in 1954. He was the son of the actor Leslie Howard .
Sherlock Holmes is an American detective television series syndicated in the autumn of 1954, based on the Sherlock Holmes stories of Arthur Conan Doyle.The 39 half-hour mostly original stories were produced by Sheldon Reynolds [1] and filmed in France by Guild Films, starring Ronald Howard (son of Leslie Howard) as Holmes and H. Marion Crawford as Watson.
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); [95] [96] Jeremy Brett, who played Watson on stage in the United States prior to adopting the mantle of Holmes on British television; [97] Howard Marion-Crawford, who played ...
Howard Marion-Crawford (17 January 1914 – 24 November 1969), [1] was an English character actor, best known for his portrayal of Dr. Watson in the 1954 television adaptation of Sherlock Holmes. [ 2 ]
The story was adapted as a 1923 short film for the Sherlock Holmes Stoll film series, with Eille Norwood as Sherlock Holmes and Hubert Willis as Dr. Watson. [ 6 ] The 1954–1955 Sherlock Holmes television series starring Ronald Howard as Holmes and H. Marion Crawford as Watson loosely adapted the story for its episode "The Case of the Blind ...
The first American television adaptation of the story was in the 1954–1955 television series Sherlock Holmes starring Ronald Howard. An adaptation of "The Red-Headed League" was used for an episode of the 1965 television series Sherlock Holmes starring Douglas Wilmer as Holmes and Nigel Stock as Watson, with Toke Townley as Jabez Wilson. [11]
A silent short film adaptation was released in 1923 as part of the Stoll film series starring Eille Norwood as Holmes. [5] The story was adapted for an episode of the 1954–1955 television series Sherlock Holmes starring Ronald Howard as Holmes and Howard Marion Crawford as Watson.
[1] [2] In 1954, he produced the first American television show to feature the Holmes and Watson characters, [3] Sherlock Holmes, which (except in two instances) did not directly adapt Conan Doyle's original Holmes stories. It starred Ronald Howard as Sherlock Holmes and Howard Marion-Crawford as Doctor Watson, and Archie Duncan as Inspector ...