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William Nigel Ernle Bruce (4 February 1895 – 8 October 1953) was a British character actor on stage and screen. [1] He was best known for his portrayal of Dr. Watson in a series of films and in the radio series The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes , starring with Basil Rathbone as Sherlock Holmes in both.
Sherlock Holmes Faces Death is the sixth film in the Basil Rathbone/Nigel Bruce series of Sherlock Holmes films. [1] Made in 1943, it is a loose adaptation of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle 's 1893 Holmes short story " The Adventure of the Musgrave Ritual ". [ 2 ]
Nigel Strathearn Bruce (born 30 November 1942) [1] is a South African journalist and politician best known as the former editor of the Financial Mail. He later represented the Democratic Party (DP) and Democratic Alliance (DA) in the National Assembly from 1999 to 2004, serving the Gauteng constituency.
Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce in Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon. A series of fourteen films based on Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes stories was released between 1939 and 1946; the British actors Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce played Holmes and Dr. John Watson, respectively.
The Hound of the Baskervilles is a 1939 American gothic mystery film [1] based on the 1902 Sherlock Holmes novel of the same name by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.Directed by Sidney Lanfield, the film stars Basil Rathbone as Sherlock Holmes and Nigel Bruce as Dr. John Watson.
The Scarlet Claw is a 1944 American mystery thriller film [1] based on Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes detective stories. Directed by Roy William Neill and starring Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce, it is the eighth film of the Rathbone/Bruce series.
The scene in which Holmes experiments with the flies in the glass while playing the violin is recreated in the 2009 film Sherlock Holmes, in which Holmes is played by Robert Downey Jr. [10] In the episode " The Reichenbach Fall " of the BBC/PBS series, Sherlock is heavily inspired by the film and other Rathbone-Bruce films (creators Steven ...
While searching the train, Holmes is pushed out of the train, nearly to his death, but climbs back into the day coach and discovers a secret compartment in the coffin carrying Miss Vedder's mother. He suspects that one of the people on the train is the notorious jewel thief Colonel Sebastian Moran .