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Alan Wheatley (19 April 1907 – 30 August 1991) was an English actor. He was a well known stage actor in the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s, appeared in forty films between 1931 and 1965 and was a frequent broadcaster on radio from the 1930s to the 1990s, and on television from 1938 to 1964.
Sherlock Holmes (also known as We Present Alan Wheatley as Mr. Sherlock Holmes in...) is a British mystery television series that was produced by the BBC featuring Alan Wheatley as Sherlock Holmes and Raymond Francis as Dr. Watson. This was the first series of Sherlock Holmes stories adapted for television. [1] [2]
We Present Alan Wheatley as Mr. Sherlock Holmes in... 1951 Television series (British) [45] Philip King: The Mazarin Stone [46] 1951 Television film for BBC (British) Bernard Fox: The Hound of the Baskervilles: 1972 Television film (American) Edward Fox: Doctor Watson and the Darkwater Hall Mystery [9] 1974 Television film (British) Patrick Macnee
Master Spy (also known as Checkmate) [2] [3] is a 1963 British spy film directed by Montgomery Tully and starring Stephen Murray, June Thorburn and Alan Wheatley. [4] The screenplay was by Tully and Maurice J. Wilson based on the short story "They Also Serve" by Gerald Anstruther and Paul White.
The Adventures of Robin Hood is a British television series comprising 143 half-hour, black and white episodes broadcast weekly between 1955 and 1959 [2] on ITV.It starred Richard Greene as the outlaw Robin Hood, and Alan Wheatley as his nemesis, the Sheriff of Nottingham.
Alan Napier: Your Show Time – "The Speckled Band" 1949 Alan Wheatley: Sherlock Holmes: 1951 TV series (British) Basil Rathbone: Suspense – "The Adventure of the Black Baronet" 1953 TV episode (American) Ronald Howard: Sherlock Holmes: 1954–1955 TV series (American) Boris Karloff: The Elgin Hour – "Sting of Death" 1955
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The 1965 production, which followed a pilot the year before, was the second BBC series of Sherlock Holmes adaptations, after one starring Alan Wheatley in 1951. [2] The role of Holmes was played by Douglas Wilmer in 1965, and Peter Cushing in 1968. Nigel Stock starred in both series as Dr. Watson.