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Detective Inspector G. Lestrade (/ l ɛ ˈ s t r eɪ d / or / l ɛ ˈ s t r ɑː d /) [1] is a fictional character appearing in the Sherlock Holmes stories written by Arthur Conan Doyle.Lestrade's first appearance was in the first Sherlock Holmes story, the 1887 novel A Study in Scarlet.
Dennis Hoey (born Samuel David Hyams, 30 March 1893 – 25 July 1960) was a British film and stage actor, best remembered for playing Inspector Lestrade in six films of Universal's Sherlock Holmes series.
Although Lestrade is ranked as 'DI,' i.e. 'Detective Inspector,', the Lestrade in the original novels was ranked as Inspector (the rank of 'DI' not having been created at that time.) A running joke in the series is that Sherlock consistently fails to remember Lestrade's first name, with Lestrade noting that Sherlock remembering his name ...
This film marks the first appearance of Dennis Hoey as Inspector Lestrade - the Scotland Yard detective who, with Watson, provides much of the comic relief in six of the films of the series. Lionel Atwill appeared previously in the film The Hound of the Baskervilles (1939) as Dr Mortimer.
Originally he was to be called Tobias Gregson, after the character in the stories, but his name was changed to Thomas Gregson. [14] Tobias Gregson is the main police detective in the game The Great Ace Attorney: Adventures (2015), before being replaced by Gina Lestrade, a pickpocket based on Inspector Lestrade whom Gregson trained in detective ...
A Study in Scarlet was adapted as the first two episodes of the BBC's complete Sherlock Holmes 1989–1998 radio series. The two-part adaptation aired on Radio 4 in 1989, dramatised by Bert Coules and starring Clive Merrison as Holmes, Michael Williams as Watson, Donald Gee as Inspector Lestrade, and John Moffatt as Inspector Gregson. [20]
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.
Lestrade is replaced by a local policeman, Inspector Lanner, and Charles McCarthy's first name has been changed to Bill. John Turner dies immediately after confessing to Holmes. In the 1991 TV adaption starring Jeremy Brett and Edward Hardwicke, Boscombe Valley is in Cheshire in the northwest of England.