Nigel Bruce
Nigel Bruce
William Nigel Ernle Bruce (4 February 1895 - 8 October 1953), best known as Nigel Bruce, was a British character actor on stage and screen, best known for his portrayal of Doctor Watson in...
Why Holmes and Watson must remain just good friends
...of The Hound of the Baskervilles spawned no fewer than 13 sequels starring Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce as Holmes and Watson. Hammer Films had hoped that their 1959 version of The...
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'Sherlock' gets an action-hero makeover
...debonair in the way Hollywood liked its leading men in the 1930s and 1940s. His Watson, played by Nigel Bruce, was a lumpy, good-natured, birdbrained foil for Holmes' brittle...
'Sherlock Holmes': Action Man, By Kurt Loder
...to the screen so well by the old Holmes films - with their indelible performances by Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce as Holmes and Watson - is buried in the over-amped frenzy of this new...
TV best bets: Fri., Dec. 25
...popular movie adaptations of Arthur Conan Doyle's timeless mysteries, teaming Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce as Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson. Here, the duo investigates the chilling...
Director makes a case for a quirky Holmes
...about Watson getting engaged and moving out. Watson, as played by Law, is far from the portly foil played by Nigel Bruce in earlier films. Downey is now an unlikely action star, but a...
Review: Weak Ritchie hurts 'Sherlock Holmes'
...in his room and doesn't wash, and his only contact with the world is Watson, who is not a bumbler (like Nigel Bruce in the old movies), but a handsome and capable fellow, a physician...
Downey steps into detective's well-worn shoes
...the equally good and period-correct (if hurried) "The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes," Rathbone and Nigel Bruce (as Dr. Watson) launched into a series of 12 mediocre but still...
'Sherlock Holmes' review: The villain is the director
...was indeed far more multifaceted than the Holmes we know from even the best of the Basil Rathbone-/Nigel Bruce pictures, original vintage or Nazi-hunting era. He had many interests,...
Sherlock Holmes, review
I've seen the trailers and I'm excited. We have the stereotype of Watson in our heads as played by Nigel Bruce, and to a lesser extent by Edward Hardwicke, which arose as a result of...
'Sherlock Holmes' - 1 1/2 stars
...was indeed far more multifaceted than the Holmes we know from even the best of the Basil Rathbone-/Nigel Bruce pictures, original vintage or Nazi-hunting era. He had many interests,...
What this film has done to Holmes is a crime! (Or is it?)
...youth, or attention deficit disorder?" The Rathbone films pose an even stickier problem: The actor's costar, Nigel Bruce, portrayed Watson as the ultimate clueless straight man. He's...
