Many actors have portrayed the popular detective Sherlock Holmes. Who did the best job at it? Limited to the most popular/prolific movies/series/actors.
So far two movies; Sherlock Holmes and Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows
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Jeremy Brett
Four series and seven seasons: "The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes", "The Return of Sherlock Holmes", "The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes" and "The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes"
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Basil Rathbone
14 classic movies starting with The Hound of the Baskervilles (1939)
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Peter Cushing
Two movies; The Hound of the Baskervilles (1959) and The Masks of Death (1984), and a BBC TV-series (1964)
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Robert Stephens
Billy Wilder's The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes
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Nicol Williamson
The Oscar-nominated The Seven-Per-Cent Solution
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Christopher Plummer
Murder by Decree
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Christopher Lee
One movie; Sherlock Holmes and the Deadly Necklace, and two TV mini-series; "Sherlock Holmes and the Leading Lady" and "Incident at Victoria Falls"