By popular demand

[wellinghall]

[Poll #1433914]

Comments

[gramarye1971]

My roommate and I have been watching the Granada DVDs I bought as a birthday present to myself, which has renewed my love of Brett's Sherlock Holmes all over again. I'd forgotten how good some of the fight choreography was, too -- the Holmes-Moriarty struggle in 'The Final Problem' was a little odd-looking, but the knife fight between the Italians in 'The Six Napoleons' looked remarkably realistic.

[tree_and_leaf]

Clive Merrison, without a doubt, even if he only exists in audio form!

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

Now he is one I really should have listed in the poll.

[muuranker.livejournal.com]

I liked Tom Baker. Odd, isn't it! Especially as I really didn't like his Dr Who....

I do like Basil Rathbone, too, though. And I don't dislike Jeremy Brett.

But actually, I don't like Conan Doyle that much, I'm more a Collins reader ....

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

I sort of liked Tom Baker's Who, but of course he wasn't Jon Pertwee, which rather knocked him down the rankings in my view.

[mirabehn.livejournal.com]

Clive Merrison, though Jeremy Brett is a worthy second.

Similarly I like Michael Williams' Watson best, followed by Edward Hardwicke's.

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

As I said to tree_and_leaf, he is one I really should have listed in the poll.

[the-marquis.livejournal.com]

So bored at work then?

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

Now whatever gave you that idea? ;-)

[didiusjulianus.livejournal.com]

Ticky box: Never seen a Holmes production or read a Holmes book, so I dunno! (I did start one when here last time but didn't complete the story; and now can't remember the plot, so will have to start again).

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

Most of the short stories are pretty short, and wouldn't take you long. In fact, most of the novels aren't that long.

[camillofan.livejournal.com]

Rathbone. Sure, I wish he'd gotten to do faithful versions of the original stories with Granada-level production values, but I'll take him in those "Sherlock vs. the Nazis" movies. His interpretation, much more than tortured Jeremy Brett's, is the one that puts me most in mind of the character I imagine from the books.

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

I've only ever seen on the of the "Sherlock vs the Nazis" films, I think. Although there was a sequel by another hand which pitted him against at least one German in WWII; and, of course, there is "His Last Bow".

[garamondbophin.livejournal.com]

This is so difficult: if Rathbone had had Brett's scripts and Watsons... If Eille Norwood had had sound...

There have just been so many good ones. Let us not forget Arthur Wontner, Douglas Wilmer (the only one I've actually met), Peter Cushing, Christopher Plummer, Vasili Livanov (whom I should have met, but didn't) and Ian Richardson. I'd like to see H.A. Saintsbury's version too.

I'm going to cheat a bit and plump for 'Reginald Kincaid' (and see if you know what I mean!), with perhaps Anthony Higgins a close second. Or there's always George C. Scott or Christopher Lee...

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

The original version of the post listed twenty-eight actors; but then I thought, "Nah, no-one but garamondbophin is going to know who half of these people are!" ;-)