The best Sherlock Holmes

[T & P]

If my future self had visited me circa 2001 and told me one day I would think Dudley from Harry Potter would make a fine Sherlock Holmes, I would have told myself to do one. But after seeing his breathtaking performance in The Pale Blue Eye, I would love to see Harry Melling taking up the part.

 

[Storm Fox]

I thought Jonny Lee Miller in Elementary was a pretty good take, and a far better way of making Sherlock Holmes modern than the god awful Sherlock show with Dr Strange Benedict Cumberbatch

Jeremy Brett is still the best though. Such a pity he was never able to do all the stories.

Before I watched Elementary, I heard it was a knock-off of BBC's Sherlock. Once I started watching it, it clearly wasn't and far superior.

 

[krtek a houby]

Sherlock first season was good but rapidly disappeared up itself. Cumberbatch is a good actor - just not a good enough Holmes.

 

[Santino]

Elementary had a really good first series and then just coasted on the good will from that but was mostly very poor.

 

[liquidindian]

Elementary is top-tier nonsense. Fluff, but excellent fluff.

 

[krtek a houby]

Honorable mentions to Nicol Williamson

Christopher Plummer

and John Neville

 

[surreybrowncap]

I've always enjoyed Billy Wilder's directed take on the character..
Holmes played by Robert Stephens and Watson Colin Blakely.
Christopher Lee as Mycroft.
Received mixed reviews at the time...

 

[Sweet FA]

Billy Childish

 

[hash tag]

There are a series of Holmes takes on BBC sounds which I'm enjoying. One of the players is Carleton Hobbs

Sherlock Holmes - Sherlock Holmes with Carleton Hobbs - Series 7 - 1. The Dancing Men - BBC Sounds

The final series of dramatisations starring Carleton Hobbs and Norman Shelley.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[DaveCinzano]

Shocked - shocked, I say - that no one has nominated Nicholas Rowe yet.

 

[krtek a houby]

Shocked - shocked, I say - that no one has nominated Nicholas Rowe yet.

That's such a strange film. Like it, though.

 

[Pickman's model]

I've gone for jeremny brett as he featured in productions true to the stories as written whereas rathbone played Holmes in a range of truly peculiar films

 

[krtek a houby]

I've gone for jeremny brett as he featured in productions true to the stories as written whereas rathbone played Holmes in a range of truly peculiar films

Talking about peculiar, have you read Neil Gaiman's short story, A Study in Emerald?

Without giving too much away, there's a strong Lovecraft element to it.