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

Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson investigate the legend of a supernatural hound, a beast that may be stalking a young heir on the fog-shrouded moorland that makes up his estate ...

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 ...

In 1947, Rathbone made his 14th and final Sherlock Holmes film. The restlessness that was such a part of his personality was in evidence here; he had grown tired of Holmes, found him cold and joyless.

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.

Rathbone made the first of 14 screen appearances as Sherlock Holmes in 1939’s The Hound of the Baskervilles. (Left to right) Basil Rathbone visits with his son and new daughter-in-law, Rodion Rathbone ...

British actor Basil Rathbone as Sherlock Holmes The Hound of the Baskervilles (Getty) By. Amanda Killelea; 19:08, 1 Aug 2020 Updated 14:51, 3 Aug 2020; ...

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