With his long slender features visible under a deerstalker hat and a smoking pipe in hand, actor Basil Rathbone is as synonymous with Sherlock Holmes as Baker street. One of Britain’s first ...

Actor Basil Rathbone ... puffed a curved pipe and solved mysteries with a casual: “Elementary, my dear Watson.” Mr. Rathbone reportedly refused lucrative offers to re-create the Holmes ...

Share your email for news, gossip and more We have more newsletters With his long slender features visible under a deerstalker hat and a smoking pipe in hand, actor Basil Rathbone is as synonymous ...