Huston plays a prison warden who wants to reform the conditions of the inmates and Holmes plays a wrongly convicted prisoner who learns about the " code " of not ratting on other inmates.

His translation work has also led him to appear as a character in three plays dealing with the King James Bible, Howard Brenton's Anne Boleyn ( 2010 ), Jonathan Holmes ' Into Thy Hands ( 2011 ) and David Edgar's Written on the Heart ( 2011 ).

* The $ 500 Reward ( 1911, actor and director, Early Sherlock Holmes film, Sennett plays Sherlock.

In " The London Burial Grounds " by Mrs Basil Holmes ( 1897 ), the author claims that the Holy Priory Church, next to St Katherine Cree on Leadenhall Street, London was the location of miracle plays from the tenth to the sixteenth century.

He appeared in such plays as Vincent, Fiddler on the Roof, The Man in the Glass Booth, Oliver !, Six Rms Riv Vu, Full Circle, Camelot, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, The King and I, Caligula, The Four Poster, Twelfth Night, Sherlock Holmes, Equus and My Fair Lady.

Moriarty plays a direct role in only one other of Doyle's Holmes stories, The Valley of Fear, which was set before " The Final Problem " but published afterwards.

* In Young Sherlock Holmes, Anthony Higgins plays Holmes ' schoolmaster, Rathe, who turns out to be an evil mastermind.

* Jared Harris plays the role in Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows as the primary antagonist of the film.

* In Michael P. Hodel and Sean M. Wright's novel Enter the Lion: A Posthumous Memoir of Mycroft Holmes, Jerrold Moriarty, the father of the Professor and his brothers, is Mycroft Holmes ' immediate superior in the Foreign Office and plays an important part in a plot by former Confederate officers to involve the British government in a scheme to overthrow the United States government.

Gillingham plays Sherlock Holmes to his younger counterpart's Doctor Watson ; they progress almost playfully through the novel while the clues mount up and the theories abound.

Similar sketches also lampoon Rogers Sportsnet's and The Score's news programmes ( Sportsnetnews and Score Tonight ), where Holmes and Ferguson play the roles of the anchors ( Holmes plays either Jody Vance or Martine Gaillard, while it is unclear which sportscaster Ferguson is playing ).

* Fantômas has appeared in an unauthorized fashion in two French stage plays: Nick Carter vs. Fantômas ( 1910 ) by Alexandre Bisson and Guillaume Livet ( translated, ISBN 978-1-934543-05-4 ) and Sherlock Holmes vs. Fantômas ( La Mort d ' Herlock Sholmes, ou Bandits en Habits Noirs, 1914 ) by Pierre de Wattyne and Yorril Walter ( translated, ISBN 978-1-934543-67-2 ).

Hardwick also wrote many books and plays based around the Sherlock Holmes novels.

* He plays a central role as the victim of an assassination attempt in the PC game The Lost Files of Sherlock Holmes: The case of the Rose Tattoo.

The Painful Predicament of Sherlock Holmes – the first of a handful of one-act plays he would write – was written for two benefits, and was performed for the first time at the Joseph Jefferson Holland Benefit at the Metropolitan Opera House on March 24.

Big Finish has released audio dramas based upon other works as well, including Sherlock Holmes, Dark Shadows, Stargate, classic dramas, and also a line of works featuring newly written plays.

Aldgate tube station plays an important role in the Sherlock Holmes story The Adventure of the Bruce-Partington Plans ( published in the anthology His Last Bow ).

Soon after, the sceptical Cantlemere shows up at Holmes's rooms, and Holmes plays a practical joke on him by slipping the Mazarin Stone into his overcoat pocket, humorously suggesting that Cantlemere is the fence.

Holmes is the hero, but Challenger plays a major part.

* Challenger, alongside Nikola Tesla, plays a major role in two of Ralph Vaughan's four Sherlock Holmes / H.

Leno appeared at Drury Lane as Sister Anne in Bluebeard, a character described by Wood as " a sprightly, somewhat below middle aged person who was of a coming on disposition and who had not yet abandoned hope " The Times drama critic noted: " It is a quite peculiar and original Sister Anne, who dances breakdowns and sings strange ballads to a still stranger harp and plays ping-pong with a frying-pan and potatoes and burlesques Sherlock Holmes and wears the oddest of garments and dresses her hair like Miss Morleena Kenwigs, and speaks in a piping voice – in short it is none other than Dan Leno whom we all know ".

Using his considerable skill for disguise, Holmes traced her movements and learned much of her private life, notably that she is about to be married.

When Republicans took over the state House in 1995, Holmes gained considerable power as the co-chairman of the House Appropriations Committee from 1995-98.

A contemporary of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Maurice Leblanc ( 1864 – 1941 ) was the creator of the character of gentleman thief Arsène Lupin who, in Francophone countries, has enjoyed a popularity as long-lasting and considerable as Sherlock Holmes in the English-speaking world.

Like Sherlock Holmes, Dupin uses his considerable deductive prowess and observation to solve crimes.

" The American actor William Gillette had achieved considerable success portraying the famous detective in the stageplay Sherlock Holmes, which was based on an earlier Conan Doyle script.

Because of those circumstances, many experts predicted that this fight would be like the fight between Joe Louis and Rocky Marciano or the one between Larry Holmes and Muhammad Ali: A former great who had been out of the ring for a considerable amount of time taking on an opponent who was, on the other hand, very good, but not to be considered as good as the retired champion ever was, therefore, many predicted Trinidad's doom at the hands of a man like Mayorga, who had won a world title and proven himself against some of the best boxers available while Trinidad was away from boxing.

For much of the previous century the borough was " managed " for the government by the Holmes family, meaning that ministers could generally secure the election of their favoured candidates, but often only at the expense of considerable " gratuities " to the voters – in 1754, this apparently amounted to a payment of £ 600 for each candidate.

Among these were Universal's The Ghost of Frankenstein ( 1942 ) and Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon ( 1943 ) that received critical acclaim and were considerable box office successes.

:" A believer in aristocracy, Miss Holmes felt that people could be classed as betters or inferiors, and she often spoke of the mobocracy ... she accepted slavery without question ... she was a woman of considerable intellect and curiosity ... she read widely … her intellectual bent drew her to the teaching profession … she remained a teacher most of her life.

He repeated his performance of Billy the pageboy for two subsequent tours, and was so successful that he was called to London to play the role alongside William Gillette, the original Holmes.

It has also been announced that DiCaprio will star in the film, playing the role of serial killer H. H. Holmes.

His most famous role, however, was heroic — that of Sherlock Holmes in fourteen Hollywood films made between 1939 and 1946 and in a radio series.

The first two stories were filmed in 1985, with Jeremy Brett as Holmes, and David Burke as Watson, and the third in 1986 with Edward Hardwicke taking over the role of Watson.

After requesting permission to use the name from his old director friend, Bob Chinn, Holmes reprised the detective role for the 1986 Penguin Production: The Return of Johnny Wadd.

* A teenage Holmes played the role of Eddie Haskell in the TV series Leave It to Beaver.

Among his most memorable roles were three that he played in 1950: a singing one as Buffalo Bill in the film version of Annie Get Your Gun, the double-crossing lawyer and sugar-daddy to Marilyn Monroe in John Huston's The Asphalt Jungle, and his Oscar-nominated role as Oliver Wendell Holmes in The Magnificent Yankee ( re-creating his stage role ), as well as his portrayal of the title role in Joseph L. Mankiewicz's film Julius Caesar in 1953 ( adapted from Shakespeare's play ).

Calhern created the role of Oliver Wendell Holmes in the play's original Broadway production, and the part was his only starring role in a sound film.

From October 2001 to January 2002, several guest celebrities played the Narrator role normally performed by Dick Cavett ( Kate Clinton took over for a week while Cavett was on vacation ), including Gilbert Gottfried, Sally Jesse Raphael, Robin Leach, magicians Penn & Teller, New York Post columnist Cindy Adams, MTV personality Dave Holmes, and talk show host Jerry Springer.

Le Mesurier undertook a number of roles on television in 1951, including in six episodes of the BBC children's programme Whirligig ; the role of Doctor Forrest in The Railway Children ; the role of Sir Alexander Blythe in children's comedy-thriller Show Me a Spy ; the part of the blackmailer Eduardo Lucas in Sherlock Holmes: The Second Stain, opposite Alan Wheatley's Holmes ; and Joseph in the nativity play A Time to be Born.

The first role Downey accepted after Iron Man was the title character in Guy Ritchie's Sherlock Holmes.

David Burke suggested Hardwicke as his successor in the role of Doctor Watson in the Granada Television adaptations of the Sherlock Holmes stories in The Return of Sherlock Holmes series, alongside Jeremy Brett.

Hardwicke played the role for eight years from 1986 to 1994 as a very calm and attentive Watson, somewhat less tolerant of Holmes ' more outlandish moods, and became permanently associated with it, also playing it on the West End stage with Brett in The Secret of Sherlock Holmes in 1989.

The series exaggerated Bell's criminal investigations as well as the degree to which Holmes was based on Bell ( played by Ian Richardson ), and positioned Doyle in the role of a Dr. Watson to Bell's Holmes.