Sherlock Holmes

Roy Redgrave – Wrote and starred in The Great Detective, first
performed at Sadler’s Wells on 13 January 1902.
Roger Rees – Urbane leading man who starred in a BBC
radio adaptation of The Hound of the Baskervilles in May 1988. He
was replaced by Clive Merrison for a mammoth run of the
entire series.
Robert Rendel – British actor who made a career out of
playing toffs in the 1930s, appeared in Gainsborough Picture’s
The Hound of the Baskervilles in 1932, with additional dialogue by
mystery writer Edgar Wallace.
Henry Renouf – Appeared on the UK tour of William
Gillette’s play Sherlock Holmes from August 1905.
Ian Richardson – Dour Scottish actor whose career playing
figures of authority set him up perfectly to play Holmes in TV
adaptations of The Sign of Four and The Hound of the Baskervilles,
both made in England in 1983 by Sy Weintraub’s Mapleton Films
company. Richardson appeared as Dr Joseph Bell, the inspiration
for Sherlock Holmes, in the series Murder Rooms (2000). Bell
plays Holmes to Conan Doyle’s Dr Watson, and their cases
involve other literary creations. For example, Professor
Challenger is in an episode scripted by Stephen Gallagher.