Jeremy Brett Played Sherlock Holmes In The 1980s . Before Jonny Lee Miller broke the record for most times playing Sherlock Holmes, the record in film was Eille Norwood's, ...

Actor Jeremy Brett as Sherlock Holmes in "The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes," circa 1984. (TV Times via Getty Images) All of Doyle’s stories, save for 19, were adapted.

Jeremy Brett in Sherlock Holmes (1984-1994) Jeremy Brett had actually played Dr Watson in a stage production of The Crucifer of Blood when he took up the role of the world’s number-one ...

Holmes gives audiences an older Sherlock Holmes, played by Sir Ian McKellen. The title detective is 93, retired, and living in Sussex. He struggles to remember details from his last unsolved case ...

"Patience," an ingratiating episodic series on PBS beginning Sunday, follows a neurodivergent clerk played by Ella Maisy ...

But this is the most overt reminder that Sherlock Holmes has long been construed via a single lens, that of his partner Dr. John Watson — who, Holmes explains, is away on a long holiday.