A series of fourteen films based on Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes stories was released between 1939 and 1946; the British actors Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce played Holmes and Dr. John Wa
Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce in Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon
Dennis Hoey, as Inspector Lestrade in Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon
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William Nigel Ernle Bruce was an English actor on stage and screen. He portrayed Dr. Watson in a series of films and in the radio series The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, starring alongside Basil
Sherlock Holmes (1939 film series)
…of fourteen films based on Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes stories was released between 1939 and 1946; the British actors Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce played Holmes and Dr. John Watson, respectively. After 20th Century-Fox released the first two films in the series in 1939, Universal Pictures acquired…
Bruce in The Last of Mrs. Cheyney (1937)
Bruce pictured in the Abingdon School first XI cricket team in 1912
L. to R.: Nigel Bruce, Evelyn Ankers, and Basil Rathbone from the film Sherlock Holmes and the Voice of Terror (1942)