Moriarty also has a marked preference for organising " accidents ".

Higgins also portrayed Holmes in the 1993 TV film Sherlock Holmes Returns, making him one of the only two actors to portray both Holmes and Moriarty on film, Richard Roxburgh being the other.

* In the 2003 film The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, an adaptation of the graphic novel by Alan Moore, Richard Roxburgh portrays the main villain named the Fantom, whose true identity was eventually revealed to be Professor James Moriarty, who also posed as the League's recruiter M ; with a blackmailed Dorian Gray as his agent, Moriarty acquired samples from the League with the intention of duplicating their powers for his own goals.

Roxburgh also portrayed Holmes in the 2002 TV adaptation of The Hound of the Baskervilles, making him one of the only two actors to portray both Holmes and Moriarty on film, Anthony Higgins being the other.

Basil also describes Ratigan as " The Napoleon of Crime ", the same designation Holmes gave Moriarty in " The Final Problem.

* A version of the character also appeared in the anime series Sherlock Hound, Moriarty being the villain behind every crime in the series.

* Moriarty also appears in two episodes of the animated series BraveStarr.

It is also easy to see a link between the names when placed in close proximity-Macavity / Moriarty.

" The Professor " is not really Professor James Moriarty, but is really Professor Moriarty's younger brother who is also named James, who is just as brilliant as his older brother and who has taken over his brother's identity after impersonating, disgracing and then murdering the elder brother.

* Kim Newman has also written a series of short stories about Moriarty, narrated Watson-style by Colonel Moran, in which Moriarty interacts with many of his fictional contemporaries.

British author and literary critic David Langford has also noted that the relationship between Zeck and Wolfe compares to that of Moriarty and Sherlock Holmes.

This is also a reference to the endless fight of Holmes and Moriarty, and probably remarks the way GLaDOS is like a Dr. Watson to Chell when the first is a potato because is helping Chell.

Moriarty also serves as a fireworks Mecca for the Albuquerque metropolitan area with two year around stores as well as at least two other large tents which set up for the sixteen day selling period allowed by New Mexico State Law from June 20 to July 6.

Pulaski is also indirectly referenced in " Ship in a Bottle " as the hostage whom Professor Moriarty had captured in his previous adventure.

The film also featured Michael Moriarty, Carrie Snodgress, Christopher Penn, Richard Dysart, and Richard Kiel.

Ed Flanders ( once considered for the role of Karras in The Exorcist ) was also cast ; Michael Moriarty was set to play Captain Billy Cutshaw but dropped out of the production ( he was replaced by Scott Wilson, who was originally cast in a different role ).

Although the name Moriarty occurred in many references, from time to time the surname was also officially recorded as Moriarty, O ' Moriarty, Murtagh, Murtag, McMoriarty, O ' Murtagh, and these changes in spelling frequently occurred, even between father and son.

The story also provides an explanation as to the antagonism between Sherlock Holmes and Professor Moriarty.

But Irving turned it down and Tree demanded that Doyle readapt Holmes to his peculiar acting profile ; he also wanted to play both Holmes and Professor Moriarty.

As well as containing material that was excised from the original draft due to its explicit nature, the scroll version also uses the real names of the protagonists, so Dean Moriarty becomes Neal Cassady and Carlo Marx becomes Allen Ginsberg etc.

The Moriarty Tribunal has sat since 1997 and has investigated the granting of a mobile phone license to Esat Telecom by Michael Lowry when he was Fine Gael Minister for Transport, Energy and Communications in the Rainbow Coalition of the mid-1990s.

Although Moriarty appeared in only two of the 60 Sherlock Holmes tales by Conan Doyle, Holmes ' attitude to him has gained him the popular impression of being Holmes ' arch-nemesis – as " The Final Problem " clearly states: " Holmes spent months in a private war against Moriarty's criminal operations " – and he has been frequently used in later stories by other authors, parodies, and in other media.

In " The Final Problem ", Watson tells Holmes he has never heard of Moriarty, while in The Valley of Fear, set earlier on, Watson already knows of him as " the famous scientific criminal ".

In Kim Newman's derivative work Professor Moriarty: The Hound of the D ' ubervilles, Newman takes the confusion and runs with it to humorous effect, stating that Professor James Moriarty has two brothers, Colonel James Moriarty and Station Master James Moriarty.

In addition to the master criminal Adam Worth, there has been much speculation among astronomers and Sherlock Holmes enthusiasts that Doyle based his fictional character Moriarty on the American astronomer Simon Newcomb.

According to this hypothesis, Doyle as a private joke has Inspector MacDonald describe Moriarty: " He'd have made a grand meenister with his thin face and grey hair and his solemn-like way of talking.

( Orson Welles has played both Holmes and Moriarty on radio programs.

During the film he attempts to provoke a war using advanced weaponry that he has developed ( Moriarty was perpetrating a similar scheme as the Fantom in The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen ).

Moriarty now has supernatural powers and employs the Hound of the Baskervilles as his henchman.

* In a 2006 comic book story featuring Lee Falk's The Phantom, the 19th Phantom has to fight Professor Moriarty.

* Michael Kurland has written a series of novels in which Moriarty is the hero: His organisation of crime is the method by which he raises the money required for his experimental physics apparatus.

* John Gardner has written three novel featuring the arch-villain: The Return of Moriarty, in which the Professor, like Holmes, is shown to have survived the meeting at the Reichenbach, The Revenge of Moriarty and Moriarty ( released posthumously in 2008 after the author's death in 2007 ).

In this Moriarty is a vampire and is no longer interested in criminal pursuits as he now has an eternal life which he can dedicate to intellectual contemplation.

Later, when Greenberg was pursuing Babe Ruth's single-season home run record, Moriarty kept the final game of the season going until darkness made it impossible to continue.

Watson's insight is verified by the mysterious link between Holmes and his arch-opponent, Dr. Moriarty.

The first series of Sherlock Holmes adventures ends with Holmes and Moriarty grappling together on the edge of a cliff.

Linked to Holmes even in death, Moriarty represents the alter-ego of the great detective, the image of what our hero might have become were he not a public servant.

The characters of Sherlock Holmes and Moriarty had in reality been a set of prototype programs written for the Analytical Engine.

An early famous example in popular culture is the return of Sherlock Holmes: writer Arthur Conan Doyle killed off the popular character in an encounter with his foe Professor Moriarty, only to bring Holmes back, due in large part to audience response.

When Sir Arthur Conan Doyle killed off his most-beloved character Sherlock Holmes by plunging him to his death over the Reichenbach Falls with his arch nemesis Professor Moriarty, the public's demand for Holmes was so great that Doyle was compelled to bring him back to life in a subsequent story, where he details that Holmes had merely faked his death.

* May 4 – Professor James Moriarty, fictional criminal mastermind of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes short story The Final Problem ( b. unknown )

Having eventually retrieved the cavorite, the League delivers it into the hands of their employer — none other than Professor Moriarty ( arch nemesis of Sherlock Holmes ), who plans to use it in an airship of his own, with which he will bomb his adversary's Limehouse lair flat, taking large parts of London and the League itself with it.

Mycroft Holmes replaces Moriarty as the League's employer, and the extraordinary individuals are tasked to remain in service to the Crown, awaiting England's call.

Professor James Moriarty is the archenemy of Sherlock Holmes, a fictional detective created by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

Moriarty is a criminal mastermind whom Holmes describes as the " Napoleon of crime ".

The character of Moriarty as Holmes's greatest enemy was introduced primarily as a narrative device to enable Conan Doyle to kill off Sherlock Holmes, and only featured directly in two of the Sherlock Holmes stories.

The criminal mastermind follows, and the pursuit ends on top of the Reichenbach Falls, during which both Holmes and Moriarty apparently fall to their deaths while locked in mortal combat.

Holmes, by his own account, was originally led to Moriarty by the suggestion that many of the crimes he perceived were not the spontaneous work of random criminals but the machinations of a vast and subtle criminal ring.

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.

Moriarty does not meet Holmes in this story.

In an episode where Moriarty is interviewed by a policeman, a painting by Jean-Baptiste Greuze is described as hanging on the wall ; Holmes remarks on another work by the same painter to show it could not have been purchased on a professor's salary.

Holmes mentions Moriarty reminiscently in five other stories: " The Adventure of the Empty House " ( the immediate sequel to " The Final Problem "), " The Adventure of the Norwood Builder ", " The Adventure of the Missing Three-Quarter ", " The Adventure of the Illustrious Client ", and " His Last Bow ".

More obliquely, a 1908 mystery by Doyle that was named " The Lost Special " features a criminal genius who could be Moriarty and a detective who could be Holmes, although neither is mentioned by name.

Viktor Yevgrafov as Professor Moriarty in Igor Maslennikov's The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson | TV series.