Nigel Bruce

…the perfect Holmes, and with Nigel Bruce as Dr. Watson, he played the role in 14 films and on more than 200 radio broadcasts. Though he had a healthy respect and affection for the character, he again felt typecast, this time as Holmes: “My fifty-two roles in twenty-three plays of…

…pairing of Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce as the classic Arthur Conan Doyle characters Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson, respectively. The film was ostensibly based on a play by William Gillette, though the two works had little in common, and the title comes from the collection of 12 Sherlock Holmes…

…commander, Sir Benjamin Warrenton (Nigel Bruce), in order to launch an attack on the heavily defended stronghold of Khan. Geoffrey explains his duplicity and rationale in a note to Macefield, which he orders his brother to deliver, thereby sparing Perry’s life. Both Geoffrey and Khan die in the climactic…

Watson (Nigel Bruce), are called to Baskerville Hall in the mist-covered moors of Dartmoor in southern England. A giant spectral hound reportedly stalks the premises and kills the estate’s heirs out of vengeance for the death of a local peasant girl. The sleuths hope to protect…

…Rathbone as Sherlock Holmes and Nigel Bruce as Dr. Watson. Though not based on any story by Arthur Conan Doyle, creator of the characters, it is widely considered the best in Universal Pictures’ series of 12 Sherlock Holmes films.