Charles Brookfield - 1893
William Gillette - 1899-1930 - 1,300 performances in 30 yrs.
Sherlock Holmes movie Baffled - 1900 Silent/Short - Max Goldberg
John F. Preston - 1900
Charles Rice β 1904
Karoly Baumann - 1905
Maurice Costello - 1905
Viggo Larsen β 1908
Alwin Neub β 1908, 1911, 1914
Otto Lagoni - 1910
Holger Rasmussen β 1911
Mack Sennett β 1911-1912
George Treville - 1912
Harry Benham - 1913
James Bragington - 1914
Francis Ford - 1914
H.A. Saintbury β 1916
Hugo Fink - 1917
Sam Robinson - 1918
Eille Norwood - 1921 Silent short movie - The Dying Detective
Burt Lytell - 1921
Dennis Neillson-Terry - 1921
John Barrymore β 1922
Hamilton Deane β 1923-1932
Tod Slaughter β 1928, 1930
Richard Gordon β 1930-1933, 1936
Clive Brook β 1929/1930/1932
Arthur Wontner β 1931- 1937 β Movie Series
Raymond Massey - 1931
Robert Rendel - 1932
Reginald Owen - 1933
Felix Alymer - 1933
Louis Hector β 1934-1935, 1937
Bruno Guttner β 1937, 1939, 1942-1943
Orson Welles - 1938
Basil Rathbone - 1939-1946
Cedric Hardwick β 1945
Tom Conway β 1947
Howard Marion-Crawford - 1948
John Stanley β 1948-1949
Alan Napier - 1949
Alan Wheatley - 1951
John Longden - 1951
Laidman Browne - 1951
Carleton Hobbs - 1952-1969
Ronald Howard - 1954/55 (39 episodes)
John Gielgud - 1954-1955
Peter Cushing - 1959, 1968, 1984
Christopher Lee - 1962, 1970, 1992
Douglas Wilmer - 1964
John Neville - 1965, 1970, 1978
Robert Stephens - 1970
Stewart Granger β 1972Β Β
John Cleese β 1973
Larry Hagman - 1974
Robert Powell - 1974
Rolf Becker - 1974
John Wood β 1974-1975
Leonard Nimoy - 1976
Douglas Wilmer - 1976
Roger Moore - 1976
Nicol Williamson - 1976
Kevin McCarthy - 1977
Christopher Plummer - 1977
Peter Cook - 1977
Paxton Whitehead - 1978
Barry Foster - 1978
Geoffrey Whitehead - 1979-1980
Graham Armitage - 1979-1980, 1985
Keith Mitchell - 1979
Charlton Heston - 1980
Frank Langella - 1980
Vasily Livanov - Russian T.V. - 1979-1981, 1983 & 1986
John Moffatt - 1981
Guy Henry - 1982
Tom Baker β 1982Β Β
Ian Richardson - 1983
Peter OβToole β 1983 (animated T.V. films β Australian)
Jeremy Brett - 1984-1994
Nicholas Rowe - 1984
Guy Rolfe β 1984
Dinsdale Landen - 1987
Tim Pigott-Smith β 1987
Anthony Higgins β 1987
Michael Pennington - 1987
Roger Rees - 1988
Ron Moody - 1988-1989
Clive Merrison - 1989-1998, 2002, 2004, 2008-2010
Edward Woodward - 1990
Simon Callow - 1990
Richard E. Grant 1992
Robert Powell β 1993
Patrick McNee β 1993
Anthony Higgins β 1993
1998-2019:Β Β John Gilbert - Episodes 1-18
Β Β Β Β Β Β Β Β Β Β Β Β Β Β Β Β Β Β Β Β Lawrence Albert - Episode 20
Β Β Β Β Β Β Β Β Β Β Β Β Β Β Β Β Β Β Β Β John Patrick Lowrie - Episodes 21-65 & 67-until
Β Β Β Β Β Β Β Β Β Β Β Β Β Β Β Β Β Β Β Β Dennis Bateman - Episode 66
Jason Gray-Stanford β 1999-2001 β Animation
Matt Frewer β 2000-2001
Joaquim de Almeida - 2001
Richard Roxburgh - 2002
James DβArcy - 2002
Andrew Sachs - 2004
Rupert Everett β 2004
Jonathan Pryce - 2007
Javier Marzan β 2007
Roger Llewellyn β 2009
Robert Downey Jr. 2009 & 2011
Ben Syder β 2010
Nicholas Briggs β 2010-2018
Igor Petrenko - Russian T.V. Series - 2013
Benedict Cumberbatch - 2010-2016
Christian Rode β 2010, 2014
Anthony P.D. Mann - 2011 (More like a thriller "spoof" by V Movies)
Samuel Tady β 2011, 2014, 2017-2018 (Tady Bros. Productions/on YouTube)
Johnny Lee Miller β 2012-2019
Benjamin Lawlor - 2013
Seamus Dever - 2014
Ian McKellen β 2015
Euan Morton β 2015
Gregory Wooddell - 2015
Paul Andrew Goldsmith β 2015-2016
Ewen Bremner - 2016
Jay Taylor β 2017-2018
Yuko Takeuchi β 2018 (HBO Asia β female βHolmesβ)
Orlando Wells - 2018
Johnny Depp β 2018 (animation)
Will Ferrell β 2018
Nicholas Boulton β 2020
Henry Cavill - 2020
Ethan Bell β 2020 (Fan Film on YouTube)
Ethan Thomas Jung β 2020 Fan Adv.
Β Β Β Β Β Β (Vagabond Repertory Theater CompanyβYouTube)
This list is not exhaustive. however, these are some of the
many actors who have played Sherlock Holmes on stage,
screen, radio and T.V. adaptations.