Sherlock Holmes

Tim Pigott-Smith – Starred in The Valley of Fear, adapted by
Roy Apps and broadcast on BBC Radio 4 on 24 May 1986.
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Christopher Plummer – Canadian actor, cousin of Nigel
Bruce, who appeared as Holmes in the 1977 HTV adaptation
of Silver Blaze. A year later he was in Murder by Decree, a Saucy
Jack/Decree film directed by Bob Clark that had Holmes
investigating the Ripper murders (as in A Study in Terror).
Robert Powell – Enigmatic British leading man who
appeared in a BBC radio version of A Study in Scarlet trans-
mitted on Christmas Day 1974. In 1993 he toured with Sherlock
Holmes – The Musical (see Ron Moody).
Tim Preece – Tall, thin supporting actor who starred in the
Perth Repertory Theatre’s production of The Hound of the
Baskervilles in April 1971.
John F Preston – Stage name for dramatist Max Goldberg
who appeared in his own play The Bank of England at the
Shakespeare Theatre, Clapham, from November 1900.
Provincial tours followed.
Ian Price – Featured in the Bristol Old Vic Theatre
Company’s production of The Crucifer of Blood at the Theatre
Royal, Bristol, from 23 November to 17 December 1983.