Sherlock Holmes

Leonard Nimoy – Star Trek’s Mr Spock who appeared on the
US tour of the 1974 Sherlock Holmes revival. (See John Wood.)
A year later, he made a rightfully obscure 1975 Kentucky
Educational TV programme called The Interior Motive, in which
Holmes explained the formation of the earth!
Eille Norwood – London-based film company Stoll Picture
Productions snapped up this 59-year-old British stage actor
(real name Anthony Brett) to play a very authentic-looking
Holmes in 1920. The first series of fifteen 30-minute shorts
were known collectively as The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes,
released in April 1921 to be used as supporting features. A
feature-length  Hound of the Baskervilles followed in August of
that year. All were directed by Maurice Elvey, and co-starred
Hubert Willis as Watson. Although they were updated to the
1920s, Doyle praised the films as being ‘quite wonderful’.
Another 15 films followed in 1922, collectively The Further
Adventures of Sherlock Holmes. The director was George
Ridgewell. The next year saw the third and final Stoll series,
The Last Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, again directed by
Ridgewell. The Sign of Four was the last film to star Norwood as
Holmes. Released in 1923, it was scripted and directed by
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Maurice Elvey. The same year Norwood produced and starred
in the stage play The Return of Sherlock Holmes (written by his
nephew JE Harold-Terry) which received its London premiere
at the Princes Theatre, Shaftesbury Avenue, on 9 October.