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Jeremy Brett
Brett in Hamlet (1960)
Born
Peter Jeremy William Huggins

(1933-11-03)3 November 1933[1][2]
Berkswell, Warwickshire, England
Died12 September 1995(1995-09-12) (aged 61)
Clapham, London, England
EducationEton College
Alma materCentral School of Speech and Drama
Years active1954–1995
Spouses
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(m. 1958; div. 1962)​
Joan Wilson
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(m. 1976; died 1985)​
Partner(s)Gary Bond (1969–1976)[3][4]
Paul Shenar (late 1970s)[5]
Children3[6]

Peter Jeremy William Huggins (3 November 1933 – 12 September 1995), known professionally as Jeremy Brett, was an English actor. He played fictional detective Sherlock Holmes in four Granada TV series from 1984 to 1994 in all 41 episodes. His career spanned from stage, to television and film, to Shakespeare and musical theatre. He also played the smitten Freddy Eynsford-Hill in the 1964 Warner Bros. production of My Fair Lady.

Early life

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Jeremy Brett was born Peter Jeremy William Huggins at Berkswell Grange in Berkswell, then in Warwickshire. His birthdate was actually 3 November 1933,[1] but it has also been stated as December 1933[7] or 1935, according to many sources.[8] He was the son of Lieutenant Colonel Henry William Huggins, DSO, MC, DL (1891–1965), an Army officer, and Elizabeth Edith Cadbury (née Butler; 1903–1959), of the confectionery dynasty.[9][10] He had three older brothers: John Henry (1924–1999), Michael William (1927–2000) and Patrick William (1929–2017). The actor Martin Clunes is his nephew[11] (or, according to other sources, either his cousin or 2nd cousin, once removed).[12][13][14] Educated at Eton College, he claimed to have been an "academic disaster", attributing his learning difficulties to dyslexia. Brett belonged to the Woodmen of Arden, an archery club established in 1785. His father and brothers were also members.

Although

However, while at Eton, he excelled at singing and was a member of the college choir. He was trained by Elsie Fogerty at the Central School of Speech and Drama, then based at the Royal Albert Hall[15][16] in London, graduating in 1954, but his father had demanded that he change his name for the sake of family honour, so he took his stage name from the label of his first suit, "Brett & Co."[17]

In 1959, while Brett was playing Hamlet, his mother was killed in a car crash in the Welsh mountains. This had a tremendous effect on Brett. Later in life, he spoke about the accident, its impact on him and consequently his performance; "my mother had been killed savagely in a car accident in 1959, and I was very angry about that, because my son, when she was killed, was only three months old. There was anger—it was interesting ... there was anger in me. And I think that came through. I felt cheated—I felt my mother had been cheated—the rage of that came through." He could not believe the circumstances and channelled his anger into his performance.[18]

Career

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Stage and screen

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Brett in 1953

Brett made his professional acting debut in rep at the Library Theatre in Manchester in 1954, and his London stage debut with the Old Vic company in Troilus and Cressida in 1956.[19] He made his first appearance in a major film with War and Peace (1956), which starred Audrey Hepburn.[20]

Also in 1956, he appeared on Broadway as the Duke of Aumerle in Richard II.[21] In 1959, Brett had a singing role as the romantic lead of Archie Forsyth in the West End musical Marigold. Also in 1959, he played the part of Hamlet; however, on reflection, in a BBC2 television documentary Playing the Dane, Brett later said that "I don't think I was very good as Hamlet. I think I was too young. I was too young intellectually. I was too young philosophically. I was Byronic. I was very handsome. I had qualities, but I'd much rather see other people's [version]. I wasn't convinced by me". The respected theatre critic Harold Hobson wrote of Brett's portrayal that "the incestuous bed was the centre of his performance". He played many classical roles on stage, including about a dozen Shakespearean parts at the Old Vic, in New York and four while Brett was a member of the National Theatre Company from 1967 to 1970.[22]

From the early 1960s, Brett was often on British television. He starred in several serials, including as d'Artagnan in an adaptation of The Three Musketeers (1966). His highest profile film appearance was as Freddy Eynsford-Hill in My Fair Lady (1964), again with Audrey Hepburn. Although Brett sang well, as he later demonstrated when he played Danilo in a BBC Television broadcast of The Merry Widow (Christmas Day 1968), his singing in My Fair Lady was dubbed by Bill Shirley. Around this time, Brett was considered to replace Sean Connery as James Bond (007), but turned the part down, feeling that playing 007 would harm his career. George Lazenby was subsequently cast instead.[23]

Some of his appearances were in classical comedic roles, such as Captain Absolute in a television version of The Rivals (1970) and Bassanio in William Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice (1970) in a National Theatre Company production directed by Jonathan Miller, which also featured Laurence Olivier (as Shylock) and Joan Plowright (as Portia). This was adapted for television in 1973 with the same three leads. Brett joked that, as an actor, he was rarely allowed into the 20th century and never into the present day. He did, though, appear in a few contemporary guest roles, in a couple of the ITC series such as The Baron (1967) and The Champions (1969), wherein he was cast as swarthy, smooth villains. Brett also appeared in The Incredible Hulk ("Of Guilt, Models and Murder", 1977) and starred as Maxim in the 1979 adaptation of Daphne du Maurier's Rebecca opposite Joanna David.

Jeremy Brett's final, posthumous film appearance was an uncredited bit part as the artist's father in Moll Flanders, a 1996 Hollywood feature film starring Robin Wright Penn in the title role. The film (not to be confused with the 1996 ITV adaptation starring Alex Kingston) was released nearly a year after Brett's death.[20]

Sherlock Holmes

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Brett as Sherlock Holmes

Although Brett appeared in many different roles during his 40-year career, he is best remembered for his performance as Sherlock Holmes in The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, a series of Granada Television films made between 1984 and 1994. These were adapted by John Hawkesworth and other writers from the original stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Even though he reportedly feared being typecast, Brett appeared in all 41 episodes of the Granada series, plus two television films alongside David Burke and, latterly, Edward Hardwicke as Doctor Watson. Jeremy Brett and Edward Hardwicke appeared on stage in 1988 and 1989 in The Secret of Sherlock Holmes directed by Patrick Garland.

After taking on the demanding role ("Holmes is the hardest part I have ever played—harder than Hamlet or Macbeth"[24]) Brett made few other acting appearances, and he is now widely considered to be the definitive Holmes of his era, just as Basil Rathbone was at the beginning of the 1940s and William Gillette during the first third of the 20th century. Brett had previously played Doctor Watson on stage opposite Charlton Heston as Holmes in the 1980 Los Angeles production of The Crucifer of Blood, making him one of only a small number of actors to play both Holmes and Watson professionally.[25][fn 1]

Brett was approached in February 1982 by Granada Television to play Holmes. The idea was to make a totally authentic and faithful adaptation of the character's best cases. Eventually Brett accepted the role; he wanted to be the best Sherlock Holmes the world had ever seen.[34] He conducted extensive research on the great detective and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle himself, and was very attentive to discrepancies between the scripts he had been given and Conan Doyle's original stories.[35] One of Brett's dearest possessions on the set was his 77-page "Baker Street File" on everything from Holmes' mannerisms to his eating and drinking habits. Brett once explained that "some actors are becomers—they try to become their characters. When it works, the actor is like a sponge, squeezing himself dry to remove his own personality, then absorbing the character's like a liquid".[36] Brett was focused on bringing more passion to the role of Holmes. He introduced Holmes's rather eccentric hand gestures and short violent laughter. He would hurl himself on the ground just to look for a footprint, "he would leap over the furniture or jump onto the parapet of a bridge with no regard for his personal safety."[37]

Holmes's obsessive and depressive personality fascinated and frightened Brett. In many ways Holmes's personality resembled the actor's own, with outbursts of passionate energy followed by periods of lethargy. It became difficult for him to let go of Holmes after work. He had always been told that the only way for an actor to stay sane was for him to leave his part behind at the end of the day, but Brett started dreaming about Holmes, and the dreams turned into nightmares.[38] Brett began to refer to Holmes as "You Know Who" or simply "HIM". Terry Manners' 2001 book[39] on Brett in the role provides some of Brett's thoughts:

"Watson describes You Know Who as a mind without a heart, which is hard to play. Hard to become. So what I have done is invent an inner life." Brett invented an imaginary life of Holmes to fill the hollowness of Holmes's "missing heart", his empty emotional life. He imagined: "... what You Know Who's nanny looked like. She was covered in starch. I don't think he saw his mother until he was about eight years old ..." etc.[40]

While the other actors disappeared to the canteen for lunch, Brett would sit alone on the set reading the script, looking at every nuance,[41] reading Holmes in the weekends and on his holidays. Brett stated, "Some actors fear if they play Sherlock Holmes for a very long run the character will steal their soul, leave no corner for the original inhabitant,"[42] but also that, "Holmes has become the dark side of the moon for me. He is moody and solitary and underneath I am really sociable and gregarious. It has all got too dangerous".[24]

A theatrical adaptation, The Secret of Sherlock Holmes, by Brett's friend, playwright Jeremy Paul, ran at Wyndham's Theatre in London's West End with Brett and Edward Hardwicke during 1988 and 1989; the production subsequently toured.[22]

Brett's performance is regarded by many critics to have been their favourite rendition of Sherlock Holmes.[43][44][45]

Awards

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Jeremy Brett received the Légion d'honneur in 1994 for his role of Sherlock Holmes at a celebration marking ten years since the series aired. He received it in Manchester where the series was filmed.[46]

Personal life

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On 24 May 1958, Brett married the actress Anna Massey (daughter of actor Raymond Massey). Their son, David Huggins, born in 1959, is a British cartoonist, illustrator, and novelist.[47] Brett and Massey divorced on 22 November 1962 after she claimed that he had left her for a man.[48][49] In 1976, Brett married Joan Sullivan Wilson, who died of cancer in July 1985.[50] Brett was in a romantic relationship with the actor Gary Bond, who died exactly one month after Brett.[51] In the late 1970s, Brett was involved with Paul Shenar. Brett never disclosed his sexuality.[52]

In the latter part of 1986, Brett exhibited wild mood swings that alarmed his family and friends, who persuaded him to seek diagnosis and treatment for manic depression, also known as bipolar disorder.[53] Brett was prescribed lithium tablets to fight this condition. He suspected that he would never be cured, and would have to live with his malady, look for the signs of his disorder, and then deal with it.[54] He wanted to return to work, and to play Holmes again.

The first episode to be produced after his discharge was a two-hour adaptation of The Sign of Four in 1987. From then on, the changes in Brett's appearance and behaviour slowly became more noticeable as the series developed. One of the side effects of the lithium tablets was fluid retention; Brett was putting on weight and retaining water. The drugs were also slowing him down.[55] According to Edward Hardwicke, Brett smoked up to 60 cigarettes a day, which "didn't help his health."[56] He also had heart troubles. His heart was twice the normal size;[57] he had difficulties breathing and needed an oxygen mask on the set. "But, darlings, the show must go on", was his only comment.[58]

During the final decade of his life, Brett was treated in hospital several times for his mental illness, and his health and appearance visibly deteriorated by the time he completed the later episodes of the Sherlock Holmes series. At one point, during the final series, Brett collapsed on set.[59] During his last years, he discussed the illness candidly, encouraging people to recognise its symptoms and seek help.[citation needed]

Death

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Plaque on a memorial bench for Brett on Clapham Common.

Brett died on 12 September 1995 at his home in Clapham, London, from heart failure. His heart valves had been scarred by rheumatic fever contracted as a child, and on top of this he had been a heavy smoker throughout his life.[57] His body was cremated.

One of his elder brothers, John, who was a minister, spoke at his youngest brother's memorial service on 29 November 1995.

Mel Gussow wrote in an obituary for The New York Times, "Mr. Brett was regarded as the quintessential Holmes: breathtakingly analytical, given to outrageous disguises and the blackest moods and relentless in his enthusiasm for solving the most intricate crimes."[60]

A memorial tree to the actor was planted on Clapham Common – near where Brett had lived locally for many years prior to his death – on 30 March 2007.[61]

Work

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Stage

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Year Name Role Place
1956 King Richard II Duke of Aumerle   Winter Garden Theatre
1956 Macbeth Malcolm   Winter Garden Theatre
1956 Romeo and Juliet Paris   Winter Garden Theatre
1957 Troilus and Cressida Troilus   Winter Garden Theatre
1960 Johnny the Priest Rev. Highfield Princes Theatre
1961 Hamlet Hamlet Oxford Playhouse/Royal Strand Theatre
1963 The Workhouse Donkey Maurice Sweetman Chichester Festival Theatre
1964 The Deputy Father Riccardo Fontana, S.J.   Brooks Atkinson Theatre
1965 Much Ado About Nothing Claudio The Old Vic
1967 As You Like It Orlando   Royal National Theatre
1968 Tartuffe Valere The Old Vic
1968 Edward II Kent The Old Vic
1968 Love's Labour's Lost Berowne The Old Vic
1969 MacRune's Guevara Che Guevara Jeanetta Cochrane Theatre
1970 Hedda Gabler George Tesman Cambridge Theatre
1970 The Merchant of Venice Bassanio The Old Vic
1971 A Voyage Around My Father Son Haymarket Theatre
1973 Design for Living Otto Phoenix Theatre
1978 Dracula Count Dracula various; Broadway production tour
1980 The Crucifer of Blood Dr. Watson   Ahmanson Theatre
1985 Aren't We All? Hon. William Tatham   Brooks Atkinson Theatre
1988 The Secret of Sherlock Holmes Sherlock Holmes   Wyndham's Theatre

Film

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Year Title Role Notes
1954 Svengali Pierre Uncredited
1956 War and Peace Nikolai Rostov
1962 The Wild and the Willing Andrew Gilby
1963 The Very Edge Mullen - The Intruder
1963 Girl in the Headlines Jordan Barker
1964 My Fair Lady Freddy Eynsford-Hill
1964 Act of Reprisal Harvey Freeman
1971 Nicholas and Alexandra Uncredited
1978 The Medusa Touch Edward Parrish
1981 The Secret of Seagull Island David Malcolm
1995 Mad Dogs and Englishmen Tony Vernon-Smith
1996 Moll Flanders Artist's Father Posthumous release

Television films

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Year Name Role Notes
1957 Meet me by Moonlight Roderick
1961 The Picture of Dorian Gray Dorian Gray
1962 The Ghost Sonata The Student
1962 Dinner with the Family Jacques
1966 Chopin and George Sand - The Creative Years Chopin
1968 The Merry Widow Count Danilo Danilovitch
1969 An Ideal Husband Viscount Goring
1970 The Rivals Captain Jack Absolute
1973 The Merchant of Venice Bassanio
1974 Affairs of the Heart Captain Yule
1974 Jennie: Lady Randolph Churchill Count Karel Kinsky 2 episodes
1974 Haunted: The Ferryman Sheridan Owen
1975 The Prodigal Daughter Father Daley
1975 Love's Labour's Lost Berowne
1975 The School for Scandal Joseph Surface
1976 The Picture of Dorian Gray Basil Hallward
1979 Rebecca Maximillian "Maxim" de Winter
1981 Madame X Dr. Terrence Keith
1981 Macbeth Macbeth
1981 The Good Soldier Edward Ashburnham
1982 The Barretts of Wimpole Street Robert Browning
1984 Morte d'Arthur King Arthur
1985 Florence Nightingale William Nightingale
1985 Deceptions Bryan Foxworth
1987 The Sign of Four Sherlock Holmes
1988 The Hound of the Baskervilles Sherlock Holmes

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Sherlock Holmes television series
  • 1984: The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
A Scandal in Bohemia
The Dancing Men
The Naval Treaty
The Solitary Cyclist
The Crooked Man
The Speckled Band
The Blue Carbuncle
  • 1985: The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
The Copper Beeches
The Greek Interpreter
The Norwood Builder
The Resident Patient
The Red Headed League
The Final Problem
  • 1986: The Return of Sherlock Holmes
The Empty House
The Priory School
The Second Stain
The Musgrave Ritual
The Abbey Grange
The Man with the Twisted Lip
The Six Napoleons
  • 1988: The Return of Sherlock Holmes
The Devil's Foot
Silver Blaze
Wisteria Lodge
The Bruce Partington Plans
  • 1987—1988: Masterpiece Mystery
The Return of Sherlock Holmes: The Hound of the Baskervilles
The Return of Sherlock Holmes: The Sign of Four
  • 1992: ITV Telethon [Sherlock Holmes]
  • 1991—1993: The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes
1991: The Disappearance of Lady Frances Carfax
1991: The Problem of Thor Bridge
1991: The Adventure of Shoscombe Old Place
1991: The Boscombe Valley Mystery
1991: The Illustrious Client
1991: The Adventure of the Creeping Man
1992: The Master Blackmailer
1993: The Last Vampyre
1993: The Eligible Bachelor
  • 1994: The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes
The Three Gables
The Dying Detective
The Golden Pince-Nez
The Red Circle
The Mazarin Stone
The Cardboard Box
Other television series
Romeo and Juliet
  • 1960: Saturday Playhouse [Nigel Lorraine]
The Guinea Pig
  • 1961: Beauty and the Beast [The Prince]
2 episodes
A Kind of Strength
  • 1962: The Bacchae [Dionysus]
  • 1960—1963: ITV Play of the Week
1960: Tess [Angel Clare]
1962: The Typewriter [Pascal / Maxime]
1963: Three Roads to Rome [Tonino]
Close Season
The Lost Stradivarius
  • 1966—1967: The Three Musketeers [D'Artagnan]
1966: Branded
1966: At Night All Cats Are Grey
1967: The Cardina
1967: Assassin
1967: Walk to the Scaffold
The Seven Eyes of Night [Jeff Walker]
1961: The Picture of Dorian Gray [Dorian Gray]
1964: Something to Declare [Plinio Ceccho]
1967: Quite an Ordinary Knife [Gino]
  • 1967: Kenilworth [Edmund Tressilian]
The Sparrow's Lure
The Black Arts
The Tide Turns
The Wrath of Lions
1966: The Queen & the Welshman [Villiers]
1967: The Magicians: The Incantation of Casanova [Giacomo Casanova]
  • 1968: For Amusement Only [Henry]
Time for the Funny Walk
Desert Journey
With a Little Help from My Friends
  • 1973: Country Matters [Captain Blaine]
An Aspidistra in Babylon
4 episodes
Recovery
Triumph and Tragedy
  • 1974: Affairs of the Heart [Captain Yule]
  • 1974: The Wide World of Mystery [Peter Tower]
One Deadly Owner
  • 1975: A Legacy [Eduard Merz]
4 episodes
  • 1975: Ten from the Twenties [Willie Edwardes]
  • 1975: Twiggy - 15 October episode
  • 1976: Piccadilly Circus [Host]
  • 1977: Supernatural [Mr. Nightingale]
  • 1977: Young Dan'l Boone [Langford]
  • 1978: The Incredible Hulk [James Joslin]
  • 1979: Rebecca [Maxim de Winter]
4 episodes
4 episodes
1969: An Ideal Husband [Lord Goring]
1970: The Rivals [Captain Jack Absolute]
1975: The School for Scandal [Joseph Surface]
1975: Love's Labour's Lost [Berowne]
1976: The Picture of Dorian Gray [Basil Hallward]
1982: On Approval [George, Duke of Bristol]

See also

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Footnotes

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  1. ^ Eyles mentions three other actors who played both Holmes and Watson: Reginald Owen (who played Watson in a 1932 film and Holmes in a 1933 film),[26] Howard Marion-Crawford (who played Holmes in a radio production and Watson in a television series), and Carleton Hobbs (who portrayed both roles on the radio).[25] Other actors who played both roles include Patrick Macnee,[27] Edward Woodward,[28][29] Kenneth Rivington,[30][31] H. Lawrence Leyton,[32] and John Bell.[33]

References

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Citations

  1. ^ a b Birth Record on 3 November 1933 for Peter Jeremy William Huggins in the England & Wales, Civil Registration Birth Index, 1916-2005[dubious – discuss]
  2. ^ "Jeremy Brett, an Unnerving Holmes, Is Dead at 59". The New York Times. 14 September 1995. Retrieved 11 November 2017.
  3. ^ Manners, Terry (1997). The Man Who Became Sherlock Holmes: The Tortured Mind of Jeremy Brett. Virgin Books. ISBN 978-1852276164.
  4. ^ Mann, William J. (2005). Edge of Midnight: The Life of John Schlesinger. Random House. p. 92. ISBN 978-0099451884.
  5. ^ "Livres sur Jeremy Brett". jeremy-brett.forumactif.com (in French). Retrieved 13 April 2021.
  6. ^ "Jeremy Brett in St. Louis". 5 September 2020. Retrieved 13 September 2024 – via YouTube.
  7. ^ "Index entry". FreeBMD. ONS. Retrieved 6 July 2011.
  8. ^ "Jeremy Brett biography". Movies & TV Dept. The New York Times. 2012. Archived from the original on 20 October 2012.
  9. ^ Pease, Charles E. G. (19 November 2015). "The Descendants of James Cadbury" (PDF). pennyghael.org.uk. p. 19. Retrieved 5 December 2016.
  10. ^ "Huggins of Berkswell Grange". Burke's Landed Gentry. 1952.
  11. ^ Palmer, Camilla (28 March 2014). "Martin Clunes: My family values". The Guardian.
  12. ^ Gilbert, Gerard (25 February 2015). "Martin Clunes to star as Sherlock creator in Arthur & George". The Independent. Retrieved 5 December 2016.
  13. ^ Nikkah, Roya (18 September 2011). "Martin Clunes tells of boarding school beatings and childhood traumas". The Daily Telegraph. Archived from the original on 12 January 2022. Retrieved 5 December 2016.
  14. ^ Dowell, Ben (16 February 2015). "Conan Doyle Investigates? Martin Clunes wants a full series as the sleuthing Sherlock Holmes creator". Radio Times. Retrieved 5 December 2016.
  15. ^ V&A, Theatre and Performance Special Collections, Elsie Fogerty Archive, THM/324
  16. ^ Angelini, Sergio (1981). "Brett, Jeremy (1933–1995)". Who's Who in the Theatre (17th ed.). Gale Research – via BFI Screenonline.
  17. ^ Morley, Sheridan (27 April 1997). "The curse of being Conan". The Sunday Times. p. 5.
  18. ^ "Jeremy Brett biography". sherlockian-sherlock.com. Retrieved 24 January 2022.
  19. ^ Slide, Anthony (1996). Some Joe You Don't Know: An American Biographical Guide to 100 British Television Personalities. Greenwood Press.
  20. ^ a b "Filmography: Brett, Jeremy". Film & TV Database. British Film Institute. Archived from the original on 6 February 2009. Retrieved 16 August 2012.
  21. ^ "Richard II". Contemporary Theatre, Film, and Television. 15. GALE. 1996.
  22. ^ a b "Jeremy Brett his work: Theatre listing". bafta4jb. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016.
  23. ^ Domeneghetti, Roger (19 October 2015). "James Bond: The Men Who Could've Been 007". Sabotage Times. Archived from the original on 23 April 2018.
  24. ^ a b Manners (2001), p. 212.
  25. ^ a b Eyles, Allen (1986). Sherlock Holmes: A Centenary Celebration. Harper & Row. p. 86. ISBN 0-06-015620-1.
  26. ^ Barnes (2002), p. 39.
  27. ^ Barnes (2002), p. 60.
  28. ^ "Hands of a Murderer (1990)". British Film Institute. Archived from the original on 28 December 2017. Retrieved 2 January 2021.
  29. ^ "USH Volume 4, Section X K -- Actors, Performances, and Recordings: Plays (continued)". University of Minnesota Libraries. Archived from the original on 12 September 2020. Retrieved 31 December 2020.
  30. ^ Anthony, Barry (2012). Chaplin's Music Hall: The Chaplins and their Circle in the Limelight. I. B. Tauris & Co. p. 175. ISBN 9781786733856.
  31. ^ "USH Volume 3, Section X K -- Actors, Performances, and Recordings: Plays". University of Minnesota Libraries. Archived from the original on 22 July 2013. Retrieved 2 January 2021.
  32. ^ Pointer, Michael (1976). The Sherlock Holmes File. Clarkson N. Potter, Inc. pp. 30–31. ISBN 0-517-52560-7.
  33. ^ "Sherlock Holmes: The Mystery of the Mummy". Behind The Voice Actors. Retrieved 2 January 2021.
  34. ^ Manners (2001), p. ?.
  35. ^ Manners (2001), p. 122.
  36. ^ Manners (2001), p. 217.
  37. ^ Cox (1999), p. 22.
  38. ^ Manners (2001), p. 121.
  39. ^ Manners (2001).
  40. ^ Manners (2001), p. 134.
  41. ^ Manners (2001), p. 133.
  42. ^ Manners (2001), p. 216.
  43. ^ Welton, Benjamin (6 February 2014). "Nevermind the Sherlock: Rediscovering the Great Gentleman". The Imaginative Conservative. Retrieved 11 July 2024. So, if you would like a more appropriate representation of the "Great Detective," then the best place to start would be the Conan Doyle short stories and novels themselves. For your viewing pleasure, you'd be best served to discover the Granada Television series, which ran from 1984 until 1994 and starred Jeremy Brett—the single best Sherlock Holmes ever to grace any screen, big or small.
  44. ^ Richards, Andy (18 September 2016). "Did Sherlock Holmes kill Midland actor Jeremy Brett, the man who played him?". Birmingham Mail. Reach PLC. Retrieved 23 May 2017.
  45. ^ Tillerson, Bethany (3 June 2022). "'Sherlock Holmes': 8 Things That Make The 1984 TV Show The Best Adaptation". Collider. Retrieved 11 July 2024.
  46. ^ Société Sherlock Holmes de France (3 February 2019). "La Légion d'honneur pour Jeremy Brett - avril 1994 à Manchester". Retrieved 1 July 2023 – via YouTube.
  47. ^ Hagestadt, Emma (3 November 2001). "David Huggins: Public faces in private places". The Independent. Archived from the original on 10 August 2011. Retrieved 12 April 2010.
  48. ^ Massey, Anna (2006). Telling Some Tales. London: Hutchinson. ISBN 0-09-179645-8.
  49. ^ Davies, David Stuart (2006). Dancing in the Moonlight: Jeremy Brett. London: MDF The BiPolar Organisation.
  50. ^ Manners (2001), p. 144.
  51. ^ Manners (2001), p. 130.
  52. ^ Graham, David (2001). Casting about : a memoir. Lincoln, NE: iUniverse.com. p. 265. ISBN 0-595-17770-0. OCLC 49408486.
  53. ^ Cox (1999), p. 112.
  54. ^ Manners (2001), p. 160.
  55. ^ Manners (2001), p. 204.
  56. ^ Archived at Ghostarchive and the Wayback Machine: "Elementary My Dear Watson: An Interview with Edward Hardwicke (Part 2/2)". 21 January 2010. Retrieved 9 June 2012 – via YouTube.
  57. ^ a b Manners (2001), p. 26.
  58. ^ Manners (2001), p. 207.
  59. ^ Blau, Peter (March 1994). "Mar 94 #1" (PDF). Scuttlebutt. Spermaceti Press. Retrieved 16 September 2020.
  60. ^ Gussow, Mel (14 September 1995). "Jeremy Brett, an Unnerving Holmes, Is Dead at 59". The New York Times. p. B15.
  61. ^ "'Quintessential' Sherlock Holmes Remembered | CCMAC". The Clapham Common Management Advisory Committee (CCMAC). 27 October 2015.

Bibliography

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  • Cox, Michael (1999). A Study in Celluloid: A Producer's Account of Jeremy Brett as Sherlock Holmes. Rupert Books. ISBN 1-902791-04-5.
  • Davies, David Stuart (1996). Bending The Willow: Jeremy Brett As Sherlock Holmes. Chester, England: Calabash Press. ISBN 1899562184
  • Manners, Terry (2001). The Man Who Became Sherlock Holmes – The Tortured Mind of Jeremy Brett. London: Virgin Publishing Ltd. ISBN 0-7535-0536-3. OCLC 59510394.
  • Whittaker, Maureen (2019). Jeremy Brett: Playing a Part. London: MX Publishing. ISBN 978-1-78705-589-6
  • Société Sherlock Holmes de France, 2019. La Légion d'honneur pour Jeremy Brett – avril 1994 à Manchester. available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5WR6Hw3BMnk
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