Jeremy Brett

...of the 1984 Granada Television series The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes ''. In two episodes of the final Brett series, ''The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, he had leading roles as Mycroft, the first because Watson actor Edward Hardwicke was...

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...the 1964 blockbuster film version of My Fair Lady ''. His singing voice was dubbed in the film, but Brett could still sing, as he later proved when he played Danilo in ''The Merry Widow on British television in 1968. Brett was briefly...

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...varying degrees of success: alongside the classic incarnations of the great detective by Basil Rathbone, Peter Cushing and Jeremy Brett, audiences have had to suffer the impersonations of Michael Caine, Peter Cook, Larry Hagman, John...

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...$8 (or more) to see Guy Ritchie's version of Sherlock Holmes. The movie is reportedly not the classic Sherlock Holmes, like TV's Jeremy Brett. It's not the movies' Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce as Holmes and Watson; it's Robert Downey Jr....

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...were produced in 1983. When Weintraub discovered that Granada Television had acquired the rights for their own series with Jeremy Brett he was awarded damages in an out of court settlement. In 1997, he unsuccessfully sued artist Hiro...

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...of Holmes' character: Holmes: That is what you may expect to see when I follow you. In the Granada Television version starring Jeremy Brett, a sequence is added showing Holmes burying his cocaine syringe in the sand during a walk on...

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...episodes of a Japanese cartoon series from the mid-'80s, "Meitantei Holmes. '' Some of the actors who've played Holmes include Jeremy Brett, Jonathan Pryce, Rupert Everett, Matt Frewer (Max Headroom!), Christopher Lee, Michael Caine, Peter...

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...bed posts. Robert Downey Jr.'s Holmes has all the traditional wit and cleverness, but looks more Charlie Chaplin than Jeremy Brett. Jude Law seems right at home as the stern-jawed soldier-turned-physician, Dr. John Watson. Sherlock...

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"Everything!" he bellows. "No. It's probably character-forming. When I left drama school, my cousin [the actor] Jeremy Brett came back from LA to do Sherlock Holmes. He swept me up and said, 'Darling, if you want we'll pin your...

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...at it." "And Rupert fits the role like a glove," she said. "There's a new TV generation born every 15 years. They never saw Jeremy Brett or Basil Rathbone as Sherlock Holmes. It's definitely time for a new one, and he's the man for the...

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