Hardly any fictional character has crashed into pop culture the way Sherlock Holmes has. He is everywhere. Sir Arthur Conan ...

The film stars Basil Rathbone as Sherlock Holmes and Nigel Bruce as Dr. John Watson. It was the first of fourteen Sherlock Holmes movies in the early 1900s starring Rathbone and Bruce.

Basil Rathbone had already played Holmes in reasonably faithful period adaptations of Doyle’s stories, such as The Hound of ...

(Image credit: 20th Century Fox) Sherlock Holmes Film Series (1939-1946) In the early days of film, one of the first notable portrayals of Sherlock Holmes came from British actor Basil Rathbone.

No, all 14 Holmes films starring Basil Rathbone were made in Hollywood. Basil Rathbone (1892-1967) was born in Johannesburg, South Africa , to British parents.

Sherlock Holmes and Star Trek’s Spock, Kirk, and McCoy. | Ann Ronan Pictures/Print Collector/Getty Images ... modeled after the 1939-1946 series of films starring British actor Basil Rathbone.

May 22 is Sherlock Holmes Day, ... From Basil Rathbone and Jeremy Brett, to Robert Downey Jr.’s action-packed reinvention and Benedict Cumberbatch’s tech-savvy modern take, ...