The faces and voices of Sherlock Holmes

Faces of Sherlock Holmes

William Gillette: 1899 Broadway production and a 1916 motion picture

Alwin Neuss de: Alwin Neuß: 1908, 2 x 1914

Mack Sennett: 11 silent short films 1911-1913

Hugo Flink: 3 shows during 1917

Eille Norwood: Numerous silent films from 1920 to 1923

John Barrymore: 1922 film

Clive Brook: 1929 film and 1932 film

Tod Slaughter: on stage early 1930's

Raymond Massey: 1931 film

Arthur Wontner: 1931 film, 2 x 1932 films, 1935 film, 1937 film

Robert Rendel: 1932 film

Reginald Owen: 1933 film

Hans Albers: 1937 film

Basil Rathbone: 2 x 1939 films, a 1942 film, 3 x 1943 films, 3 x 1944 films, 3 x 1945 films, 2 x 1946 films and a 1953 TV series

Alan Napier: 1949 episode of Your Show Time

John Longden: 1951, 26 min TV episode

Alan Wheatley: 1951 BBC TV series

Ronald Howard: 1954-1955 TV series

Peter Cushing: 1959 film, 1965-1968 TV series and 1984 TV film

Christopher Lee: 1962 film, 1991 TV film and a 1992 TV film

John Neville: 1965 film and a Royal Shakespeare Company stage production

Douglas Wilmer: 1965 TV series, 1975 film

Robert Stephens: 1970 film

George C. Scott: 1971 film

Stewart Granger: 1972 TV film

John Cleese: 1973 TV film and 1977 film

John Wood: 1974-1976 Broadway theatre production

Roger Moore: 1976 TV film

Nicol Williamson: 1976 film

Leonard Nimoy, Royal Shakespeare Company stage production 1976

Christopher Plummer: 1977 film, 1979 film

Peter Cook: 1978 film

Paxton Whitehead: 1978 Broadway production

Algimantas Masiulis: 1979 film

Keith Michell: 1979 London stage production

Vasily Livanov: 1979 TV series, 5 films 1979-1986

  

Geoffrey Whitehead: 1980 TV series

Paul Singleton: Regional theatre 1980, Off Broadway 1982, cable TV, 1982 Off Broadway play 2007, Los Angeles stage 2008

Frank Langella: 1981 TV film

Tom Baker: 1982 mini series

Guy Henry: 1982 TV series

Peter Lawford: 1982 TV series

Ian Richardson: 2 x 1983 TV film

Jeremy Brett: 1984-1994 TV series

Nicholas Rowe: 1985 film

Michael Pennington: 1987 TV film

Ron Moody: 1989 stage production

Edward Woodward: 1990 TV film

Charlton Heston: 1991 TV film

Anthony Higgins: 1993 TV film

Patrick Macnee: 1993 TV film (pic not from the film)

Matt Frewer: 2000 TV film, 2 x 2001 TV film and a 2002 TV film

Joaquim de Almeida: 2001 film

James D'Arcy: 2002 TV

Richard Roxburgh: 2002 TV film

Rupert Everett: 2004 TV film

Jonathan Pryce: 2007 film

Robert Downey, Jr.: 2009 film and 2011 film

Benedict Cumberbatch: 2010 TV Series

Ben Syder: 2010 film

Jonny Lee Miller: 2012 American TV series

Igor Petrenko: 2012 Russian TV Series

No specific date known

David Mitchell and Robert Webb in That Mitchell and Webb Look, 2006-10

  

Alexander Armstrong: The Armstrong and Miller Show, 2007-present

Unfindable face (so far)

Keith Stanley Baxter-Wright: 1980 play and 1983 play

Voices of Sherlock Holmes

John Gielgud: On BBC Radio in the 1950s

Carleton Hobbs: 1952-1969 radio series on BBCRadio

Nicholas Briggs: 2010 Big Finish Productions audio drama (his Holmes voice is heard briefly in the above)

Roger Llewellyn: 2 x 2009 Big Finish Productions audio drama

Clive Merrison: 1989-2004 radio series (heard around the 2:20 mark)

Nis Bank-Mikkelsen: 2007 Danish children's audio-drama (I am unsure what this clip is from but that's the voice of Sherlock and he is using a pipe and magnifying glass. This clip was therefore better than the talk show clip.)

Peter O'Toole: 4 x 1983 cartoons