Sherlock Holmes

Howard Marion-Crawford – Sporty British actor (some-
times billed without the hyphen) who starred in a BBC Home
Service adaptation of The Adventure of the Speckled Band (with an
introduction by Adrian Conan Doyle) on 26 December 1948.
He later played Watson in the French TV series opposite
Ronald Howard.
Roy Marsden – Played Holmes in dramatisations by Grant
Eustace released on audio cassette in October 1990.
Raymond Massey – Canadian-born actor who played satur-
nine villains. His screen debut was in British & Dominion’s The
Speckled Band (1931) in which he made a reasonable stab at
Holmes opposite scenery-chewing Lyn Harding as Moriarty.
The screenplay by WP Lipscombe was adapted from Doyle’s
stage play.