Sherlock Holmes can be old-school, punk, steampunk, or just a boor with great cheekbones. He’s survived silent films, ...

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 ...

When it comes to setting the scene for a Sherlock Holmes film, it's hard to imagine anyone one-upping the masterful, Oscar-nominated art direction in Guy Ritchie's 2009 take on Arthur ...

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.

Features Sherlock Holmes: celebrating Rathbone & Bruce’s top 5 films. Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce's Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson laid down a terrific on-screen template.

Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce as Holmes and Watson (image: basilrathbone.net) Sherlock Holmes’s extraordinary talent for deduction has been well documented by Arthur Conan Doyle. Though they ...

EXCLUSIVE: Rathbone - celebrated by many as the 'real' Holmes - has told how Sherlock was a curse that ruined his credibility as an actor ...

The Curse of Sherlock Holmes: The Basil Rathbone Story by David Clayton, published by The History Press, out 3 August, £20. Story Saved You can find this story in My Bookmarks.